Members choose private dining rooms to:
- Celebrate with a big group of friends or family
- Hold product launches and business get-togethers
- Enjoy world-class food and service with the same privacy as dining at home
Our restaurant expert Hernan Castro Vidal says: 'Want to take your eating habits (and those of your friends and clients) into a secluded space? Private dining rooms in restaurants are increasingly popular with members for birthdays, special dinners and Saturday nights with a big group of friends or clients.
'Diners can relax without having to worry about being noisy or people listening in, and the private space allows you to combine the joy of eating at home with the atmosphere and food of London's top restaurants. Best of all, there's no washing up.'
Here are some of our members' favourite private rooms – call us to make reservations for you at these or any other venues.
Maze
10-13 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London W1K 6JP
Gordon Ramsay's celebrated restaurant has private rooms that seat from 10 to 40 people. The Maze View room, which seats 12, provides a view of the kitchen and diners can open its doors if they want to enjoy the atmosphere of the main restaurant. The restaurant's Michelin-starred French-Asian tapas food and stylish, contemporary atmosphere make it popular with members who want to take clients for an informal business lunch. Ask us for details.
Guide price: £40 for a three-course menu
Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's
Brook Street, London W1K 4HR
For larger groups, the art deco-style private rooms at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's can accommodate up to 60 people – perfect for a big family celebration such as a wedding, birthday or anniversary. Members praise its elegant, modern European food, renowned wine list and impeccable service.
Guide price: £80 for a five-course menu
Scott's
20 Mount Street, London W1K 2HE
The Edwardian glamour of Scott's is popular with members who want a formal and discreet venue for a special occasion. This elegant Mayfair restaurant boasts one of the best fish menus in London and members can hire its intimate art-deco private room – which features work by leading British artists – for meals for up to 40 people, as well as canapé receptions.
Guide price: £60 for a four-course menu
The Ivy
1-5 West Street, London WC2H 9NQ
The Ivy is a more informal option – it remains perennially popular among members, thanks to its relaxed atmosphere and simple, well-cooked food. This Theatreland classic is as famous as the celebrities that push their way past its paparazzi-lined doors. Its first-floor private room, which can accommodate 60 people for a sit-down meal or up to 120 for a canapé reception, has the same décor as the main restaurant – stained-glass windows, modernist paintings, period furniture and wood panelling throughout. Members say it's great for a large business lunch or product launch.
Guide price: £50 for a four-course menu
Kai
65 South Audley Street, London W1K 2QU
Harden's recently named Kai as the best Chinese in London, and its set menus are perfect for corporate entertaining. Its lower level can be hired for up to 25 people, while its more intimate private rooms accommodate up to 12. Hernan says: 'Service is impeccable and friendly. My favourite is the wasabi prawns, which are unlike anything I've ever tasted before – and I don't even like wasabi'. Members also recommend the Peking duck tasting menu, which serves duck four different ways.
Guide price: £48 per person for a sharing menu
Bleeding Heart
3 Bleeding Heart Yard, off Grevill Street, Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8SJ
Bleeding Heart is one of our members' fabourite restaurants, serving elegant French cuisine to City lawyers and bankers during lunchtime and couples on romantic dates in the evening. The dishes are inventive and superbly prepared. Try the raviolo of English snails, roast landes black leg chicken and the assiette of suckling pig. It has four private rooms that seat between 12 and 44 people, but if you have a bigger party the Tavern accommodate up to 63 people. There's no room hire charge but there is a minimum spend - call us for details.
Guide price: £30 for a four-course menu
