Hands up if you don’t want to do any washing up this year on Christmas Day. Us too. Luckily, there’s plenty of bars and restaurants across the city that plan to open on December 25th. Choose from fancy five courses with Champagne or find a laid back turkey dinner at your local pub - whatever your preference, it’s still available on Christmas Day.
Miller & Carter
Outside The Light, The Headrow | £89.95 per person for five courses
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Where: The Light, 56-58 The Headrow, Leeds City Centre, LS1 8TL
The perfect alternative Christmas dinner for steak lovers, Miller & Carter offers a choice of 30-day-aged prime Fillet 8oz and 12oz Ribeye in addition to your usual festive turkey dinner.
Princes Avenue, Roundhay | Menu from £68.95 per adult
Image: The Roundhay Fox via Facebook
Where: Princes Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds, LS8 2EP
There's three courses and a whopping eight different mains to choose from (and that's just one turkey dinner, seven different meat and veggie alternatives), this has got to be one of the cosiest spots in the city for Christmas Dinner.
With Moët & Chandon Impérial Champagne as your welcome drink, you know this is going to be a fancy dinner to remember. Choose from five different options for starter, main and dessert and polish the night off with a cheese board or truffles and mince pies.
Deer Park Leeds
Street Lane, Roundhay | £89.95 per person for five courses
Image: The Deer Park
Where: 68 Street Lane, Roundhay, Leeds, LS8 2DQ
Hand-carved turkey, lemon sole, rack of lamb, fillet of beef wellington and roasted celeriac steak are all on offer at The Deer Park this Christmas.
Find out more here.
Malmaison
Swinegate, Leeds City Centre | £99 per person
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Where: 1 Swinegate, Leeds City Centre, LS1 4AG
Four courses and a glass of Champagne come alongside choices like dry-aged beef fillet, creamy gnocchi ricotta bake and the classic free range turkey dinner at Malmaison - and its city centre location makes it ideal for large groups meeting up for the big day.
The Lawnswood Arms
Otley Road, Adel | £10 deposit per adult required
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Where: Otley Road, Adel, North Leeds, LS16 7PH
Traditional Christmas dinners, Sizzling 10oz ribeye steak and free welcome drinks, The Lawnswood Arms will be open this Christmas Day and has a packed menu of festive favourites and tasty alternatives to choose from.
Christmas dinner using fresh, local produce never tasted so good. Over two sittings choose from a combination of new dishes, traditional favourites and festive classics.
Leeds Christmas Markets is returning to the city centre in just two months' time and some major plans and changes have been announced.
Although Pop Princess Zara Larsson might want us to believe "Summer isn't over yet", it's safe to say that the recent downpours we've had across West Yorkshire disagree.
Leeds Christmas Markets are also ringing in the new season with a jam-packed video posted to social media announcing all the current plans and changes for its 2026 schedule.
This year, outdoor events company Thor’s Tipi are stepping up as the all-new operators of this Christmastime spectacular and are organising a celebration where 'even if you’re not from Yorkshire, you’re going to leave being from Yorkshire'.
Leeds Christmas Markets are returning to Leeds City Square from Thursday 19 November with plenty of Yorkshire-centric stalls / Credit: The Hoot Leeds
Although Leeds locals already know that Yorkshire is 'God's Own Country', the Leeds Christmas Markets team are making sure that the county is represented through its food, drinks and wider stalls.
In a video uploaded to its social accounts, foodie expert and Little Bao Boy Founder James 'Jimmy Chews' Ooi was given the honour of revealing all these exciting plans.
Informing everyone that "You best come hungry", Ooi noted that some of the phenomenal vendors taking part include La Grassa and The Savvy Baker.
Real Markets Yorkshire and Stump Cross Caverns are also getting into the Christmas spirit and setting up their own stalls at Leeds City Square this November.
La Grassa is just one of many familiar foodie faces returning to Leeds Christmas Markets / Credit: The Hoot Leeds
Rated restaurants and bars are contributing to the festive frenzy too, like Cabaret Thursdays at Italian restaurant Bibi's and beer garden destination Green Room are hosting singalongs at Leeds Christmas Markets.
There will be plenty of activities for families happening all around the unofficial capital of West Yorkshire like elf-themed scavenger hunts, various elves on various shelves and lots of live music.
If it wasn't apparent already, in the words of Jimmy Chews himself, there's about to be "So much Christmas that Mariah Carey is going to look like the Grinch".
Leeds Christmas Markets are returning to Leeds City Square from Thursday 19 November and there will be plenty of exciting announcements to the upcoming celebrations ahead of the big day.
Popular TV channel playing Christmas films 24/7 is now back on air in the UK
Emily Sergeant
Think it's too early for 'C word'? Never mind, you've already clicked on this article.
Sure, we may only be into our second full week of September, but given the fact the weather these past couple of days hasn't exactly screamed summer, it already feels like the festive season is around the corner - but whether or not you think it’s too early to be talking about Christmas, it’ll soon be too tricky to escape from.
Especially not when the famous TV channel showing festive film favourites non-stop is now back on air in the UK.
Yes, you heard that right - Christmas films, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
If you’re ready to wave goodbye to summer, and in welcome autumn and winter with open arms, then there's arguably no better way of getting into the festive spirit than with the long-awaited and highly-anticipated return of the TV channel that's charmed audiences for over half a decade now.
GREAT! Christmas the UK’s biggest seasonal channel, and it's now live on Sky, Freesat, Freeview and Virgin Media.
You can expect almost four months of back-to-back seasonal movies.
The 24-hour feel-good and free-to-air channel will be bursting with non-stop Christmas spirit, and will be showing a heartwarming lineup of festive films - including some absolute fan-favourite classics that make it to screens every year without fail, alongside some cheesy Hallmark classics, new channel premieres, and so much more.
Viewers will find GREAT! Christmas on Freeview channel 51, Sky 319, Sky (Glass/Stream) 317, Virgin channel 424, and Freely channel 47.
Sophie Smith -
16th October 2023 
