Holborn Dining Room

"Maximum capacity: 10 Minimum spend: £1000, with a set menu of £95pp Your boss keeps calling you the name of someone they fired six months ago. Booking Holborn Dining Room’s private dining space in Holborn for that work dinner is exactly the kind of power move that might get them to remember your real name. The Pie Room gives you easy access to curried mutton pie as well as other British classics like roast Suffolk pork belly and sticky toffee pudding. Between the simple candelabras, red leather setting, and metal pie moulds on the walls, this place is a proper charmer. " - heidi lauth beasley, sinead cranna

"There are a lot of things on the menu at Holborn Dining Room, but go ahead and ignore everything that doesn’t involve the word ‘pie’. It’s hard to believe that the pies served here are technically the same species of carbohydrate you’ll find at Greggs. They’re all golden and glistening and packed full of things like comté, curried mutton, and chicken. Inside the Rosewood Hotel, the space itself is equally as easy on the eye - hello, red leather - and you’ll find the fully accessible bathroom on the floor below, via their lift." - heidi lauth beasley

"You’ve seen Mad Men. We’ve seen Mad Man. And yes, that client visiting from Somerset has seen Mad Men. That’s exactly why sometimes you need the kind of big red leather booth filled restaurant where you can picture Don Draper making deals and mildly profound comments in the corner. You know, to set the mood. The Holborn Dining Room is exactly that kind of place, and as grand as the setting is, their selection of freshly baked pies are equally as impressive." - heidi lauth beasley

"Grandparents love specificity. They watch TV in the lounge. They have a cuppa in the garden. They don’t eat spaghetti, scroll through iPlayer, and semi-listen to a podcast whilst lying on their bedroom floor. Holborn Dining Room is a very straightforward restaurant in a hotel. For a start it’s got dining room in its name, and secondly you only come here to eat one thing. That one thing is pie. Pie, pie, and more pie. Chicken and mushroom pie. Curried mutton pie. Potato, cheese, and onion pie. All the bloody pies." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing

"Sorry Gordon. Holborn Dining Room’s beef wellington, made with attention to detail that would see lapidaries weep, is the crowning glory of his singular devotion to the art and science of pastry. Served in a luxurious dining room connected to a luxury hotel, it looks back on the hotel rooms that made Wareing and Ramsay’s generation famous and dispenses with the pomp and circumstance, putting all its focus on pleasure, presentation, and a sense of fun." - Adam Coghlan, James Hansen