Miracle at Henrietta — a bar that's more Christmassy than Macaulay Culkin sat on the back of a reindeer eating a mince pie — is back for its eighth year in central London. Here's the lowdown snowdown.
Miracle has become a bit of a 'thing' hasn't it? Absolutely. Starting out life as NYC's Miracle on Ninth Street bar in 2014, this orgy of kitschy holiday cocktails has since been franchised in over 90 (!) places across the world. In London, Miracle has taken over a room in Covent Garden's Henrietta hotel each year since 2018. Hence 'Miracle at Henrietta'. It has a new home for 2025, just a few doors down but still on Henrietta Street.
What's the vibe then? It's Kiiiiiiiitschmas! The sort of tinsel-choked, Dean Martin-infused, glow-up plastic Santa Claus kinda Christmas that transports you to a vintage yule so unashamedly gaudy, the people who do the Blackpool illuminations would whisper "Well that's a bit much".
Are the drinks Christmassy too? And how! The menu (styled like a Christmas card, obvs) bids you to sample your way through OTT eggnogs, mulled wine fizzes, cranberry sauce cosmos and 'Naughty' and 'Nice' shots. They have very Christmassy names (think Christmasaurus, and Rudolph's Replacement), and they're all served up in uber chintzy festive drinkware. It makes your average Snowball look like Dry January.
But they DO snowballs, right? You'd have thought. The closest they do is a Snowball Old Fashioned. But it's not got Advocaat or lemonade in it, so isn't really a Snowball.
And they cost how much? Between £14 and £16 (shots £6.50).
How tempting is it to steal the drinkware? Excruciatingly. Probably why the bar sells novelty mugs and glasses, so you can get your souvenir without winding up in drinkware prison.
When is Miracle at Henriette 2025 taking place? It's open 10 November-23 December 2025. As you can imagine, it's mighty popular, and you'll want to book a slot (each one is 1 hour 30 mins — and frankly any longer than this, and you'd wind up like the former Bishop of Southwark).
It's very popular but thankfully a few tables are also kept for walk-ins each day.
Miracle at Henrietta Christmas bar, 10 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 10 November-23 December 2025.
All photos Laura Reynolds/Joanna Rutherford/Will Noble/Londonist except feature image, which is from Miracle.
