Get your Galatoire’s Christmas Dinner Reservations!
Royal Tours New Orleans • November 19, 2018
Get your Galatoire’s Christmas Dinner Reservations!
For more than 100 years, Galatoire’s has had a “no reservation” policy for its first floor dining room, but twice a year, and only twice a year, the restaurant does make an exception . . .
A bidding paddle and table schematic: those are the two essential tools to have at Galatoire’s for each of its two table auctions. Hosted by the restaurant’s foundation, the restaurant auctions tables each year for the Friday before Christmas and the Friday before Mardi Gras. This year, the Christmas auction will be held on Dec 3.
In 2006, Galatoire’s started the live auction to benefit a variety of local charities (and later on its own foundation, in 2010) to provide support for local causes and cultural programs. Prior to the auction, people who wanted a table on this day, as well as the Friday before Mardi Gras, would pay men and women to wait in line to secure their spot inside since the restaurant does not take reservations in the main dining room.
The auctions, now in their 13th year, have funded deserving programs such as the Boys Hope Girls Hope of Greater New Orleans
and the New Orleans Mission. This auction will provide support for VIALINK, The New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, and the Galatoire Foundation.
“We are pleased to have this year’s auctions benefit such wonderful organizations,” Melvin Rodrigue, the restaurant’s foundation president, said in a press release. “VIALINK and The New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation provide vital services and assistance to our city.”
Reservations to the Christmas auction are available now. The evening begins with cocktails at 5:30 p.m., with the auction starting at 6:30 p.m. Entry is $50 per couple with a $25 donation for each additional guest. The Mardi Gras auction reservation ticket sale date will be announced in early 2019.
For the dinner auction tickets are available at galatoirechrismasauction2018.eventbrite.com/.Galatoires-bidding.
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