Fabulous Christmas dinner

[Panchocat]

I can't write on hsmummy thread as it is now locked.
Hsmummy the Al Shaheen Karakum Christmas experience was great. Give them a thought for next year. Well cooked food, excellent friendly service and a lovely atmosphere. Couldn't fault it. So sorry to hear about your experience. We gave up on the bigger places a few years ago and return to Al Shaheen, they never disappoint us.
Hope your new year plans are more successful.

[Steve C]

I have to agree with your experience at Al'Shaheen as we were also there.

[Belkin]

This is our fourth year at Al Shaheen's and always the best. So friendly, good food, good service, and well worth the money.

[Groucho]

A good friend tells me the Pia Bella do a fine job and as it is so good it needs to be booked well in advance as it has a very high demand for Christmas Day luncheon.. Which is on the day not on the eve.

[woodspeckie]

Pia Bella Christmas dinner is on the Eve, Christmas Day just a normal day.

[sophie]

This seems to be where problems arise. Christmas Dinner is at night - Christmas Lunch is during the day. However. a lot of people refer to Christmas Dinner as being during the day. Many locals just cannot understand why Brits refer to Dinner during the day. I must say, its always confused me as well, so I can understand why locals cannot get their heads round our phraseology.

[karmels]

sophie.
I don't know were you are comming from. We are of the same age, and my family ALWAYS called it Chistmas dinner. This was serverd at 15.10 pm after the Queens speach and the grown up's would give a toast. The term Dinner does not effect the locals as they do not have the same eating habits as the Brits, you will find the locals will take thier kids to restaurants at 21.30 to have thier meal. We as Brits would never be taken out at that time of night, in our day. I rest my case.

[Jonnie]

Luncheon is lunchtime. Midday or around there. Dinner tends to be evening or midday which ever is most important to that culture. That said if I was booking a meal anywhere I would book for a time. If it was for an occasion I would check what the menu was and the service was and if I had a "small child" with me I would check to see what options were available for them. This would be more closely considered for something like a Christmas meal in a country where Christmas is not readily recognised.

[hs.mummy]

As for us , we did check and were told that christmas lunch was a sit down meal. And that it was on christmas day. Unfortunately we were lied to. Shame as we have read many recommendations now for other hotels and restaurants.

[jofra]

Lunch, dinner, tea, supper.....
I think it's really down to a matter of class ("upper/lower/middle/working") and/or what part of the country you hail from; many people would say, "Oh, we have lunch at dinnertime, and dinner at teatime..".
But then, isn't dinnertime about midday? So wouldn't we be having our tea at teatime? (Note - Afternoon tea is different; that's taken midafternoon.... (a couple of hours before teatime..)
Supper? No great problem there; obviously you have this when you get home from the pub, after you've finished supping a few....
Now breakfast - don't start! That used to be simple - until all these cafes started offering "All-day breakfasts"........

[karmels]

jofra.
Just depends what time you get up???