‘Tis the season for feasting
We love a good Christmas sarnie but this is the time of year where anything goes, and not just between two slices of bread. Every Christmas, London restaurants and foodies go all out to make the best festive specials they can, so we’ve rounded our faves of the season so far.
Berberè x Sleaford Mods Megaton Pizza
Berberè has teamed up with post punk duo Sleaford Mods on a limited edition Megaton pizza, created in support of War Child and landing on menus from 1 December. Built on Berberè’s signature 24 hour sourdough, it layers marinara, garlic oil, semi dried tomatoes, soy marinated mushrooms, coriander salsa verde and jalapeños for a proper flavour hit. The collab nods to the band’s recent single of the same name, with £2 from every pizza sold going directly to War Child. You can get it across all four London sites through December and January, with the Mods themselves helping to shape the final recipe at the Marylebone pizzeria.
Available from 1st December 2025 at all Berberè London sites
Yard Sale Pizza x Quality Chop House
Yard Sale Pizza’s regular guest specials are always top notch, and their latest Christmas pizza is no different. This year they’ve teamed up with Quality Chop House to riff on the restaurant’s famous mince toast dish: The Mince Pie is topped with beef mince, beef dripping sourdough breadcrumbs, jalapeños and finished with a drizzle of mustard dressing on top of YSP’s classic tomato and Fior di latte mozzarella base. Don’t forget the black pepper beef dripping mayo on the side too.
Available at all Yard Sale Pizza locations until 6th January
MEATliquor’s Sleigher
MEATliquor’s XXXmas menu is back and it’s packed with indulgent treats including pigs in blankets with mustard, sprout slaw, spiced rum and tiramisu cocktails, and the Sleigher burger – roast turkey, sausage, bacon, stuffing crumble, chicken gravy and cranberry hot sauce.
Available at all MEATliquor locations from 17th November 2025
Poppies’ Battered Yule Log
As a Christmas tradition, Poppies takes a festive fave (like sprouts, Christmas pudding, and Quality Street chocs) covers it in batter and deep fries it. This year, the chippy is battering chocolate yule log, creating a mega indulgent sweet treat, and every penny from sales will be donated to Thames Reach, a charity working to end rough sleeping in the capital.
Available at Poppies Soho from 1st – 31st December 2025
Picky Bits at Seven Dials Market
The traders at KERB’s Seven Dials Market are doing a number of Christmas specials, including deep-fried brie bites from Stakehaus, garlic butter snow balls with hot honey and parmesan from Bad Boy Pizza Society, raclette hash bites with Lyonnaise onions, Christmas spiced bao and gyoza from Yum Bun, and a Christmas tree baked Alaska with chocolate cake, cherries, and hazelnut ice cream from Mello.
Available at Seven Dials Market from 12th November 2025
Nessa’s Sage Stuffing Brioche
Tom Cenci is doing a festive twist on Nessa’s signature black pudding brioche dish by adding sage stuffing to the centre of the brioche toast and serving it with a homemade cranberry sauce.
Available at Nessa now
Dishoom’s Festive Naan Roll
Dishoom is Christmas-ifying its signature breakfast naan rolls again this year, with a little help from Seema Pankhania. There’ll be honey-glazed pigs-in-blankets or vegan stuffing, spiced with her secret masala, stuffed into a naan with fried eggs, cranberry cream cheese and tomato chilli jam.
Available at all Dishoom locations from 17th November – 24th December 2025
Shake Shack’s The Merrilossus Shake
As well as bringing back its White Truffle Burger and Parmesan Truffle Fries for the festive season, Shake Shack is also serving up spesh holiday drinks made in collaboration with Fortnum & Mason. The Merrilossus Shake, a riff on Fortnum’s famous biscuits, features an F&M Merrilossus biscuit milk tea with a cranberry swirl and chopped biscuits, and the Christmas Cranberry Fifty/Fifty mixes cranberry lemonade with Fortnum’s Christmas tea.
Available all Shake Shack locations until 6th January 2026
Setlist’s Xmas Stack Burger
Setlist at Somerset House is serving up an epic Christmas special. The Stack Burger features honey-glazed pigs in blankets, smoked pit-pulled turkey, Brussels sprouts slaw, sage and onion stuffing, and a rich drunken cranberry sauce chutney. Pair it with their long list of Christmas cocktails – Chocolate Orange Negroni, you say? We’ll take it.
Available at Setlist until 2nd January 2026
BAO’s Mince Pie Fried Ice Cream Bao
BAO is doing a number of festive specials this year, including hot roasted peanut milk with rum; a Christmas duck bao with watercress aioli and tempura crisps; a crispy curry turkey rice bowl with pickled cranberry and soy-cured egg yolk; and a mince pie ice cream and fried bao.
Available at BAO now
Burger and Beyond’s The Christmas Burger
Burger and Beyond have not one but two Christmas specials. Of course, there’s the main event: an epic Christmas Burger with Southern Fried Turkey Thigh, a sausage and stuffing patty, baconaise, shredded cabbage, Brussels sprout slaw, red onion, and cranberry jam in a demi-brioche bun, served with a pot of turkey gravy. Then there’s a Beef Shin Crumpet with horseradish cream, pickled shallots, and chives. Not for the faint-hearted.
Available at all Burger and Beyond sites.
Leydi’s Mince Pie Borek
Sure regular mince pies are good but Leydi’s Turkish twist on the festive fave is even better – a borek filled with dried fruit, nuts and spices, served with date syrup, vanilla ice cream and pistachios.
Available at Leydi from 19th November 2025
Gelupo’s Chocolate Fondue
Get a taste of the Italian Alps in Soho at Gelupo this winter. The gelateria is doing vin brulé, boozy hot chocolates, seasonal flavours like chestnut and prune & armagnac, hot toasted brioche con gelato, and a dark chocolate fondue with pears, panettone and mini scoops of gelato for dipping.
Available at Gelupo now
Shoryu’s Pigs-in-Blankets Ramen
Shoryu has launched a Kurisumasu Menu for the festive season, featuring Brussel sprout tempura with truffle oil; a pigs-in-blanket-inspired ramen with a tonkotsu broth, Japanese karikari sausages, sliced pork belly, and cranberry; a snowman-shaped vanilla mochi; and a JFC chicken bucket.
Available at Shoryu until 4th January 2026
Xi Home Dumpling Bay’s Christmas Wreaths
Xi Home is doing savoury and sweet wreath steamed buns for Christmas this year, with some untraditional flavours – the savoury wreath is filled with New Orleans chicken, while the sweet one has a Dubai chocolate pistachio filling. You can eat them at the restaurant or order the buns for collection.
Available at Xi Home now
Crust Bros x StreetSmart’s Christmas Special
Neapolitan pizza joint Crust Bros is teaming up with StreetSmart for a Christmas special that tastes good and does good. The Alpine-inspired festive pizza has a taleggio, fontina, smoked provola, parmesan, and mozzarella base and is topped with speck, smoked almonds and smoked chilli jelly. £1 from every pizza sold will be donated to StreetSmart to support the charity’s work in tackling homelessness.
Available at Crust Bros until 4th January 2026
Arcade Food Hall’s 12 Cocktails of Christmas
Award-winning mixologist Rich Woods, aka The Cocktail Guy, has curated a festive drinks menu for Arcade Food Hall in Covent Garden and Battersea Power Station, featuring twelve Christmas cocktails. They include a Panettone Milk Punch, a Chocolate Orange Negroni, and a Christmas Collins.
Available at both Arcade sites until 5th January 2026
Side Hustle x Kevin O’Hare’s The Nut-Quacker Taco
The Royal Opera House’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, has hopped across the road to Side Hustle at the NoMad to create a festive taco for the bar’s Tacos with Friends charity guest series. The Nut-Quacker is his take on the Sugar Plum Fairy, with confit duck, crushed hazelnut and a sweet and spiced plum sauce. All proceed from the taco will be going to City Harvest, the London-based charity tackling food waste.
Available at Side Hustle now
