LCBO Food & Drink Holiday 2025

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1 Ask beforehand if you can bring anything. 2 Text if you’re running late. 3 Never show up early or empty-handed. 4 Offer to help clear or wash up. 5 Send a thank-you text or email the next day. Here are five ways to be a better guest this holiday season. ENTERTAINING Good Guest-iquette

TRADITIONS The Feast of Seven Fishes Based on the Catholic tradition of abstaining from meat before a big feast day, the Feast of Seven Fishes is an Italian-American dinner held on Christmas Eve. Popularized by an epic episode of The Bear (S2, E6), the pescetarian spread is much easier to execute with the help of premium tinned seafood, which you can find at tinmonger.ca and spanishpig.ca.

These silky umami bombs from Spain are like no other anchovy you’ve ever tasted. Don’t waste them in sauces; they’re best enjoyed whole on fingers of thickly buttered bread. Pujadó Solano Santoña Cantabrian anchovies, $22.99

Drape these rich, fatty slices of tuna’s most coveted cut over a salad of white beans, grape tomatoes and red onion. Siesta Co. tuna belly, $24.99

Toss these plump bivalves, marinade and all, into pasta with fennel, garlic and parsley Alamar mussels in marinade, $9.99

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