Food & Drink

Survey Data Uncovers Britain’s Perfect Christmas Dinner Revealed — and Yorkshire Puddings Officially Make the Plate

From curry houses packed with festive diners to at-home menus inspired by global flavours, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of the alternative Christmas feast.

From Christmas Eve nibbles to Boxing Day blowouts, here’s how to weave cheese through every part of your festive feast — plus three foolproof recipes guaranteed to impress.

Are you even British if you’re not a lover of a festive buffet, complete with a glazed ham, a prawn ring, bowls of Twiglets, salted nuts, and mountains of cheese.

How I love a rooftop bar in a city – I seek them out wherever I go. In London they are largely limited to the summer time, and that’s assuming it’s a decent summer. So I never get the chance to visit nearly as many as I’d like.  

After fighting our way through the Christmas Market in City Square, we stumbled into The Queens Hotel — an iconic Leeds landmark that’s recently enjoyed a rather impressive refurbishment, and let me tell you, it’s a proper bobby dazzler.

Heraklion, Crete, ranks as the top vegan-friendly city in Europe, with 22.9% of its restaurants offering vegan options. The island of Crete boasts a vibrant Mediterranean diet and a strong meze culture, which complements the vegan scene well.

Cook them properly, and sprouts become sweet, nutty, caramelised little gems that hold their own against even the biggest festive showstoppers.

Whether you love them buttery and simple or dressed up with festive flavours, carrots are one of the easiest Christmas sides to prepare ahead, freeing you up for Bucks Fizz and present chaos

Christmas afternoon tea season is back — and London is already sparkling with some of the most decadent, beautifully designed menus of the year.