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Downtown Norfolk Holiday Movie Food & Drink Week

Downtown Norfolk chefs are getting creative and having a lot of fun reimagining iconic food and drinks from your favorite holiday movies and specials this season.

For one week from December 3-10, Downtown Norfolk restaurants will put their own unique spin on recognizable foods, drinks, and memorable scenes from holiday classics for a creative and delicious helping of festive nostalgia.

Participating Restuarants & Featured Movies/Specials

Four Eleven York

411 West York Street
757-963-7000

Four Eleven York's Christmas Cinema Cocktails are inspired by a variety of Christmas movies.

In years past, they’ve been inspired by: Love Actually, Die Hard, The Grinch, Christmas Story, Elf, Nightmare Before Christmas, Gremlins, Home Alone, Polar Express, Family Man, Ernest Saves Christmas and more!

Four Eleven York releases four cocktails a week starting all the way until Christmas! Their beverage director watches the movie and creates a drink based on a quote or a scene. Stay tuned to their social media for the final menu.

Freemason Abbey

209 West Freemason Street
757-622-3966

More Information Coming Soon!

Grace O'Malley's Irish Pub & Restaurant

211 Granby St
757-333-3330

Movie: A Christmas Story

Food + Drink: You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out Shooter and Triple Dog Dare Cheesecake

Classic Scene: Ralphie: Schwartz created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat!


Movie: Christmas Vacation

Food + Drink: The Griswald Christmas Mule and Clark’s Hap-Hap-Happiest Christmas Turkey Soup

Classic Scene: Clark Griswold: This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here!


Movie: Home Alone

Food + Drink: Wet Bandit Wings and Booby Trapped Chicken Breast Wrap

Classic Scene: Marv: Harry, it's our calling card! All the great ones leave their marks.


Movie: Elf

Food + Drink: South Pole Elf Crush drink special and Buddy’s Maple Syrup Flounder

Classic Scene: Emily: You like sugar, huh?
Buddy: Is there sugar in syrup?
Emily: Yes.
Buddy: Then YES!

S’mores Amore

208 East Main Street (inside Selden Market)
757-386-0303

Movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Food + Drink: The Griswold, a spiked eggnog s'mores blondie made with Southern Comfort liquor (21 and up only)

Classic Scene: Clark Griswold to Cousin Eddie: Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?


Movie: Bad Santa

Food + Drink: The Lump of Coal, a Chocolate Hazelnut S'mores Brownie

Festive Fun: Holiday decor up through the season! 


Movie: A Christmas Story

Food + Drink: You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, a Mint Chocolate S'mores Brownie

Classic Scene: Ralphie : No, no! I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!
Santa Claus : You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

The Stockpot Norfolk

215 East Plume St
757-227-3337

Movie: Die Hard

Food + Drink: Hot Dogs! Choose from: Pushcart NY Dog with pushcart onion sauce, sauerkraut, and mustard; LA Dog wrapped in bacon with grilled onion, pepper, jalapeno, ketchup, mustard, and sour cream; or Bavarian Dog in a pretzel bun with sauerkraut, mustard, and crispy onion. 

Festive Fun: Keep an eye out for the fun Die Hard themed pastries!

Voila! Cuisine Internationale

509 Botetourt Street
757-640-0343
Tue-Sat, 5pm-9pm

Movie: A Christmas Story

Food + Drink: OH FUUUUUUDGE! Voila is serving up their delicious Ovaltini!

Festive Fun: Step into Voila and be transported to better times with authentic Christmas story décor including the real Red Rider BB gun, the classic Leg Lamp, and more.

Miracle on Waterside Drive

333 Waterside Drive
757-426-7433

Movie: Elf

Food + Drink: Buddy's Popcorn, filled with all of the sugary things Buddy the Elf loves: melted white chocolate, Christmas sprinkles, M&Ms, crushed pretzels, and white cake mix, shaped into a beautifully delicious tree.

Classic Scene: Emily: You like sugar, huh?
Buddy: Is there sugar in syrup?
Emily: Yes.
Buddy: Then YES!


Movie: Die Hard

Food + Drink: The Yippee Ki Yay Mother F***r! cocktail with Barbados rum, rhum agricole, Trinidad overproof rum, ube & coconut orgeat, acid-adjusted pineapple juice

Classic Scene: We don't have to tell you — you remember the scene!

Stripers Waterside

333 Waterside Drive Suite 105
757-837-4100

More information coming soon!