Christmas Day at £74.95, £95 and £110, plus festive menus from £18.95: nine Lewisham borough pubs and restaurants with 2026 prices and booking rules.
For Christmas Day in Lewisham borough, the menus most people will find are at Babur on Brockley Rise (£74.95), Crofton Park Tavern on Brockley Road (£95) and the Lord Northbrook in Lee (£110 with a glass of English sparkling wine). For a festive meal earlier in December, two courses start at £18.95 at the Brockley Jack. Every entry was checked against the venue’s own site on 1 November 2026.
We have not eaten at any of these for this guide, and nothing here is a review. Each entry gives the price on the venue’s own Christmas menu, what that includes, when it is served and what the venue says about booking, plus the Food Standards Agency (FSA) hygiene rating. Prices exclude service unless we say otherwise; several pubs here add an optional 12.5%.
Open on Christmas Day
1. Babur, Brockley Rise
Babur is the Indian restaurant at 119 Brockley Rise, between Honor Oak Park and Crofton Park. Its Christmas Day lunch page says the restaurant has “a fondness for Christmas meals that embrace tradition, though our approach remains decidedly Indian”.
The menu opens with a Christmas bourbon punch, then a starter platter of salmon dill tikka, spiced lamb neck and turkey sheek kebab (with a vegetarian platter too), and mains including an Old Delhi style turkey tikka butter masala, halibut curry, rump of lamb and a beetroot and goat cheese kofta. Dessert is a Kashmiri Christmas pudding or a quince and apple crumble.
The Christmas Day menu page carries no year, but the site was advertising its 8 November 2026 Diwali event on the same day we checked. On other December days the Christmas party menu runs from £29.95 for a two-course lunch.
Price Christmas Day lunch £74.95; children 7 to 12 £39.95 (two courses); under 7 £19.95; party menu lunch £29.95 (2 courses) or £35.95 (3), dinner £34.95 or £39.95
Booking by phone or online
Call 020 8291 2400
Address 119 Brockley Rise, SE23 1JP
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 22 April 2026
Website babur.info/menus/christmas-day-lunch
Good for Indian Christmas menu, children's menu, vegetarian platter
2. Crofton Park Tavern, Brockley Road
Crofton Park Tavern is the Mosaic Pub & Dining pub at 330-332 Brockley Road. Its Christmas 2026 page publishes a Christmas Day menu at £95 a head for adults and £50 for children under 12, and says to ask the manager about one-course options for small children.
It runs to six stages: a spiced butternut squash soup, starters such as tiger prawn cocktail or duck liver parfait, mains of roast Norfolk bronze turkey, sirloin of Herefordshire beef, monkfish tail or a mushroom and lentil Wellington, all with the trimmings including pigs in blankets, then a lemon sorbet, puddings and mince pies. The pub’s December Christmas menu is £38.50 for two courses or £43.50 for three, and there are canapé and platter menus for parties.
Price Christmas Day £95, under-12s £50; Christmas menu 2 courses £38.50, 3 courses £43.50; optional 12.5% service charge
Booking online or by enquiry form on the Christmas page
Call 020 8692 3320
Address 330-332 Brockley Road, SE4 2BT
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 23 March 2026
Website croftonparktavern.co.uk/christmas
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Good for children's price, plant-based main, gluten-free options, party platters
3. The Lord Northbrook, Lee
The Lord Northbrook is the Fuller’s pub at 116 Burnt Ash Road, Lee. Its Christmas page lists separate menus for Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve and December dining, with children’s versions of the Christmas Day and festive menus.
The Christmas Day menu is £110 a head and starts with a glass of English sparkling wine and canapés, then starters including a prawn and queen scallop ravioli. Mains include British turkey breast with pigs in blankets and apricot stuffing, Cornish hake with a jumbo tiger prawn, and fillet of British beef with a braised beef pie, with roast potatoes for the table.
The children’s Christmas Day menu is £55 for ages 12 and under. On other December days the Christmas menu is £41 for two courses or £45 for three.
Price Christmas Day £110 with a glass of English sparkling wine; children 12 and under £55; Christmas menu 2 courses £41, 3 courses £45
Booking online through the pub's Christmas page; party bookings by enquiry
Call 020 8318 1127
Address 116 Burnt Ash Road, SE12 8PU
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 11 October 2025
Website thelordnorthbrook.co.uk/christmas
Good for children's Christmas Day menu, Boxing Day menu, New Year's Eve menu
Festive menus in December
4. The Talbot, Tyrwhitt Road
The Talbot is the Little & Large Pub Company pub at 2 Tyrwhitt Road, Brockley, with a dining room, a country-style barn and, for Christmas, what its Christmas page calls a festive garden tipi. The 2026 Christmas party menu runs from 23 November to 23 December, except Sundays, at £35 for two courses or £40 for three.
Mains are roast turkey breast with sage and chestnut stuffing and pigs in blankets, Atlantic cod, a Jerusalem artichoke and black truffle cavatelli, or a côte de boeuf for two at a £12 a head supplement. The dining room seats up to 40 for private hire.
The pub does not mention Christmas Day.
Open Mon to Thu 4pm to 10.30pm, kitchen 5pm to 9pm; Fri and Sat 12pm to 11pm, kitchen 12pm to 9pm; Sun 11.30am to 10pm, kitchen 12pm to 7pm
Price Christmas party menu 2 courses £35, 3 courses £40; côte de boeuf £12 a head extra; optional 12.5% service charge
Booking email hello@thetalbotbrockley.co.uk or call; menu 23 November to 23 December, not Sundays
Call 020 8692 2665
Address 2 Tyrwhitt Road, SE4 1QG
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 12 February 2025
Website thetalbotbrockley.co.uk/christmas
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Good for private dining room for 40, garden tipi, vegetarian main, New Year's Eve
5. Ladywell Tavern, Ladywell Road
Ladywell Tavern is at 80 Ladywell Road, with its kitchen run by Bang Bang. Its Christmas page offers two ways to book: sit-down Christmas dining, or a party menu built from festive bites such as pigs in blankets, smoked salmon blinis and ox cheek croquettes.
The Christmas menu is two, three or four courses, “all made from scratch”: roast Bronze turkey crown, rump of beef with dauphinoise, sea bream with mussels and samphire, or a mushroom bourguignon pie, with a cheese course of Appleby’s Cheshire, Bath Blue and Baron Bigod. The menu does not say whether the pub opens on Christmas Day.
Price 2 courses £37, 3 courses £42, 4 courses £47; party menu choose five items from £25 a head
Booking online at ladywell.pub/christmas; dining for groups of 4 or more (12 to 25 for larger tables), parties of 15 to 45; £10 a head deposit; book 5 to 10 days ahead
Call 020 8690 9747
Address 80 Ladywell Road, SE13 7HS
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 22 November 2023
Website ladywell.pub/christmas
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Good for group bookings, vegan main, cheese course, party bites
6. The Honor Oak, St Germans Road
The Honor Oak is the pub at 1 St Germans Road, near Honor Oak Park station. Its Christmas menu, posted in October 2026, is £34 for two courses or £42 for three, and is for bookings of six or more only.
Mains are a crown of English turkey with pigs in blankets, roasted striploin of beef, a chicken, leek and mushroom pie, or a Cajun-spiced roasted cauliflower that is vegan; the turkey, beef and cauliflower can be served gluten-free. Puddings are a sticky toffee pudding or a vegan chocolate brownie, and sides such as pigs in blankets and cauliflower cheese are £8 each.
Open Mon closed; Tue to Thu 12pm to 11pm; Fri and Sat 12pm to 12am; Sun 12pm to 10pm
Food Wed to Fri 12pm to 3pm and 5pm to 9pm; Sat from 12pm; Sun 12pm to 6pm; no food Mon and Tue
Price Christmas menu 2 courses £34, 3 courses £42; sides £6 to £8
Booking Christmas menu for bookings of 6 or more only
Call 020 8690 9222
Address 1 St Germans Road, SE23 1RH
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 14 December 2025
Website honoroak.pub/menu
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Good for group bookings, vegan main, gluten-free on request
7. The Brockley Jack, Brockley Road
The Brockley Jack is the Greene King pub at 410 Brockley Road, with the Brockley Jack Theatre in the same building. Its Christmas 2026 page has bookings open and a Breakfast with Santa event.
The Festive Fayre menu is £18.95 for two courses or £21.95 for three, served from 12 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, but not on Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve, according to the menu’s small print. There is a version with no gluten-containing ingredients and a children’s festive menu for under-12s, from £4.45.
It is the cheapest sit-down Christmas menu we found in the borough.
Open Mon to Thu 12pm to 10pm; Fri and Sat 12pm to 10.30pm
Food Mon to Thu 12pm to 8.30pm; Sun 12pm to 6pm
Price Festive Fayre 2 courses £18.95, 3 courses £21.95; children's festive menu from £4.45
Booking online through the pub's Christmas page; menu 12 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, not Christmas Day or New Year's Eve
Call 020 8699 3966
Address 410 Brockley Road, SE4 2DH
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 11 June 2026
Website greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/brockley-jack/christmas
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Good for budget, children's menu, gluten-free menu, Breakfast with Santa, theatre upstairs
8. Royal Albert, New Cross Road
The Royal Albert is the Portobello Pub Co pub at 460 New Cross Road, known for its Monday quiz and Sunday jazz. Its Christmas page links a 2026 Christmas menu that keeps it simple: a choice of roast turkey breast with all the trimmings or a butternut squash, sweet potato and spinach Wellington, followed by Christmas pudding with brandy custard, for £26.50 a head.
A glass of prosecco can be added for £4, or Veuve Clicquot for £10. For parties there are sharing boards for ten people, from £20 for parsnip and carrot bhajis to £57.50 for a board of cured meats.
Price Christmas menu 2 courses £26.50; sharing boards for 10 from £20 to £57.50; discretionary 12.5% service charge
Booking online through the pub's Christmas page
Call 020 8692 3737
Address 460 New Cross Road, SE14 6TJ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 4 August 2026
Website royalalbertpub.co.uk/christmas
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Good for plant-based main, party sharing boards, Monday quiz, Sunday jazz
9. Catford Bridge Tavern, Catford Road
Catford Bridge Tavern is the Portobello Pub Co pub on Station Approach, next to Catford Bridge station. Its Christmas page carries the same 2026 Christmas menu as the Royal Albert: roast turkey breast or a squash and spinach Wellington with all the trimmings, then Christmas pudding, for £26.50 a head, with party sharing boards for ten.
The pub is open every day, serving food until 9.30pm (8pm on Sunday). Its FSA hygiene rating is 3, “generally satisfactory”, from an inspection in September 2025, the lowest on this list.
Open Mon to Thu 12pm to 11pm; Fri and Sat 12pm to 12am; Sun 12pm to 10.30pm
Food Mon to Sat 12pm to 9.30pm; Sun 12pm to 8pm
Price Christmas menu 2 courses £26.50; sharing boards for 10 from £20 to £57.50; discretionary 12.5% service charge
Booking online through the pub's Christmas page
Call 020 3918 5479
Address Station Approach, Catford Road, SE6 4RE
Hygiene rating 3, Food Standards Agency, 11 September 2025
Website catfordtavern.com/christmas
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Good for next to Catford Bridge station, plant-based main, party sharing boards
How we chose
These are the places people search for when booking Christmas dinner in Lewisham borough, chosen on the public record rather than on taste: a Christmas menu with prices published on the venue’s own site, and the Food Standards Agency hygiene rating (every venue here is rated 3 or above, and seven of the nine are rated 5). We left out places we could not check on 1 November 2026: the Signal in Forest Hill has a Christmas 2026 page but no menu or prices on it yet; the Princess of Wales on Montpelier Row, Blackheath, lists a Christmas Day lunch on DesignMyNight but we could not find a menu or price; Le Querce’s website is showing a maintenance page; and Sparrow in Lewisham is listed as permanently closed. Prices are as published on 1 November 2026; Christmas menus often need a deposit and a pre-order, so check the terms when you book.
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For more on Christmas locally, see the Lewisham Christmas markets, the Christmas lights switch-on, Christmas trains and travel, Christmas bin collections and what’s on in Lewisham this month. For the rest of the year, there is our guide to things to do in Lewisham and the restaurants in our Lewisham business directory.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I have Christmas dinner in Lewisham on Christmas Day 2026?
Three places on this list publish a Christmas Day menu with a price: Babur on Brockley Rise (£74.95, Indian dishes with a turkey tikka main), Crofton Park Tavern on Brockley Road (£95, £50 for under-12s) and the Lord Northbrook in Lee (£110 with a glass of English sparkling wine, £55 for children 12 and under). The Brockley Jack’s festive menu excludes Christmas Day.
How much is a Christmas meal in Lewisham in 2026?
A festive menu on other December days costs £18.95 for two courses at the Brockley Jack, £26.50 for a turkey main and Christmas pudding at the Royal Albert and Catford Bridge Tavern, and £34 to £47 at the Honor Oak, the Talbot, Ladywell Tavern, Crofton Park Tavern and the Lord Northbrook. Several add a 12.5% service charge.
Which Lewisham pubs take Christmas group bookings?
Ladywell Tavern seats groups of 12 to 25 for its Christmas dining menu and takes 15 to 45 for parties, with a £10 a head deposit. The Honor Oak’s Christmas menu is for bookings of six or more, and the Talbot’s 40-seat dining room is available for private hire.
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