Venues in Belgravia
Belgravia’s stucco-fronted grandeur conceals private dining rooms of quiet distinction, each with the discretion this neighbourhood demands.
Muse by Tom Aikens
Belgravia — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 25 guests
Tom Aikens' one-Michelin-star tasting-menu restaurant in a converted Belgravia mews house, with an open chef's counter and a townhouse available for exclusive hire.
Boisdale of Belgravia
Belgravia — Scottish Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
A Belgravia institution since 1989: live jazz, single malts, tartan-clad rooms, and a cigar terrace in a Georgian townhouse.
Cornus
Belgravia — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 75 guests
A Michelin-starred rooftop restaurant in Eccleston Yards from the Medlar team, with a self-contained private room for up to 25 and exclusive hire for 75.
The Goring
Belgravia — Hotel
Up to 100 guests
London's last family-owned five-star hotel, a short walk from Buckingham Palace, with five silk-lined private rooms and an iconic cocktail bar for exclusive hire.
La Poule au Pot
Belgravia — French Restaurant
Up to 45 guests
A candlelit Belgravia institution serving classic French cooking since the 1960s, long voted London's most romantic restaurant, with a sought-after terrace on Orange Square.
The Hari Bar
Belgravia — Cocktail Bar
Up to 120 guests
The bar floor of The Hari on Chesham Place: shelf-lined walls, vintage Danish seating and a long metal-topped counter, with the covered Garden Terrace alongside it.
Little Blue
Belgravia — Cocktail Bar
Up to 20 guests
An intimate cocktail bar at The Peninsula London, its Maritime Silk Road list travelling from Canton to London beneath a sculptural chandelier and a wall of apothecary spice cabinets.
The Peninsula London
Belgravia — Hotel
Up to 1,200 guests
Hyde Park Corner's landmark hotel, built to Peninsula standards: a pillarless 6-metre ballroom for 1,200, Cantonese private dining rooms lined in silk and antique instruments, and a residential terrace suite with Belgravia rooftop views.
The Dining Room at The Goring
Belgravia — British Restaurant
Up to 70 guests
The one-MICHELIN-star restaurant of The Goring, London's last family-owned five-star hotel: classical British cooking in a green-chinoiserie room a short walk from Buckingham Palace.
abc kitchens at The Emory
Belgravia — Latin American Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
Jean-Georges Vongerichten's debut London restaurant inside The Emory, merging his three acclaimed New York abc concepts with an all-day menu of seasonal sharing plates, Damien Hirst artworks, and a luminous wine cave.
/ About Belgravia▾
Belgravia was laid out on former market gardens and marshland south of Hyde Park, developed for the Grosvenor family from the 1820s. Thomas Cundy, appointed the estate’s surveyor in 1821, drew up the plan, and Thomas Cubitt became the principal builder, raising the district’s cream stucco terraces on ground firmed with earth carted from the docks. Belgrave Square, its ten-acre centrepiece, was set out from 1826; Eaton Square followed from 1827. The name itself, in use since 1851, comes from Belgrave, a village in Cheshire on Grosvenor land. The result is a quarter of measured symmetry — porticoed façades, garden squares and quiet mews behind.
The townhouse is Belgravia’s defining event asset. Its wide stucco-fronted houses and former embassies convert readily to private receptions and seated dinners, while the garden squares supply a green setting under licence. Grand hotels edge the district too: the Lanesborough at Hyde Park Corner, in a neoclassical building of 1733, sits on the wedge where Belgravia meets Knightsbridge and offers ballrooms and private dining. The mews — once stables and coach houses behind the main terraces — now hold restaurants and smaller rooms suited to intimate gatherings, keeping the scale of an event flexible across a compact and consistent architectural grain.
Pimlico Road gathers the antiques dealers, upholsterers and interior showrooms for which the district is known, and its restaurants and the pubs of Elizabeth Street give the quarter a village texture beneath the formal terraces. Green space is close: Hyde Park lies to the north, and private garden squares punctuate the streets between. For access, Sloane Square Underground on the District and Circle lines serves the western edge, Hyde Park Corner sits to the north-east, and Victoria — a mainline rail terminus with the Gatwick Express — is a short walk away, bringing guests from across the city and beyond.