PRIVATE DINING & EVENTS IN LONDON

The four spaces are different in kind, not only in size. Mayfair takes private and semi-private bookings across both floors of its restaurant on Berkeley Street, for up to 70 guests. Soho has a fully private dining room with its own bar, alongside semi-private seating, a lounge and an outdoor terrace. Osteria on the Strand has a dedicated private room in a large, bright dining room built around an open kitchen. Choosing between them is usually a question of what the evening needs to feel like rather than how many people are coming.

All four run the same regional Italian kitchen, led by Head Chef Marco Corsica, and the same Italian-led wine list of over 300 bottles. Menus, drinks packages and audio-visual setups are arranged in advance by the events team as a single booking. Bocconcino Mayfair was named Best Luxury Restaurant at the 2023 British Restaurant Awards, and Best Restaurant in London and Best Hospitality Team at the 2026 awards.

The four spaces

Mayfair private and semi-private dining, 19 Berkeley Street

The Mayfair restaurant runs across two floors, and both take private bookings. On the lower ground floor, off the same corridor as the music room, semi-private dining takes 12 to 24 guests and private dining 25 to 40. On the ground floor, the white-tablecloth room, semi-private dining takes 12 to 24 and private dining 40 to 70. Semi-private suits hosts who want the energy of a full dining room in the background, which is most birthdays, anniversaries and client dinners. Full restaurant hire takes in both floors, subject to date. The team running it was named Best Hospitality Team at the 2026 British Restaurant Awards. Mayfair private dining.

Soho private dining room with its own bar, 59 Great Marlborough Street

The Soho room is the closest of the four to a self-contained venue. It is fully private and comes with its own bar, which means a group can drink, eat and stay in one space for a whole evening without crossing the restaurant. That matters for corporate dinners where the conversation is not for the next table, and for celebrations that want their own pace. Soho private dining.

Soho semi-private, lounge and terrace

Alongside the private room, Soho has semi-private seating, a lounge, and an outdoor terrace that works through the summer months. The lounge and terrace suit standing receptions and drinks-led events better than a seated dining room does, and they can be combined with the restaurant for parties that move from drinks to dinner. Sotto Bar in the basement of the same building can also be hired on its own for late events.

Osteria private dining room, 366 Strand

Osteria by Bocconcino in Covent Garden has a private dining room for 26 seated or 30 standing, a semi-private space for 40 seated or 50 standing, and exclusive hire of the whole restaurant for 86 seated or 150 standing. It is the largest and brightest of the three restaurants, built around an open kitchen, which gives an event a different character: the cooking is part of the room rather than hidden behind it. The Strand location is the closest of the group to the theatres at the eastern end of the West End. Osteria private dining.

What the spaces are used for

Corporate dinners and client entertaining make up the largest share through the week, particularly in Mayfair, where the surrounding offices on Berkeley Street and Bond Street use the restaurant as a regular fixture. Birthdays and anniversaries fill the weekends across all three. Soho takes the majority of the hen parties and standing receptions, helped by the private bar and the terrace. Wedding receptions, christenings and family gatherings run at all three, and Osteria handles the larger seated parties.

Lunch bookings are available as well as dinner. A private lunch is often the easier booking to secure at short notice, and the same rooms, menus and audio-visual setups apply.

Menus, wine and drinks packages

Private bookings run on a set menu agreed in advance rather than the full à la carte, which keeps the service to time across a large table. The menu is built from the regional Italian kitchen: hand-rolled pasta, Roman-style pizza from the open-fire oven, fresh fish and seafood, and Italian desserts. Vegetarian, vegan and allergy requirements are handled at the planning stage rather than on the night.

Drinks are arranged either on consumption or as a package. The wine list runs past 300 bottles with an Italian spine of Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello, Amarone and Super Tuscans, and the sommelier team can build pairings against the agreed menu. Welcome drinks, cocktail receptions and Champagne packages are set up in advance.

How the booking works

Enquiries go to the events team, who handle the room, the menu, the drinks and any extras as one arrangement. That includes audio-visual setups for presentations, flowers, cakes, place cards and gifts. A week is usually enough lead time in ordinary periods, and longer is sensible for December, for larger parties and for Friday and Saturday evenings.

Minimum spend levels apply on some rooms at peak times and are confirmed at the point of enquiry rather than fixed year-round. Deposits and final numbers are agreed in advance. If the event needs the whole restaurant rather than a room inside it, exclusive hire can be quoted at all three venues.

Private dining in London: where Bocconcino fits

London private dining splits roughly three ways. There are the hotel function rooms, reliable and neutral, where the room has no relationship to the restaurant. There are the dedicated event spaces, hired empty with catering brought in. And there are restaurants with rooms attached, where the food is the reason to book and the room is part of a working kitchen. Bocconcino sits in the third group, with four spaces of different character rather than one room repeated across sites, which is what makes the choice worth thinking about rather than defaulting to the nearest address.

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