Yauatcha City

Yauatcha's City sibling sits on the ground floor of Broadgate Circle, a minute from Liverpool Street, trading the Soho teahouse's basement intimacy for glass, daylight and two terraces that look straight out over the sunken drum of the Circle. The dim sum is the same lineage — steamed, baked and fried Cantonese craft sent out through the day alongside an extensive tea list and a serious cocktail programme — but the room reads more expansive: teal leather, marble, dark lacquered ceilings and a long backlit bar stacked with bottles.

For private events the venue splits into genuinely distinct spaces. There are two cocktail bars, each with an adjoining terrace overlooking Broadgate Circle, and a Private Dining Room set apart from the main floor. Any of these can be taken on its own, or the whole ground floor booked exclusively — bars, terraces and restaurant together for a standing reception of a few hundred. The terraces are the differentiator in this pocket of the City: covered, elevated and open to the plaza, they turn a City drinks party into something with air and a view.

It is a City room built for the corporate calendar next door — launches, client dinners, summer receptions and year-end parties — but it carries the Yauatcha aesthetic rather than a conference finish. The private spaces allow music, the bars pour cocktails until late in the evening, and the layout takes a DJ-led reception comfortably.