The BPA's Early Christmas Late Lunch: Spotlight on the day

This year's BPA Christmas Lunch, at The Bond Digbeth, sponsored by Elonex, is just over five weeks away. Tickets are selling fast and it looks like we're going to have a sell-out on our hands. Turning the focus on the day itself, here's what you can expect.

The Bond is in the heart of Birmingham's creative quarter, Digbeth, on Fazeley Street. It's just a short walk away from Birmingham City Centre and ///swim.gave.vows are the what3words you need. The nearest train station is Birmingham Moor Street and parking is plentiful at Bullring & Grand Central.

The event starts at the later-than-usual time of 3:00 PM with a drinks reception courtesy of our good friends, Adsmart from Sky, and then we'll be invited in to dine. If you are already booked to attend, you should have received an email from our events team asking for your food choices. Here are the sumptuous options we have to choose from this year. Something for every palate...

Starters

Roasted butternut squash and rosemary soup
With soused blueberry dressing

Chilli and herb marinated crayfish and prawn
With turmeric pickled mooli, tomato, cucumber, frisée and a lime zest sour cream.

Smoked ham hock and sausage terrine
With roast sweet potato, spring onion salad and a fig & apple dressing

Mains

Roast bronze Norfolk turkey
With pigs in blankets, sage and onion stuffing, roasted carrots, parsnip, roast potatoes, buttered sprouts and a rich turkey gravy.

Pan seared fillet of seabass
With creamy buttered mash, wilted spinach & leek, baby carrots and a lemon, dill & parsley cream

Charred aubergine parcel filled with smoked ratatouille
With braised lentils, roasted beets and a red pepper tomato coulis

Desserts

Apple cinnamon and blackberry crumble tarte
With crème Anglaise

Traditional Christmas pudding
With brandy sauce

Belgian dark chocolate torte
With caramelised clementine orange

Drinks packages can be bought in advance and options will be sent to bookers very soon.

As usual we have an awesome compere in the shape of JD from Free Radio Hits at Breakfast who'll be keeping the event running smoothly. As is traditional, we will be announcing this year's Jo Harrington Fund donation to our awesome charity partner, Winston's Wish, and we'll have some cracking raffle and auction lots on offer, for you guys to open your purses and wallets for.

You can also expect live music and a few surprises which we'll keep for the day itself. There's no afterparty this year due to the later start but we'll be partying hard until midnight courtesy of our resident DJ, Morais Vibes on the ones and twos.