London’s best Christmas lunches, from Duck & Waffle to The Twenty Two

Christmas lunch is an emotionally charged occasion. London's hotels and non-European restaurants offer a variety of options for Christmas lunches. The Queen Vic is open on Christmas Day. It's worth noting that even luxury hotels will drop their prices on Boxing Day from £450 to £100. Tayyabs, the Whitechapel kebab and chop house, is a raucous antidote to seasonal sentimentality.

The Guinea in Mayfair has been serving Christmas lunches since 1952. The Christmas lunch menu includes roast turkey, dry-aged rump of beef with a lamb cutlet, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire pudding, honey-glazed carrots, minted peas and Brussels sprouts with bacon and chestnuts.

The Guinea offers some of London's best Christmas lunches.

Riding House Cafés in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia are open on Christmas Day for a five-course lunch. The roast turkey comes with apple and raisin stuffing and pigs in blankets. There's whole grilled sea bass with prawns, cockles, samphire and tamarind butter, truffled portobello mushroom and sweet potato Wellington with porcini cream.

Duck & Waffle, The Twenty Two and ridinghouse cafe are some of London's best Christmas lunches.

Tom Kerridge's Bar & Grill sells a Christmas feast box for £195. It includes Champagne and canapés, duck liver parfait and crab pancakes, roast Copas Bronze turkey with all the trimmings and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce and truffle-baked Camembert.

Duck & Waffle and The Twenty Two are some of London's best Christmas lunches. Corinthia London is at 10 Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5AE.

Charles Dickens wrote a wedding breakfast in his final novel, Our Mutual Friend, set in the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich. The Trafham offers three traditional Christmas Day courses for £100. Kids get three courses of garlic bread and crudités, fish and chips or bangers and mash, and apple crumble.

Duck & Waffle is a restaurant on the 40th floor of the Heron Tower. The menu includes Christmas pudding waffles, smoked chicken and chestnut hash, Jerusalem artichoke and truffle soup, tranche of turbot and whole roasted Bronze turkey.

Duck & Waffle is a favourite Christmas lunch spot in London.

Soho Bob Bob is open on December 25 and offers its usual à la carte menu. Three courses cost around £55. The menu includes caviar with crème fraiche, blinis and vodka shots, salmon en croûte with Champagne sauce and a savoury pud of Stinking Bishop soufflé.

Duck & Waffle and The Twenty Two are some of London's best Christmas lunches.

The Christmas Day menu at Decimo is prepared by half-Spanish chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias. The four-course meal costs £120. The Standard's top floor offers a great view over King's Cross and St Pancras.

The Standard is at 10 Argyle Street, WC1H 8EG.

The Fuller's pub in Highgate is offering Christmas lunch for three people. The menu includes chicken liver parfait, crab Thermidor tart, turkey breast with all the trimmings, baked herb-crusted brill, Christmas pudding with brandy butter and brown-butter shortbread with whipped toffee.

Le Pont de la Tour is open on Christmas Day. The menu includes seasonal snacks, mirabelle-cured salmon, roast tournedos of Bronze turkey, Manjari chocolate delice and Bleu d’Auvergne cheese. Vegetarians get mulled cauliflower croquettes and parsnip gnocchi.

The Twenty Two is a Mayfair hotel restaurant. The six-course meal costs £150. It's a hotel with 31 bedrooms. It serves a roast Norfolk turkey, grilled sea bass, baked delica pumpkin and toasted pavlova.

The Twenty Two is a restaurant at 22 Grosvenor Square, London.

The Argentine-themed steak group is famous for its pampas-reared beef. Its Hampstead, Richmond and Tower Bridge branches are offering a chimichurri butter-roasted turkey on Christmas Day. The amuse bouche is an amuse-bouche of roasted corn velouté with sourdough croutons, starters of cinnamon-cured salmon, chicken liver p

28-50 Wine Workshop and Kitchen is a wine-focused bar-cum-bistro. The Christmas menu includes smoked salmon, roast turkey breast with stuffing, roasted potatoes, carrots and sage jus, blue cheese and port, and Christmas pudding with brandy custard. Five courses cost £64.95.

Duck & Waffle and The Twenty Two are London's best Christmas lunches.

Holborn Dining Room offers five courses for £195. The menu includes roast turkey, Loch Duart salmon en croûte, and roast forerib of Aberdeen Angus.

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Both Sushisambas will be open for Christmas Day. Duck & Waffle is a better choice for the views from the Heron Tower. The menu at Sushi Samba offers oyster karaage with yuzu koshō mayo, truffle-grilled lobster, Asahi-braised short rib with purple potato and wasabi kizami, and truffled-grouse-broiled lobster.