Eat, drink, and be queasy. That might have been the motto for Matt’s Christmas Eve menu. From the hackelback caviar seafood timbales to the flaming ginger pudding, it was an exercise in excess. I guess it was a smashing success by Oscar Wilde’s standards.

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