Christmas @ The Caprice Group
The Mount Street Deli Christmas Hampers: £100-150, available from 16 November, last orders 23 December.
From truffle honey to growers’ Champagne – Gyéjacquot, The Mount Street Deli has plucked the very best products from its Christmas range to create festive hampers, with a number of items sourced from the deli’s sister restaurants, including Scott’s cocoa truffles and The Ivy’s mince pies. Shoppers can also create their own bespoke hampers.
To order, please contact marketing@caprice-holdings.co.uk or call 020 7167 6724
Balthazar’s vast array of endless goodies: £18-30, available from 1 December.
This winter, Balthazar Boulangerie is offering alternative seasonal cakes, including a ginger and lime cake, plum cake and pineapple upside down cake to name but a few. There’s even a completely edible Christmas tree and pot filled with chocolate truffles, as well as traditional faves like Christmas puds and mince pies.
Order by ‘phone 020 3301 1155 or email delivery@balthazarlondon.com
Balthazar’s Christmas Hampers: £95, available to order from Sunday 15 November until Friday 18 December.
Highlights include hand-made truffles, pain d’épices, prunes in Armagnac, a box of 12 mini mince pies, as well as a traditional Christmas pudding.
Balthazar Christmas Hampers require 24 hours’ notice. Order by via 020 3301 1155 or email delivery@balthazarlondon.com.
The Ivy’s exclusive Christmas Carol Old Fashioned: £15, 1-31 December.
The Ivy’s bar team has reinvented a classic cocktail for Christmas to exemplify this true melange of past, present and future – the “Christmas Carol Old Fashioned”. Mirroring Dickens’s exploration of Christmas traditions from the past to the future, the cocktail will incorporate the Spirit of Christmas Past – a 1970s vintage bottle of Chivas Regal 12 year old; the spirit of Christmas Present – a current Chivas Regal 12 year old; and the spirit of Christmas Future – a Strathisla single malt, which will be the base for a future Chivas Regal blend. Scottish heather honey, bitters and a flamed orange twist will be added to the 3 whiskies to create the “Christmas Carol Old Fashioned”. Served in a Flower of Scotland crystal “old fashioned” glass, the cocktail will be poured over a piece of pure carved ice.
The Mount Street Deli Christmas Produce: £13.50-120, available from 7-18 December.
Christmas is a busy time of year so why not enjoy hassle-free restaurant food in the comfort of your own home? Treat yourself to Scott’s home-cured gravadlax with fresh dill dressing, 34 Mayfair’s beef Wellington and slow-baked cheesecake with mandarins and mandarin syrup, as well as The Ivy’s mince pies.
48 hours’ notice is required for delivery of a dinner party dish and all orders should be placed by 6pm to ensure the full two days. Dishes can either be picked up from the deli or delivered free of charge within W1; there is a courier charge for further afield (and within central London only)
To make an order, please contact Natalie Hawthorne on 020 7499 6843 or Natalie@themountstreetdeli.co.uk.
The first venture from Cubitt House’s little sister company Open House; a large 200-cover all day dining affair helmed by ex-Murano chef Diego Cardoso. This Fitzrovia newcomer is not only hosting a Christmas Day menu, but a Boxing Day bottomless brunch, and is currently taking bookings for private Christmas parties.
Christmas set party menu: £45 pp, available 26 November-24 December.
Christmas Day menu: £85 pp with a glass of champagne, available 25 December, noon-6 pm.
Boxing Day brunch: £16 pp with unlimited Bloody Marys or prosecco, available noon-4 pm.
Growing City restaurant hub Broadgate Circle adds to its ranks with this NYC-inspired all-day seafood offering specialising in, you guessed it, crab. They have a number of Christmas party packages on offer.
Package 1: £55 pp (service not included)
Arrival glass of prosecco for each guest
3 cold canapés
5 hot canapés
2 desserts options
Selection of beers and wine based on 4 drinks per person
Package 2: £60 pp (service not included)
Arrival glass of prosecco
4 course seated dinner
1/2 bottle of upgraded wine per person
1 small bottle of water per person
Package 3: £49.50 pp (service not included)
Arrival glass of prosecco
3 course seated lunch/dinner
1/2 bottle of house wine per person
Package 4: £95 pp (service not included)
Arrival glass of prosecco
3 canapés
3 course seated dinner
Unlimited drinks over a maximum of 4 hours- House wine, 2 beers and soft drinks.
