Five alternative festive feasts

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Even if you are devoted to tradition, you don’t want to overdose on Christmas dinner until you can’t so much as look at a roast potato when the 25th arrives. Luckily, London’s menus are full of alternative festive options for everyone — including those who want pizza for every meal.

Christmas brinner

MIMOD’s Kitchen (Most Important Meal of the Day) is serving an evening breakfast at Long White Cloud tomorrow, with a Mariah Carey soundtrack. Embrace the season with haddock kedgeree, roast potato and shallot hash and roast cinnamon plums. Breakfast doesn’t mean no booze, though: there will be bottomless prosecco.

Info: 151 Hackney Rd, E2, mimodskitchen.com

The Good Egg

Pay homage to Jesus’s roots with a Middle Eastern feast. The Good Egg is serving a “yuletide mash-up” meal including duck kibbeh with smoked aubergine yoghurt, parsnip kugel and salted pretzel praline apple fritters.

Info: 93 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16, thegoodeggco.com

Gunpowder

This Indian restaurant serves a festive special every day until Christmas. Look out for rabbit masala, goose pepper fry and a Bengali spiced root veg parcel.

Info: 11 White’s Row, E1, gunpowderlondon.com

NY Fold

Festive food needs to help with the side effects of too much merriment: hence The Hangover pizza. It’s packed with protein — egg, pecorino and sausage or spinach — and served with Alka Seltzer.

Info: 103 Charing Cross Rd, WC2, nyfold.com

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Yamagoya

Vary your December diet with ramen at this pop-up. The broth soothes sore throats and the chilli is invigorating.

Info: Shuang Shuang 1st floor, 64 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1, yamagoya.co.uk

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