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Your house may be the kind to appreciate some Christmas Eve buffet menu ideas. Or perhaps dinner options to eat in your PJs is what you and your loved ones are after.

The rules of this Christmas Eve Dinner are simple: no meat, lots of fish, and a whole lot of cooking. So what does it all mean? Well like many traditions, it isn’t very easy.

Menu: This Italian-style six-course seafood-centric Christmas Eve meal includes anchovy butter with sourdough, lobster bisque, scallop ceviche tart, brown butter halibut, diablo shrimp, and more.

Hosting Christmas Eve dinner 2:30-8 p.m., the Italian-American restaurant named for the co-owner's family matriarch and themed after her living room will offer a $90 Feast of the Seven Fishes menu.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. On Christmas Eve, there are additions to the menu that can be enjoyed a la carte or as part of a fixed-price dinner for $125 per person.

If you want to treat yourself to a truly fuss-free Christmas dinner, a handful of Fort Collins-area restaurants are staying open for the holiday. One Old Town eatery will be serving up a Christmas ...