4-Course Special Thanksgiving Menu

Make our favorite annual holiday tradition yours when you enjoy our special four-course Thanksgiving Holiday Menu featuring your choice of each of hearty soups, fresh, salads, gourmet entrees, and decadent desserts. Choose the traditional Thanksgiving feast or branch out with a beef, lamb, salmon, or shrimp option. We also offer perfectly portioned children’s menus with three courses of all their favorites. Adult meals cost just $44.95 while kids cost only $9.95 (plus tax and gratuity). Our regular lunch and dinner menus will not be served on Thanksgiving. Reservations are strongly recommended, as select time slots fill quickly, 404-634-6268.

Dinner and a Diva: Madama Butterfly

November's Dinner and a Diva brings you two wonderful evenings featuring highlights from Giacomo Puccini's Madam Butterfly, along with a great three-course dinner paired with wine. Set in and around a house on a hill overlooking the harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, in 1904, Madam Butterfly tells the tragic story about the love between a United States Navy lieutenant living in Japan and the geisha his real estate and marriage broker friend has supplied him, Cio-Cio San.

Puccini wrote five versions of Madam Butterfly. The original two-act version, which was presented at the world premiere at La Scala on Feb. 17, 1904, was withdrawn after the disastrous premiere. Puccini then substantially rewrote it, this time in three acts. This second version was performed on May 28, 1904 in Brescia, Italy, where it was a great success.

This second version premiered in the United States in 1906, first in Washington, D.C., in October, and then in New York in November. In 1906, Puccini wrote a third version which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1907, Puccini made several changes in the orchestral and vocal scores which became known as the fourth version. The 4th was performed in Paris. In 1907.

Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version which has become known as the "Standard Version." This standard version is the one which is most often performed around the world. Interestingly, all five versions included “Un bel dì,” which remains one of the best-known arias in the soprano repertoire. 

Today, Madama Butterfly is a staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, ranked 6th by Operabase; Puccini’s La bohème and Tosca rank 3rd and 5th. 

So make your plans now to join us at Petite Violette for a Dinner and a Diva evening on either Tuesday, Nov. 13 (SOLD OUT) or Thursday, Nov. 15. You'll hear Rachel Eve Holmes, soprano; Melissa Godbee, mezzo-soprano; Brendan Callahan-Fitzgerald, tenor; and Wade Thomas, baritone; accompanied by Capitol City’s music director, Catherine Giel, musically transport you to 1904 Japan with  highlights from Madam Butterfly. It'll be an evening you do not want to miss!

Now Booking Holiday Special Events

We are booking Holiday Special Events now! With our elegant banquet  rooms of varying sizes, outdoor patio dining, and a seated, fully stocked bar area, we can host a range of occasions fromcorporate holiday parties to family gatherings to winter wedding receptions and more. Any dining room can be configured for formal sit-down meals or more casual buffet-style dining. Call for more information, pricing quotes, and menu options, including luncheons, seated dinners, and buffets. And we cater to you, too! Please call 404-634-6268 for bookings.

Dinner and a Diva--Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

October's Dinner and a Diva brings back to our Capitol City Opera friends highlights from the Company's 2014 season opener, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This chilling and suspenseful masterpiece of murderous barbarism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves to taste her mysterious new meat pie recipe. 

The dinner includes a sampling of premium hors d’ oeuvres, fresh salad, choice of two gourmet entrees, decadent dessert, hot coffee/tea, and two glasses of fine wine, for only $65 per person (tax included; gratuity separate). The performers from the Capitol City Opera Company sing between each course. The evening begins at 6:15 p.m. with a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres reception; dinner and performance start promptly at 7 p.m. Reservations are required. Please call 404-634-6268.

Capitol City Opera cast members and the roles they will be singing are: Sweeney Todd - Gus Godbee, Beadle Bamford/Pirelli - Will Green, Mrs. Lovett - Heather Witt, Johanna/Beggar Woman - Abigail Halon, Anthony/Toby - Daniel Weisman, and Judge Turpin - Stephen McCool. They will be accompanied by the Company's music director Catherine Giel. 

Oktoberfest Party

Nothing says Oktoberfest like a Party full of unlimited German food, some draft beer, live music, tons of fun, and, hopefully, dancing! We will offer exactly that on Saturday, October 13, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The party will feature a buffet with all-you-can-eat traditional German and Bavarian cuisine (served until 9 p.m.). Items on the buffet include: Bavarian pork roast, German sauerbraten, wiener schnitzel, knackwurst, bratwurst, fried trout, potato pancakes, dumplings, sauerkraut, spaetzle, wurst salad, red cabbage, homemade apple strudel, and coffee and tea.

The event also boasts a cash bar with three select German draft beers: Paulaner Octoberfest Marzen Beer (an amber malty Lager Beer), Paulaner Hefeweizen (a classic wheat beer), and Warsteiner Lager, plus a selection of German wines. In addition, there will be traditional “oompah” music by the famous polka party band Bavarian Express (which may even encourage the chicken dance, as in past years).

The lively event takes place in our banquet rooms, which are transformed into a Bavarian-style festival hall, and all seating is open (not reserved), at large tables. The party costs only $50 per person and includes one draft beer, tax, and gratuity. Reservations requested by calling 404-634-6268.

Oktoberfest Dinner Menu

From Saturday, September 29 through Saturday, November 3, we will offer a special holiday dinner menu, in addition to the regular dinner menu. The special menu will feature traditional German and Bavarian appetizers, entrees, sides, and dessert, ranging in price from $7.95 to $29.95.

Menu items will include, but are not limited to, things like: Bavarian Pork Roast, German Sauerbraten, Wiener Schnitzel, Jaegerschnitzel, Bratwurst, Knackwurst, Spaetzle, Bavarian Dumpling, Red Cabbage, Sauerkraut, and Homemade Apple Strudel. The menu will be offered during dinner hours only, and entrees will each come accompanied by two sides. There will also be three select German beers on the menu: Paulaner Octoberfest Marzen Beer (an amber malty Lager Beer), Paulaner Hefeweizen (a classic wheat beer), and Warsteiner Lager.