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.
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.
Mr Fogg's Apothecary
Mayfair — Cocktail Bar
Up to 220 guests
A Victorian dispensary on Brook Street with a long marble bar below, and a booth-lined Elixir Room off it that keeps its own entrance.
Langan's Brasserie
Mayfair — French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 250 guests
The Mayfair brasserie that opened in 1976 with Michael Caine and an art collection to match, reborn in 2021 with three hireable spaces across the ground floor and lower ground.
Kitty Fisher's
Mayfair — British Restaurant
Up to 30 guests
A candlelit, wood-fired British restaurant in a Georgian townhouse on Shepherd Market. Available for exclusive hire up to thirty, or as the private twelve-seat Club Room.
Eagle Bar
Mayfair — Cocktail Bar
A rooftop cocktail bar on the upper floors of The Chancery Rosewood, named for the gilded eagle salvaged from the former US Embassy, with an indoor bar and an open terrace over Grosvenor Square.
Gaia Mayfair
Mayfair — Greek Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
A multi-storey Greek-Mediterranean restaurant on Dover Street with a first-floor cocktail bar, private dining sections, and a sculptural marble staircase connecting three distinct levels.
Jamavar
Mayfair — Indian Restaurant
Up to 108 guests
The Leela family's Michelin-starred Indian restaurant on Mount Street, with four private spaces from an indigo eight-seat room to a 38-cover lower-ground room with its own bar.
Coburg Bar
Mayfair — Cocktail Bar
The classic whisky-and-cocktail bar at The Connaught: a panelled Mayfair drawing room in jewel-velvet, firelight and antiqued mirror.
Soho Mews House
Mayfair — Members' Club
Up to 80 guests
Soho House's invitation-only Mayfair club, three floors down a cobbled mews. The Martini Bar takes eighty with DJ decks; the Snug seats fourteen.
Sketch
Mayfair — French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
Mourad Mazouz's artist-designed Mayfair townhouse of distinct rooms, from India Mahdavi's yellow Gallery to the retro-futuristic East Bar with its resident DJ.
Noura Mayfair
Mayfair — Lebanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 100 guests
A long-standing Lebanese restaurant on Curzon Street with a marble downstairs lounge for private events, a few doors from Green Park.
Sparrow Italia Mayfair
Mayfair — Italian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 100 guests
A four-floor modern Italian on Avery Row with a first-floor dining room that opens into an indoor garden, a Havana cigar lounge and a seasonal roof terrace. Each floor lets privately, with its own bar.
/ 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.