Venues in Westminster
Westminster hosts at state-room scale — Whitehall’s banqueting halls, riverside institutions and Grade I interiors built for occasions of record.
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Georgie's Bar
Cocktail Bar
Tom Kerridge's bar at Corinthia London, opened September 2026 in the larger half of his relaunched Northumberland Avenue restaurant. Martinis from the freezer, a Saturday DJ, and Beth Cullen-Kerridge's bronze 'Steve' moved in from the dining room.
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The Farmers Club
Members' Club
Up to 110 guests
The farming industry's London clubhouse since 1904, on Whitehall Court with four function rooms, many with Thames views. Unusually for a Whitehall club, it lets them to non-members too.
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Kioku by Endo
Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
Endo Kazutoshi's modern Japanese restaurant on the sixth-floor rooftop of The OWO, with turret private dining rooms, a chef's table and a terrace looking over Whitehall and the London Eye.
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The Cinnamon Club
Indian Restaurant
Up to 300 guests
Westminster's landmark modern Indian restaurant, set in a Grade II-listed Victorian library with a book-lined dining hall and a lower-ground bar built for late drinks and DJs.
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Ekstedt at The Yard
Nordic Restaurant
Up to 100 guests
Niklas Ekstedt’s fire-led Nordic restaurant inside Great Scotland Yard, listed in the MICHELIN Guide and available for exclusive hire.
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The Guards Bar & Lounge
Cocktail Bar
The corner-pavilion bar of Raffles London at The OWO, entered from Horse Guards, with oak panelling, chandeliers and a cocktail list of British and further-flung flavours.
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Velvet by Salvatore Calabrese
Cocktail Bar
Salvatore Calabrese's jazz-age cocktail and Champagne bar at Corinthia London, all red velvet and rare spirits, open late with live music.
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The Spy Bar
Cocktail Bar
Up to 52 guests
A residents' speakeasy hidden in former MI5 vaults beneath Raffles London at The OWO — burgundy brick, a Goldfinger Aston Martin behind the bar, and no cameras past the 007 door.
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Mezzogiorno by Francesco Mazzei
Italian Restaurant
Up to 20 guests
Francesco Mazzei's southern Italian dining room at Corinthia London, eight metres tall under Murano chandeliers, with two private rooms named for his mother and his aunt.
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Quilon
Indian Restaurant
A MICHELIN-starred South-West coastal Indian restaurant at St James' Court, reimagined in 2025, with a private dining room for up to twenty beneath a canopy of brass marigolds.
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Mauro Colagreco
French Restaurant
Up to 50 guests
A Michelin-starred, nature-driven restaurant on the ground floor of Raffles London at The OWO, with a twenty-seat chef's table, Mauro's Table, for private dining.
/ About Westminster ▾
Westminster is the seat of British government, and has been a centre of power for close to a thousand years. The Palace of Westminster began as a royal residence in the eleventh century — Westminster Hall, raised in 1097, still survives — and became the settled home of Parliament after the court moved to Whitehall in the sixteenth century. Fire destroyed most of the palace in 1834; the Gothic Revival building that replaced it, designed by Charles Barry with A. W. N. Pugin and completed in 1860, gives the riverside its familiar outline and clock tower.
Ceremony is written into the ground here. Westminster Abbey, a Benedictine foundation of the 960s rebuilt in its present Gothic form, has been the coronation church of every English and British monarch since William the Conqueror in 1066, as well as the setting for royal weddings and state funerals. Along Whitehall run the government offices, the Cenotaph and the Banqueting House, the surviving hall of the old royal palace at Whitehall. The district's rooms are correspondingly formal — panelled state interiors, institutional halls and grand hotel spaces built for occasion.
St James's Park — the oldest of the royal parks, enclosed by Henry VIII in 1532 — spreads to the north, its lake and lawns giving Westminster an unexpectedly green heart between the government quarter and the palaces. This is state Westminster rather than the clubland of neighbouring St James's, and the two are easily confused. Westminster and St James's Park Underground stations serve the District, Circle and Jubilee lines, with Victoria terminus a short distance west — one of London's principal gateways for rail and coach.