An honest note on which dates have gone, which are going, and what is still comfortably open.
A straight update, because vague encouragement to "book early" helps nobody.
Where December stands
Going fastest: long tables on Fridays and Saturdays through the middle of the month. Groups of ten or more on those dates are close to gone.
Filling steadily: weekend evenings generally, and the week before Christmas at almost any size.
Still comfortable: weekday lunches, early sittings, smaller tables across most of the month, and — genuinely underrated — the quiet days between Christmas and New Year, when the island slows down and a long lunch is the entire plan.
If you have a date in mind, tell us now even if the numbers are not final. A rough booking that gets adjusted beats no booking and a full room.
Every year somebody rings on the fifteenth for twelve seats on the twentieth. Every year the answer is the same.
A straight update, because vague encouragement to "book early" helps nobody.
Where December stands
Going fastest: long tables on Fridays and Saturdays through the middle of the month. Groups of ten or more on those dates are close to gone.
Filling steadily: weekend evenings generally, and the week before Christmas at almost any size.
Still comfortable: weekday lunches, early sittings, smaller tables across most of the month, and — genuinely underrated — the quiet days between Christmas and New Year, when the island slows down and a long lunch is the entire plan.
If you have a date in mind, tell us now even if the numbers are not final. A rough booking that gets adjusted beats no booking and a full room.
Every year somebody rings on the fifteenth for twelve seats on the twentieth. Every year the answer is the same.