15 best restaurants open for Christmas dinner in London

Address: Decimo at The Standard, London, 10 Argyle Street, London WC1H 8EG
Price: £150 per person

Sea ContainersLucy Richards

Sea Containers

For a festive waterside lunch, scenic Sea Containers serve a homely four-course Christmas feast with all the classics. This year, it starts with caviar, new potato, and crème fraiche amuse-bouche before starting with beetroot carpaccio, scallops, and chicken liver parfait. For the main event, go traditional with the roasted turkey with stuffing, pigs in blankets, and cranberry jus. Other options include a forest mushroom Wellington and Cornish Stonebass. They each come with duck fat potatoes, parsnips and sprouts (it’s not Christmas without them). There’s Christmas pudding with brandy cream or bread and butter pudding with ginger custard. You’ll need a postprandial stroll along the Southbank after this.

Address: Sea Containers, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PD
Price: £145 per person
Website: seacontainerslondon.com

Rick Stein, BarnesKillian O’Sullivan

Rick Stein, Barnes

This year, Rick Stein’s peaceful riverside restaurant is open on December 25 for anyone who wants to indulge in a comforting five-course supper. Naturally, there’s seafood on the menu, from a welcome snack of salmon and sour cream blinis to a starter of cured Loch Duart salmon. Keep it fishy with a Dover sole meunière main course, or go classic with roast turkey and all the trimmings before finishing with Christmas pudding and cheese.