The best places to celebrate Burns Night 2016 on Monday January 25 with whisky, haggis and tatties aplenty…
Raise a glass to Rabbie Burns at HIX Soho (below) and HIX Oyster & Chop House and enjoy a three-course menu (priced at £35). Dine on Blackface haggis with bashed neeps and Glenmorangie original; Speyside red deer curry with steamed basmati rice and crispy shallots and floating islands with Yorkshire rhubarb and Glenmorangie signet. Alternatively, celebrate the life and poetry of Robbie Burns and head to HIX Mayfair for a traditional Scottish supper with culinary twists from Mark Hix and comedian, broadcaster and foodie Hardeep Singh Kohli – with Glenmorangie whiskies paired with each course (priced at £95).
Boisdale of Canary Wharf, Boisdale of Belgravia and Boisdale of Bishopsgate (pictured below), Scotland’s principalities in London, will be featuring a piper in full Highland regalia who will pipe the haggis at each participating table and a speaker reciting The Ode to a Haggis in 18th-century period costume as well as, not wanting to spoil the plot, stabbing the Haggis every night in the traditional manner. Set menus starting from £35 at Bishopsgate; £45 at Belgravia; £55 at Canary Wharf per person and feature the finest Scottish ingredients including, among others, Hebridean salmon, Mini roast Macsween haggis and the very best grass-fed dry aged Aberdeenshire beef steaks will be available alongside a noggin of single-malt Scotch whisky.
Mac & Wild is celebrating Burns Night with an entire whole week dedicated to the Scottish bard. Each day of the week features a different variety of haggis including clapshot, haggis in the hole and haggis pops with the week culminating in a traditional Burn’s Supper at their newly launched restaurant (the tamed sibling of the Wild Game Company). Enjoy the finest haggis, venison and whisky sourced directly from the Scottish Highlands, in a charmingly rustic setting. In keeping with tradition, on the evening of the 23 January, Mac & Wild has arranged for the haggis to be piped in and several of Robbie Burns’ poems to be read allowed. The evening ends with a live sing-a-long of the Bard’s most famous poem, Auld Lang Syne. Tickets are priced at £35.
On Monday 25 January, Chelsea restaurant, Rabbit and sister venue The Shed, will be celebrating Burns night by offering diners the perfect (loaded) traditional Scottish Burns feast fit for the bard himself, with an array of delicious delicacies including a homemade haggis and Hot Toddy daily loosener to chase the winter blue away. So for an authentic Burns night ‘baw’, don your kilts and head down to Rabbit and The Shed to celebrate Scotland’s most famous poet.
Bonnie Gull Seafood Shack (below) will be shaking things up with a fishy twist in aid of the Scottish celebrations with a special Burns Night-inspired dinner menu. Expect traditional favourites combined with seafood staples, such as cock-a-leekie soup with rock oysters (priced at £50). Other recommended restaurants to celebrate Burns night include: Bread Street Kitchen and Quo Vadis.
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