Accommodating anything from eight to 100 guests, Dean Street’s
Quo Vadis has three tempting private dining rooms – The Blue Room,
The Library and The Marx Room – to whet your party-planning
appetite. Choose to host your event in one room or across them all,
with private spaces available to both members and non-members. The
property has a richly storied past – Karl Marx began writing Das
Kapital in the elegant, airy and versatile upstairs room now named
after him.

Amalfi Coast-inspired, over-the-top Italian food, eccentric
interiors and a basement disco bar with velvet booths? Few things
scream “party” more than Shoreditch’s ultra-extra Gloria. Keep
daytime celebrations upstairs in the airy and verdant dining room,
feasting on truffle-infused tartufo pasta, supersized pizzas and
the restaurant group’s famously fabulous tiramisu, or take your
nighttime soirées downstairs, fuelled by balsamic vinegar-flecked
negronis, pomegranate mojitos and peachy bellinis. The restaurant
takes bookings for groups of eight to 16 diners (with a set sharing
menu priced from £58pp), and the basement is available for private
hire. Seeking something smaller? The hidden-away, candelabra-filled
Wine Room is perfect for up to 25 friends.

A bit of a heartthrob on the restaurant scene, Sessions Art Club
oozes charisma. Led by artist Jonny Gent and chef Florence Knight,
the restaurant, wine bar and gallery space is a characterful choice
for party hosts with artistic flair (and a penchant for blackberry
bellinis). Championing great food and good vibes, the beautifully
restored, distressed-chic Clerkenwell dining room comes complete
with stripped plaster walls and big arched windows, offering a
seriously cool backdrop to festivities big and small. Reservations
are tricky (in other words, everyone who’s anyone is on the waiting
list), so going private might save you the wait. If a £4,000 hire
charge (and £6,000 minimum spend) doesn’t provoke heart
palpitations, you’ll be able to invite 60 guests for exclusive
use.

Housed in the Grade II-listed former ticket office of Peckham
Rye train station, Coal Rooms plates up a gutsy set menu of grilled
meat and fish for evening get-togethers. Book out the elegant
private dining room upstairs (there’s space for 38) for a dashing
dinner that might include 40-day-aged sirloin on the bone,
malt-glazed king oyster mushrooms with a tarragon emulsion and
flaky North Sea cod smothered in pork belly lardo. Looking for
something a little more lively? Coal Rooms also offers the hire of
a private bar, complete with a 1am licence. The icing on the cake,
though, is that trains home are just around the corner.

This proverbial new kid on the block has already developed quite
the reputation for its party-throwing capabilities – see Burberry’s
LFW party and Kate Moss’ Cosmoss launch party for reference. Follow
suit and host a soirée of your own at The Twenty Two, choosing the
club’s dining room, basement Music Room or The Vaults as your
venue, depending on the scale of your plans. For something more
intimate, opt for the private dining room, which seats 22 people
(of course). With lush interiors, a prime location and an electric
energy, this one is a bit of a no-brainer. To maximise on the
celebrations, book one of 31 guest rooms and let the good times
roll on into Sunday.

A fashion-crowd favourite, Bistrotheque is east London’s
supremely cool bistro-style eatery. For a daytime event, you’ll be
hard-pressed to find anywhere that does brunch and cocktails better
(side note: there’s a resident pianist playing from the baby grand
in the corner of the airy, all-white dining room). Come evening,
for something a little more secluded, take advantage of its private
dining room, which, like the main space, sports exposed brick
walls, industrial lighting and wildly romantic floral displays.

Put on the ritz at The Maine – a rather glamorous, New
England-inspired brasserie housed in an 18th-century townhouse in
the heart of Mayfair. You can cherry-pick precisely where to throw
your bash in the building, choosing from five rooms arranged over
three floors. Our top choices? The foliage-swaddled terrace
(formerly stables) and the moody Brasserie & Tavern. At the
latter, kick off your night with champagne and oysters to the
sounds of a live jazz band. Chin chin.

Langan’s has gained quite a name for itself as a party venue
over the decades. Now, following its recent spruce-up, it’s even
more appealing. The Private Dining Room, which seats 22, has its
own private entrance and bar, ensuring your event remains truly
intimate: the contemporary art, a scene-stealing chandelier and
rich green lacquer surrounds make this PDR a shoo-in. Ascent
Langan’s sweeping staircase to find the scarlet-hued late-night
lounge, which features live music Thursday to Saturday – it’s the
perfect place for a sharpener and a boogie into the early
hours.