London's best skyscraper and rooftop restaurants for New Year's Eve, from Seabird to Sushisamba

Tickets for the Mayor of London's New Year's Eve fireworks down on the South Bank have already sold out. Really, though, who wants to stand crushed in the freezing cold for a whole night when they could be having a proper knees-up in the warmth of a rooftop London restaurant with a bird’s eye view of the fireworks exploding all over the capital?

True, a table at any of the venues below will cost rather more than the £20 entry for the South Bank fireworks. On the other hand, while diners wait for the clock to count down to midnight, there is likely to be DJs and live music — and even fire dancers and snow machines. What's more, many of them are hosting parties well into the wee small hours once the clock has struck twelve.  

Read on to discover the London restaurants providing a bird’s eye view not only of the London Eye fireworks but the explosions of colour in the night sky all over the capital — and not all of them require a head for heights.

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