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If you've spent the best part of the year dining out and don't see why you shouldn't continue in the same vein on Christmas Day, then luckily there are plenty of places to cater for you in London. As you'd expect, most hotels are open, but more and more we're seeing restaurants and gastropubs around town where folk who'd prefer to be cooked for without having to endure a family Christmas can find a home on 25th December.
We'll keep updating this list in the run-up to the 25th.
Restaurants
Otto's
182 Grays Inn Rd, Holborn, London WC1X 8EW
For the first time ever, Otto’s is throwing open its doors on Christmas Day and the four-course menu is a total steal. There’s pasta with lobster, foie gras terrine and flambeed tarte tatin and a festive capon for those wanting to keep things traditional.
Price: £95
Nobu
19 Old Park Ln, Mayfair, London W1K 1LB
For Christmas Day Nobu London is putting on a six-course Christmas Day omakase menu with dishes like Toro Tartare with Caviar, Black Cod Miso and A5 grade Japanese Wagyu Beef. There's also the option to go a la carte. If you want to stay home but avoid cooking they’ll also be doing a takeaway option on the day.
Price: £190 minimum spend.
Bob Bob Ricard
1 Upper James Street, London W1F 9DF
For Christmas day, Bob Bob Ricard is going to be serving its full menu of Russian and European classics including Steak tartare Imperial with caviar and Chicken and Champagne Pie while Christmas pudding haters will love the Chocolate Glory with a hot chocolate sauce.
Price: A la carte
Find out more about Bob Bob Ricard
Le Pont de la Tour
36D Shad Thames, London SE1 2YE
Enjoy Christmas lunch down by the Thames this year. Le Pont de la Tour will also have a special six-course menu for Christmas Day, featuring dishes including oysters, turkey with all the trimmings, and Marquise au Chocolate with spiced clementine and Christmas pudding ice cream.
Price: £110
Find out more about Le Pont de la Tour
Sam's Riverside
1 Crisp Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 9DN
Expect trad classics alongside brilliant seafood and veggie options at this riverside restaurant. Mains include Roasted Troncon Of Brill, Girolles, Chargrilled Leeks, Monks Beard, Brown Shrimps Meuniere while there's mulled fruit crumble for dessert. It's three courses with champagne and canapes on arrival and coffee and mince pies to finish.
Price: £110
Find out more about Sam's Riverside
Corbin & King
Across London
All of the Corbin & King restaurants are opening their doors on Christmas Day. They're serving the usual menus along with festive specials, but you'll have to be quick, The Wolseley and The Delaunay are already fully booked.
Find out more about Corbin & King
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Bluebird (Chelsea) - The Christmas day menu here is £120 for three courses plus an amuse and coffee and mince pies.
Amaya (Knightsbridge) is open for both lunch and dinner. It's £95 including a welcome drink and dishes include Caramelised Brussels sprouts and chestnut chilli stir-fry.
Riding House Cafe - in Fitzrovia, this restaurant's Christmas Day menu is served family style and kicks off with cocktails. It's £90.
Chutney Mary - is open for lunch and dinner on Christmas Eve with a three couse menu including baked venison samosa, Tandoori lobster with makhani sauce and a Warm Christmas pudding brûlée. It's £95 including welcome drink and Pappad tray.
Hotels
Kerridge's Bar and Grill
Corinthia Hotel - Whitehall Pl, Westminster, London SW1A 2BD
Tom Kerridge's London restaurant will have a five-course menu on the day including game terrine with spiced quince chutney, Smoked salmon Scotch egg with caviar butter and either Rôtisserie roasted Norfolk brown turkey or Roasted fillet of beef as the main event. After dessert, it all ends with a Truffle baked Camembert for the table. They also have pescatarian, vegan, and vegetarian menus.
Price: £250 per person
More about Kerridge's Bar and Grill
Wild Honey St James
8 Pall Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5NG
Anthony Demetre’s Wild Honey has a five-course menu with dishes that include Duck and foie gras ‘en terrine’, winter salad and quince paste, Bronze
Feathered turkey with bacon and sausage, cranberry sauce and roast gravy and a Vacherin Mont d’Or with mesclun salad and winter black truffles - all finishing with a Bûche de Noël.
Price: £175
More about Wild Honey St James
Galvin at Windows
London Hilton on Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, London W1K 1BE
Fancy lunch with an amazing view on Christmas day? Then there's little better than Galvin at Windows, overlooking Hyde Park. The Christmas Day menu features dishes like pressed terrine of Goosnargh duck & foie gras, twice-baked cheese soufflé and turkey, beef or squash pithivier as the main.
Price: £199 per person
Find out more about Galvin at Windows
Holborn Dining Room
252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN
On this year's three-course menu at Holborn Dining Room, dishes include a baked lobster and thermidor tart, rabbit and bacon en croute (it is Calum Franklin after all) and choices of turkey, beef, sea bass, quash or cod forestiere for the main, with desserts including Pump Street chocolate brulee among others.
Price: £175 per person
Find out more about Holborn Dining Room
Sea Containers
150 Piccadilly, London W1J 9BR
The Sea Containers restaurant on the South Bank is putting on a three-course Christmas Day menu. While the mains have a choice of turkey and beef - there is also turbot with salsify, Jerusalem artichoke and lobster essence or orecchiette with winter truffle and mushroom sauce. There's also an option og game terrine to start and traditional Christmas pudding to finish.
Price: £115 per person
Find out more about Sea Containers
Angler
South Place Hotel, 3 South Pl, London EC2M 2AF
Angler - there’s a distinct seafood theme to the five-course Christmas Day lunch menu at this City restaurant which includes Squid ink cracker with taramasalata and Dorset crab with green apple, avocado and wasabi on the menu with a main of Beef Wellington rather than turkey. £100.
Price: £100 per person
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Berners Tavern has a menu for £150 per person with starters including Berners Tavern prawn and lobster cocktail and a dessert of Baked Baron Bigod cheese
Celeste at The Lanesborough (Belgravia) - This Michelin-starred restaurant is a five-course affair for £260 with dishes including Truffle brie de Meaux and an Egg Nog Bauble for dessert.
Cheneston's (Kensington) - There's a five-course meal for £249 per person here and you can relax to the sound of their resident harpist.
The English Grill (Victoria) - This restaurant at the Rubens Hotel has a seven-course lunch complete with all the trimmings for £185 (Children between 2 and 12 are half price). There's also a meal at The Curry Room.
The Game Bird at the Stafford (overseen by Ben Tish) has a four-course menu (plus canapes) for £250 per person, which includes a butter-poached native lobster alongside the turkey.
The Goring (Belgravia) - The Queen's favourite hotel (we're pretty sure she will be elsewhere) has a three-course menu for £295 per person, which includes a native lobster omelette to start.
The Ham Yard Hotel in Soho has a Christmas day menu for £145 per person with dishes including Dorset crab mayonnaise and profiteroles with black cherry custard.
The Savoy Grill (Mayfair) - Gordon Ramsay's restaurant at the Savoy features the option of a Beef Wellington as the main (and turkey of course) with six courses for £250.
Cubitt House pubs
Belgravia, St James, Marylebone
This high-end gastropub group is opening all of its pubs on Christmas Day - they'll be serving up a four-course set menu with corn-fed turkey from Somerset, family-style sharing sides and, of course, Christmas pudding with brandy custard and clotted cream.
Price: £99 (children's portions available)
Guinea Grill and The Windmill
30 Bruton Pl and 6-8 Mill St, London W1
Both these Mayfair pubs are throwing open their doors for Christmas Day. At The Guinea, the turkey comes as roast ballotine and comes with every conceivable kind of festive side before finishing off with a cheese board and coffee and mince pies. Over at The Windmill, you could opt for turkey pie as your main or beef fore rib with brioche and bone marrow.
Price: £95 at The Guinea, £75 at the Windmill.
Find out more about the Guinea Grill and The Windmill
The Flask, Highgate
77 Highgate W Hill, Highgate, London N6 6BU
Work up an appetite before Christmas lunch at this Highgate pub or walk it off on the heath afterwards. The three-course menu has plenty of vegan and gluten-free options. Along with traditional dishes, there's a ballotin of Fuller's London Porter smoked salmon to start and roast guinea fowl with sherry jus as a main. And who wouldn't fancy a butterscotch savarin cheesecake for dessert?
Price: £85
The Windmill, Clapham
Windmill Dr, London SW4 9DE
This festive-looking Clapham pub has an extensive menu on offer on Christmas Day. Start with Roast cauliflower soup and toasted chestnuts, move on to a Hampshire game & juniper suet pie and there's spiced orange and cranberry syllabub among the dessert options.
Price: £105 (£50 - child)
More about The Windmill Clapham
Trafalgar Tavern
Park Row, London SE10 9NW
Walk along the Thames on Christmas Day to the Trafalgar Tavern at Royal Greenwich where their three-course Christmas Day menu includes a starter of seared scallops with celeriac, apple & smoked pancetta jus and the turkey is slow roasted and served with braised red cabbage, pigs in blankets and duck fat roasties.
Price: £95 including a glass of Prosecco.
Find out more about Trafalgar Tavern
Smokehouse
63-69 Canonbury Rd, Islington, London N1 2DG
Islington gastropub Smokehouse is open for the first time ever this Christmas Day. Their six-course menu starts with canapes like truffle and cheddar gougeres, there's turkey with all the trimmings along with an interesting veggie main of date and cavolo nero Wellington along with a cheese course and even Christmas cake to round things up.
Price: £95.
Find out more about Smokehouse
Anglesea Arms
15 Selwood Terrace, London SW7 3QG
There's a five-course festive menu on the big day at this South Kensington pub - which kicks off with an amuse-bouche of stuffed figs with torched clementines and concludes with some appealing sounding petit fours of white chocolate fudge with pistachio and cranberries.
Price: £86
Find out more about the Anglesea Arms
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