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.
The Sea, The Sea
Chelsea — Seafood Restaurant & Bar
Up to 37 guests
A Chelsea fishmonger turned seafood bistro on Pavilion Road, with a raw bar, dining room and terrace available for private hire.
Willett's
Chelsea — British Restaurant
Up to 44 guests
A neighbourhood British bistro at The Cadogan on Sloane Street, led by chef Michael Turner. Seasonal British cooking across a bar, an open-kitchen counter and a terrace where Chelsea meets Knightsbridge.
Corenucopia by Clare Smyth
Chelsea — British Restaurant
Up to 40 guests
Clare Smyth's Chelsea bistro, sibling to three-star Core, with an intimate leather-walled Cellar Room downstairs for private dining.
Martino's
Chelsea — Italian Restaurant & Bar
Martin Kuczmarski's glamorous 1950s-style Italian on Sloane Square, with a curved central bar, red-velvet booths and Murano-lit dining room.
The Sloane Club
Chelsea — Members' Club
Up to 160 guests
A storied Chelsea members' club, reborn in 2025 after a £20m restoration, with private dining rooms, a glass-roofed conservatory and a 1920s-inspired cocktail bar.
KORA by Beaufort House
Chelsea — Mediterranean Restaurant
Up to 70 guests
A sage-green corner restaurant on the King's Road serving modern Mediterranean and Greek plates, with patterned banquettes, a tiled bar and an open kitchen.
Bottarga
Chelsea — Greek Restaurant
Up to 80 guests
A Greek-and-Mediterranean corner room on King's Road, Chelsea, with a candlelit dining room, a year-round terrace, and full-restaurant hire for up to 80.
Ixchel
Chelsea — Mexican Restaurant & Bar
Up to 80 guests
A glamorous Mexican restaurant and tequila bar on the King's Road, with live DJs, a hidden agave bar and a private lower floor built for late-night events.
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.
At Sloane
Chelsea — Hotel
Up to 46 guests
The Costes family's first London hotel: a Chelsea townhouse with a top-floor French restaurant clad in 500 vases, an octagonal Cupola for four and a velvet, candlelit bar below.
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.
The Cadogan Arms
Chelsea — British Restaurant & Bar
Up to 150 guests
A 19th-century Chelsea corner pub relaunched in 2021, with a private Rose Room downstairs and the whole building available for exclusive 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.