Venues in Central London
From Hyde Park Corner to the Square Mile: the deepest run of hotel ballrooms, members’ clubs and Michelin-starred private dining rooms in the country.
Marylebone
Soraya
Persian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 190 guests
The Pachamama Group's largest London room: a 190-cover Persian restaurant in Marylebone with an open kitchen, long bar and two private dining rooms.
Westminster
Georgie's Bar
Cocktail Bar
Tom Kerridge's bar at Corinthia London, opened September 2026 in the larger half of his relaunched Northumberland Avenue restaurant. Martinis from the freezer, a Saturday DJ, and Beth Cullen-Kerridge's bronze 'Steve' moved in from the dining room.
Mayfair
Theo Randall Cucina Italiana
Italian Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
Chef Theo Randall's regional Italian dining room at the InterContinental Park Lane, with two private rooms and exclusive hire for up to 160 seated.
Mayfair
BiBi
Indian Restaurant
Up to 34 guests
Chet Sharma's modern Indian dining room in Mayfair, taken exclusively for up to 34 guests around a 14-seat open-kitchen counter.
Mayfair
Mount St. Restaurant
British Restaurant
Up to 40 guests
The London restaurant of Artfarm, on the first floor of Mayfair's Audley, with four art-filled private rooms above a modern British dining room.
Knightsbridge
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
British Restaurant
Up to 100 guests
Heston Blumenthal's two-Michelin-star room at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park: historic British cooking, Hyde Park views, and two intimate private dining settings.
Mayfair
LPM (La Petite Maison)
French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 180 guests
A French Riviera institution in a quiet Mayfair mews since 2007, known for shared Niçoise plates and a bright, art-filled dining room. Available for private events in the Riviera Room or as a full exclusive-hire buyout.
St James's
Mistress of Mayfair
Mediterranean Restaurant & Bar
Up to 220 guests
A crimson, Paris-referencing restaurant and lounge below street level on St James's Street, with a fixed DJ booth on the restaurant floor and a club room after midnight. Takes 110 seated or 220 standing on exclusive hire.
St James's
Fortnum & Mason
British Restaurant
Up to 350 guests
Nine private rooms above the Piccadilly food halls, from a stone-arched crypt laid for twelve to the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, which takes the whole fourth floor and 350 for a reception.
/ About Central London ▾
Central London for hire purposes runs from Hyde Park Corner east to the Square Mile, and from Marylebone Road down to the river. It gathers fourteen of the areas in this directory: Mayfair and St James’s, laid out by the Grosvenor and Jermyn estates through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Soho and Covent Garden, whose theatres and market buildings still set the pace after dark; Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia and Holborn, with their garden squares and institutional halls; Clerkenwell and King’s Cross, where Victorian industry has been turned over to restaurants and studios; and the City, which empties at seven and hands its livery halls and its rooftops to private hire.
The hire product here is the broadest in the country. Park Lane and Piccadilly carry the deepest run of hotel ballrooms in London, taking seated dinners of five hundred and more. Beneath them sit the members’ clubs of St James’s and Soho, the livery halls of the City — several rebuilt after 1945 on medieval sites — and private dining rooms of ten to forty covers above kitchens holding MICHELIN stars. A client choosing Central is usually choosing certainty: a room that has done this before, a kitchen that can hold a standard across three hundred covers, and a door team used to guests arriving in convoy.
It is also the easiest address to fill. Nine Underground lines and the Elizabeth line converge inside the region, four mainline termini sit on its edge, and a guest list drawn from Chelsea, Hampstead and the City reaches any of it in half an hour. Evenings run late, since licensing in Westminster and Camden supports music past midnight in the right rooms, and the ranks and night services mean nobody is stranded. For a party that has to be simple to attend, Central is the answer the rest of this directory is measured against.