This year for the first time ever we were encouraged to go out for dinner ( mainly by my sister in law who cooked last year and moaned and moaned about how stressful it all was and how she couldn't face it all again this year). Anyway we went to the local Indian which is only a few minutes walk away. Take your own booze and a choice of Indian or traditional turkey . I went for the Indian and had a whole chicken with mince , peppers and the like. Daughter had the turkey but was a tad unimpressed , dry and the veggies not up to much. However , all in all we won't be going next year . It took close to four hours , we heard the same Christmas songs over and over again and at some times the noise was deafening.