Did Thanksgiving preparations throw you for a loop? Are you ready to just relax with family and leave the cooking to someone else this Christmas? Eddie V's Prime Seafood might just have the solution for you. Enjoy customized menus, specially requested wines, flower arrangements and more with a private dining room for the holidays.

Eddie V's Manhattan room can host up to 48 seated guests, or as many as 70 guests for a reception or holiday banquet event. A wine room and the Speakeasy room are also available for booking your perfect Christmas celebration.

Now, let’s talk food. Good food.

Book a lunch combination for either $40 or $50 and receive your choice of soup or salad to start, plus a main course, side dish, and choice of dessert. Highlights of the $40 package include crab and corn chowder, an iceberg BLT, a six-ounce filet mignon, Norwegian salmon, au gratin potatoes, and creme brulee. The $50 Eddie V's holiday lunch offers Maine lobster bisque, jumbo Gulf shrimp with fresh jumbo lump crab, crab fried rice with scallions, and dark chocolate and crushed toffee s’mores. Yum. 

Dinner packages are offered at three price points. For the $80 Eddie V's dinner, you can get crispy salt and pepper shrimp and potstickers filled with spicy shrimp as hors d’oeuvres. The main course is a swordfish steak with truffled macaroni and cheese, finished off by hot Bananas Foster butter cake for dessert. With the $95 dinner you can add in options like mini lump crab cakes, a 12-ounce New York strip steak, Pacific ahi tuna, roasted double breast of chicken, and hot chocolate Godiva cake.

If you want to go all the way with the $110 Eddie V's holiday menu, you can choose from a variety of chilled shellfish like Gulf shrimp, oysters, jumbo lump crab, or market oysters on the half shell with cocktail sauce or atomic horseradish. Main course options on the $110 Eddie V's holiday dinner menu include Chilean sea bass, beef medallions with stuffed shrimp, or an eight-ounce filet mignon and South African lobster tail, broiled with drawn butter and lemon. 

If you have a bigger group to feed, culinary stations are also available for purchase. For $195, you can serve roast tenderloin or beef with assorted rolls for up to 10 guests. Spicy shrimp and pork potstickers in light soy broth are available for $36 per dozen. 

Hungry yet? We thought so.

Most private dining rooms are equipped with high-definition, large-screen plasma TV screens with cable for college football bowl parties or basketball games. Wireless internet and valet parking are also available for your convenience.

Eddie V's Prime Seafood is located at 4400 West Boy Scout Blvd in the Westshore District, across from International Plaza and Bay Street. You can book your holiday dining experience by calling 813-877-7290 or filling out Eddie V's online form

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