Fewer than 30 of you, however nonetheless need to do a full takeover? We have got you coated, whether or not you’ve got an workplace Christmas social gathering to plan, a hen do on the horizon or a birthday you need to go huge for. Try our favorite locations in London that supply rooms for personal rent.

We have saved our choose of greatest pubs with perform rooms for rent for a separate checklist.

Seated however not sedate

Positive, loads of the locations all through the checklist can contain seating if that is your vibe, however there are just a few we have picked out as being essentially suited to the instances if you need to be clinking glasses over a communal feast, bonding over a movie screening or hanging out collectively in additional relaxed methods.

Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel

Curling up with a beloved one on a settee, however make it a celebration. The Genesis Cinema is outrageously good on a regular basis: extremely good worth (£5 tickets all week); stunning studio screens with huge sofas, footstools and cocktail bar service to your seat; immaculate sizzling canines… Combining all of these issues into an enormous, wonderful social gathering the place you fill one in all their studio screens (as much as 42 friends) with your mates, order just a few rounds of excellent cocktails and settle in to look at Die Exhausting (you possibly can watch no matter you need, we simply assumed you’d have the great style to make it Die Exhausting) is the Grail of personal cinema rent conditions.

Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel. Ask about non-public screening studios and bar rent

Tendril, Mayfair

Should you’re in search of an ideal non-public eating possibility for vegans and vegetarians, that is The One. However equally, when you’re in search of an ideal non-public eating possibility for non-vegans and non-vegetarians, that is additionally The One. Rishim Sachdeva’s plant-forward restaurant is one in all 2023’s loveliest new openings and beloved by all people we have launched it to irrespective of the place on the vegan-to-meat-obsessive spectrum they land. Teams of 30 can take over the again room of the restaurant for his or her lunch and dinner set menus.

Tendril, Mayfair. Ask about non-public rent and set menus

London Shell Co., Paddington

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Beginning in Paddington and floating down the Regent’s Canal by means of Little Venice, and into Camden, The Prince Regent has the excellence of being London’s solely cruising seafood restaurant and due to this fact additionally its greatest. However they’d be capable to deal with some competitors — their six-course set menu can be nice even in a extra shorebound setting, the two.5 hours you get to spend sliding gently alongside London’s waterways in a tiny canalboat (eight tables) is only a bonus. Anticipate seasonal British and fashionable European dishes — like crab tartlets, clam risotto, and scallops with punchy, fishy sizzling sauce — and the occasional briny little martini.

Most capability is 35 friends, with a flat price of £600 for personal rent after which a minimal spend on high of that, and some completely different pricing ranges and set-up choices obtainable for smaller teams.

London Shell Co., Paddington. Ask about non-public rent

Snooker Room at The Groucho Membership, Soho

Your probability to social gathering like Harry Types and Chrissie Hynde on the in any other case members-only Groucho Membership, the place the non-public eating and social gathering areas can be found for public bookings. Our choose can be the Snooker Room — moody colors, heat lighting, and you’ll swap the snooker desk for a eating desk if that is the plan. Seats 16 for dinner, 25 for a screening.

Snooker Room at The Groucho Membership, Soho. Ask about non-public rent

Vinarius, Bethnal Inexperienced

A small wine store and enoteca on Roman Highway with a supremely versatile angle to creating your social gathering occur, Vinarius mixes an ideal stage of useful steers with freedom to kind of use the cosy shopfloor house as you need. Choices embrace bespoke wine tastings, seated five-course Italian dinners (suits round 20 friends seated, 25-30 standing), charcuterie and cheese plates for standing occasions and, unsurprisingly, lots of glorious wine available. There isn’t any flat price for rent; minimal spend ranges depend upon the evening of the week and variety of friends.

Vinarius, Bethnal Inexperienced. Ask about non-public rent for seated dinners and bar takeovers

See additionally the Console Room at 4 Quarters, Peckham, later on this checklist.

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Convene at 22 Bishopsgate

Should you’re seeking to actually impress your buddies, co-workers or that Very Vital company shopper, it is advisable to find out about Convene. This world hospitality firm designs and operates premium, versatile occasion areas everywhere in the world – best for upscale dos, completely tailor-made to you! However its 22 Bishopsgate venue is particularly straightforward on the attention – boasting beautiful Sq. Mile views and all types of aesthetically pleasing facilities, from its floral-upholstered cubicles to the 360º emerald-tiled cocktail bar.

Talking of refreshments, Convene at 22 Bishopsgate advantages from a high tier in-house hospitality help staff. Their Government Cooks have a seasonal ethos – whipping up improbable farm-to-table feasts in your big day. Should you’re mixing enterprise with pleasure, you’ll be happy to know that Convene additionally has an onsite AV staff, in addition to a spread of assembly areas to fit your wants.

Positioned simply minutes from ten tube stations, 22 Bishopsgate is a superb alternative when you’re all travelling from completely different locations (shout out to all you distant staff!) Enquire in the present day and prepare to curate your excellent non-public social gathering with Convene.‌

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Bar areas of every kind

Wine bars, dive bars, sports activities bars, cocktail bars — take your choose from Philadelphia-themed basements and sake-centric mezzanines and Louisiana-influenced rooftops.

Kanpai, London Bridge

Lately moved from their earlier residence in Peckham, sake brewery and taproom Kanpai’s now placing a Bermondsey Beer Mile spin on sake — their very own, and a number of different specialist imports — from a brand new house. Anticipate equally stripped-back warehouse appears to be like to their final place, with the mezzanine stage overlooking the bar and brewery obtainable for personal rent for 25-40 friends (with room for as much as 30 seated).

There isn’t any flat fee for personal rent; it is charged with completely different ranges of minimal spend all through the week, beginning at £600 and going as much as £1,000 for Fri and Sat nights.

Kanpai, London Bridge. Ask about non-public rent choices

The terrace on the Alligator Bar, Covent Backyard

Above Covent Backyard restaurant Louie, the Alligator Bar’s a beautifully-designed house that has a private-party really feel even on normal evenings, with its quiet, shadowy entrance main you to the highest of the townhouse the place there is a regular circulate of jazz music and excellent cocktails. And the terrace is the jewel within the Louie crown, a small, greenery-scattered house with a retractable glass roof — because of its rooftop perch and secretive entrance, feeling oddly secluded regardless of the very central location.

The Alligator Bar terrace can maintain teams of as much as 35, and for larger events you too can rent the bar itself and join the areas.

The Alligator Bar, Covent Backyard. Ask about non-public rent choices

Deep Cuts, Hackney

A neighbourhoody aperitivo bar with a robust cocktail checklist, a mid-century fashionable look and scattered with good armchairs and alcoves for that lounge social gathering really feel — although with a greater soundsystem than we are able to declare at our place, plus much less threat of angering your personal neighbours: Deep Cuts is ticking lots of our house-party-without-trashing-your-own-home bins. Bonus factors for the sizeable vary of gins and vermouths and the large folding doorways that open onto the road in the summertime.

Deep Cuts, Hackney. Ask about non-public rent

Passyunk Avenue, Fitzrovia

For dive-bar-flavoured Americana you possibly can’t beat the Passyunk string of venues — now additionally with outposts in Waterloo and Stratford (the latter full with batting cages if you wish to introduce some adrenaline/gentle public humiliation into your social gathering; a lot more durable than it appears to be like on TV!). However we nonetheless assume the largest bang in your buck is their first venue, in Fitzrovia. Rent out the banner-adorned underground house for an evening spent sinking pickleback martinis and pitchers of beer, soaking them up with meals heavy sufficient to maintain you heat by means of a Philadelphia winter.

Passyunk Avenue, Fitzrovia. Ask about bar rent

Bringing the social gathering to you

Should you’re lucky sufficient to stay someplace you possibly can host a sizeable group with out it giving Central line commute vibes, these are a few of our favorite cocktail-makers and caterers, all capable of flip your house — or workplace or wedding ceremony venue or no matter — into the right place to social gathering.

Decatur

Decatur, again within the day, have been the primary to make hot-oyster believers of us. As of late we consider exhausting, and sometimes, however Decatur’s cajun spice-dusted, Crystal sizzling sauce-spiked, pecorino-garlic-buttered Maldons are nonetheless among the greatest we have ever had in London. That is simply the tip of their wildly good repertoire of party-enhancing meals choices, starting from DIY shrimp boils delivered to your door with all of the seafood, boudin, corn and accoutrements wanted to serve up an enormous group meal, to full-on occasion catering with BBQs, these oysters and delightful southern US classics.

Decatur, throughout London. Ask about catering choices and shrimp boil supply

Mystic Burek

Spasia Dinkovski — founding father of Mystic Burek, purveyor of outrageously good Balkan filo pies and pickles — has been internet hosting sold-out-in-seconds London pop-ups across the metropolis since 2020. Sure, she now has a queues-around-the-block bricks-and-mortar store in Sydenham, however if you wish to convey a few of that Mystic Burek pop-up magic to your social gathering, she additionally nonetheless affords occasion catering (contact for choices) and weekly deliveries of giant pies, baklava and dips so that you can prepare dinner and serve up at residence, best for low-effort, 10-minutes-in-the-oven group feasts.

Mystic Burek, throughout London

Spin and Shake

Think about internet hosting a celebration, and as an alternative of spending half of it restocking an ice bucket or Deliverooing extra limes to your self, you are simply… hanging out together with your social gathering friends, being handed one completely chilly cocktail after one other. Spin and Shake are delivering that lovely, negroni-laced dream through a staff of skilled bartenders and cellular bars, with a bunch of plug-and-play choices which may embrace all the things from glassware and garnishes to grazing tables of charcuterie and cocktail making courses. Principally, your probability to give up all drink-making obligations and have among the greatest within the enterprise shaking (or stirring) up a storm at your social gathering.

Spin and Shake, throughout London. Ask about cellular bar rent

BocaChica

Should you’ve crossed paths with Dominican kitchen BocaChica at one in all their present London pop ups and residencies — perhaps at Peckham’s CLF Artwork Cafe or the Skinny White Duke in Soho (the latter additionally obtainable as a non-public rent venue for 20-50 friends) — you may know their summery, spicy homecooking makes for excellent group feasting. Anticipate sazón-spiced fried rooster or crispy-skinned sea bass. And loads of their dishes work properly if you wish to make your social gathering extra plant-forward — assume plantain nachos, slowcooked aubergine on fries, and cheese-filled cassava bites. Plus lots of it is glorious finger meals, so nice for if you need to skip the seated-dinner possibility however nonetheless ensure that the meals’s each scrumptious and really substantial.

BocaChica, throughout London. Ask about catering choices

Into the evening

Don’t need your social gathering to show right into a pumpkin at midnight? Late-licence choices to the rescue.

Pamela, Dalston

Lots of issues are in Pamela’s favour, even aside from the two.30am licence at weekends: the Pamela Anderson-inspired artwork scattering the partitions; the wonderful cocktail checklist (bonus factors for the picklebacks); the right measurement for 20-30 to take it over with out feeling such as you’re rattling round. And the Dalston location means if you wish to go onwards into the evening after you’ve got a number of choices open until daybreak, together with the all the time stunning clubnights at The Jago.  

Pamela, Dalston. Ask about non-public rent

Cahoots, Soho

A (pretend) deserted Underground station reinvented as a Forties-themed cocktail bar, Cahoots is impressed by its historical past as a second world battle air raid shelter. Open until 2am most nights of the week, teams can take over the subterranean Carriage, a semi-private rent state of affairs, trying like — guess what — a classic tube carriage, closed off from the remainder of the bar however nonetheless seen by means of the roundel-emblazoned home windows.

Cahoots, Soho. Ask about non-public rent of the Carriage for 20-30 friends, or the Ticket Corridor for no less than 25.

4 Quarters, Peckham

All the 4 Quarters empire — now with Elephant & Citadel and Hackney Wick areas together with their first south London house — make for good non-public rent areas, however solely Peckham will maintain you provided with retro consoles and lurid neon cocktails until 3am at weekends.

For teams of underneath 15 you possibly can rent the Console Room upstairs for an £80 flat price with no minimal cost for Fri and Sat nights — it comes with retro consoles and speaker techniques, and it is seated so that is extra of a communal gaming expertise a la evenings in your greatest mate’s couch age 16 however with distinctly higher drinks and sizzling canines. For bigger teams — as much as 35 seated, 70 standing — you possibly can rent the Confession Field, a downstairs basement bar-dancefloor.

Bonus factors for the pliability these guys provide: you should use your personal DJ gear, rent vinyl or XDJ decks and mixers for £50 an evening, or they will provide a DJ to your broad specs for £200; they will prepare catering or you possibly can herald your personal choices with no additional cost. And each rooms allow you to dip out and in of the primary arcade flooring at your will.

4 Quarters, Peckham. Ask about non-public rent choices