London's best festive menus for blowout Christmas celebrations

Not each festive menus are created adjacent and this year, a fig of London’s large eating rooms are going each retired to platform the halls with much Christmas cheer than a stocking afloat of elves. 

First to bat is Fallow (52 Haymarket, SW1Y, fallowrestaurant.com) a restaurant adjacent to galore of the champion shops. It’s lining up a whopping Christmas Day feast featuring hash browns with caviar, salmon belly terrine and turkey with each the trimmings for £195 a head.

Elsewhere successful Mayfair and Bibi (42 North Audley Street, W1K, bibirestaurants.com) offers thing of a festive alternative, without losing an ounce of class. It volition beryllium serving 2 menus passim the play (priced astatine £125 & £175) named Kamal and Ranjana, successful honour of the cook laminitis Chet Sharma’s 2 grandmothers. Both look a treat, but the Ranjana is the large 1 acknowledgment to lobster and wagyu beef.

Another little accepted alternate to festive feasting arrives astatine Sabor (35-37 Heddon Street, W1B, saborrestaurants.co.uk). Upstairs is simply a backstage table, La Mesa, for 10 guests, truthful stitchery 9 mates oregon 5 couples — depending connected however good cuffing play is going — and tuck in. The £1,000 minimum walk is easy reached. On the menu, Segovian suckling pig and Rubia Gallega beef, among plentifulness much good produce.

If 1 Michelin prima isn’t enough, caput to the 2 Michelin-starred Dinner by Heston (66 Knightsbridge, SW1X, dinnerbyheston.co.uk) which is offering a acceptable festive paper afloat of Heston classics — deliberation nutrient effect and the celebrated tipsy cake. Not atrocious for £160 a go.

For thing altogether little classic, and circular the country is CLAP (12-14 Basil Street, SW3, claprestaurant.com) which is laying connected a scope of top-end Japanese feasts with five-course menus of varying degrees of premium food cuts. At the apical of the tree? Expect sushi of the highest imaginable grading successful the forms of sashimi, nigiri and maki, arsenic good arsenic truffled kholrabi salad, scallops with foie gras and mains featuring wagyu rib-eye, each for £185 a go.

Back successful Mayfair and Mount Street (41-43 Mount Street, W1K, mountstrestaurant.com) is simply a wherever we instrumentality to the classics being done well. The paper couldn’t beryllium much straightforward: 3 courses positive snacks to commencement and mince pies with java to finish, but the simplicity belies the calibre of the cooking and produce. The paper people features a Norfolk Bronze turkey, each the trimmings imaginable, which arrives pursuing a caviar adorned prawn cocktail. All successful for £135 each.

And apical eating successful Mayfair this Christmas doesn’t halt there. There’s the inestimable Claridge’s Restaurant (Brook Street, W1K, claridges.co.uk), which has a £90 paper moving until December (apart from the large time itself) including a duck, cranberry and pistachio terrine earlier turkey and trimmings; and The Savoy Grill (Strand, WC2R, gordonramsayrestaurants.com), with a £320 a la carte connected Christmas time which features Dover sole Véronique, roast turkey, and a accepted beef Wellington (it is simply a Gordon Ramsay joint, aft all).

Over astatine the Midland Grand (Euston Road, NW1, midlandgranddiningroom.com) is simply a banquet-inspired £95 menu. Expect crab connected toast oregon spiced crippled terrine with damson jam earlier roast cod with preserved citrus oregon grass-fed beef sirloin au poivre. Chocolate log for pudding, too, and however often bash we spot that?

For thing little accepted and a small much creative, Cycene (9 Chance Street, E2, bluemountain.school) is going to enactment connected a peculiar £175 per idiosyncratic menu. Due to the hyper seasonality of the restaurant, the full paper is yet to beryllium afloat announced, but we’re reliably informed an ambitious, showstopping crippled pithivier volition beryllium the tasting menu’s centrepiece. Book this one, and ticker this space.

While we’ve already arranged a rundown of London’s favourite wallet-friendly festive options, determination are a big of spots crossed municipality that don’t rather interruption the slope but volition travel successful supra a £50 budget. 

Kicking things disconnected is Dovetale (1 Dover Yard, W1J, 1hotels.com), Tom Sellers and Tom Anglesea’s edifice astatine the 1 Hotel. It has a £85 feast connected offer. The eating country volition beryllium replete with festive adornments providing the mounting for a centrepiece of stuffed turkey ballotine oregon a affluent abbreviated rib bourguignon.

South of the stream and The Camberwell Arms (65 Camberwell Church Street, SE5, thecamberwellarms.co.uk) is simply a must, with a £58 oregon a £65 feasting choice. Dishes see affluent beef shin ossobuco, Vacherin dauphinoise potatoes and a pickled walnut salad. Sister pubs the Walmer Castle (58 Ledbury Road, W11, walmercastle-nottinghill.co.uk) and the Surprise (6 Christchurch Terrace, SW3, thesurprise-chelsea.co.uk) are each serving a three-course enactment paper featuring Jerusalem artichoke velouté, roasted turkey crown and classical Christmas pud. Mince pies too, each for £60 a head.

In Soho, and for different alternate festive feast, Berenjak (27 Romilly Street, W1D, berenjaklondon.com) is acceptable to service a five-course paper including meygoo jonoobi (BBQ prawns, Kashmiri chilli, roasted garlic) and a mixed grill masti of beef and chicken. Lots of hummus too. At £65 per person, it looks a treat.

And successful Bloomsbury, Cafe Deco (43 Store Street, WC1E, cafe-deco.co.uk) is serving a £70 paper which includes savoury snacks specified arsenic devils connected horseback and eggs mayonnaise earlier hearty roast beef with horseradish pick and trimmings-a-plenty. Treacle sponge with custard to finish, due to the fact that astatine Christmas, we devour puddings.