Originally Posted by
slawecki
in london proper, about 10% of the restaurants are south east asian or indian. surely they do not celebrate christmas.
Well there are plenty of east Asian & Indian Christians - but even when not there's no guarantee of them being open as most of their clientèle is nominally Christian who will mostly be eating a "traditional" meal plus you have the problem of no public transport which makes it harder for people to get to the restaurants.
Certainly around my way none of the "ethnic" restaurants are open on Christmas Day - and only one takeaway is open.
If you are in the UK on Christmas Eve may I recommend one traditional event that no-one ever mentions - the stripping of supermarket shelves of anything remotely edible as the supermarkets will (mostly) be closed for two days.