Ethnic and family food customs play an essential role in crafting a holiday menu.

Wondering which wines on that holiday menu are worth buying?

Many publish holiday menus on their Web sites, which you can link to at www.kwrba.com/members.cfm.

Caviar is not on the holiday menu, but you can ask for it.

An emphasis on seafood is reflected in the three-course, $45 holiday menu.

A traditional holiday menu is $18 a person.

There is probably a little something for everybody on television's holiday menu.

But perhaps the most surprising thing about the holiday menu that follows is the heartiness factor.

Here are 12 restaurants among the many that offer special holiday menus.

"I see putting these once-exotic fruits on our holiday menus as indicators of a bigger change."