Venues in Mayfair
The highest concentration of Michelin-starred private dining in London. Mayfair’s venues range from discreet townhouse restaurants to grand ballrooms within five-star hotels.
Mayfair
Red Room
Cocktail Bar
The Connaught's hidden wine bar and art space, wrapped in every shade of rouge and hung with works by Louise Bourgeois. Reached through a velvet curtain behind the Champagne Room.
Mayfair
Lilibet's
Seafood Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
A seafood restaurant on the Mayfair site where Queen Elizabeth II was born, dressed by Russell Sage Studio in full pre-war glamour. Downstairs, the silk-lined Hartnell Room seats up to 22 for private dining.
Mayfair
The Rivoli Bar
Cocktail Bar
The Ritz's gilded Art Deco jewel box, created by Tessa Kennedy in 2001 and one of London's most glamorous hotel cocktail bars. Available for private hire by arrangement.
Mayfair
The Cocochine
Modern French Restaurant
Up to 35 guests
A four-storey Mayfair townhouse from chef Larry Jayasekara, holding a 35-cover dining room, a seven-seat chef's counter and a self-contained private dining suite for 16.
Mayfair
Cipriani London
Italian Restaurant
A Mayfair institution on Davies Street since 2004: Venetian classics, a buzzy international crowd and a private dining room seating up to 40. Also known as C London.
Mayfair
34 Mayfair
Steak Restaurant & Bar
Up to 150 guests
A Martin Brudnizki grill room off Grosvenor Square, with a first-floor private room hung with Tracey Emin's own neon works.
Mayfair
Hakkasan Mayfair
Cantonese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 350 guests
Two-floor Cantonese restaurant-bar on Bruton Street, with a resident DJ programme and four bookable event spaces including the scarlet Ling Ling Lounge.
Mayfair
Cubé Mayfair
Japanese Restaurant
Up to 36 guests
A two-floor Japanese omakase on a quiet Mayfair street, with a ground-floor sushi counter and a downstairs private dining room and Japanese whisky bar.
Mayfair
COYA Mayfair
Peruvian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 250 guests
A candlelit Peruvian landmark on Piccadilly whose lower-floor Pisco Lounge, with resident DJs and a dance floor, turns dinner into a late-night party.
/ About Mayfair ▾
Mayfair takes its name from the annual May Fair that ran near what is now Shepherd Market from 1686 until 1764, by which time the fashionable district growing around it had little patience for the crowds. The land had passed to the Grosvenor family through the 1677 marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor and Mary Davies, and from the 1720s the surveyor Thomas Barlow laid out the grid of wide, straight streets that survives today — Grosvenor Square, set out between 1725 and 1731, at its centre, with Berkeley Square close by. Georgian terraces, garden squares and a quiet, moneyed reserve still define the streets.
The area’s event character rests on grand hotels, members’ clubs and the trades that made it — art and antiques. Park Lane carries the deepest concentration of hotel ballrooms in London: The Dorchester, which opened in 1931 and keeps its 1930s ballroom, stands along the park, while Claridge’s holds the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street. The auction houses anchor the other trade — Sotheby’s has occupied 34–35 New Bond Street since 1917 — and the galleries of Cork Street, where the first opened in 1925, still show contemporary work. Between them the district answers dinners, receptions and launches at almost any scale.
Bond Street and Mount Street set the tone for shopping and dining, while Shepherd Market keeps a village intimacy of narrow lanes and small restaurants at Mayfair’s southern edge. Green space is never far: Hyde Park runs the whole western flank, and the garden squares open pockets of lawn between the terraces, lending a reception an outdoor dimension in the heart of the West End. For access, Bond Street station brings the Central, Jubilee and Elizabeth lines, Green Park adds the Piccadilly and Victoria, and Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner frame the district — so a London or international guest list arrives with ease.