You arrive carrying December. ↓ You leave with Christmasback in it.

Give us one long lunch in December and you’ll get back the part of the holidays that was supposed to be yours — a table you didn’t set, a meal you didn’t cook, an afternoon nobody needs anything from you.

December has a way of turning into a logistics project. Gifts, lists, other people’s traditions, your own calendar staring back at you. This is the three hours that belong to you.

Noël en France is a long French lunch in the middle of the holiday season — ivory and evergreen, champagne gold, a table you don’t have to set or clear. There’s a dessert salon, because one dessert is a rounding error. There’s a sparkling cider toast. And there’s an ornament exchange where you bring the story, not just the box.

Then we write Letters to Next Christmas. You address the envelope to yourself, we seal it, and it lands in your mailbox next November — a note from the woman you were, arriving exactly when you need her.

You’ll go home with a little Christmas in Paris, and a table full of women who now know what you’re actually planning for the year.

How the afternoon unfolds

The Day

11:30 AM

Doors open with a glass of French sparkling lemonade and time to find your seat.

12:00 PM

Lunch is served — and runs long on purpose.

1:00 PM

We write our Letters to Next Christmas.

Then

The ornament exchange, then the dessert salon, then a sparkling toast to close.

2:30 PM

We finish.

Letters to Next Christmas

You address the envelope to yourself, we seal it, and it lands in your mailbox next November 2027 — a note from the woman you were, arriving exactly when you need her.

What to Bring

One wrapped ornament, $15 to $20, that you would be delighted to hang on your own tree. Someone else will take it home, and you’ll get thirty seconds to tell her why you chose it.

What’s Included

• A fully catered French holiday luncheon
• Dessert salon — maple crème brûlée, apple cobbler, sticky toffee pudding and more
• Tea and coffee service throughout
• A sparkling holiday toast
• The Letters to Next Christmas experience, mailed back to you in November 2027
• The storytelling ornament exchange
• A Little Christmas in Paris favor to take home
• The Parisian photo experience

Tickets

Through October 6

Early Bird

The full luncheon, dessert salon, letters, ornament exchange, toast, and favor.

Reserve Your Space

After October 6

Regular

The same afternoon, at the standard rate.

Reserve Your Space

Good to Know

Dress is Festive Holiday Chic. The Monarch Club is our home for the afternoon. Bring your wrapped ornament and an envelope’s worth of things you want to tell yourself next Christmas — we’ll supply the stationery. Tell us about dietary needs when you register and the kitchen will take care of it.