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.
Labombe by Trivet
Mayfair — Mediterranean Restaurant & Bar
Up to 65 guests
A wine-forward, fire-led restaurant from the Trivet team, in the former Met Bar at COMO Metropolitan London. One Michelin star, with a private dining room and whole-restaurant hire.
Gymkhana
Mayfair — Indian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 100 guests
A two-Michelin-star Indian restaurant on Albemarle Street, modelled on India's colonial sporting clubs, with two private Vaults below and 42, a late-licence cocktail lounge with its own entrance, above.
The Ritz Restaurant
Mayfair — British Restaurant
A two-MICHELIN-star Louis XVI dining room of 1906, led by John Williams MBE and available for exclusive private hire, with the intimate Ritz Room alongside.
Lilibet's
Mayfair — Seafood Restaurant
Up to 160 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.
Ormer Mayfair by Sofian
Mayfair — European Restaurant
Up to 30 guests
A one-Michelin-star basement dining room in the family-run Flemings hotel, where chef Sofian Msetfi cooks a pan-European tasting menu. Three private suites, plus full exclusive hire.
The Ivy Asia Mayfair
Mayfair — Asian Restaurant & Bar
The Ivy Collection's most theatrical pan-Asian room, with a glowing green agate floor, cherry blossom in permanent bloom and a private Sakura Room for celebrations.
Nobu London Old Park Lane
Mayfair — Japanese Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
The original London Nobu, on Old Park Lane since 1997: Japanese-Peruvian cooking beside an open sushi counter, with a skylit private dining room and full-restaurant hire.
Fonda
Mayfair — Mexican Restaurant
Up to 130 guests
Santiago Lastra's buzzing Mexican restaurant on Heddon Street, from the team behind Michelin-starred KOL. A pink private dining room, whole-venue hire and a planted terrace.
Hakkasan Mayfair
Mayfair — Cantonese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 230 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.
/ 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.