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’ve done indian and chinese in various local restaurants. it’s great. no shopping, prepping, cooking, dishes to wash, problems fitting leftovers into the fridge.

just bought a selection of picky bits and puddings for eating in front of the tv later (with other picky bits left over from a picky christmas eve).

bliss. highly recommend it.

but make sure it’s not a restaurant on a dodgy road thats subject to flooding or trees down or indeed a hill if it snows over christmas! you need to book early with no idea what the weather will be like in a few months time!

be extra alert when driving as there are stressed/late/drunk drivers all around. i got my wing mirror knocked off by an overtaking car one year. had to buy a new one as the fitting broke. i wasn’t happy.

It wouldn’t be for me personally. But I do think you shouldn’t feel pressured to do Xmas a certain way. When my friends mum died she couldn’t face doing Xmas again in a traditional way ever again as it made it too awful of a day full of memories. So she now does something totally different.
Do your Xmas your way. There’s no rule book.

But not everyone celebrates Xmas. So some of the restaurants that are open on xmas day it’s just another day to them.

YANBU. Once I no longer have family (i.e. elderly parents) expectations to accommodate, this is exactly what I will be doing. Sick of performing the same thing every year, and last year the buggers arguing while I slaved over their bloody dinner.

Yep, a few times. Usually got the lunch sitting. Have also been to twice to restaurants for traditional Christmas lunch. Won’t be do that again, my toast is better but for a change Indian is great.

Er no. By all means have an indian for a change but a traditional roast cooked well is the food of gods and Christmas dinner is the king of all roasts.

Toast is a great alternative 😀

DH grew up going to a Chinese restaurant on Xmas day as his mum hated cooking so much. They actually ordered an Indian to be delivered one Xmas (we made other plans) and kept going on about how brilliant it would be. It turned up 5 hours late stone cold. It came from across the street too.

roast not toast!

We've done this several times, especially with my aged parents (sadly too old even for this now 😥).

Very nice. Usually in the Midlands and a set menu (with vegetarian options). We would usually book for 3/4pm ish.

The last one we did a couple of years ago was 6 small courses, with unlimited naan/rice/soft drinks and excellent value at £45 ish each (would be extra for alcohol but none of us usually drink).

The Indian down the bottom of our road does a buffet dinner at Christmas and it's always rammed. They do different sittings and the dishes are replenished so there's no panic. The only thing I'd check is that the restaurant isn't dry, as this one is and they don't have a BYOB policy (not that I'm aware of).

I haven’t, but I really fancy trying it one year! I love a curry and if it’s a restaurant where a lot of the staff don’t celebrate Christmas I wouldn’t feel bad at them being away from their families

You must have worked in a very downmarket restaurant. My husband and son are in high end hospitality and this is nothing like what they describe. I’ve never eaten out for Christmas Dinner but I wouldn’t assume people were lazy. There could be bereavement, disabilities, anything at play.

And of course you phoned the police instead of just watching the drink drivers make their way home?

We are doing it this year going to our favourite Indian restaurant on Christmas Day really looking forward to it
Myself Dh Dd my mum brother and mother in law

We did this for several years pre-children. Chinese though. Loved it. Beautiful food, served to table. Champagne to drink, and best of all no washing up. We still celebrated Xmas the rest of the day, visiting family etc.
I would recommend it.

Me too

on top of the increased prices we left a £30 tip last year so im sure that’ll help anyone working that day feel it was more worthwhile than sitting at home playing computer games. or maybe not, who knows!

our place apparently has two shifts on, so presumably those who eat lunch with their family would want to work the evening in the restaurant, and those who like dinner with their family or going out etc would work the lunch shift.

seems sensible. i hope they ask them their choice before imposing.