33 restaurants to book for Boxing Day lunch Published 21 November 2023
Now is the time to think ahead to Boxing Day. While the majority of Good Food Guide restaurants are on a well-earned Christmas break, a handful will be open on 26th December, ready to whisk you away from glazed hams, turkey-based buffets and family politics. Take it easy in some of North Norfolk’s best pubs, stuff yourself with seafood after a bracing dip in Dorset, or get your glad rags on for lunch at The Ritz.
Jill Turton, restaurant reviewer for the Yorkshire Post, co-founder of the Yorkshire restaurant directory Squidbeak and long-time York resident, gives her culinary tour.
On the evening of November 17th, 1873, two decades before Eros pitched up, Piccadilly Circus welcomed a glittering newcomer into its midst. Designed by architect Thomas Verity, who had a hand in both the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) and the Royal Albert Hall, The Criterion was an ornate, five-storey building with the Marble Hall and a grand, American-style Long Bar on the ground floor, and a theatre in its basement; not to be upstaged, the floors above featured several dining rooms and a ballroom.
Choosing one course isn’t always for cost reasons: sometimes appetites are smaller, or you’re pushed for time, or you’re just in the mood for something simple. We’re all for pushing the boat out every so often and lingering over several courses, but eating out well doesn’t always have to be that way.
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