Venues in St James's
St James’s has kept its own counsel for three centuries — Georgian clubhouses, Piccadilly hotels and dining rooms of considerable discretion, a short walk from the Palace.
Estiatorio Milos
St James's — Greek Restaurant
Up to 400 guests
Costas Spiliadis's Greek seafood restaurant in St James's, set around its signature Mediterranean fish counter, with private rooms from an intimate twenty up to a full buyout of four hundred.
Wiltons
St James's — British Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
Oysters and game on Jermyn Street since 1742. Twenty in the Jimmy Marks Room, forty in the Green Room, or the whole restaurant taken exclusively.
Swans Bar at Maison Assouline
St James's — Cocktail Bar
Up to 120 guests
A 1922 Lutyens banking hall, now Assouline's Piccadilly flagship: a lacquered red cocktail bar on the book-lined ground floor, with the Grande Salle as a private dining room above. Receptions to 120, seated to 60.
Fortnum & Mason
St James's — British Restaurant
Up to 350 guests
Nine private rooms above the Piccadilly food halls, from a stone-arched crypt laid for twelve to the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon, which takes the whole fourth floor and 350 for a reception.
Bardo St James's
St James's — Italian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 300 guests
A low-lit St James's supper club below Kinnaird House: turquoise marble bar, oxblood velvet, and a central stage playing live music six nights a week.
Fallow
St James's — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 110 guests
One of London's most talked-about sustainable British restaurants, on Haymarket at the edge of St James's Market. The whole room, with its open kitchen, counter and bar, is available for exclusive hire.
Michael Caines at The Stafford
St James's — British Restaurant
Up to 30 guests
Michael Caines' first London restaurant, a MICHELIN-starred dining room inside The Stafford hotel in St James's, available for intimate exclusive hire.
The Rooftop at The Trafalgar St. James
St James's — Cocktail Bar
Up to 180 guests
A seventh-floor rooftop bar and terrace over Trafalgar Square, level with Nelson's Column, with a retractable roof for year-round receptions.
Mistress of Mayfair
St James's — Mediterranean Restaurant & Bar
Up to 220 guests
A crimson, Paris-referencing restaurant and lounge below street level on St James's Street, with a fixed DJ booth on the restaurant floor and a club room after midnight. Takes 110 seated or 220 standing on exclusive hire.
/ About St James's▾
St James’s was laid out from the 1660s, when Charles II granted Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans, the right to develop the fields beside St James’s Palace. Jermyn built an aristocratic residential quarter around St James’s Square, and the area has kept its court character ever since — the Palace remains a working royal residence, and the streets between Pall Mall and Piccadilly still read as the most establishment corner of the West End. Stone-fronted and low-built, discreet almost to a fault, St James’s wears its history without display.
St James’s is London’s clubland, and its members’ clubs are its signature event asset. White’s, founded as a chocolate house in 1693 and settled on St James’s Street since 1778, is the oldest of them; Boodle’s and Brooks’s stand close by on the same street. The art trade shares the ground — Christie’s has its saleroom on King Street, and the surrounding streets hold a concentration of upmarket art and antique dealers. Grand townhouses, club dining rooms and the Piccadilly hotels give the district settings for dinners and receptions with a formal, historic register.
Jermyn Street and St James’s Street carry the district’s tailoring and long-established shops, while its restaurants keep a similarly settled tone. Green Park spreads along the southern edge, its avenues of plane trees running down towards the Mall and Buckingham Palace, so an event here has open parkland on its doorstep. Access is straightforward: Green Park station brings the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Victoria lines, Piccadilly Circus and St James’s Park stations sit either side, and Charing Cross and Victoria termini are both within reach for national rail — an easy arrival from anywhere in the country.