HAPPENING 26 DEC 2025 | Want Christmas dinner in Rotterdam without spending your whole day cooking or washing up? BIRD is opening on 26 December with a full multi-course X-mas dinner, including vegetarian options, plus live music according to the venue.
The X-mas dinner is happening on Friday 26 December 2025, and BIRD says you can sit down from 17:00. You’ll find it on Raampoortstraat, close to Rotterdam Centraal, so you can keep the travel part easy and focus on the fun part. BIRD also notes that the restaurant is otherwise closed from 22 December to 5 January, so this is a one-night exception during the holiday break.
BIRD X-mas dinner menu
This is a set multi-course menu, starting with an amuse and ending with dessert, with vegetarian alternatives listed where it makes sense.
On the menu: crostini with smoked duck breast, fig marmalade and toasted hazelnut (with a vegetarian version featuring roasted eggplant purée, mint, pomegranate seeds and dried olive crunch), then creamy celeriac soup with two scallops (or pumpkin soup with fried sage and roasted pumpkin seeds). There’s an intermezzo of ginger spoon with basil-tarragon sorbet, followed by lamb tenderloin with salsa verde, polenta, oyster mushroom and sea lavender (or a stuffed portobello with Mediterranean vegetables and halloumi). Dessert is chocolate cheesecake with amarena cherries and liqueur syrup.
Christmas dinner at BIRD Rotterdam
Wine pairing and live music
If you feel like turning it into a longer, paced evening, BIRD mentions an optional wine pairing alongside the menu as well as a live concert you can get tickets for.
How to book the BIRD Christmas dinner
Booking goes through the ticket link on BIRD’s own event page, so you’re best off starting there: https://bird-rotterdam.nl/en/event/x-mas-dinner-26-12-2025/
How to get to BIRD Rotterdam
BIRD is close to Rotterdam Centraal, so if you’re coming in by train, you can keep it simple and finish the trip on foot. From the city centre, head towards the Rotterdam Centraal area and walk over to Raampoortstraat.
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