Venues in West London
Hyde Park west to Kew — gardens, galleries, private houses and river frontage, where an outdoor plan is realistic from May to September.
Chelsea
Azzurra
Italian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
The Aqua group's Italian seafood restaurant on Sloane Street, with a 16-metre raw and cocktail bar and a glazed private room, available for private dining and exclusive hire.
Chelsea
Ziani
Italian Restaurant
Up to 55 guests
A family-run Venetian restaurant tucked onto a quiet Chelsea street off the King's Road, in the same hands since 1984 and available to take exclusively for up to 55.
South Kensington
Yashin Ocean House
Japanese Restaurant
Up to 70 guests
A modern Japanese sushi and omakase counter in a white-washed Edwardian building off Old Brompton Road, with two private dining rooms on the lower ground floor.
Chelsea
HUŎ Chelsea
Asian Restaurant
Up to 60 guests
A narrow Park Walk room of bleached timber and driftwood colour, cooking from Chinese, Thai, Malay and Singaporean disciplines. Six circular booths take thirty-six between them, and the whole restaurant seats sixty.
Notting Hill
Los Mochis Notting Hill
Mexican Restaurant & Bar
Up to 175 guests
A design-led Notting Hill restaurant and bar where Mexican and Japanese cooking meet across two floors, a street-side patio and an agaveria pouring one of the UK's largest tequila and mezcal collections.
Kensington
Min Jiang
Chinese Restaurant
Up to 150 guests
Tenth-floor Cantonese restaurant at the Royal Garden Hotel with unobstructed views across Kensington Gardens and Palace, and a named private dining room in lacquered red.
Notting Hill
Naked & Famous
Cocktail Bar
Up to 35 guests
A 35-seat basement agave bar beneath zēphyr on Portobello Road, taken as a full private buyout.
Notting Hill
Sumi
Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 60 guests
Endo Kazutoshi's understated Notting Hill sushi and robata restaurant, with an open kitchen, a Westbourne Grove terrace and a full-restaurant buyout for private events.
Chelsea
Willett's
British Restaurant
Up to 44 guests
A neighbourhood British bistro at The Cadogan on Sloane Street, led by chef Michael Turner. Seasonal British cooking across a bar, an open-kitchen counter and a terrace where Chelsea meets Knightsbridge.
Kensington
Kitchen W8
Modern British Restaurant
Up to 60 guests
Michelin-starred neighbourhood restaurant in Kensington with a private dining room for 14 and full exclusive hire for up to 60.
Chelsea
Bottarga
Greek Restaurant
Up to 80 guests
A Greek-and-Mediterranean corner room on King's Road, Chelsea, with a candlelit dining room, a year-round terrace, and full-restaurant hire for up to 80.
/ About West London ▾
West London runs from the western edge of Hyde Park out along the river to Kew and Brentford. It holds the museum quarter of South Kensington, laid out on the profits of the 1851 Great Exhibition; Chelsea, with Wren’s Royal Hospital of 1682 and the King’s Road behind it; the stucco terraces of Notting Hill and Bayswater; White City, built for the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games of 1908; and the Thames reach through Hammersmith, Fulham and Chiswick. Further out, Kew is a World Heritage Site of Victorian glasshouses and three hundred acres of botanic garden, and Syon at Brentford keeps Robert Adam’s interiors and Charles Fowler’s Great Conservatory.
The hire product is domestic in grain and generous in space. Where Central sells ballrooms, West sells gardens, galleries, private houses and river frontage: forty-two acres of lawn at Fulham Palace, a Palladian villa at Chiswick, glasshouses at Kew that seat a dinner under palms. The restaurants of Notting Hill, Chelsea and Chiswick are neighbourhood rooms held to metropolitan standards, which suits a party of sixty better than a hotel does, and the museums and studios take the large evenings. It is the part of London where an outdoor plan is realistic from May to September.
Access is straightforward as far as Hammersmith and wants thought beyond it. The District, Circle and Piccadilly lines serve the inner areas, the Elizabeth line reaches Paddington, and Heathrow is half an hour from the western end, which counts for an international guest list. Kew, Brentford and Chiswick are rail or river journeys and read as a short trip out of town. Evenings end earlier than in Soho: residential licensing is tighter here, and the neighbourhoods expect it.