By Carlos Rico for San Diego Union-Tribune
Slowly Restaurant & Lounge: In Pacific Beach, Slowly Restaurant & Lounge is serving three-holiday dishes and two specialty cocktails for Christmas Eve and Christmas night. The food options include Mediterranean beef cheek sopes, grilled chicken kebobs with za’atar-miso sauce and eggnog flan. The Christmas cocktails are the Cinnamon Snap Martini with Baileys, vanilla vodka, amaretto and cinnamon; with the Jack Frost made with RumChata, blue curaçao, pineapple juice and coconut cream. 4 to 10 p.m. Dec. 24 and 25. 1520 Garnet Ave., San Diego. $16-$28. 858-352-6080