Full Venue Hire at PARO

PARO sits on Wellington Street, steps from the Lyceum Theatre and a three-minute walk from both Covent Garden and Temple tube stations. The Calcuttan and Indian fusion restaurant offers three distinct private dining configurations — from an intimate 30-cover room to a full 130-seat buyout — making it one of the more flexible restaurant hires in the theatre district. Chef Patron Niaz, whose credentials include running City Spice on Brick Lane, brings a menu that’s earned recognition from Esquire as one of their top restaurants to dine in. The kitchen has extensive experience with financial institutions, press events, and high-net-worth private clients — the kind of track record that gives corporate bookers confidence when the guest list matters.

Private Dining Configurations at PARO

Three options cover a genuine range. Private Room A accommodates up to 130 seated for full restaurant buyouts — awards dinners, large corporate entertaining, celebration events where you want the entire venue. The Private Floor upstairs seats 90 for events that want exclusivity without requiring the whole building. Semi-Private Room C handles 30 seated, suited to intimate team dinners, client entertaining, and smaller celebrations where a contained space within the restaurant is preferable to a full takeover. This flexibility is PARO’s main advantage for event planners. A single venue that can handle a 30-person client dinner one week and a 130-seat awards evening the next saves the effort of maintaining relationships with multiple restaurants.

The Menu and Set Packages

The Calcuttan fusion menu works well for event dining. Set menu packages are available across multiple tiers, designed to simplify group bookings — starter, main, rice, naan, and dessert with drinks included. For planners organising corporate or celebration events, the pre-agreed package format removes per-head uncertainty and keeps service running to schedule across larger tables. The cuisine itself bridges accessibility and ambition. Indian fusion is crowd-friendly enough for mixed corporate groups while offering enough depth and quality for food-focused entertaining. The Brick Lane heritage in the kitchen translates to cooking with genuine authority, not the safely generic Indian restaurant menus that dominate central London.

Theatre District Location

The proximity to the Lyceum Theatre — home to The Lion King — makes PARO a natural pre-show and post-show dining venue. For corporate hospitality packages that combine theatre tickets with private dining, the three-minute walk between venue and theatre removes transport logistics entirely. Beyond theatre tie-ins, the Covent Garden location works well for corporate events drawing attendees from across central London. Temple and Covent Garden tubes are both within three minutes on foot, and the Wellington Street address is easy to find for guests arriving by taxi or on foot from surrounding offices.

Hire Details at PARO

The alcohol licence runs until 00:30 with extensions available, giving evening events genuine breathing room beyond the standard restaurant service window. PARO’s experience with corporate clients and high-profile private events means the events team understands the logistics of larger bookings — dietary management across big groups, timing coordination for multi-course set menus, and the specific requirements of client-facing entertaining where presentation matters. The restaurant is located at 21 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7DN.