30 restaurants open right now
Steak house · Hammersmith / Ravenscourt Park
Hotel restaurant · Nine Elms / Vauxhall
Italian restaurant · Nine Elms / Battersea
Mediterranean restaurant · Holborn / Covent Garden
Japanese restaurant · Knightsbridge
Indian restaurant · Surbiton
French restaurant · Victoria / Westminster
Indian restaurant · Barbican
Hot pot restaurant · Piccadilly Circus / Soho
Asian restaurant · Collier Row / Romford
Gastropub · Lancaster Gate / Bayswater
Indian restaurant · Marylebone / West End
The restaurant offers a private room or area for group bookings and events. We list London's private dining restaurants above.
Ask about minimum spend and party size requirements early, since private dining rooms are often only available above a certain guest count or with a pre-agreed set menu.
Private dining means there's a separate room or partitioned area that can be booked exclusively, typically for a set minimum party size. It's distinct from Private Events, which usually covers hiring the whole venue rather than just a room.
Looking at the 30 private dining listings we track, the highest concentration is in Westminster (15), Kensington and Chelsea (5), City of London (4). By cuisine, it's most common among Indian restaurant (10), Italian restaurant (5), Chinese restaurant (3).
Seafood towers and shellfish platters, which are meant to be shared, are a natural fit for private dining bookings, and a number of London's seafood restaurants specifically build private room menus around them.
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Private Dining means a separate room or partitioned area within an otherwise normally operating restaurant; Private Events usually means hiring the whole venue.
Often yes, private dining rooms are typically only available above a certain guest count or with a pre-agreed set menu, so it's worth asking early.
Westminster has the most, with 15 of the 30 restaurants we list offering private dining.
