Lancaster Restaurants Open Christmas Eve or Christmas Day

Lancaster Restaurants Open For Christmas in 2022

If you’re looking for a Lancaster County restaurant for a Christmas or Christmas Eve meal for your family or friends, you’ve come to the right place.

Check below for hours local restaurants are open for lunch or dinner over the Christmas Holiday. Enjoy the festive atmosphere without all the cooking and preparations beforehand and all that clean-up afterward!

You may want to call ahead – seating may be limited. The restaurant hours indicated by an asterisk (*) do require advanced reservations.

While you’re at it, you can plan ahead for dinner for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, or see who will be open on Thanksgiving Day. Also, you can consult our full listing of Lancaster Restaurants.

2022 Restaurants Open Christmas and/or Christmas Eve:

We update this list as quickly as restaurants give us their information.

Arthur’s Terrace Restaurant

Arthur's Terrace serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Takeout service is also available. See meal menus and hours of service.

Open Christmas Eve 7 to 10:30 am. Christmas Day breakfast 7 to 10:30 am, Al A Carte menu for Lunch 11:30 to 4 - reservations required.

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Bird-in-Hand Bakery & Cafe

Delicious handcrafted sandwiches, crisp salads and delectable desserts - all made with care from high-quality ingredients. We serve fresh, wholesome food and you can taste the difference. Also, fresh-baked breads, donuts and other bakery items, plus our Restaurant’s homemade soups and meals available for take-out at the Bakery. Open Mon. - Sat. 6 am – 2 pm for take-out orders only.

Open on Christmas Eve from 6 am - 3 pm, but closed on Christmas Day.

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Bird-in-Hand Family Restaurant & Smorgasbord

If you’re craving home cooking and farm-fresh goodness, you’re in the right place. Breathe deep and savor the aroma of chicken corn soup, pork and sauerkraut, or our famous ham balls with pineapple sauce. We make most items serve from scratch and use only the freshest ingredients.

Open on Christmas Eve from 6 am - 2 pm, but closed on Christmas Day.

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Casey Jones’ Restaurant – Eat in a Real Train Car!

All aboard! Join us in our two original P-70 80-ton dining cars that once rode the rails of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Featuring 175 seats, this unique property offers indoor dining, outdoor deck seating with train and farmland views, and take-out. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

We are open on Christmas Eve from 7:30 am - 2:00 pm. We are closed on Christmas Day.

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Eden Sunday Brunch

Open the first Sunday of each month, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Call for reservations. Voted Lancaster's Best Brunch (Lancaster County Magazine).

Christmas Day, Dec. 25th from 10:30 am - 3:00 pm. (reservations starting Nov. 26). Reservations Required

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Fox Meadows Creamery

Cow-to-Cone! Fox Meadows Creamery features hand-crafted ice cream made on-site with milk from our small dairy farm. Enjoy lunch, taste our 24 flavors of ice cream, try the Baked Fox, browse our Market featuring local foods, jewelry and apparel, play on our playground and watch ice cream being made!

We are open on Christmas Eve from 11-3 and lunch is served from 11-2:30. We are closed on Christmas Day.

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Shady Maple Smorgasbord

Largest Buffet in the USA! Enjoy our deliciously authentic Pennsylvania Dutch all-you-can-eat smorgasbord buffet, including a wide variety of grilled meats and seafood, unlimited drinks and homemade desserts. Free meal on your birthday with the purchase of another adult meal, ID required. Closed Sundays.

On Christmas Eve, the Shady Maple Smorgasbord will be open from 7:00 am - 12:00 pm and will only serve breakfast. All Shady Maple stores are closed for the Christmas holiday.

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Eden Resort & Suites Christmas Feast

Voted Best Hotel in Lancaster...again (Lancaster Newspaper's Reader's Choice Award.) Within minutes of Amish farmlands and outlet shopping. 301 superior guestrooms, including 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom suites - some with full kitchens. Indoor and outdoor pools, 2 restaurants, lounge, fitness center with locker rooms and sauna, tennis, basketball and shuffleboard courts.

Join us for our Christmas Feast! We start taking reservations 30 days before brunch, so you can start making reservations November 26th for our December 25th feast by calling 717-560-8439.

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Water Street Ministries

Water Street’s Christmas Cheer Gift Tag Program: many homeless men, women, and children will be spending their Christmas at Water Street Mission. Help spread the Christmas cheer when you gift someone at the Mission with a gift off of their wish list. Visit www.wsm.org/volunteer to learn how to give a gift to someone in need this holiday season.

Celebrate Christmas in Lancaster County

The Christmas season is a blessed time of the year. Throughout Lancaster County, you'll find many special ways to help you experience and celebrate this special holiday season. Christmas activities begin here in early November and extend into the first week of January. Here are a number of Christmas activities you won’t want to miss. And for day by day holiday events throughout December, see our Calendar of Events.