If, like us, you like food, Sahara-dry turkey and tepid gravy isn't the most appealing option as a Christmas meal. Especially when you're having it with work, friends, and family twice a week for a month. Move over Hereditary; now THAT'S a horror film. Groundhog Day with burnt Christmas pudding and still-frozen Yorkshire puddings. Vile, and for the rip-off price of £25. That's why we, the benevolent do-gooders at Stuffed, have come up with some helpful alternative options for Christmas dinners for you to lobby your mates with.
Old Street Records
Taking the alternative title maybe a tad too literally - but hey, you got to (rock'n')roll with it. Sorry. This oldschool rock and soul bar serves up great wood-oven pizzas and cocktails for a head-swivellingly low price; 2 pizzas and 2 drinks for £19. With great music and a charmingly raucous vibe, it's a pretty cool and cheap, and not a turkey in sight. Check it out here.
DishoomDishoom has rapidly become one of the most celebrated and popular South Asian restaurant chains in London, and they have a mouth-watering Christmas menu to boot. Based on small plates and grills, inventive, surprising and incorrigibly flavourful, this is the antithesis of your Christmas lunch woes. Also, they do do Turkey; but it's slow-cooked over a full day in its own juices then served with bombay potatoes and masala greens. Your innocuous gastro pub this ain't. Check it out here.
Monty's Deli
Tired of Christmas dinner - how about a Insert December Festival Here dinner instead? Monty's Deli adopts a self-awareness to the tired tradition, blending Christmas and Hanukkah for turkey-cum-bagels, apple strudel and malt cake. All the culinary interplay is backed up by some exceptional reviews and reasonable prices. Check it out here.
The Big London BakeHow about foregoing dinner altogether... and just smashing your bodyweight in gingerbread? Twee? Maybe. Delicious? Absolutely. This baking contest in Tooting is a wonderful alternative to sitting down and regretting paying £6.20 for a watered-down Peroni, engaging, fun; after a few hours of sweet delights, assumedly nauseous. In a good way. Check it out here.
Rosa's Thai Cafe
You know why I love Christmas menu? There's no contrived Christmassyness. No shoehorned turkey, no try-hard Brussel sprouts (the prats). It's all Thai food, and all delicious, just wrapped up in a nice Christmassy context. Get merry off the complimentary prosecco and pull your crackers then dive into a chilli and holy basil stir fry. Magic. Check it out here.
Tropicana Beach ClubThe heatwave never ended with the Tropicana! Palm tree decorations, copious cocktails, and grilled beach food. You'd struggle to get further from the windswept Soho streets or flu-riddled London tube than here. Escapism at its tipsiest. Check it out here.
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