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.
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Bobbi's Bar
Cocktail Bar
The late-night bar at Nick Jones’s St Clement hotel by the Thames: lime-green walls, velvet sofas, DJs on vinyl and a live pianist, behind an unmarked door.
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Café Clement
Modern European Restaurant & Bar
Nick Jones's first post-Soho House opening: an all-day brasserie and bar by the Thames, with an open kitchen, olive-leather booths and a red-awninged garden terrace.
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Carmelina's
Italian Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
The Italian dining room below The Webster on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, with an open kitchen, olive velvet booths and a full buyout for about 115 guests.
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Otto's French Restaurant
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.
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Scarfes Bar
Cocktail Bar
Up to 120 guests
A clubby, art-led cocktail bar inside Rosewood London with nightly live music, available for intimate private hire.
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Mirror Room
British Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
Rosewood London's mirrored all-day dining room on High Holborn, designed by Tony Chi, for private dinners, afternoon teas and receptions of up to 200.
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Holborn Dining Room
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.
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Sabine 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.
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Middle Temple Hall
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.
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The Webster Covent Garden
Hotel
Up to 160 guests
A new 167-bedroom hotel on Lincoln's Inn Fields, with an Italian restaurant, a late-night bar downstairs and event rooms for up to 160.
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Two Temple Place
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.
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St Clement
Hotel
Nick Jones's riverside hotel on Temple Place, with a private-party floor on Level 10 and Bobbi's Bar open until 3am.
/ 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.