The Best Festive Dishes To Try Across London
Bun House
Z He and Alex Peffly, the husband-and-wife duo behind Bun House and Wun’s Tea Room have reopened their Hong-Kong inspired restaurants this month – and launched a steam-at-home Christmas bun box filled with six festively shaped sweet filled buns. With just a limited number hand made by the team, the boxes will be available to pre-order with London and nationwide delivery, sending a little festive cheer to anyone who might need it. The buns – also available at the restaurants – will be filled with three flavours: the signature liquid-centre rich egg yolk custard, spiced gingerbread caramel and black sesame lava.
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Yolkin
Sammie Le of Yolkin – a specialist in themed macaron ice-cream sandwiches packed with South-East Asian flavours – has created a new range of festive macaron ice-cream sandwiches. This season, customers can choose between a ‘Boujie Reindeer’ in salted caramel, a ‘Santa’ in milk and cookies, a ‘Christmas Pudding’ in chocolate honeycomb and a Frozen-inspired ‘Icicle’ in candy cane flavour. You can also pick up an ice-cream yule log in either salted caramel, HK milk tea, Vietnamese coffee or red velvet flavour.
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Coya Mayfair
Coya Mayfair has launched a Winter Wonderland brunch every Saturday and Sunday throughout the month of December, including a special Boxing Day event. The team will be serving free-flowing Peruvian-style mulled cocktails, champagne and a banquet featuring new dishes and Coya favourites. There will be entertainment to help guests get into the party spirit, with a live festive set from Coya’s resident DJ, seasonal hits with a Latin-American twist played by the in-house band, plus Christmas crackers and festive decorations all around the venue.
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Six by Nico
Six by Nico London is offering guests a trip down memory lane with its Christmas-themed tasting menu. The new six-course ‘Miracle On' menu will include dishes named ‘Memories of a Christmas Market’, ‘Partridge in a Pear Tree’, ‘Who Hates Brussels Sprouts?’, ‘Bob Cratchit's Three Bird Roast’ and a yuletide log featuring spiced raisin cake, dulce de leche mousseline, sour cherry, hazelnut and white chocolate aero.
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No. Fifty Cheyne
No. Fifty Cheyne is celebrating Christmas in style this year with head chef Iain Smith's winter a la carte menu and a grazing party menu for groups. Guests can enjoy the new menus in either the dining rooms or in any three of the private dining spaces. The fresh menu will offer seasonal favourites such as roast scallops with shallot purée, cèpe and bacon jam ragout, and champagne sauce; to roast turkey with redcurrant glazed cabbage, maple bacon, crushed brussels sprouts, confit potato and sauternes sauce; and classic desserts including a mandarin and cranberry eton mess.
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Pastaio
This popular pasta restaurant has five specials on its menu at both its Westfield and Soho sites this month. These include a clementine or mandarin prosecco slushie with Beefeater gin, followed by burrata with brussels sprouts, hazelnuts and Pastaio olive oil; potato gnocchi with brussels sprouts, chestnuts and pancetta; goose, brandy, red wine and juniper ragu with mafaldine; and panettone bread and butter pudding for dessert.
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Shack-Fuyu
Japanese izakaya Shack-Fuyu has launched a Christmas katsu sando – an Asian take on a fried sandwich. This December menu addition includes tonkatsu rabbit, cranberry sauce, red cabbage, and romaine lettuce. Guests dining at Shack-Fuyu on Mondays-Wednesdays throughout December can enjoy one hour of unlimited prosecco for £10 when ordering the Christmas set menu.
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Bone Daddies
There’s a trio of Christmas-inspired dishes available at ramen bars Bones Daddies’ five sites across the capital. Options in ‘Double-Fried Sprouts’ (Bone Daddies’ signature double-fried sprouts with orange, ponzu and pomegranate); ‘BDFC BAO’ (fried chicken bao with chilli, kimchi mayo and spring onion); and – for a truly Japanese take on Christmas (where KFC is a Christmas Day), fried chicken wings with honey BBQ or curry sauce, spring onion and sesame.
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Flesh & Buns
Japanese spot Flesh & Buns in Covent Garden has a trio of festive dishes on its December menu. Guests can tuck into the likes of hot stone lamb with orange, ginger, soy, carrot and onion pickle inside steamed bao buns; yakitori goose skewers with beetroot pickles, plum soy, cucumber, shiso and steamed bao buns – both accompanied by a Little Donkey Cocktail (spiced pear, zen sake and ginger). Guests dining at Shack-Fuyu on Mondays-Wednesdays throughout December can also enjoy one hour of unlimited prosecco for £10 when ordering the Christmas set menu.
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Bao
With locations in Soho, Fitzrovia, Borough Market and now King’s Cross, Taiwanese steamed bun experts Bao make some of the best steamed buns in the capital. Usually serving buns stuffed with the likes of tender pork belly with peanut powder and pickled lettuce; soy milk marinated fried chicken with kimchi and Sichuan mayo; and lamb shoulder with coriander sauce, garlic mayo and soy pickled chilli, for Christmas, the team has created a set of four limited-edition Santa hat bao, filled with molten chocolate custard.
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34 Mayfair
34 Mayfair has launched its ‘Nyetimber Golden Bell’ dessert for the festive period. Inspired by the chimes of Christmas bells, the dessert includes a dark chocolate bell with edible gold powder, filled with dark chocolate mousse and a Nyetimber and cherry compote filling. The festive addition comes with cherry sauce, cherry crisps and jellied cubes of Nyetimber and mint, finished with elegant gold leaf. A chocolate creation will be eaten in the surrounds ‘Miracle at 34’, a pop-up featuring approximately 14,000 decorations, including 8,400 colourful baubles by designer Jane Wadham.
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Ole & Steen
Danish bakery Ole & Steen has created a new Christmas menu. We like the sound of the ‘Christmas Social’ (cinnamon dough filled with custard and orange jam, topped with chocolate icing, gold-dusted flaked almonds and white chocolate pearls); ‘Christmas Tree Marshmallow Whips’ (a coconut marshmallow covered in white chocolate and green coconut, topped with a gold chocolate star); Danish mince pies and stollen; and the ‘Apple & Caramel Spandauer’, a festive twist on the Ole & Steen favourite with custard, apple compôte, flaked almonds and a caramel drizzle.
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Hideaway by Hide
Hide’s new sibling – Hideaway – opened the doors to its first permanent location this month. Located on Mayfair’s Mount Street, Ollie Dabbous’s newest spot is open for dine-in and takeaway, and offers both indoor and outdoor seating – ideal for anyone looking to refuel while Christmas shopping. The current menu features coffee and croissants as well as a signature ‘Hideaway Hot Chocolate’, while larger dishes include a croque monsieur and lobster rolls.
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