Here’s a few of the restaurants that will be closed on Christmas but doing business Christmas Eve:

0/8 Seafood Grill & Twisted Cork Wine Bar, from 5 to 9pm.

El Gaucho, both Seattle and Bellevue locales, for dinner from 5pm to 9pm and Happy Hour in Bellevue at 4pm.

icon Grill will do lunch and dinner (til 8pm) on that granddaddy of shopping days.

Melting Pot will be doing its fondue thing at both Bellevue and Queen Anne locations, 5 to 10pm.

Purple Cafe and Wine Bar will open its Bellevue location only, from 11am to 3pm.

Sip. at the wine bar & restaurant will be open both in its original Issaquah location and its spankin’ new downtown Seattle one, from lunch through dinner in Seattle, and 5pm to close in Issaquah.

Waterfront Seafood Grill will serve its seafood and such 5pm to 8pm, closing up just in time to give Santa his privacy over Elliott Bay.

Finally, Christmas Eve Dinner at Ethan Stowell’s Union Restaurant promises to be five courses of greatness. Served between 4:30pm and 9pm for $100 per person, the feast will include seared sea scallops, beef tenderloin, a chocolate terrine with almond gelato, and more.