Christmas Day lunch in Norwich costs £57.95 to £89.95 a head at five pubs. 2026 prices, children's rates and deposits, plus festive menus at eight venues.
For Christmas Day in Norwich, the lowest published price is £57.95 at the Woolpack on Golden Ball Street. In the city centre, St Andrews Brew House charges £75, and the Georgian Townhouse on Unthank Road £85. The Marsh Harrier on Ipswich Road is the dearest of the five pubs with a Christmas Day price, at £89.95. Every entry was checked against the venue’s own site on 2 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 2026 Christmas menu, what it includes, any booking or deposit rules it publishes, and its Food Standards Agency (FSA) hygiene rating from Norwich City Council’s inspections. Prices are per person and exclude any service charge unless we say otherwise. Christmas Day 2026 is a Friday.
Christmas Day lunch in the city centre
1. The Woolpack, Golden Ball Street
The Woolpack is a Greene King pub on Golden Ball Street in the city centre. Its Christmas Day menu, which the pub says is available on 25 December 2026 only, is three courses for £57.95.
Mains are a hand-carved turkey dinner with stuffing, Yorkshire pudding and a pig in blankets, a salmon and prawn Wellington, a Cheddar, Double Gloucester and leek pie, a cranberry-glazed nut roast, or a sirloin steak with king prawns. Puddings include Christmas pudding and a Bramley apple and black cherry crumble.
The children’s Christmas Day turkey dinner is £27.95 for three courses.
Price Christmas Day 3 courses £57.95, children £27.95
Booking online; £10 deposit a head for adults and children
Call 01603 627047
Address 9 Golden Ball Street, Norwich, NR1 3EH
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 4 March 2026
Website greeneking.co.uk/pubs/norfolk/woolpack/christmas/christmas-day
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Good for lowest Christmas Day price here, children's menu, vegetarian main
2. St Andrews Brew House, St Andrews Street
St Andrews Brew House is a Young’s pub on St Andrews Street that describes itself as having “a proper Norwich pub vibe right in the heart of the city”. Its Christmas page links a Christmas Day menu at £75 a head and a children’s Christmas Day menu at three courses for £35.
Before Christmas the festive menu is three courses for £40. The pub lists its Christmas Day hours as 12pm to 6pm, and Boxing Day as 12pm to 11pm.
Open Christmas Day 12pm to 6pm; Christmas Eve and Boxing Day 12pm to 11pm
Price Christmas Day £75, children 3 courses £35; festive menu 3 courses £40
Call 01603 305995
Address 41 St Andrews Street, Norwich, NR2 4TP
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 2 September 2025
Website standrewsbrewhouse.com/christmas
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Good for city centre, children's menu, Boxing Day
3. Côte, Exchange Street
Côte is a French brasserie chain with a Norwich restaurant at 29 Exchange Street. Côte’s Christmas page says its five-course Christmas Day menu is “available from £94.95 per person”, but the Norwich restaurant page does not say whether this branch opens on Christmas Day, so ask when booking.
The festive set menu is two courses for £34.95 or three for £39.95, and there is a festive children’s set menu. The Norwich restaurant lists baby changing, highchairs and accessible toilets.
Price festive set menu 2 courses £34.95, 3 courses £39.95; Christmas Day 5 courses from £94.95 (Côte's national price; check the Norwich branch opens)
Booking online or by phone
Call 01603 611440
Address 29 Exchange Street, Norwich, NR2 1DP
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 17 September 2026
Website cote.co.uk/restaurant/norwich
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Good for city centre, children's festive menu, highchairs, accessible toilets
Christmas Day lunch out of the centre
4. The Georgian Townhouse, Unthank Road
The Georgian Townhouse is a Young’s pub with rooms at 30 to 34 Unthank Road. Its Christmas Day menu is £85 a head.
Starters include venison carpaccio, baked scallops and a Jerusalem artichoke and truffle tart; mains include a turkey, gammon and duck plate, 28-day aged sirloin of beef, halibut, and a beetroot, truffle and wild mushroom Wellington, all with goose fat roast potatoes and a double egg Yorkshire pudding. The children’s Christmas Day menu is three courses for £40.
Every table carries a discretionary 12.5% service charge. The pub opens 12pm to 6pm on Christmas Day.
Open Christmas Day 12pm to 6pm; Christmas Eve 8am to 11pm; Boxing Day 8am to 8pm
Price Christmas Day £85, children 3 courses £40; festive party menu 3 courses £42; 12.5% discretionary service charge
Booking online
Call 01603 615655
Address 30-34 Unthank Road, Norwich, NR2 2RB
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 7 May 2025
Website thegeorgiantownhousenorwich.com/christmas
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Good for rooms across the road, vegan main, children's menu
5. The Marsh Harrier, Ipswich Road
The Marsh Harrier is a Vintage Inns pub at 259 Ipswich Road, on the southern edge of the city. Its Christmas Day menu is three courses for £89.95, with starters such as baked scallops and prawns, a duck liver parfait and gin-cured smoked salmon, and mains including roast duck.
The children’s Christmas Day menu is three courses for £40.50. Before Christmas the festive menu runs from £32.95 for two courses and £35.95 for three.
Price Christmas Day 3 courses £89.95, children £40.50; festive menu 2 courses from £32.95, 3 courses from £35.95
Booking through the Vintage Inns website
Call 01603 507513
Address 259 Ipswich Road, Norwich, NR4 6DX
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 23 July 2025
Website vintageinn.co.uk/restaurants/east/themarshharriernorwich/christmas-day-menu
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Good for children's menu, festive menu, roast duck
6. The Shoe Makers, Sandy Lane
The Shoe Makers is a Hungry Horse pub at The Lastings, off Sandy Lane. Its Christmas Day page gives three courses for £62.99, or £22.99 for children, with a hand-carved turkey and roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, honey-roasted parsnips and two Yorkshire puddings.
Children get a traditional Christmas dinner of their own. Deposits are £10 a head for adults and £5 for children.
Price Christmas Day 3 courses £62.99, children £22.99
Booking online; £10 deposit a head for adults, £5 for children
Call 01603 665078
Address 1 The Lastings, Sandy Lane, Norwich, NR4 6EF
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 7 October 2026
Website hungryhorse.co.uk/pubs/norfolk/shoe-makers/christmas/christmas-day
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Good for lowest children's price here, families
Festive menus before Christmas
7. The Maids Head Hotel, Tombland
The Maids Head is a hotel on Tombland, by the cathedral, with its own restaurant, WinePress. Its Christmas 2026 page lists a festive lunch from Monday to Saturday, 1 to 22 December, at £40 for two courses or £48 for three, and a festive afternoon tea at £35 over the same dates.
Traditional choir Sunday lunches on 13 and 20 December are £55. Christmas Day lunch with Champagne is part of the hotel’s festive residential packages only: three nights from £750 a head, four nights from £950.
Price festive lunch 2 courses £40, 3 courses £48; festive afternoon tea £35; choir Sunday lunch £55; Christmas residential 3 nights from £750, 4 nights from £950
Booking by phone or email
Call 01603 209955
Address 20 Tombland, Norwich, NR3 1LB
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 7 January 2026
Website maidsheadhotel.co.uk/christmas-events-norwich-2026
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Good for by the cathedral, afternoon tea, private rooms, Christmas stays
8. The Ivy Norwich Brasserie, London Street
The Ivy Norwich Brasserie is on London Street in the city centre. Its Christmas set menu runs from 4 November to 29 December, every day from 11.30am on weekdays and 11am at weekends, for groups of up to 12.
It is two courses for £55 or three for £65, including a cracker, a side and a mince pie with tea or coffee. A fillet steak main carries a £6 supplement, and the Christmas pudding a £2.95 supplement.
The Ivy’s Norwich pages do not list a Christmas Day menu.
Open 4 November to 29 December, Monday to Friday from 11.30am, Saturday and Sunday from 11am
Price Christmas set menu 2 courses £55, 3 courses £65, including a cracker, a side and a mince pie
Booking online, groups of up to 12
Address 30 London Street, Norwich, NR2 1LD
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 26 March 2025
Website ivycollection.com/restaurants-near-me/the-ivy-east/the-ivy-norwich-brasserie/christmas-set-menu
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Good for city centre, festive set menu, groups
How we chose
These are the pubs, hotels and restaurants in Norwich that publish a 2026 Christmas menu you can check. They are not our favourites. We started from the Food Standards Agency register for Norwich City Council, left out anything rated below 3, and kept only places whose own website shows a 2026 Christmas offer with prices. Prices, dates and deposit rules come from each venue’s own site and menu on 2 November 2026. Five publish a Christmas Day price; Côte gives a national Christmas Day price without confirming the Norwich branch, and the Assembly House takes Christmas Day bookings by phone but does not publish its price. Many well-known independents are missing because we could not find a 2026 Christmas menu on their own sites. Check with the venue before booking, as festive menus can change.
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More in Norwich at Christmas: Norwich Christmas market, the Christmas lights switch-on, Christmas at Norwich Cathedral, pantomimes and Christmas shows, things to do in Norwich, what’s on this month and pubs in our business directory.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I have Christmas dinner in Norwich on Christmas Day 2026?
Five places on this list publish a Christmas Day 2026 price: the Woolpack on Golden Ball Street (£57.95), the Shoe Makers off Sandy Lane (£62.99), St Andrews Brew House on St Andrews Street (£75), the Georgian Townhouse on Unthank Road (£85) and the Marsh Harrier on Ipswich Road (£89.95). Côte says its five-course Christmas Day menu is from £94.95, but its Norwich page does not confirm the Exchange Street brasserie opens that day. The Maids Head Hotel serves Christmas Day lunch only to guests on its three- and four-night festive stays.
How much is Christmas dinner for children in Norwich?
On Christmas Day the Shoe Makers charges £22.99 for children, the Woolpack £27.95, St Andrews Brew House £35, the Georgian Townhouse £40 and the Marsh Harrier £40.50.
Where is the cheapest festive menu in Norwich before Christmas?
The Marsh Harrier’s festive menu starts at £32.95 for two courses, and Côte’s festive set menu is £34.95 for two courses. St Andrews Brew House’s festive menu is £40 for three courses and the Maids Head Hotel’s festive lunch is £40 for two.
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