Skip the dry turkey.
Do Christmas hands-on. Work & office Christmas party ideas Birmingham — a halal-friendly seafood boil in the city centre.

Every December, the same Birmingham hotels run the same ballroom party nights and the same three-course turkey set menu. A seafood boil is the opposite of that. Gloves on, bibs on, pick your sauce, and the whole table digs into a steaming platter with their hands — it breaks the ice, gets people talking, and no one's stuck making small talk over a dry sprout.

It's the work Christmas party idea for the team that wants a proper night out, not a sit-down — one of the few Birmingham city-centre Christmas party restaurants where the meal is the entertainment. The work do they'll actually thank you for. Right in the Arcadian, minutes from New Street, the Hippodrome and the bars after.

Whether it's a small-team office Christmas party or a 40-strong department takeover, we run group nights as a service — one order for the whole group, one set-platter package from £55 per person, no decision paralysis and no surprise bill. The City Boil suits teams of 12+; the Full Send takeover handles up to 40. Cocktail pitchers, prosecco on arrival and custom bibs make it a proper send-off — and unlike a hotel party-night, it's an actual night out, not a shared ballroom.

See the full group options on our celebrations page, or enquire about a festive booking — we reply within 24 hours on weekdays.

Looking for a halal Christmas dinner in Birmingham? We're halal-friendly — no pork in the kitchen and no alcohol used in any dish — so colleagues and family who eat halal share the same festive feast as everyone else. The bar serves cocktails and a Build Your Gin for those who want them, with a full mocktail menu for those who don't. One festive table, everyone included — whether it's a work do or a family Christmas get-together.