Terranea Gingerbread Lounge in the Lobby Lounge

On Saturday, November 25, at 1 p.m., Terranea Resort unveils its holiday, one-of-a-kind, walk-up merrily decorated pop-up Gingerbread Lounge – located in the resort’s Mediterranean-style Lobby Lounge. The impressive seven-by-seven-foot gingerbread masterpiece will be adorned with gumdrops and candy canes featuring a functioning bar and an accompanying village complete with two trees and fencing fabricated from 1,000 pounds of house-made gingerbread and “painted” with royal icing. Guests are invited to sip special signature holiday cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages such as hot chocolate and hot apple cider and enjoy special menu items such as Chai Coffeecake, Maple Pecan Bourbon Pie and Sambuca and Chocolate Almond Biscotti and sweets created by Jermonti and his team. Visiting children can write a postcard to Santa, crunch on complimentary cookies and spend photo time with Santa on the weekends. Everyone will enjoy live music in the Lobby daily from 7 to 11 p.m.

This fantastical gingerbread pastry bar and village extravaganza is inspired by two experiences – a coastal environment with the whimsical influences of a “village by the sea” and by the traditional hometown Calabrian family creations remembered by acclaimed executive pastry chef Pierino Jermonti. The chef’s background even includes an elaborate “competitive” gingerbread community effort that gained the attention of the Vatican, and the Pope himself visited the creation one year.

Gingerbread Lounge opens Saturday, November 25, and runs to Friday, January 3; weekdays from 4 to 10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 10 p.m. (Santa visits on the weekends only.)