Private Dining Rooms

Overview

Discreet, inviting, exclusive and renouned for good food, the private dining rooms at Corrigan’s of Mayfair exude a distinct charm of genuine hospitality coupled with first class service and superb cooking.

Chef director Chris McGowan will gladly create a specific menu for your occasion, or you can select from our private dining menus. Like Richard Corrigan his approach is heavily influenced by the seasons and working with first-rate ingredients. Dishes might include the likes of Cornish Crab Cocktail and Melba Toast, Pan-Roasted John Dory with a Salad of Raw Artichoke, Apple and Hazelnuts, or Line-Caught Sea Bass with Cauliflower Cous-Cous and Curry Oil. Desserts might be Lime Soufflé, Mascarpone Ice-Cream or an exquisite Crème Caramel.

There are three elegant private rooms  to choose from:

The Chef’s Table seats from eight to 12 people and has a full view of the kitchen through a glass panel. Warm and club-like, this room allows you to see the action but at the same time be somewhat removed from it.

The Lindsay Room (so called after Richard Corrigan’s previous restaurant of the same name in Soho) can seat 24 at one oval table or up to 30 on three round tables. Richard’s own collection of artwork adorns the walls.

The Kitchen Library seats two to six people and is right next to the pass, the area in the kitchen where dishes are handed over to the waiting staff en route to the dining room so there is plenty of action to watch as you dine. Part of Richard Corrigan’s extensive library of cookery books shows a wide and eclectic interest in food. This is a warm and intimate space and its proximity to the action of the kitchen makes it very unique.

All private bookings are offered complimentary canapes on arrival.

Insider View

This part of town is famous for its serious business restaurants and fine dining rooms. The neighbouring streets are filled with powerhouses, five star hotels and of course the American Embassy. Corrigan’s Mayfair reflects the gravitas of the area. Its highly polished wood, its plush seating and stylish bar all ensure the feel is of a serious restaurant serving serious food and wine – and of course it is. With its fine dining credentials firmly in place, this is no wisp of an eatery and nor are the PDRs.

As you’d expect from a restaurant owned by a chef, two of the rooms are “chef’s tables” with views of the pass and wider kitchen. The Chef’s Table seats 13 on a dark wood table with mid blue leather directors’ chairs. It’s an elegant, old-fashioned room with hunting influences,  reminiscent of a hunting lodge dining room. The dark walls are adorned with antlers, and artwork is of birds, but the masculinity of the room is softened by the floor to ceiling glass window looking onto the kitchen, and the modern chandelier.

Next door is the Kitchen Library, a small oval space totally taken up with a ‘C’ shaped banquette and a fabulous wooden table. The back wall is stuffed full off cookery books. You can imagine it might have been a chef’s office in the days before chef’s tables became popular – but it really is a fun space.

Guests in these rooms can chat with the chefs but if you don’t want to spend your whole meal listening to the rigours of service, there are curtains and glass doors in each of the rooms, to allow for a modicum of privacy – not to mention air-conditioning. If you can’t stand the heat…..

There’s one other PDR, the Lindsay Room – a fully functioning stately home-esque dining room. A large table fills the room, but can also be split into three rounds to seat a maximum of 30. There’s a scalloped ceiling with striking chandelier offset by a huge mirror over a marble fireplace, the mantelpiece of which has two oversized lampshades and a choice selection of Corrigan’s career highlights, from awards to pictures.

Candles are dotted around, the double doors (fire exit) are in an art deco style and complement the room, the linen is ironed, the cutlery is silver…this is elegance distilled down to a fine art and used for everything from corporate lunches and dinners to special personal events including birthdays and anniversaries.

There is a minimum spend depending on room and time of booking.