Best London supper clubs and private dining, 2026

London's supper club scene is where the actual cooking is happening right now. The proper restaurants take three months to book; the supper clubs take a week, cost half as much, and put you next to people who care more about food than the room.

Eight to know about, plus how to get tickets, plus the private dining rooms worth booking when you have a group of ten and need somewhere that does not feel corporate.

The single best way to track London supper clubs week to week is the London events page on Rifio, which surfaces ticketed dining events from Eventbrite, Resy and direct submissions. The good ones go in 48 hours.

1. The Dusty Knuckle Saturday Suppers

The bakery in Dalston runs a Saturday-night chef collab series. £55-65, four to six courses, the bread is the bread of London, and the guest chefs are properly chosen — alumni of Brat, Lyle's, Smoking Goat, plus visiting cooks from Copenhagen and Sydney.

Tickets via Resy or the Knuckle's email list. Sell out in 48 hours every time.

2. P. Franco late seatings

Wine bar on Lower Clapton Road by day, supper club by night. Different chef in residence each season — the kitchen is genuinely the size of a wardrobe and the cooking that comes out of it is reliably better than restaurants ten times the size.

£40-50 with sensible wine pricing. Walk-in at 5:30pm or book a fortnight ahead.

3. Mountain private dining (Soho)

The upstairs room at Mountain takes 8-12 covers for a set £85 menu. It is the best private dining room in central London right now — Tomos Parry's wood-fire kitchen, a serious wine list, no corporate trim. Book six weeks ahead.

4. Café Cecilia (Hackney)

Max Rocha's café-restaurant on the canal. Runs occasional private nights and chef takeovers worth a specific trip. £45-55, the room is small and beautiful, the cooking is restrained Italian-Irish-something.

5. St. John private dining (Smithfield)

The Wine Room above St. John's main dining room. Takes 6-18 covers. £55-75 a head depending on what menu you go for. The bone marrow and parsley salad course is non-negotiable, the Madeira at the end is non-negotiable.

If you have not booked a private room there for a birthday or a leaving do, you have not properly used London.

6. Sessions Arts Club private dining

The smaller second dining room at Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell. Glass roof, frescoed walls, takes 14-20 comfortably. £85 set menu, Florence Knight's Italian-leaning cooking, the most beautiful room in London for a private group meal.

7. Top Cuvée supper events

Natural wine restaurant on Blackstock Road, Highbury. Frequent guest-chef supper nights — chefs from Brat, Smoking Goat, Bistrotheque alumni, Spanish wine producers, Italian pasta makers. Tickets via Eventbrite, sell out fast.

£45-65 with wine. The crowd is proper food people, not influencers.

8. The Heron supper club

Underground Thai supper club above a Thai pub on Edgware Road. Four sittings a week, cult booking, £35 a head for four courses, BYO is fine because the pub downstairs sells you beer for £4.50. The pad kee mao is the order, allegedly the best in London.

Book a month out via the IG account. Don't post about it. (sorry)

How to actually find them

Three sources do the most work:

• Resy — the bigger restaurant supper clubs are here.
• Eventbrite — the smaller ticketed pop-ups, including most of the home-kitchen supper clubs in Hackney and Peckham.
• Rifio — pulls Eventbrite, Resy, Luma and direct submissions, so the London events page catches the things only on one of those platforms.

The chef Instagrams are the place to find out about brand-new pop-ups before they sell out. Worth following if you actually care.

What to avoid

Anything advertised as a "secret dinner location revealed 24 hours before". Nine times out of ten it is a railway arch in Bermondsey and the food is fine. "Immersive dining experiences with a celebrity chef" — the celebrity is probably not coming. Anything over £150 a head that does not name the chef on the ticket — pay for the chef, not the marketing.

For the actual list of supper clubs and chef takeovers in London this week, the London this-week page on Rifio is the live feed. Save the search.