{"id":1498,"date":"2016-12-06T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2016-12-16T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:38:41","slug":"celebrate-the-feast-of-the-seven-fishes-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes with Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change up your Christmas routine, and join us for the <strong>Feast of Seven Fishes<\/strong> &#8211; an Italian-American 7-course feast! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1500\" src=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seven-fishes-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"seven-fishes\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seven-fishes-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/seven-fishes.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Also known as La Vigilia (The Vigil), this Christmas Eve tradition commemorates waiting for the birth of Baby Jesus at midnight on Christmas. \u00a0Roman Catholics have traditionally abstained from meats and animal fats on the eve of\u00a0certain holy days, so\u00a0they feasted instead on seafood. \u00a0Some Italian-American families celebrate with more than 7 fish, and sometimes up to 13 different types. \u00a0Experience it for yourself,\u00a0<strong>Friday-Saturday, December 23-24 from 5:30 pm-10:00 pm<\/strong> for only $89 a person (exclusive beverage, tax and gratuity). \u00a0Call (202) 835-0459 to make reservations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MENU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Crostini di trota di fiume affumicata<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Smoked river trout pat\u00e9<\/p>\n<p><em>Insalata di calamari con salsa di limone<\/em> &#8211; Salad of pan-seared calamari, purslane &amp; lemon salsina<\/p>\n<p><em>Frittura di polpettine di granchio e carciofi<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Tuscan crab fritters, fried artichokes<\/p>\n<p><em>Capesante, gnocchi di ricotta e funghi<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Seared scallops, ricotta gnocchi, roasted mushrooms, parsley butter<\/p>\n<p><em>Taglerini alle vongole<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Artisanal egg pasta, little neck clams, roasted zucchini, tomato, Calabrian chili<\/p>\n<p><em>Caciucco all Livornese<\/em> &#8211; Tuscan fish stew- lobster, mussels, clams, shrimp, tuna, scallops, tomato broth, garlic croutons<\/p>\n<p><em>Budino Nataliza di Panettone<\/em> &#8211; Christmas panettone bread pudding, crema Anglais and chocolate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change up your Christmas routine, and join us for the Feast of Seven Fishes &#8211; an Italian-American 7-course feast! Also known as La Vigilia (The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specials","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}