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Burns Night in London 2012
The best events and places to enjoy Burns Night suppers in the capital
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Moti Mahal
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Narrow
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Every year on January 25, Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, is celebrated with traditional food, verse and music. Our food and drink editors have rounded up some of the best places to enjoy Burns Night suppers in the capital. It’s advisable to book ahead for all these events.
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The Athenaeum
116 Piccadilly, London, W1J 7BJThe annual ‘whisky social’ on January 25, featuring Scottish dishes and a guided talk through several Macallan expressions, is already sold out this year.
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Boisdale
13-15 Eccleston Street, London, SW1W 9LXThe three outposts of the rampantly Scottish Boisdale, as always, don’t hold back when it comes to Burns Night. From January 23 to 27 (and January 16 to 18 in the Belgravia branch), there are set menus featuring the best Scottish ingredients (£42 to £69 per person), and the full, unrestrained ceremony with a piper and a speaker. The whisky selection alone, especially in Canary Wharf, makes a visit worthwhile.
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Charles Lamb
16 Elia Street, London, N1 8DEThis charming pub is playing rebel tonight, rejecting Burns Night (and Robert's poetry), in favour of celebrating fellow Scottish poet and renegade William McGonagall. The William McGonagall Burns Supper (organised by whisky brand Auchentoshan and costing £27.50) invites guests to come dressed in tweed and moustaches, and ready to recite terrible poetry. Appropriately, haggis and Auchentoshan whisky will be served. The event kicks of at 7pm.
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Dock Kitchen
Portobello Docks, 342-344 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5BUDock Kitchen – based in furniture designer Tom Dixon's Victorian wharf building HQ and headed up Stevie Parle – is celebrating Burns Night with a Scottish-themed set menu for £40. There'll be haggis (plus a non-offal-based dish) as well as a plentiful supply of whisky. Tables from 7pm (last booking at 9.30pm).
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Green's
36 Duke Street, London, SW1Y 6DFBoth the St James’s and City branches of Green’s are offering an unashamedly upmarket sort of celebration for a week over Burns Night – more country laird than couthy laddie. Duke Street has a set menu (£65 per person) with a nip of rare whisky matched to each course; Cornhill has an a la carte with the likes of herring in oatmeal or roast haunch of wild boar. Book between January 23 and 27.
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Narrow
44 Narrow Street, London, E14 8DPOutspoken Scot Robert Burns will be honoured in style at Gordon Ramsay’s Limehouse gastropub on Wednesday January 25 with a special lunch and dinner menu. The three courses feature the likes of cock-a-leekie soup, marmalade and whisky-marinated quail, and cranachan pudding. It’s £30 per person, and there will be whiskies selected to match the dishes too.
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Old Dairy
1-3 Crouch Hill, London, N4 4APThis popular local gastropub on the fringes of Finsbury Park and Crouch End is taking a stab at a Scot's dinner tonight in honour of Burns. The food is usually pretty good here, and though we can't vouch for the pub's Scottish credentials, its menu of Arbroath smokie fishcakes, haggis with tatties and neeps as well as roasted medallions of venison sounds pretty authentic. The set menu (which includes various other options) is £30 per person.
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Sam's Brasserie & Bar
11 Barley Mow Passage, London, W4 4PHThis popular Chiswick establishment has a well-priced Burns Night menu accompanied by a bagpiper and the traditional odes to the offal-stuffed centrepiece. The simple menu offers the likes of cullen skink (a soup of potato and smoked haddock), haggis and neeps and tatties.
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The Savoy - River Restaurant
The Savoy, Strand, London, WC2R 0EUMoney weighing you down? Desperate to unload it? Try the beautifully revived River Restaurant and its £120 Burns Supper. Dewar's whisky are hosting the event, which includes a three course meal, bagpipes, toasts and plenty of different whiskys.
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St Pancras Grand
Upper Concourse, St Pancras International Station, London, NW1 2QPIf you get a bit misty-eyed after partaking of enough whisky from this spectacularly backdropped bar, the Caledonian Sleeper from nearby Euston might suddenly seem like a wonderful idea. On Burns Night itself, there will be a three-course Scottish meal for £45 per person, as well as Highland dancing and a bagpiper.
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White Horse
1-3 Parsons Green, London, SW6 4ULA week-long Scottish beer festival coincides with the Burns festivities at this splendid Parson’s Green pub. There will be more than 30 beers, from six breweries north of the border; on the night itself, a piper and speaker will serenade the haggis as part of a five-course set menu (£45). In the bar, traditional Scottish dishes will be available to match the perennially exceptional beer list.
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York & Albany - Gordon Ramsay
127 - 129 Parkway, Camden, London, NW1 7PSA Scottish-inspired menu is on offer at this elegant dining room. The meal kicks off with Scotch broth soup and braised lambs shoulder, followed by pan-fried Scottish salmon and then haggis, neeps and tatties – and it's all rounded off with rhubarb crumble and malt whisky and ginger ice cream. £40 per person.
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