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.
Chelsea
Willett's
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.
Chelsea
Colbert
French Restaurant
Up to 118 guests
An all-day Parisian café on Sloane Square: red banquettes, glass chandeliers and a wall of vintage French posters, available for private hire.
Chelsea
Brasserie Olivia
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.
Chelsea
No. Fifty Cheyne
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.
Chelsea
The Chelsea Bar at 11 Cadogan Gardens
Cocktail Bar
Up to 60 guests
A small cocktail bar inside 11 Cadogan Gardens near Sloane Square, built on British spirits and taken whole for up to 60 guests standing.
Chelsea
Martino's
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.
Chelsea
Stanley's Chelsea
British Restaurant
Up to 120 guests
A heated, tree-filled courtyard and three garden rooms hidden off the King's Road, serving seasonal British food all day in Chelsea.
Chelsea
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
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.
Chelsea
Myrtle Restaurant
Modern European Restaurant
Up to 34 guests
Anna Haugh's first restaurant, named for Ireland's first Michelin-starred chef: modern European cooking with an Irish accent across two light-filled floors off the King's Road.
Chelsea
HUŎ Chelsea
Asian Restaurant
Up to 60 guests
A narrow Park Walk room of bleached timber and driftwood colour, cooking from Chinese, Thai, Malay and Singaporean disciplines. Six circular booths take thirty-six between them, and the whole restaurant seats sixty.
Chelsea
Scalini
Italian Restaurant
Up to 100 guests
A Chelsea Italian on Walton Street, in the same townhouse since 1988, with a glass-roofed dining room and a first-floor private room and bar.
/ 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.