The best Burns Night suppers in London

From January 21-25, Edinburgh-based chef Tomás Gormley will be taking over Carousel and putting on a best-of from his latest venture, Cardinal (following Skua and the Michelin star scoring Heron) and will be serving the likes of sea trout with taramasalata, whisky ponzu and blood orange, and Belhaven lobster tail. Grab it all for £79.50 a head.  

One of our fave gastropubs in London, this boozer – tucked into a corner of Victorian terraces near London Fields – is offering up a Burns supper for £48 a head. Cullen skink souffle and Isle of Mull cheddar kick off the menu before homemade haggis with neeps and tatties gratin and a pudding of Scottish border tart. Other surprises are also planned, so book your table and then dig out your tartan. 

Piccadilly’s grand, gorgeous The Wolseley (and the newer branch in the City, too) will be celebrating Burns Night with a dinner of cullen skink, plates of haggis, neeps and tatties, and a pudding of cranachan. There’ll also be some special Scottish-inspired sips made with Singleton 12yr whisky; an Alloway Sour (lapsang souchong tea cordial, ginger liqueur, lemon juice) and Bobby Burns (cacao nibs, sweet vermouth, benedictine, lemon essence). Visit The Wolseley City on the evening of January 25, where The Pipes and Drums of London Scottish Regiment band will greet diners with their distinctive sound.

Dalston’s al fresco live-fire cookery hot spot is teaming up with Islay’s Ardbeg whisky on January 25. One of the best value Burns bashes in town, there’s a £28 per person meat platter on offer, piled high with haggis, Tamworth pork belly, roast Highland beef and chicken thigh, with neeps and tatties on the side. To get into the spirit of evening, there’ll also be a reading of Burns’ ‘Address to the Haggis’ as well as bespoke Ardbeg whisky cocktails. 

Holland Park hotspot Julie’s is celebrating Burns Night with an £85-a-head set menu 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.

Step into one of London’s grandest hotels (formerly known as the Hotel Russell) for an early Burns bash on Thursday January 23. At £95 each, this Scots supper club comes with a four course feast featuring all the bangers (Loch Fyne salmon, haggis, cranachan etc), as well as as premium whisky pairings from Bladnoch Distillery and the sweet sound of live bagpiping.

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 21, running until January 26. At £145 a head (with a drinks pairing and whisky flight included for £275 on Burns Night itself), you will be treated to glazed haggis dumpling, sea trout cured in Aberfeldy 21 year old whisky, then stuffed sweet onion with Jerusalem artichoke, black truffle and lardo with an onion consommé. The main event is marinated Highland venison loin with swede parmentier, before Scottish goats cheese and a Burns Night take on the iconic house special; crêpes suzette. Oof.

Artsy Mount St Restaurant is making a masterpiece of Burns Night – and extending it from January 20-25. A four course menu will be available for £125 throughout the week, with Orkney scallops and smoked haddock hash before Highland venison, haggis ‘sausage’, neeps, tatties and whiskey peppercorn sauce. Then it’s time for Lanark blue cheese and Eccles cake before raspberry and almond 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 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.

A two-step highland fling and bag-piper will make sure that Sussex Restaurant is the place to be this Burns Night. 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.

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 including Bobby Burns (Aberfeldy 12yr single malt, sweet vermouth and benedictine) and Pete Burns (Aberfeldy 12yr Single Malt, rosé vermouth, strawberry, shortbread and soda). There'll also be a Haggis address and free haggis canapes from Scottish street food champs Deeney’s. Arrive at 5pm for a free Aberfeldy whisky tasting paired with cheeses supplied by Provisions Wine & Cheese. Scottish fashion designer Pam Hogg will be DJing celtic bangers until 2am.

This grand Mayfair restaurant – open since 1976 – is a London institution, and it'll be getting stuck into Scottish tradition on January 25 with a £95 a head Burns supper menu. Bagpipes and odes to the haggis will be in full swing alongside nips of Johnnie Walker Blue Label, before of whiskey cured salmon and cock a leekie terrine, and a hearty haggis main. Pudding of deep-fried Mars bar might be a little after Rabbie Burns' time, but that's no reason not to indulge. 

This jazzy steakhouse is doing Burns Night supper with a US twist. Scottish-American vocalist Ali Affleck will sing American songbook classics while you chow down on your Burns supper. There'll also be a bagpiper in attenance and the unmissable address to the haggis will also feature. The Burns Night entertainment will be running from January 20-25, and a four course set menu with live music starts at £79. 

The team behind Islington’s excellent Scottish deli, The Shoap, are putting on a fully-fledged ceilidh over at Lock Warehouse in Hackney. Tickets are £75 each, and as well as all the singing and dancing, you’ll get a Burns supper of smoked haddock and macaroni pies as well as haggis and neeps and tatties drizzled with a Laphroaig whisky cream sauce, as well as classic biscuits from the Shoap.  

Always the most raucous Burns bash in town, this year Quo Vadis’s Scottish supper is taking place on January 24. This marks the eighth annual Burns Nights at QV with, as always, Lee Tiernan of FKA Black Axe Mangal in charge of the menu. Expect a bagpipper, haggis, clapshot, a welcome whiskey cocktail, and, as usual, an utterly filthy dessert. £75 per person. This event is now sold out.

If you don’t fancy a full Burns Night feast but still want to get into the spirit of things, visit floating cocktail bar Bruno’s. This Islington bar-on-a-barge will be serving a special cocktail for the weekend of Burns; the Deep Fried Dram (£12). A tribute to the iconic Scottish deep fried Mars bar, it’s made with Balvenie 12yo, Baileys and Mars milkshake and comes served alongside a deep fried Mars bar bite.