Faz Restaurants Announce Christmas, Yalda and New Year's Celebrations for Bay Area Diners

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Dec 11, 2015, 12:52 ET

Passionate about the restaurant industry, Faz Poursohi opened his namesake restaurants all over the Bay Area: Danville, Oakland, Pleasanton, San Jose and Sunnyvale. In 2008, he came full circle in his culinary journey and bought MacArthur Park, the restaurant that brought him to California. Faz is serious about making people happy through his food and service. He continues to bring to his cherished guests inspired Mediterranean cuisine. Faz's legacy of hospitality invites guests in with open arms and makes sure they are happy, well fed, and properly attended to.

PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Faz Restaurants Group has announced an exciting range of dining options for the festive season at 5 locations around the Bay Area. Established for over 30 years, Faz offers delicious traditional and modern festive cuisine for the holiday period with Mediterranean influences.

Recovering from Thanksgiving and all the work that goes into it, some families will be considering a more relaxing dine out option for the next round of holiday festivities.

Groups and families looking for a traditional holiday meal should head to the festively decorated and glowing spaces of Faz restaurants in Sunnyvale, San Jose, Oakland, Pleasanton and Danville. Faz will be offering Christmas Eve Dinner and Christmas Day buffets including a Chef's carving station with seasoned, seared and slow roasted prime rib and traditional holiday ham with Faz's home made quince preserves. In addition there'll be breakfast favorites like eggs benedict, French toast as well as seafood offerings of house-smoked salmon, Grecian style salmon and shrimp cocktail, salad station, Mediterranean and Persian inspired dishes (flavorful hummus and baba ganoush with wood fired oven flatbread and pizzas) and an extensive array of desserts (Faz's house made baklava, assorted cheesecakes alongside house-made apple-pear cobbler with warm caramel sauce, carrot cake and brownies) and more.

In the lead up to Christmas and in celebration of the longest night of the year, Faz San Jose and Pleasanton will also be revisiting the restaurant's Persian roots and hosting the traditional celebration of Yalda on Saturday, December 19th. Gearing up for the Winter solstice and celebrating the triumph of light over dark, Yalda, Faz-style will incorporate a Persian buffet, music and dancing. Delicate ingredients such as nuts and pomegranates represent life and the glow of dawn during Yalda and will be incorporated into the feast from 7:30pm to Midnight.

Faz restaurants will all be open and celebrating on New Year's Eve with dining, music and dancing for parties small and large.

Faz Sunnyvale and Pleasanton are now taking bookings for Yalda Night.

All Faz Restaurants are now taking reservations for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. Both Faz Sunnyvale and Faz Pleasanton restaurants are conveniently located adjacent to Sheraton hotels overnight bookings.

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