Indian Restaurant for Christmas Day?

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Just me and OH looking to do something different. Some Indian restaurants open Christmas Day locally. Anyone had an Indian on CD? If so what time did you eat, if lunchtime what did you have in the evening and Boxing Day?
Did you miss the traditional lunch?

I think it depends who you are with on Christmas Day to an extent!

We once went to an Italian restaurant on Christmas Day and for years after it was referred to as 'The year we didn't have a Christmas Day Dinner'.....

Dd and her husband went last year i think the reasturant they went to did "sittings" they went around 5 i think, dd was on night shift Christmas eve so had been asleep. They said they liked it.

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We did this a few times. We liked it! The food was great (probably better than most Christmas dinners served in pubs too!) No one had the stress of prepping, cooking and hosting. We had lunch about 2/3 then went to one of our homes for drinks, games. We had a cheeseboard for supper

I've been to a Mediterranean restaurant on Xmas day...i dont like traditional Xmas dinner . Went about 4pm.

I think it sounds great!

This has just made me so envious!

We did this one year, but had Xmas dinner on Boxing Day, as one of our party had to work on the main day, it was a lot of fun,and still felt like Xmas.

we went in the evening, so we still did the lovely Xmas breakfast with champagne, we then did canapés and lots of picky bits for lunch and then headed out in the evening to a local Indian.

I want to do this but my MIL (who lives with us)flatly refuses to go out and my partner wants a traditional Christmas dinner if we do go out.

i say go for it!!!

We did it one year when we lived near London. Great fun, just us and some bemused tourists.

We did this last Christmas and will do the same this year, it was great. I am sick of shopping for and cooking Christmas dinner and not especially keen on it as a meal. We ate at about 1.30pm, had our usual "traditional" Christmas breakfast of scrambled eggs, salmon and Bucks Fizz and a tea of of cheese and biscuits, chocolate cake and mince pies. So some traditional food but all very easy. Thoroughly recommend it, lovely stress free day.

We regularly do it. Lovely food, they don’t put the prices up and we have a nice chat with regulars who go every year
usually go around 4pm
i have only ever eaten one Christmas Day lunch though so don’t really miss anything!

We’ve done it and really like it. No hassle, someone else does the cooking (and anything you don’t eat you can bring home in take away boxes). All good

This sounds great, may do this but a roast pork on BD perhaps

We’re doing a house/dog sit in East London over Christmas so will definitely be going to Brick Lane for CD. Just the two of us and it will be fun.

Quite a few of my friends have done this for years.
Its not for me but they like it.

We've done both Indian and Chinese on Xmas day. Loved both.

If either of has to work CD we often get a takeaway chinese/curry on Xmas eve and heat it all up the next day for Xmas tea, works for us.

We have a 'good' roast at home and for lunch out fairly often so don't really miss the big dinner.

I looked for similar - but my local Indian restaurant doesn't open on Christmas Day.

So I made a huge home made a chicken curry on the 20th, froze it. On Christmas Day, I reheated it and served it with home-cooked poppadoms and rice.

Prep time - 20 minutes, got rid of 90% of the work and stress of Christmas Day and now we always do the same thing every year and everyone in my house loves it.

We have a Sunday Roast Chicken with Pigs in Blankets between Xmas and new Year so we don't miss out on the roast element. But with the chaos of xmas day out the way, it's so much easier.

All you need to do is perfect a really good Chicken Curry recipe beforehand. I now enjoy xmas day again.

British traditional Christmas dinners are absolutely vile, you should definitely go to the Indian restaurant and have an actual meal that you will both enjoy.

We've done this several times as we don't "do" xmas. It's nice and casual and relaxed and no stupid "jingle bells" music playing.

Ooh lucky you. Love Brick Lane

We've done it before and enjoyed it but we dont have the typical christmas dinner anyway so didnt feel like we were missing anything!

I hate going out on Christmas Day. I feel really bad for all the staff not able to enjoy their own Christmas just because a bunch of adults are too lazy to look after themself for 24 hours.

I’ve been that staff. Not only were many customers unbearably shitfaced by 1pm, the expensive pre-booked/sometimes-pre-paid nature of the meal, meant customers had an overinflated sense of entitlement and didn’t tip at all. I always found Christmas Day the worst day for tipping. You’d get customers insistent you have a drink - which of course I couldn’t do. We weren’t allowed to charge for a drink and then keep the money as a tip, that’s not a thing, or at least it wasn’t at the places I worked. Customers would then drive off in their car sloshed, under the mistaken belief that a big Christmas lunch would magically absorb all alcohol from their system.

I’ve subsequently worked Christmas Day clinical shifts in the NHS and oddly the vibe is a lot more festive and enjoyable than working in high-end restaurants and hotels. Says it all really, I’d rather be in hospital on Christmas Day than have to eat in a nice restaurant.

I don’t think what you eat at Christmas really matters, but I wish we’d all get in the habit of eating at home on Christmas Day.

We’ve been twice first time it was good loved the atmosphere but last year it was very quiet and I actually ended up asking for the mains to be packaged up to take home (I wasn’t feeling too good anyway)

I am not too lazy to cook. Most of my family and OHs are now dead. So no point in a turkey for two.
We do not get 'shit faced' on Christmas Day. Or any other day.
I have worked many Christmases in pubs and catering and always enjoyed it. In fact in one pub regulars bought the staff presents every year.