Sixteen, or all forty

We get asked about private dinners more than anything else, and the honest answer is that a forty-seat restaurant can do it two ways.

Up to sixteen

A semi-private section of the dining room, for up to sixteen guests. You get your own corner of the room and your own service while the restaurant runs around you, which suits a birthday, a work dinner or the kind of family occasion that does not need a microphone.

This is the option most people actually want. It costs less than taking the building, and the room still feels like a restaurant, which is usually the point of going out.

Or all forty

A full buy-out is the whole room, closed, up to forty guests. No other tables, one kitchen cooking for you, and the doors shut. Rehearsal dinners, anniversaries, milestone birthdays, a company that wants a proper evening rather than a function.

Forty is a genuinely good number for a private dinner. It is large enough to be an event and small enough that one person can still speak from their chair and be heard at the far end.

What to send us

Tell us the date, roughly how many, and what the evening is for. That last part is the one that changes our advice: a wine-led anniversary dinner and a fortieth birthday want different menus, different pacing and a different amount of pizza.

Send it through the contact page or call the restaurant. Chef Fabrizio builds these menus himself, so if there is a dish you are hoping for, say so early.