The best Burns Night suppers in London

One of the best value – and most interesting sounding – Burns Night dinners comes from this small Finsbury Park wine bar. Glasgow native Emily Skimming – Head of Pastry at the excellent Morchella in Clerkenwell – will join forces with Josh Dalloway of current Tasca residency for a one-night only Scottish-Iberian menu, with. a snack-style haggis, neeps and tatties, a Portuguese twist on on cullen skink, cock-a-leekie pie and a whisky baba for pudding. It comes to £49 a head, and seatings are at 3pm and 6pm on January 25.

Swing by the lobby of The Hox in Holbon’s Hoxton hotel for a special Burns sarnie from Scots food specialists Auld Hag. Available throughout January from 12pm daily, the epic-looking Battered Balmoral Roll is £12 a pop and stacked with battered chicken, Ayrshire bacon, haggis and a Lochlea distillery whisky sauce. The bar will also have Tennent’s on draft for the duration of the month, so you can have a fully Scottish pint to wash it down with. Rabbie would approve.

Slink into former indie sleaze hub turned Portuguese gastropub for a Dom’s Subs takeover, which will see the Macbeth’s Jamie Allan going kilt-to-kilt with Greg Boyce from Dom’s Subs for a special Burns meal on Saturday January 24. Expect square sausage, pakora sauce, HNT (haggis, neeps and tatties) and a Scottish DJ takeover.

This cosy and ultra convivial east London gastropub is offering a sleek £45 a head Burns Night menu with Italian and French twists for Sunday January 25. Enjoy cullen skink and Westcombe tagliatelle with pangrattato, haggis, neeps and tatties boulangere and cranachan tiramisu. Festive cocktails will also be thrown into the mix.

One of the best gastropubs in London, The Compton Arms will be getting into the Burns Night spirit thanks to kitchen residents Rake. Their Sunday Burns roast will consist of small plates of haggis pressed potato with green onion mayo, as well as an Arbroath smokey on soda toast, before a classic roast served with decidedly Scottish extras; neeps, haggis in blankets, whisky-glazed carrots and rumbledethumps. 

Live fire restaurant and Dalston must-visit Acme Fire Cult is celebrating Burns in league with Ardberg Whisky. For £65 a pop there will, of course, be haggis, neeps and tatties, dressed with a special Ardbeg cream sauce, as well as Acme classics of Marmite bread with pecorino and coal-roast leeks with pistachio romesco to open proceedings. For pud you can devour Acme’s famed sticky toffee pudding with whisky miso caramel. 

The always reliable Dishoom is getting in on the Burns Night act, turning it into a Burns Morning, with a special breakfast only Burns dish from January 19 to February 15. The Haggis Pau will be on offer at all branches of Dishoom as well as their Notting Hill spin-off the Permit Room. The dish features pork haggis in a buttered pau bread bun, and crammed with fried eggs, bacon rashers, honeyed chilli chutney, cream cheese and coriander.

This big, ballsy Indian barbecue restaurant is doing a Burns BBQ on January 24 and January 25, complete with live bagpipes on the Saturday. For £85 a head, you can scoff a set menu that includes saunfia Scottish salmon tikka and a shahi Highlands venison biryani feast. Add on £20 for a Caledonian whisky flight or savour the Burns Night cocktail of a Jal Jeera, made with The Macallan 12 Year Old, Jeera bitters, apple eau de vie and ginger ale.

This grand Mayfair restaurant – open since 1976 – is a London institution, and will be getting stuck into Scottish tradition on Sunday January 25 with a £100 a head Burns supper menu. Bagpipes and odes to the haggis will be in full swing alongside nips of Glenturret 14 Year Old Peated, before of whiskey cured salmon or Lorne sausage bon bons, and a hearty haggis, neeps and tatties main, and a Dundee cake for pud. 

Artsy Mount St Restaurant is making a masterpiece of Burns Night – and extending it from January 19-25. A four course menu will be available for £130 throughout the week, with seared Orkney scallop with cullen skink, venison & haggis pie with neeps and tatties, before Isle of Mull Cheddar with oatcakes and heather honeycomb, or rhubarb with stem ginger tipsy laird. If money is no object, then you can book The Scottish Room, their private dining inspired by the restaurant’s sister property the Fife Arms.

This popular Indian restaurant has been thrilling locals with its creative cooking since 1985. Burns Night will see a special £65 five-course menu, complete with a Nepalese bagpiper, poetry recital, and the ceremonial cutting of an Indian-spiced haggis by Head Chef Jiwan Lal. Dishes include Tibetan haggis jhol momo dumplings, Bengali kasundi salmon with mung dal khichdi, Anglo-Indian roast chicken with spiced pui lentils and parsnip, smoked chamsa lamb curry with ankali rice pancake, and Bhutanese red rice kheer with cinnamon flatbread for pudding. For an extra £35 you can enjoy a Indian single malt whisky pairing. 

Holland Park hotspot Julie’s is celebrating Burns Night with an £85-a-head set menu on January 25 that includes lamb belly and haggis scotch egg, crispy langoustines and black pudding, haggis with neeps and tatties and clootie dumpling with whisky ice cream. The best bit though? Irn Bru daiquiris.

A fancy-pants resto-jewel buried within London’s (arguably) fanciest hotel, the Connaught Grill is extending Burns Night into a whole week, kicking off with a special menu in honour of Rabbie on January 19, running until January 25. At £140 a head (with a drinks pairing and whisky flight included for £280 on Burns Night itself), you will be treated to glazed haggis dumpling, marinated Highland venison loin with swede parmentier, before Scottish goats cheese and cranachan. Oof.

The grand City branch of the Wolseley will be celebrating Burns Night with a dinner of cullen skink, plates of haggis, neeps and tatties, and a pudding of cranachan. On the evening of January 25, The Pipes and Drums of London Scottish Regiment band will greet diners with their distinctive sound. You can also get the Burns menu at the original Piccadilly branch of the Wolseley, but you’ll only find the pipers at the City spot. 

It's a booze-focussed Burns at Bethnal Green’s Sun Tavern with a special cocktail menu for January 25 featuring a host of concoctions made with Aberfeldy 12yr single malt. There'll also be a Haggis address and free haggis canapes from Scottish street food champs Deeney’s as well as a free Aberfeldy whisky tasting at 4pm, paired with cheeses supplied by Hackney Road’s Provisions. After the classic ‘Address To The Haggis’, Rennie from Scottish band The View will DJ into the night. 

A two-step highland fling and bag-piper will make sure that Sussex Restaurant is the place to be this Burns Night - well, actually the night before, as they are celebrating on Saturday January 24. For £72 per person, the menu inclues a mushroom marmite eclair, crab doughnut and haggis with swede and carrots and a whisky jus, as well as a lamb and sweetbread wellington and salt-baked truffled pecorino red potatoes. Dessert is just as lavish; cranachan with pastry cream, honey and an oat crumble.

This grande dame of the capital’s restaurant scene (established 1916) is offering a Burns Night beauty with cullen skink with potato and smoked haddock, roasted Orkney scallops with black pudding and rumbledethumps, Highland venison loin with haggis, neeps and tatties, and a unconventional – but rather tasty sounding – pudding of cinnamon beignets with rhubarb and custard. Bentley’s very own piper, Maggie McNaulty, will perform the traditional Address to the Haggis. The menu starts at £72.90 for three courses.