Private dining

Twelve people at one table in a room with a door is the right size for a birthday, an anniversary or the dinner after a funeral. We have done hundreds of each, and the room knows the difference.

The back room was the townhouse's dining room and still has its panelling, its fireplace and its own door off the courtyard, so a party can arrive and leave without walking through the restaurant. It seats eight to twelve at one table, with its own waiter for the evening. Sioned writes a set menu for the party, usually three choices per course, around what is good that week and what you have told us about the guests; a tasting menu for the table is the other option.

There is no hire fee; you commit to a minimum spend on food and wine and the room is yours from 6pm until we close, or from noon on a Sunday. Mondays and Tuesdays, when we are otherwise closed, the whole restaurant can be taken for forty seated: weddings, wakes and the Christmas parties that start in October. Tom runs every private booking personally; a £100 deposit holds the date and comes off the final bill.

In short

• Eight to twelve at one table, own door
• No hire fee, minimum spend instead
• A set menu written for your party
• Your own waiter for the evening
• The whole restaurant Mondays and Tuesdays
• £100 deposit, off the final bill

Prices and booking

No hire fee. Minimum spend £450 on Friday and Saturday, £300 otherwise. A set menu of three courses from £42 a head, written for you. The whole restaurant on Mondays and Tuesdays from £1,800. Prices include VAT. A 10% service charge goes entirely to the staff and can be taken off. This week's menu is on the menu page; the regular nights are on the what's on page.