Burns Night is coming up on Sunday 25 January 2026 and lots of restaurants are celebrating. From whisky cocktails to bagpipes serenading the haggis (and lots more), we round up the best Burns Night suppers to cheer up a cold January in London.
Burns Night at The Connaught Grill
The Connaught Grill (Mayfair, 19-25 January) - They'll have a special menu on all week, with dishes including Scottish glazed haggis dumpling with chestnut mushroom and marinated Highland venison loin with swede parmentier. That'll be served with a whisky cream sauce made from the Aberfeldy 21 distilled in a Malbec cask and they'll be serving that whisky along with the menu (£140).
Carousel (Fitzrovia, 20-24 January) - Darren Ross of Inver (in Loch Fyne) and a previous Scottish chef of the year, is having his first residency at Carousel. His menu will focus on cooking with fire and dishes will include versions of Burns Night classics like a haggis and fermented Potato Scone Dumpling and Neep XO. Tickets are £65.
Giacco's (Finsbury Park, 25 January) - Glaswegian Emily Skimming, Head of Pastry at Morchella, will be popping up at Giacco's to team up with chef-in-residence, Josh Dalloway, for a Scottish-Iberian menu with a Burns Night twist. The menu includes haggis, neeps and tatties in snack form and a Portuguese take on cullen skink. (£49)
Rotunda (King's Cross, 23 January) - The King's Cross restaurant will have a three-course menu with cullen skink, haggis, neeps and tatties, and a boozy raspberry cranachan trifle. There will be an address to the haggis, bagpipes and a Glen Moray tasting too.
The Irn Bru ice cream at Ria's
Ria's (Soho and Notting Hill, 25 January) - They're hosting a Burns Night Scottish feast with exclusive Scottish-inspired dishes that include haggis pops, a haggis-neeps-and-tatties pizza pie and Irn Bru ice cream (which will stay on as a special for a week). The set menu is £35.
Sussex (Soho, 24 January) - The Gladwin Brothers are hosting a Burns Night which includes whisky cocktails, a two-step Highland fling and a live bagpiper. As for the menu, that will feature Sussex snacks like their Portland crab doughnut before the main event of Haggis is served with swede and carrots and a whisky jus as well as a lamb and sweetbread Wellington. (£72)
The Jugged Hare (City of London, 24 January) - Head Chef Raf has created a five-course feast, that includes haggis suet pudding served with neeps and tatties and a whisky jus andalso cranachan ice cream and vanilla custard. They'll have drinks pairings that include drams of 10-Year-Old Port Charlotte and a New York Sour cocktail made with Bruichladdich Classic Laddie whisky. The night will kick off with bagpipes, too.
Rake at the Compton Arms (Islington, 25 January) - The pub's residency will be serving their Sunday roast with special Scottish sides for one day. So you'll find haggis in blankets, neeps (turnips), rumbledethumps (baked bubble and squeak), whisky-glazed carrots, roast tatties and more. Plus there's a special dish of haggis pressed potato and green onion mayo.
The main event at Langan's
Langan's (Mayfair) - Burns Night is now a regular occasion at Langan's, and this year, chef Ben Mellor's menu includes Scottish-inspired canapés like mutton tartare and a quail egg and black pudding scotch egg, while the mains include Haggis, Neeps & Tatties, Braised Venison or Skate with Brown Butter Mash. Afterwards, they're promising "poignant recitals and serenading music" (£100).
The Hunter's Moon (Chelsea, 25 January) - The Chelsea pub will have the Burns Night set menu all day long with dishes including Sweeney’s Haggis with neeps and tatties (or a venison wellington) and Cranachan for dessert. They'll also have an address to the haggis and bagpipes at 7pm (Two courses for £40, three for £48).
The Cow (Notting Hill, 25 January) - The Notting Hill pub will be selling Burns specials all day long, including cullen skink, haggis with neeps and tatties or mince and tatties and they'll also have special whiskies on all night.
Acme Fire Cult (Dalston, 25 February) - They'll be teaming up with Ardbeg Whisky and after some Acme snacks, the main event will be haggis with an Ardbeg cream sauce, neeps and tatties, followed by sticky toffee pudding with a special Ardbeg miso caramel. There will also be drams of the limited-release Ardbeg Anthology 15 year old Beithir’s Tale (£65).
Burns Night at The Wolseley
The Wolseley (St James's) and The Wolseley City (25 January) - They will both be putting on Scottish dishes for the night and their haggis, neeps and tatties is served with a whisky-infused cream sauce. They'll have a special cocktail menu and London Scottish Pipes and Drums will be on hand with bagpipes.
Sam's Riverside (Hammersmith) - They'll be offering a welcome dram of Woven whisky before a menu that includes (alongside haggis and vegetarian haggis) smoked haddock cullen skink, Lincolnshire poacher cheddar & leek tart or gin and juniper cured Scottish salmon. There's also a special menu at Sam's Waterside in Brentford. Bagpiper Robin will be playing at Riverside at 7pm and 8:30pm, and Waterside at 7:45pm and 9:15pm.
Xi Home (25 January, Spitalfields) - They're holding a haggis dumpling masterclass, which includes making the dough, constructing the dumplings, adding the haggis filling and finally - cooking them. You'll also make a whisky cocktail and can take your dumplings home or eat them right there. (£65)
Babur (Brockley, 25 January) - For a very different Burns Night dinner, Babur are putting it through the lens of Indian cooking with a house-made Indian-spiced haggis kicking off the menu and with each course paired with Indian whisky. They'll even have some Nepalese bagpipers (£65).
Mount St Restaurant (19-25 January) - Executive Chef Jamie Shears has made a four-course menu, which includes seared Orkney scallop with Cullen skink, venison & haggis pie with neeps and tatties, Isle of Mull Cheddar with oatcakes and heather honeycomb, and rhubarb & stem ginger tipsy laird (£130). There are also haggis sausage rolls in The Audley pub downstairs.
The proper way to attack/address a haggis at Boisdale
Boisdale (Canary Wharf and Belgravia, 19-25 January) - Another restaurant that goes all-out for Burns Night is Boisdale. They'll be having multiple events all week, including live music, bagpipes, special collabs with whisky houses and lots more. They'll also have a mini roast Dumfriesshire blackface haggis as the main event all week long.
Rubens at The Palace (Victoria, 21 January) - The English Grill will be hosting a special Burns dinner with bagpipes. Dishes on the menu include Scotch broth, Scottish smoked salmon, haggis and the usual trimmings with a tattie scone to finish (£120)
Julie's (Holland Park, 25 January) - The Julie's menu features Scottish cuisine with a fun twist, so there's lamb belly and haggis scotch egg, Crispy langoustines with black pudding, the classic Haggis with neeps and tatties and a traditional Clootie dumpling served with whisky ice cream. They'll even have an Irn Bru Daquiri, and there will be bagpipes. (£85)
Big Penny Social (Walthamstow, 21-25 January) - They'll be having five days of events, which include traditional ceilidhs, two nights of parties (and daytime events for families) before finishing off with a Burns supper featuring haggis, neeps and tatties, accompanied by bagpipes and followed by a ceilidh. (Tickets from £15)
Dishoom (All venues, 19 January - 15 February) - A new Scottish special is going on the menu, The Haggis Pau. It's spiced Dishoom pork haggis, in hot, buttered pau and layered with fried eggs, crisp Carluke’s bacon rashers, honeyed chilli chutney, cream cheese and topped off with fresh coriander (£12.90).
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