Full Venue Hire at La Terrazza

La Terrazza is an Italian restaurant within the boutique Hotel Xenia on Cromwell Road, offering private dining from 10 to 70 guests across a set of spaces that scale from an intimate room to full venue buyout. Head Chef Raffaele Lauriola brings Puglian cooking to a menu that runs from breakfast through dinner, backed by an extensive Italian wine cellar. The hotel setting adds a practical layer that standalone restaurants can’t match — guest accommodation at the same address, which simplifies logistics for corporate events with out-of-town attendees or celebrations where guests are travelling.

Private Dining Spaces at La Terrazza

Three hire configurations cover different scales. The Bohemia private room seats 10 — a contained space suited to board dinners, small celebrations, and intimate business entertaining where privacy and attentive service define the experience. The Conservatory and Terrace combine for 50 capacity, offering a brighter, more open format that works for team lunches, engagement parties, and mid-size corporate entertaining. A full venue buyout accommodates 40 for gala-style seated dinners or up to 70 for standing receptions, giving larger events the run of the restaurant including the flexibility to configure seating across the available spaces.

Puglian Cooking and Italian Wine

Chef Lauriola’s menu draws on Puglian tradition — a southern Italian kitchen with its own identity distinct from the Roman or northern Italian cooking that dominates London’s Italian restaurant landscape. The all-day service means the restaurant handles breakfast meetings, working lunches, afternoon tea, and evening dining within the same venue, making it viable for corporate events that span unconventional hours. The Italian wine cellar adds genuine depth to the drinks offering, providing event organisers with a wine programme that’s curated to complement the food rather than assembled from a generic supplier list.

Hotel Xenia and Guest Accommodation

Operating within Hotel Xenia gives La Terrazza a feature that standalone restaurants can’t replicate: guest rooms at the same address. For corporate events with delegates travelling from outside London, awards dinners where guests prefer not to arrange late-night transport, or wedding-adjacent celebrations where the party and the stay happen in one place, the hotel integration removes a logistics layer that event planners otherwise have to manage separately.

Getting to La Terrazza

The venue is at 160 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TL, near Earls Court tube station. The Cromwell Road location puts it on a main artery between Kensington and Earls Court, accessible from central London and well-served by bus and tube. Afternoon tea is available as a standalone booking format, adding a structured daytime option for events that don’t require an evening setting.