22 seated · 28 standing
Private dining
One room, with a door that shuts, off the back of the dining room. It is not a screened-off corner and we are not going to describe it as a banqueting suite: it seats twenty-two people around tables, or holds twenty-eight standing, and that is the whole of it.
What the room costs
There is no room hire fee. Instead there is a minimum spend on food and drink, which is how almost every restaurant with one private room actually works — and publishing it means you can decide whether this is the right room for your evening without ringing anybody.
| When | Minimum |
|---|---|
| Tuesday to Thursday, lunch | $900 |
| Tuesday to Thursday, dinner | $1800 |
| Friday and Saturday, dinner | $2800 |
| Sunday, lunch or dinner | $1400 |
A 20% service charge is added to every private dining bill and is stated on the enquiry before you agree to anything. Where that money goes is a page of its own, because “service charge” means very different things in different restaurants.
What is included
- The room to yourselves with a door that closes, not a screened-off corner of the dining room
- A set menu agreed with the kitchen at least five days ahead, from the same menu everybody else is eating
- One server assigned to the room for the whole booking
- A screen and a socket, if you need them, at no charge
What is not
- We do not have a microphone, a lectern or a sound system, and the room is not big enough to need one
- We do not take outside catering, including cake we have not baked — see the outside food page
- We do not hold a date without a signed sheet and a deposit; a verbal hold is not a booking
Birthday cake yes, other outside food no. You may bring a cake for a birthday and we will plate it, cut it and charge $4 a person for doing so. We cannot take any other outside food, and this is a health code obligation rather than a preference: we are responsible for everything served in this room and we cannot be responsible for something we did not make or store. The same applies in the private room, where people ask most often.
How to book it
Send an enquiry rather than a booking — a room and a set menu need a conversation, and the online form would only pretend otherwise. Tell us the date, roughly how many of you there are and what the evening is for. Priya reads every one of these herself and answers the same day, including the answer “the room is too small for that” when it is.
Parties of 9 to 22 in the main room
You do not have to take the private room. A group of nine to about twelve can sit at the corner tables in the dining room on a quieter night, which costs less and feels less formal. It is still an enquiry rather than an online booking, because we need to move furniture and tell the kitchen — but the answer is often yes, particularly early on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
Above twelve in the main room the answer is honestly no. The tables do not go together that way and a group that size in the middle of a fifty-four-seat room makes the evening worse for everybody else in it, including you.
Groups and celebrations
Tell us what the evening is for
An enquiry is not a booking and we will not hold a date on a phone call alone — a signed sheet and a deposit is what makes it real, and we would rather say that now than let you plan around a verbal yes.