The best Burns Night suppers in London

One of the best value – and most interesting sounding – Burns Night dinners comes from this small Finsbury Park wine bar. Glasgow native Emily Skimming – Head of Pastry at the excellent Morchella in Clerkenwell – will join forces with Josh Dalloway of current Tasca residency for a one-night only Scottish-Iberian menu, with. a snack-style haggis, neeps and tatties, a Portuguese twist on on cullen skink, cock-a-leekie pie and a whisky baba for pudding. It comes to £49 a head, and seatings are at 3pm and 6pm on January 25.

Artsy Mount St Restaurant is making a masterpiece of Burns Night – and extending it from January 19-25. A four course menu will be available for £130 throughout the week, with seared Orkney scallop with cullen skink, venison & haggis pie with neeps and tatties, before Isle of Mull Cheddar with oatcakes and heather honeycomb, or rhubarb & stem ginger 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 grand Mayfair restaurant – open since 1976 – is a London institution, and will be getting stuck into Scottish tradition on Sunday January 25 with a £100 a head Burns supper menu. Bagpipes and odes to the haggis will be in full swing alongside nips of Glenturret 14 Year Old Peated, before of whiskey cured salmon or Lorne sausage bon bons, and a hearty haggis, neeps and tatties main, and a Dundee cake for pud. 

Holland Park hotspot Julie’s is celebrating Burns Night with an £85-a-head set menu on January 25 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.

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 19, running until January 25. At £140 a head (with a drinks pairing and whisky flight included for £280 on Burns Night itself), you will be treated to glazed haggis dumpling, marinated Highland venison loin with swede parmentier, before Scottish goats cheese and cranachan. Oof.

The grand City branch of the Wolseley will be celebrating Burns Night with a dinner of cullen skink, plates of haggis, neeps and tatties, and a pudding of cranachan. On the evening of January 25, The Pipes and Drums of London Scottish Regiment band will greet diners with their distinctive sound. You can also get the Burns menu at the original Piccadilly branch of the Wolseley, but you’ll only find the pipers at the City spot. 

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 made with Aberfeldy 12yr single malt. There'll also be a Haggis address and free haggis canapes from Scottish street food champs Deeney’s as well as a free Aberfeldy whisky tasting at 4pm, paired with cheeses supplied by Hackney Road’s Provisions. After the classic ‘Address To The Haggis’, Rennie from Scottish band The View will DJ into the night. 

A two-step highland fling and bag-piper will make sure that Sussex Restaurant is the place to be this Burns Night - well, actually the night before, as they are celebrating on Saturday January 24. 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.

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. The menu starts at £72.90 for three courses.