Venues in Holborn
Holborn sits between the City and the West End and borrows from both — legal-quarter grandeur alongside spaces designed for a long evening.
Sabine Holborn
Holborn — Cocktail Bar
Up to 100 guests
A tenth-floor rooftop bar above Holborn, its retractable roof and terrace opening onto a wraparound skyline view, available whole or in part for private hire.
The View at the Royal College of Surgeons
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 300 guests
The sixth-floor event space atop the Royal College of Surgeons, with floor-to-ceiling glazing and a rare private terrace over Lincoln's Inn Fields. Catering by Searcys.
Holborn Dining Room
Holborn — British Restaurant
A grand British brasserie on the ground floor of Rosewood London, known for its handcrafted pies, a gin bar pouring one of London's largest collections and a summer courtyard terrace.
Rosewood London
Holborn — Hotel
Up to 430 guests
A Belle Époque landmark on High Holborn, with a staircase-flanked grand ballroom, flexible salons and the much-loved Scarfes Bar for late nights.
Scarfes Bar
Holborn — Cocktail Bar
Up to 120 guests
A clubby, art-led cocktail bar inside Rosewood London with nightly live music, available for intimate private hire.
Two Temple Place
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 300 guests
William Waldorf Astor's 1895 neo-Gothic mansion on the Victoria Embankment, let for exclusive private hire, with a hammerbeam-roofed Great Hall, a carved Staircase Hall and an intimate Library.
Otto's French Restaurant
Holborn — French Restaurant
Up to 60 guests
Chef-patron Otto Tepassé's candlelit French room on Gray's Inn Road, famed for its tableside pressed duck, with an intimate downstairs private dining room by the wine collection.
Inner Temple Hall
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 600 guests
A neo-Georgian banqueting hall in the Inns of Court, with a marble floor the Inn itself offers for dancing — and a three-acre garden that takes a 600-guest marquee each summer.
Lincoln's Inn
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 450 guests
The 1845 Great Hall of one of the four Inns of Court — minstrels' gallery, oak roof, 450 for a reception — behind a gatehouse on Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Sir John Soane's Museum
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 85 guests
Sir John Soane's own Regency townhouse on Lincoln's Inn Fields, opened for candlelit dinners and receptions among his collection of antiquities and paintings.
Middle Temple Hall
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 750 guests
The Elizabethan hall of one of the four Inns of Court, under a double hammerbeam roof — 400 for a reception, with four further rooms and three acres of garden behind.
Gray's Inn
Holborn — Event Space
Up to 1,000 guests
One of the four Inns of Court, with a hall dating to 1560, five acres of private garden, and hire from intimate private dining to a 1,000-guest summer marquee.
/ About Holborn▾
Holborn sits where the City of London meets the West End, and its character is legal and learned. It grew around the Inns of Court — Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn among them — the medieval societies that have trained and housed barristers for centuries, their gatehouses, chapels and gardens set behind quiet walls. On High Holborn stands Staple Inn, whose black-and-white timbered frontage of 1585 is a rare survival of Tudor London; once a wool staple where wool was weighed and taxed, it later became the last of the Inns of Chancery.
The area's spaces carry that institutional grain. Lincoln's Inn Fields, laid out from the 1630s, is the largest public square in London, framed by chambers and townhouses; on its north side is Sir John Soane's Museum, the neo-classical architect's own house, left to the nation on his death in 1837 and kept as he arranged it. The great halls, libraries and chapels of the Inns provide dignified panelled rooms, while the Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings along Holborn and Kingsway offer a different scale of grand interior.
To the east, Hatton Garden has been London's diamond and jewellery quarter since the nineteenth century, taking its name from Christopher Hatton, a courtier of Elizabeth I; to the north-west, Bloomsbury's garden squares begin. Dining gathers around Leather Lane and its weekday market, Lamb's Conduit Street and the old public houses near Chancery Lane. Holborn Underground station serves the Central and Piccadilly lines, with Chancery Lane close by and Farringdon — now on the Elizabeth line — a short walk east, linking the area quickly across the city.