Christmas

• Celebrate the start of the festive season with Carnaby

  

  Head to Carnaby London this Christmas for festive feasting, amazing lights and the best of Christmas shopping. 

• Fancy being the first to try this year's Pret Christmas sandwich? Here's how.

  

  If you consider yourself a true aficionado of Christmas sarnies, then an upcoming event has your name all over it. Many consider the reveal of the Pret Christmas sandwich, along with the first showing of the John Lewis Christmas ad, to be the official start of the festive season. This year, the store is inviting a select group of seasonal sarnie nuts to join it for the launch.

  200 tickets are going on sale for

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• Heston is bringing cheese-laced mince pies to the table this Christmas

  

  Every year, there's this thing called "Christmas in July", where the big shops all parade their Christmas offerings for the year and it's always this time because of the longer time needed to plan print publications. It's been a little quieter this year than others, but Waitrose have just unveiled their Christmas offering, and Heston Blumenthal has made some rather dramatic changes to

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• The best New Year's Eve at-home boxes & deliveries from restaurants

   

  If you prefer to celebrate New Year's Eve at home you can still do it in style. Here are some of the best NYE feasts that restaurants will deliver to your door.  

• All we want for Christmas is Calum Franklin's Christmas pudding pork pie

  

  If you're not one of the hordes who've already escaped London for the holidays, you're about to be rewarded for your loyalty. Because there are only two places in the country that you can get one of these pork pie beauties and one is Selfridges on Oxford Street (you'll find it in their food hall).

  This pork pie Christmas pudding is a one-off special made by - you guessed it - pork pie king Calum Franklin along

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• Festive dining inside and outside at Harvey Nichols this winter

  

  Now that we're fully in the festive season, if you're looking for something a little different for a Christmas treat or are after a glamorous spot for winter alfresco then Harvey Nichols reckon they've got just the thing for you.

• Duck & Waffle turns into the Polar Express for the festive season

  

  Some London restaurants are happy to put up a few baubles and bits of tinsel in the run-up to Christmas and consider themselves fully decorated.

  Then, there are the places who truly understand the assignment and go all-out.

  High rise City restaurant Duck & Waffle is definitely the latter type of place. For the festive season they've quite literally transformed the restaurant and bar into a scene from the

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• Choose Carnaby for festive fun, food and drinks in London this Christmas

  

  Take a culinary tour of the world without leaving central London - head to Carnaby for the best in food and drink.

• Top chefs tackle the humble sprout for Taste of London's Christmas sprout bar

  

  If your favourite part of the Christmas lunch is not the turkey but the Brussels sprouts then Taste of London's festive edition has just the thing for you.

  The Christmas food festival, which opens in Tobacco Dock this week, is having a one day only Brussels Sprout Bar, and they've roped in four top chefs to tackle everyone's favourite (or most loathed) element of the Christmas spread.

  First up is Jay

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• The best Christmas tree decorations for foodies

  

  If you're more of an all-in person when it comes to Christmas tree decorations, then we have just the selection of food and drink inspired baubles (alas, not edible) for you to add to this year's tree.

• StreetSmart launch their winter campaign to help London's homeless with Brutto, St John, Alain Ducasse and more

  

  Every year the laudable charity StreetSmart helps raise funds for our city's homeless in the run-up to Christmas. It's really a no-brainer. Instead of feeling guilty about splurging on your festive fun, you know that you're raising money to help get people off the streets at the worst time of the year.

  Last year, of course, things didn't pan out as planned and the charity suffered a 60% drop in

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• The Great Feast and the Christmas market comes to Selfridges (and their old hotel next door)

   

  Yes, London is gearing up for Christmas and Selfridges has two impressive-sounding food and drink spaces on the way for the festive season. 

  First up is the Selfridges Christmas Market, once again taking over the mews behind the store. There you'll find food and drink trucks, three bars, gift stalls and fairground rides

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• Selfridges launch a festive Market on the Mews with street food, Christmas trees and more

  

  Having been closed all over Black Friday weekend (not to mention the whole of the last month) London's stores are hoping to make up for lost time by enticing us into the West End when they reopen this week. For Selfridges' part, they're redesigning the mews market they first opened back in the summer, making it a very festive market indeed.

  The market, which takes over Edwards Mews at the rear of the store, is

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• KFC's festive burger is ALL about the gravy with a hash brown gravy 'boat'

  

  We're tipping our Christmas party hats today to KFC who have come out with a festive special that is 100% going to have to be tried.

  The Gravy Burger Box Meal is for everyone that gripes about not getting enough gravy at Christmas time - or indeed any time. The meal's burger features a layer of gravynnaise, a chicken fillet, a slice of melted cheese and – now this is where it gets

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• Bears go very Christmassy with their ice cream (including Christmas Tree flavour)

  

  Now we're past November 5th (although you may have only watched the fireworks from the comfort of your sofa) it's safe to get a little bit more excited about Christmas - and that's what Bears ice cream is doing. Phil Harrison and Vera Thordardottir's independent London-based ice cream company has a brand new ice cream range that goes all-in on Christmas (and can be delivered, of

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