8 Brentwood-area pubs for Christmas dinner: five do Christmas Day lunch at £62.99 to £94.95, and three do festive menus from £33.50. Checked November 2026.

For Christmas Day around Brentwood, most people end up choosing between the Greyhound on Magpie Lane and the Black Horse in Pilgrims Hatch (both Vintage Inns, £94.95 and £89.95), the Boars Head in Herongate (£90) and the cheaper Harvester Golden Fleece on London Road (£62.99). Every entry was checked against the venue’s own site on 1 November 2026.

Christmas Day prices are for three courses and exclude any service charge unless we say otherwise.

Christmas Day lunch

1. The Greyhound, Magpie Lane

The Greyhound is a Vintage Inns pub on Magpie Lane, out in the country south of the A127. Its Christmas Day page describes the day as “all about making memories with family and friends”, and the 2026 menu PDF gives three courses for £94.95.

The children’s Christmas Day menu is three courses for £41.50. Tables run from 11.30am, and the pub adds a 10% discretionary service charge for tables of seven or more on the day.

For the rest of December it has a separate festive menu, with a £5 deposit for tables of seven or more from 16 to 24 December.

Price Christmas Day 3 courses £94.95; children's Christmas Day menu £41.50
Booking £10 a head deposit for all Christmas Day tables; full payment and pre-order by 8 December; 10% service charge for 7 or more
Address Magpie Lane, Brentwood, CM13 3DZ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 28 October 2025
Website vintageinn.co.uk/restaurants/east/thegreyhoundbrentwood
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Good for children's Christmas Day menu, festive menu in December, Boxing Day

2. The Boars Head, Herongate

The Boars Head is the Chef & Brewer pub on Billericay Road in Herongate, by the village pond. Its Christmas Day page offers “three delicious courses from our Christmas Day Menu for £90 per person”, opening with hot smoked salmon among the starters, and there is a separate Young Guests Christmas Day menu and a menu with no gluten-containing ingredients.

The pub’s terms are the strictest on this list: full payment by 1 December 2026, pre-orders by 11 December for bookings made before then, and deposits non-refundable if you cancel on or after 11 December. Its FSA rating is 3, “generally satisfactory”, from a September 2026 inspection.

Price Christmas Day 3 courses £90
Booking £10 a head deposit, £5 a child; full payment by 1 December; pre-orders by 11 December (18 December for later bookings); no online bookings after 18 December
Call 01277 810324
Address Billericay Road, Herongate, Brentwood, CM13 3PS
Hygiene rating 3, Food Standards Agency, 1 September 2026
Website chefandbrewer.com/pubs/essex/boars-head
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Good for young guests' menu, no-gluten menu, Breakfast with Santa, New Year's Eve

Pilgrims Hatch and Shenfield

3. The Black Horse, Ongar Road

The Black Horse is the other Vintage Inns pub in the borough, on Ongar Road in Pilgrims Hatch. It sits in a lower price band than the Greyhound on the same menu: the 2026 Christmas Day menu PDF gives three courses for £89.95, and the children’s menu is £40.50.

The booking terms match the Greyhound’s: a £10 deposit for every Christmas Day table from 11.30am, with full payment and pre-orders due by 8 December, and a 10% discretionary service charge for tables of seven or more.

Price Christmas Day 3 courses £89.95; children's Christmas Day menu £40.50
Booking £10 a head deposit; full payment and pre-order by 8 December; 10% service charge for 7 or more
Address 420 Ongar Road, Pilgrims Hatch, Brentwood, CM15 9JN
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 14 April 2025
Website vintageinn.co.uk/restaurants/east/theblackhorsebrentwood
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Good for children's Christmas Day menu, festive menu in December, Boxing Day

4. Toby Carvery, The Artichoke, Ingrave Road

The Toby Carvery at the Artichoke on Ingrave Road puts its carvery “at the heart of” Christmas Day, which its Christmas Day page prices at £74.99. Every Christmas Day guest pays a £10 deposit whatever the size of the party, and the balance and pre-orders are due by 1 December.

Before Christmas, its festive menu is the cheapest seasonal meal in this guide: from £15.99 Monday to Friday, £17.99 on Saturdays and £20.99 on Sundays, with a £5 deposit only for parties of 12 or more. Toby did not publish a children’s Christmas Day price we could read.

Price Christmas Day £74.99; festive menu from £15.99 weekdays, £17.99 Saturdays, £20.99 Sundays
Booking Christmas Day £10 a head deposit for every guest; full payment and pre-order by 1 December
Address Ingrave Road, Brentwood, CM15 8DZ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 3 June 2025
Website tobycarvery.co.uk/restaurants/east-of-england/brentwoodessex
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Good for carvery, children's menu, vegetarian and vegan dishes, cheapest festive menu

London Road

5. Harvester, The Golden Fleece

The Golden Fleece on London Road is Brentwood’s Harvester. Its Christmas Day page loads the menu in the browser; the menu data behind it gives the adult Christmas Day menu at £62.99 and the children’s at £26.49, the lowest Christmas Day prices on this list.

Mains include hand-carved turkey with pigs in blankets and a pork and sage stuffing ball, a mushroom suet pudding (vegan) and a festive pork tomahawk. The deposit page asks £10 a head for Christmas Day, “whatever the party size”, with full payment and pre-orders by 1 December.

Price Christmas Day £62.99; children's Christmas Day menu £26.49
Booking £10 a head deposit; full payment and pre-order by 1 December
Address 101 London Road, Brentwood, CM14 4NP
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 11 September 2025
Website harvester.co.uk/restaurants/eastofengland/thegoldenfleecebrentwood/menus/christmas-day-menu
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Good for lowest Christmas Day price here, children's menu, vegan main

Festive menus before Christmas (not Christmas Day)

These three publish a 2026 Christmas menu for December but no Christmas Day lunch.

6. The Olde Dog Inn, Herongate

The Olde Dog Inn is on Billericay Road at Herongate Tye, a few minutes along from the Boars Head. Its Festive Menu 2026 runs Monday to Saturday from 23 November to 23 December.

Mains include roast Norfolk turkey breast, sea bass with a shellfish and garlic butter, pork belly and a butternut squash, kale and apricot roast, with lamb shank at a £3 supplement. The menu asks for a £15 a head non-refundable deposit and food choices at least 14 days before the booking.

It does not publish a Christmas Day menu.

Price festive menu 2 courses £35, 3 courses £40 Monday to Thursday; 2 courses £40, 3 courses £45 Friday and Saturday
Booking £15 a head non-refundable deposit; pre-order at least 14 days ahead
Call 01277 810337
Address 129 Billericay Road, Herongate, Brentwood, CM13 3SD
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 15 January 2024
Website theoldedoginn.co.uk
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Good for vegan option, gluten-free options, Monday to Saturday only

7. The Leather Bottle, Blackmore

The Leather Bottle is on Horsefayre Green in Blackmore, the village north of Doddinghurst. Its Christmas Party Menu 2026, posted as an image on its site, gives two courses for £37 or three for £44, with roast turkey, salmon supreme, pork belly, a festive beef burger and a spiced butternut and spinach pithivier (vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free) among the mains.

A 10% discretionary service charge is added on all tables, and the pub says its online menus and prices are samples and subject to change. It also lists a Christmas Breakfast on 4 and 5 December and a Christmas Lunch on 12 December, each £15 a head.

Price Christmas party menu 2 courses £37, 3 courses £44; Christmas Breakfast 4 and 5 December £15; Christmas Lunch 12 December £15
Booking Christmas parties by phone; 10% service charge on all tables
Call 01277 821891
Address The Green, Blackmore, CM4 0RL
Hygiene rating 4, Food Standards Agency, 30 June 2026
Website leatherbottle.pub
Good for real ales, children's Christmas menu, vegan main, village green

8. The Duchess and Dressmaker, High Street

The Duchess and Dressmaker is McMullen’s pub at 129 High Street, the only town-centre entry here. Its festive menu is two courses for £33.50 or three for £37.50, available from 1 November except 25 December, and children 12 and under dine at half price.

It is closed all day on Christmas Day; on Boxing Day it opens 10am to 11pm with food to 7pm, and on Christmas Eve food runs to 9pm.

Open Christmas Eve 10am to 1.30am, food to 9pm; Christmas Day closed; Boxing Day 10am to 11pm, food to 7pm
Price festive menu 2 courses £33.50, 3 courses £37.50; children 12 and under half price
Booking £5 a head deposit; 10% service charge for tables of 8 or more
Call 01277 288880
Address 129 High Street, Brentwood, CM14 4RZ
Hygiene rating 5, Food Standards Agency, 27 November 2024
Website mcmullens.co.uk/local-pub/duchess-dressmaker
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Good for town centre, children half price, open Boxing Day

How we chose

We listed the pubs and restaurants in Brentwood borough that publish a 2026 Christmas price on their own site, and checked each one’s Food Standards Agency hygiene rating from Brentwood Borough Council’s inspections. Mason’s Bar and Restaurant says its Christmas Day is already fully booked. The Swan on the High Street had no Christmas Day page, Marygreen Manor had no Christmas dining published, and several village pubs had no Christmas menu online on 1 November. We will add them when they publish. Prices, deposits and dates are the venues’ own and can change; confirm when you book.

Run a place that should be here, or spot something that has changed? Email newsdesk@brentwoodonline.co.uk. Taken a good photograph of any of these places? Email it to newsdesk@brentwoodonline.co.uk and we will add it with your name as the credit.

For more of the season, see Brentwood’s Christmas markets, the Christmas lights switch-on, pantomimes and Christmas shows, Christmas train times, what’s on in Brentwood this month, things to do in Brentwood, food hygiene ratings and the Brentwood business directory.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I have Christmas dinner in Brentwood on Christmas Day 2026?

Five pubs on this list publish a Christmas Day 2026 price: the Greyhound on Magpie Lane (three courses £94.95), the Boars Head in Herongate (£90), the Black Horse in Pilgrims Hatch (£89.95), the Toby Carvery on Ingrave Road (£74.99) and the Harvester Golden Fleece on London Road (£62.99). Mason’s Bar and Restaurant says it is already fully booked for Christmas Day.

What is the cheapest Christmas Day lunch in Brentwood?

The Harvester Golden Fleece on London Road has the lowest Christmas Day price on this list: £62.99 for adults and £26.49 for the children’s menu. The Toby Carvery on Ingrave Road is next at £74.99.

Do I need to pay a deposit for Christmas Day in Brentwood?

Yes, at all five. Each takes £10 a head (the Boars Head takes £5 for children). The Greyhound and the Black Horse want full payment and pre-orders by 8 December; the Boars Head, the Toby Carvery and the Golden Fleece by 1 December.