Cinnamon Grand’s Christmas Market is back!

Inspired by the enchanting seasonal markets of Europe, Cinnamon Grand is once again set to transform their Courtyard space to a beautiful Christmas Market with plenty of fare to enjoy.

On from 16 December till Christmas Eve from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., speciality festive food and beverages from the likes of Germany, Italy, Britain, Austria and Scotland will be available here. Creating an atmosphere of a bazaar, patrons walking in will be embraced with the rich Christmassy aromas of chestnuts roasting, freshly baked breads and cookies. 

Having prepared for this Market for months, the Grand chefs will put on ten stalls featuring festive breads, butcher’s smoke meat house, smoked fish, charcuteries, Italian pastas and cheese, variety of roasted nuts, homemade jams and marmalade, Christmas cookies, candy, seasonal kitchen food corner, and special sandwiches.

From the bread stall, one can expect to take home Italian panettone, British cottage breads (vanilla and chocolate) and fruit cake, German dresdner christstollen, christstollen confect, weckmänner, Austrian kletzenbrot, Scottish dundee cake, Bavarian rye bread and multi grain bread.

Home smoked meat range inclusive of lamb leg ham, beef ham, pork legs, pork knuckles, marinated chicken halves, chicken winglets, garlic lamb sausages, chilli herb sausages and Italian parma ham are part of the menu. Cold home smoked salmon, eel, seer fish, tuna fish, sail fish, red snapper, garoupa fish, red mullet, modha fish fillet and paraw fish will also be available at the Christmas Market with signature horseradish crème sauce.

Charcuterie specialities such as turkey and pistachio pate, French chicken liver pate spread, German pork liver pate spread, black pudding, cold cuts, chicken/morel tureen Griebenschmalz i.e German pork-apple-onion fat spread, duck leg confit and duck breast confit have also made it to the list this year. In the Italian house all homemade tagliatelle, fetticini, parpadelle, black tagliolini, spiral pasta, Italian pesto green red and black can be purchased along with marinated olives, grated parmesan cheese, focaccia bread and grissini sticks. 

The Christmas kitchen food corner has an array of German and British items, turkey stuffing, Christmas veggies along with gravies and sauces. There will be Bavarian read dumplings, red apple cinnamon cabbage, spätzle German traditional pasta, demi-glace, pickled herring fish and sweet German mustard from Germany; while from Great Britain there will be mutton mice pies, turkey/ham pie with gravy, cranberry sauce, miny gravy, tarragon jus, bread sauce, brandy butter and sauce. If you intend on making your own turkey this year, there is sage and onion, chipolata and dry fruit nut stuffing to be bought here. Adding to that, cleaned vegetables such as parsnips, squash, Brussel sprouts, pumpkin and imported mushrooms to enhance your dinner menu is available for purchase.

From the homemade jams and marmalade section, one can expect exotic berry, star fruit, dragon fruit, lemon, strawberry and pineapple jams and mango, sour orange, caramelised apple marmalades. Homemade coconut and caramelised banana spreads have also been prepared by the Grand chefs. Roasted hazelnuts, walnuts, chestnuts along with a variety of flavoured nuts (chillie, curry, salted, sugar coated, caramelised) can also be bought here.

A candy house with caramel, nut an herbed bonbons; lemon, mint, coconut, berry, orange-cinnamon and pineapple candies, assorted Turkish lokum; and a cookie house with Lebkuchenherzen/gingerbread hearts, anise cookies, cinnamon cookies, spiced cookies, vanillekipferl, chocolate, gingerbread and almond cookies presents some unique Christmas gifts for kids.

While you shop, you can also enjoy salted beef sandwiches or roasted turkey sandwiches, made a la minute at the Market while live music play.

For inquiries, contact the Hospitality Desk of Cinnamon Grand on 011 2497470 or 077 6865198. Check out the events line up on facebook.com/CinnamonGrandC.

Pix by Upul Abayasekara