Group brunch & buyouts

Group brunch and full buyouts

Take the whole room. Weekend brunch runs Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 am to 3:30 pm, we seat 32 at the table with 10 more at the bar, and a standing party takes 50 to 55 — which covers a group of forty comfortably.

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Vintage engraving of five monkeys in suits with teacups, cricket bats resting at either end of the table

The whole room is yours

A buyout is simpler than it sounds: for the length of your booking, the restaurant takes nobody else. The dining room, the bar and the screens are yours to point at whatever you came for, and the kitchen cooks to one menu instead of forty.

For a group of forty, seated and standing both work. Thirty-two at the table with 10 at the bar covers forty-two; a standing format stretches to 55.

For the whole room, send the date about a month out; a smaller group needs one to two weeks. Weekend brunch fills with regular reservations, and once those are on the books we can’t clear them, however good the reason.

Match days

We screen major cricket events, and a big match takes over the whole room. Groups book the place for a final and eat their way through it, which is the correct way to watch cricket. Other major sporting events play with the sound off, unless a New York team is making history.

Supporters’ clubs, alumni groups, societies and meetups end up here for the same reason: it is a room that holds a crowd without losing the food.

Your name on the menu

Menus are printed with the group’s name in script across the top — the club, the society, the year everybody graduated. It costs nothing and it makes the morning look organized, whatever the truth of it.

Brunch for a crowd

Weekend brunch is the easiest slot for a big group. The Breakfast Biryani, the Short-Rib Eggs Benedict and the French Toast come out alongside the rest of the kitchen’s cooking, and with starters shared and mains plated, forty people eat at the same time rather than in waves.

If the group can’t come to us, we cater off-site to homes and offices across New York for 15 to 50 people, with three days’ notice.

Drinks can be settled in advance as well — one signature cocktail, beer or glass of wine per guest, pricing on request — which is considerably simpler than forty separate bar tabs at the end of a morning.

A place to start

A sample menu

The brunch menu we build group mornings from: Everything on it can be swapped, and the allergy menu lists what every dish carries.

The Celebration Brunch

Shared starters, then a plate for each guest

To start, shared

  • Chilli Cheese Toast
  • Munkey Chicken Tikka
  • Bombay-Harbour Masala Shrimp Cocktail
  • Vegetable Samosas

Mains, plated for each guest

  • Butter Chicken Tikka Masala
  • Butter Paneer Tikka Masala
  • Kashmiri Saffron Lamb
  • Chicken Biryani

Sides, shared

  • ‘Chholley’ / Chana Masala
  • Crispy Okra Chips
  • Garlic & Butter Naan
  • Saffron Basmati Rice

Dessert

  • Your celebration cake
  • Gajar Halwa à la Mode

Drinks

  • Indian Spiced Old Fashioned
  • Mimosa
  • Rose-Mary-Marlo
  • Mango Lassi

Pricing on request — tell us about your event.

The printed card
Good to know

Questions, answered

Can you take a group of 40 for brunch? +
Yes. Seated, we take 32 at the table with another 10 at the bar; standing, the room holds 50 to 55. Brunch runs Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 am to 3:30 pm.
How does a restaurant buyout work? +
For the length of your booking the restaurant takes no other guests: the dining room, the bar and the screens are yours. Pricing is on request — send your date and numbers through the planning form.
Can we watch a cricket match as a group? +
Yes, we screen major cricket events and groups do book the room for a big match. Tell us the fixture when you email and we’ll confirm we’re showing it.
Can you cater for our group off-site instead? +
Yes — we cater at homes and offices across New York for 15 to 50 people, with three days’ notice.
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Tell us the date, the numbers, and what everyone is coming for.

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