Many Younger’s pubs are providing Christmas Day menus (the Windmill in Clapham appears to be like like a winner) however for sheer feelgood issue none beat the Guinea in Mayfair, tucked down a mews off Berkeley Sq. and serving rib-sticking British classics since 1952 (there’s been an inn on the location since 1423). Anticipate just about every part you’d hope to seek out on a Christmas lunch menu, with very civilised opening hours of 11am-5.30pm: rock oysters washed down with Champagne forward of butter-poached ballotine of Norfolk turkey with maple and chestnut stuffing, or carved dry-aged rib of beef with a lamb cutlet, each served with immense trimmings of roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire
pudding, honey-glazed carrots and Brussels sprouts. Veggies get a blue cheese, truffle and walnut gratin, there are starters of winter-vegetable soup or oak-smoked salmon, sticky toffee or Christmas pud for afters and mince pies served on the finish.