Venues in Chelsea
Chelsea’s intimate private rooms blend artistic heritage with a modern feel — ideal for celebrations that feel both personal and well put together.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
Chelsea — French Restaurant
Up to 70 guests
Gordon Ramsay's three-MICHELIN-star flagship on Royal Hospital Road, available for exclusive hire for up to 44 seated, with a four-seat chef's table at the pass.
Ziani
Chelsea — Italian Restaurant
Up to 55 guests
A family-run Venetian restaurant tucked onto a quiet Chelsea street off the King's Road, in the same hands since 1984 and available to take exclusively for up to 55.
Cadogan Hall
Chelsea — Event Space
Up to 953 guests
A landmark 953-seat concert hall off Sloane Square, resident home of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with three self-contained function rooms below the auditorium for private hire.
No. Fifty Cheyne
Chelsea — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 165 guests
A flower-festooned Chelsea restaurant on Cheyne Walk, with riverside private rooms and a whole-house hire built for live music and dancing.
Azzurra
Chelsea — Italian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
The Aqua group's Italian seafood restaurant on Sloane Street, with a 16-metre raw and cocktail bar and a glazed private room, available for private dining and exclusive hire.
Medlar
Chelsea — Modern European Restaurant
Up to 75 guests
A modern European King's Road institution since 2011, with apple-green banquettes, blossom-canopied tables and a first-floor private dining room seating up to 28.
The Ivy Chelsea Garden
Chelsea — British Restaurant
Up to 40 guests
Chelsea's flower-clad Ivy, where a Martin Brudnizki interior opens onto a wisteria-draped garden and the glass-walled Glasshouse private room.
Daphne's
Chelsea — Italian Restaurant
Up to 180 guests
A glamorous Chelsea Italian on Brompton Cross since 1964, with a glass-roofed Conservatory of arched mirrors, lemon trees and a brick fireplace for private dining.
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Chelsea — Event Space
Up to 400 guests
Sir Christopher Wren's Grade I home of the Chelsea Pensioners, hiring its Great Hall, state rooms and riverside gardens for private dinners, receptions and ceremonies.
National Army Museum
Chelsea — Event Space
Up to 300 guests
A Chelsea museum beside the Royal Hospital, whose glazed foyer and helicopter-hung atrium take receptions of up to 300, with catering by Searcys.
Brasserie Olivia
Chelsea — French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 180 guests
La Nouvelle Garde's first London brasserie, on the corner of Sloane Square, with an oyster counter, a wood-fired kitchen and Venus Bar, a 22-seat vinyl cocktail bar downstairs for full private hire.
The Chelsea Townhouse
Chelsea — Hotel
Up to 40 guests
The former Draycott Hotel, restored by Iconic Luxury Hotels into a 36-room Chelsea townhouse with private Cadogan Gardens access and three ground-floor rooms for private hire.
/ About Chelsea▾
Chelsea began as a riverside village on the north bank of the Thames, drawn into London as the city spread west. Its defining landmark is the Royal Hospital Chelsea, commissioned by Charles II in 1682, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and opened in 1692 as a home for army veterans; its brick ranges and courtyards still stand in grounds running down towards the river. King’s Road, named for the same king, began as his private route from St James’s to Fulham. By the 1960s that road had become a centre of British fashion, a reputation the district still carries beneath its earlier Georgian and Victorian calm.
Chelsea’s event character runs from gallery to garden. The Saatchi Gallery has occupied the Duke of York’s Headquarters off Sloane Square since 2008, its rooms given over to contemporary art and to receptions. Each May the grounds of the Royal Hospital host the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, held on that site since 1913. Along the river at Chelsea Harbour, the Design Centre gathers more than a hundred interiors showrooms across its glazed atriums. Townhouses, restaurants and the members’ rooms of the King’s Road fill out a district well supplied with settings for private dinners and launches.
Cheyne Walk records Chelsea’s long artistic life — J. M. W. Turner lived at number 119 and Dante Gabriel Rossetti at number 16 — its riverside houses among the most storied in London. The Thames runs along the southern edge, and the Chelsea Embankment gardens give the streets an open, watery aspect. Dining concentrates on the King’s Road and around Sloane Square. Sloane Square Underground, on the District and Circle lines, is the district’s gateway, with South Kensington close by to the west — placing Chelsea within easy reach of the West End while keeping the settled, low-built character of its village origins.