Saturday 14 November 2026
Côte Brasserie has unveiled its Christmas 2026 celebrations, bringing a French twist to festive get-togethers, Christmas Day dining and effortless entertaining at home. The plans are split into Christmas at Ours, in the brasseries, and Christmas at Yours, with the Côte at Home range of chef-prepared feasts. The festive menus come from Côte Executive Chef Steve Allen, formerly Executive Chef for Gordon Ramsay. Here are five things to know before you book.
1. Festive dishes alongside Côte favourites
From 24 November, guests can order seasonal specials alongside the usual Côte à la carte, so you can add a festive touch to a familiar meal or go for the full Christmas experience. The star is a roast turkey ballotine with beechwood-smoked bacon, sage and onion stuffing, roast new potatoes, apricot and mustard Chantenay carrots, a cranberry harissa pig in blanket and shallot and thyme jus. Other mains include golden curried hake, a squash, sage and onion tourtière, truffled celeriac gratin, Côte de Boeuf for two and a 10oz rib-eye with truffle hollandaise and free-flowing frites (£8 supplement).
2. A Festive Set Menu for parties and long lunches
For Christmas parties or a longer festive lunch, the Festive Set Menu also launches on 24 November, priced at £34.95 for two courses or £39.95 for three. Starters include a panko prawn cocktail, while seasonal sides run to pigs in blankets, crispy sprouts, glazed carrots and braised red cabbage. Desserts include clementine and pistachio crêpe, Christmas pudding ice cream and salted caramel pain perdu. As an extra thank-you, guests dining with Côte over the festive period will also receive a treat to enjoy on a return visit in January, which makes it a handy choice for office get-togethers.
3. Festive breakfasts, brunch and cocktails
The Christmas menu extends to breakfast and weekend brunch, with a pigs in blanket sandwich, a festive French breakfast and a French toast stack with spiced clementines and Christmas pudding ice cream. To raise a glass, there are two festive cocktails at £10.50 each. The Mulled Berry Spritz combines Courvoisier, Grand Marnier, spiced red berries and apple juice, while the alcohol-free Ginger Berry Spritz mixes Pentire Coastal blood orange apéritif with spiced berries and Fever-Tree ginger beer. A Crémant is also on offer for anyone celebrating with colleagues, family or friends.
4. Christmas Day at Côte
Following its first Christmas Day opening last year, Côte is welcoming guests back on 25 December for a five-course celebration with a glass of fizz, priced at £99.95 per person. Almost all brasseries will be open, so you can enjoy the day together while Côte takes care of the cooking and hosting. The exceptions are the Bluewater, Lewes, Reading and Royal Festival Hall brasseries, which are excluded. Steve Allen said: “Christmas is all about bringing people together over great food. Whether guests are joining us in a brasserie, celebrating Christmas Day with us or hosting at home, we want to make the occasion feel special, relaxed and full of festive flavour. Joyeux Noël!”
5. Côte at Home feasts delivered to your door
If you are hosting, Côte at Home returns with five chef-prepared festive meal boxes, with delivery advertised from 16 to 31 December. The Festive Turkey Feast costs £119.95 and the Festive Chateaubriand Feast £149.95 (both serve 4–6), while for two there is the Festive Turkey Box at £54.95, the Festive Chateaubriand Box at £74.95 and the Festive Veggie Box at £49.95, featuring a mushroom and squash Wellington. Extras include a Festive Breakfast Box (£69.95), a Festive Buffet Box (£79.95) and a Côte Hamper (£89.95) with French delicacies and a choice of Côte Cuvée Red or two bottles of Meteor Lager. Everything is designed to be finished at home with straightforward instructions.
Book
Festive dishes and Festive Set Menu: from 24 November 2026, £34.95 for two courses or £39.95 for three
Christmas Day: 25 December 2026, five courses and a glass of fizz, £99.95 per person (not at Bluewater, Lewes, Reading or Royal Festival Hall)
Côte at Home: delivery advertised 16–31 December 2026, boxes from £49.95
Brasserie bookings at cote.co.uk; home delivery at coteathome.co.uk