Will restaurants be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

No..majority of the restaurants do a big job for exmas and New Year snce it is the businest time of the year.

It's New Year's eve you must worry about--many non-resort restaurants do not serve dinner that night--quite the opposite of how it'd be in the US. Also, I've found that Christmas Eve is not really celebrated/recognized as it is in the US-here we have the first day of Christmas (25th) and the second day of Christmas, the 26th-both legal holidays (ofcs/banks closed). Almost every store is closed on the 25th (including grocery stores), and most on the 26th too-except this year there's a cruise ship in port on the 26th, so downtown stores might be open. Michael's right too--re: how busy places are this week in particular-good idea to plan ahead & make dinner reservations.

We had an outstanding xmas dinner at Gibis last year, extra special goat stew, very savory, and turkey, gravy, the whole nine yards. I highly reccommend it, it was a great dinner, even with a little rain and a short power outage.

I wonder if there are any other recommendations for Christmas Day Dinner? Something a little extra-special?

And should we plan on eating at a resort on New Year's Eve, then?

Yes, Laura, the resort restaurants stay open on New Year's Eve, and some of them do lovely fireworks displays later.

Laura, go here for some postings on restaurants open Christmas Day
http://www.oldbonairetalk.com/newsgroup/messages/31/249176.html?1134920461