cooking up anything special for Christmas?

A small group is going to dine out at a hotel restaurant. This will be the first time that I've had Christmas dinner at a restaurant, so I don't know if I'll really enjoy it, and look forward to doing it again ... or if I'll have the feeling that something is missing. I'll see. It's a lovely restaurant, and a fun group, so I don't expect to hate it.

The Dungeness crab season is finally underway, and I'll do cracked crab, Caesar salad and crusty French bread on Christmas Eve.