Your London New Year’s Eve Agenda | NYE 2024 – 2025
If you’re planning to celebrate New Year’s Eve in London, don’t leave it till the last minute.
After all, there’s plenty of time before midnight in which to enjoy a decadent multi-course feast; party in a millennium-old church; learn to can-can in an art deco brasserie; sip award-winning cocktails with a raucous live band; go swing dancing in a 1940s post office or toast complimentary glasses of Champagne on a glittering rooftop.
And so we’ve lined up a comprehensive list of the most raucous, fun, mind-blowing, and bubbly-loaded NYE events taking place in London, and organised them into a bunch of handy categories.
Now get ready to inspire a few resolutions…
FANCY DINNERS | RETRO PARTIES | COCKTAIL PARTIES | JUST WANT TO DANCE? | LIVE MUSIC | ROOFTOPS
FANCY DINNERS
PAIRED at Carousel
If you think that New Year’s Eve should be mostly about great food and great music, then you’ll be happy to know that this is an opinion shared by the people at both Carousel (a pop up incubator which produces great food) and AVA (an audiovisual festival which produces great music). And on NYE they’ll be bringing their talents together for PAIRED, an evening in which an excellent chef is coupled up with a stellar DJ for an experience unique to that time & place. Head down on New Year’s Eve, and you can expect to feast on a multi-course tasting menu from Ibiza’s Nudo, before dancing the night away with composer & DJ Yu Su…
Details: Carousel, 19-23 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, W1T 1RL | £150/£35 for tickets without dinner
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Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings
B&H‘s rambling townhouse provides the perfect backdrop to the kind of NYE dinner party you’d love to throw… if you lived in a Clerkenwell mansion with a personal chef. That chef will be cooking up a multi-course banquet alongside live music and flights of cocktails, before you get up to dance to DJ sets across two floors until the wee hours. Oh, and don’t worry about missing the riverside fireworks – because they’ve got some here too. Indoors.
Details: Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings, 42 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, EC1R 0HU | £95
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Caia x John Javier
If your New Year’s resolutions include a) going to more chef takeovers and b) going to trendy listening bars in Notting Hill more often, then you can give yourself an extremely efficient head-start by ringing in the new year at Caia. Chef John Javier will be dropping by to cook up a five-course feast celebrating his signature creative Asian flavours.
Details: 46 Golborne Road, London W10 5PR | £25/75/125
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St. John’s New Year’s Eve Extravaganza
St John has a very reasonable definition of ‘extravaganza’, throwing a huge five-course feast with roasted rare breed pork as the dramatic centrepiece, as well as a welcome pour of St John Champagne, canapés, and mince pies with sherry to finish. Well, to finish dinner, at least – because you’ll be seeing out the night dancing in their low-lit basement with more drinks and a live band.
Details: St. JOHN Smithfield, 26 St. John Street, London EC1M 4AY | £195
RETRO PARTIES–
The Candlelight Club’s NYE Ball
The Candlelight Club will be throwing one of their famously decadent, 1920’s-styled soirées in a secret, candle-lit London location with live music from Elise Roth and the High Standards, cabaret with your host Champagne Charlie, Charleston dancing with the Gatsby Girls, fortune tellers, absinthe, and gramophone DJs.
Details: A Secret London Location | From £60
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NYE at Brasserie Zédel
Can, can you do the can-can? Well, you’ll probably feel like it after a slap-up French meal and a couple of cocktails at Brasserie Zédel, which is transforming its gilded dining room into the Folies Bergères for NYE with foot-stomping live jazz, acrobats, magicians, and can-can dancers at midnight.
Details: 20 Sherwood Street, London, W1F 7ED | £85, or £35 for a bar stool (book those on 020 7734 4888)
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New Year’s Eve Blitz Party
If you fancy getting totally blitzed on NYE, Cahoots Postal Office is ready to oblige with a night of retro 40s rug-cutting. You’ll step through a postbox to enter their bustling wartime-themed bar where you’ll enjoy welcome Champagne, canapés, live music and dancing all night.
Details: Cahoots Postal Office, Unit 205, 18 Stoney Street, London, SE1 9AD | £40/£65 seated
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NYE at Ham Yard Hotel – Disco Fever
The subterranean lounge at the Ham Yard Hotel in Soho has an excellent cocktail bar, a vintage bowling alley, and life-sized crocodiles prowling the walls. The only thing it’s missing is a DJ set from a legendary selector playing tracks by disco icons like Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer and Barry White. So for NYE, they’re adding in exactly that, allowing you to freak out under a mirror ball with disco-themed drinks and snacks to refuel after the clock strikes twelve.
Details: Ham Yard Hotel, 1 Ham Yard, London, W1D 7DT | £85
COCKTAIL PARTIES
If you’re going to pick anywhere to have bottomless cocktails (and canapés, and bubbles) all night long, it may as well be the multi award-winning Callooh Callay, a Shoreditch bar drenched in eccentric, retro glamour.
Details: 65 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY | £80-120
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Space Samurai: NYE at Thin White Duke
The Thin White Duke‘s Bowie-themed extravaganza is inspired by his ‘Space Samurai’ look – one of many dreamt up by the designer Kansai Yamamoto. They’re rather ambitiously insisting on a kimono dress code, but if your get-up passes muster you’ll be invited in to feast on izakaya snacks, sip Japanese-inspired cocktails and dance the night away to live DJ sets.
Details: 22B Great Windmill St, London W1D 7LD | £50+
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NYE Parties at Mr Fogg’s
There are now several Mr. Fogg’s bars across London, and each has something to commend them for NYE this year. There’s a ‘hat-tastic soirée’ promised at Mr. Fogg’s Hat Tavern (genuinely, every guest gets a hat plopped onto their head on arrival); a Victorian drag king hosting gold-plated proceedings at Mr. Fogg’s Pawnbrokers; six solid hours of DJs and live music at Mr. Fogg’s Society of Exploration, and much more besides.
Details: Across London | £30-60
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The Engineers’ Ball
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It seems that Battersea Power Station will be keeping the lights on once more… until 2am on New Year’s Eve. Cocktail bar Control Room B will be throwing a party to see out 1955, with a live orchestra band, Champagne, and a black tie dress code. And after midnight, there’ll be bacon baps on offer to keep you dancing to the wee hours.
Details: Battersea Power Station, Circus Rd West, Nine Elms, SW8 5BN | £50/70/100
JUST WANT TO DANCE?
NYE at The Coral Room
If you want to paint the town red this NYE, there’s no better place to do it than The Coral Room. After all, it’s one of the city’s most beautifully decadent settings – and after years of hosting their annual Casa Coral Party, they’ve got the art of a blazingly good party down to a tee. You’ll kick off with dinner under a canopy of winter blooms on Dalloway Terrace, before heading into the glittering Coral Room itself for cocktails, dancing and Lat
Details: 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN | Free entry
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New Year’s Eve at Amazing Grace
If you told the vicar at St Thomas’s Church, back when it was first built just under a thousand years ago, that one day it would become a bar called Amazing Grace, and that that bar would host a New Year’s Eve party with live bands, DJs till 2am, dancing, Japanese fried chicken, and bottomless drinks… he probably would have been happy that people were still having a religiously good time there. As well as being confused about what Japanese fried chicken was.
Details: Amazing Grace, 9a St Thomas St, SE1 9RY | From £80
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NYE at The Old Queen’s Head
The Old Queen’s Head is pretty much treating New Year’s Eve like any other night – so just the usual excellent atmosphere, packed-out dance floor, reasonably priced drinks and solid DJs, then.
Details: 44 Essex Road, London N1 8LN | £22
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NYE at Somerset House
Queer pan-Asian cabaret collective are once more taking over one of the city’s most extravagant settings for an NYE party with plenty of juicy offerings. Catch pop-up performances around the mansion by belly dancers, fire breathers and burlesque performers; skate all night on Somerset House’s courtyard ice rink with live DJ sets; sip mulled wine and gorge yourself on fondue; before making your way to Somerset House’s riverside terrace for a primo fireworks viewing spot.
Details: Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA | £60-120
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NYE at the Natural History Museum
Tickets always sell out insanely fast for this epic NYE celebration at the Natural History Museum – so you’ll need to be quick if you want to see in 2025 by dancing to DJs and Old Dirty Brasstards under the giant skeleton of a blue whale; join a ceilidh; meet some insanely cute animals; explore the galleries after hours with a cocktail in-hand; and descend from a glowing planetary orb into a silent disco below. Which, as of now, you do.
Details: Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD | £125
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NYE with Gilles Peterson
Sweeties has got NYE all wrapped up this year: legendary DJ Gilles Peterson will be taking to the decks at midnight at the Standard hotel’s 10th floor bar, accompanied by insane views of the London skyline. There’ll be amazing guest DJs to ramp up the party before he hits the decks, and you can even choose to kick off with a lavish four-course feast in Decimo first, featuring live music and espresso martinis on arrival.
Details: The Standard, 10 Argyle Street, London WC1H 8EG | £50-150
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Love Come Down
Taking over an inconspicuous warehouse for the night, Love Come Down will be spinning ’70s soul & disco tracks with modern edits until 5am. Nothing less, nothing more – and especially no pretentiousness.
Details: Low Profile Studios, 94 Vale Road, Harringay Warehouse District, London N4 1PT | £5+
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New Year’s Eve at La Bodega Negra
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the restaurant hidden below what appears to be a Soho sex shop is not putting on a quiet night for NYE. Instead, La Bodega Negra‘s hosting an all-night lock-in where you’ll feast on their flavourful Mexican dishes, enjoy welcome margaritas and bubbles at midnight, and see out the year with a raucous cast of DJs, fire eaters and live musicians.
Details: 9 Old Compton Street, London, W1D 5JF | £100
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Studio 54 NYE Party at Little Scarlet Door
If you and your friends are tossing round the idea of hosting this year’s NYE house party like a hot potato, the solution is thus: you should all go to the Little Scarlet Door in Soho, where you can enjoy a raucous party with cocktails, retro video games and dancing to DJs in what is essentially a giant living room with a light-up dance floor… without any of the clearing up.
Details: 12-13 Greek Street W1D 4DL | From £30
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Fiddle Paradiddle’s Hogmanay Hootenanny
If you’re keen to get some ceilidh practice in before Burns Night in January, head down to St. Thomas’ Church in Balham on NYE, where there’ll be a thunderous night of Scottish dancing going down. Aside from being very difficult to say out loud, Fiddle Paradiddle’s Hogmanay Hootenanny promises a well-stocked bar, some welcome bubbly, a free sweetie station, a big singalong of Auld Lang Syne at midnight, and plenty of dancing with a live band and callers to tell you the steps.
Details: Small Beer Co., 70-72 Verney Rd, London, SE16 3DH | £55-60
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NYE at Big Penny Social
Believe it or not, the UK’s biggest beer hall is not going to be closed on NYE. Instead, Big Penny Social‘s going to be throwing a 1988-themed party featuring a headline DJ set from Soul II Soul legend Jazzie B, a six-piece Whitney tribute band, a Sounds Familiar music quiz, a darts competition, curling, and a £100 bar tab if you win best costume.
Details: 1 Priestley Way, E17 6AL | £22+
LIVE MUSIC
New Year’s Black Tie Blowout at The Ned
Ring in the New Year at The Ned, an old marble-clad banking hall that’s now a glamorous hotel and clubhouse from the Soho House team. There’ll be free-flowing cocktails, aerial displays, live bands, DJs, and a superstar headliner, plus as many lobsters as you can physically eat.
Details: The Ned, 27 Poultry, EC2R 8AJ | £375
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606 Club’s NYE Extravaganza
Surprisingly for a jazz bar, 606 Club won’t be improvising on New Year’s Eve. They’ve enlisted the help of superlative jazz pianist Neil Angilley and his trio to play you through a three course dinner, before the house band joins forces with special guest Imaani for “compulsory grooving” on the dancefloor until 2am.
Details: 90 Lots Road, SW10 0QD | £155
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The Piano Works
The Piano Works‘ two bars aren’t doing anything unusual for New Year’s Eve. But then, ‘usual’ for them means bussing in an energetic band of musical prodigies for a joyously uplifting gig where they exclusively play requests from the crowd, all night long. So this NYE, they’re doing exactly that… with a three course meal thrown in.
Details: The Piano Works, 113-117 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BX | £10-60
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The Blues Kitchen Shoreditch
Start the new year with the blues – and soul, and a little R&B, courtesy of the bombastic house bands taking to the stage at The Blues Kitchen Shoreditch for NYE. They’ll be powering through three live sets on the night, with DJs providing upbeat filler. For the best value night out, you might as well book in for dinner beforehand and fill up on delicious BBQ from the American South, washed down with one of the city’s most abundant whisky collections.
Details: 134-146 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3AR | From £22.66 (free entry if you’re dining)
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Sofar Sounds x Mercato Metropolitano
If you’re in the market for a low-key, boisterous New Year’s Eve party then head down to Mercato Metropolitano in Elephant & Castle. Aside from sampling dishes from their 40+ street food stalls, you’ll also be able to bop to live music across multiple stages, curated by the scouts at Sofar Sounds. And once that wraps up, there’ll be more drinks, DJs and dancing until 2am.
Details: 42 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR | £10+
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Lina Stores King’s Cross
To celebrate the pasta year, Lina Stores King’s Cross is hosting a four-course blow-out banquet of 30 egg yolk tagliolini & black truffle; burrata; tiramisù and more, all to a soundtrack of mood-setting live music, and bookended with glasses of Prosecco. Then as the evening wears on, you’ll be serenaded by DJs playing Italian tracks, plus there’s a tombola (it’s Italian!) with some truly delicious Lina Stores prizes up for grabs…
Details: 20 Stable Street, N1C 4DR | £100 (+£38 for wine pairing)
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NYE at Nightjar
Nightjar Shoreditch is seeing out 2024 the way everyone should: welcome Champagne cocktails with a teeny, tiny tiny little ice cream on the side. And it only gets better from there – you’ll get to enjoy a live set of rockabilly and 50s swing from Ruby and The Dukes (or if you prefer Latin beats, head to Nightjar Carnaby where you’ll hear The Latin Formula. And still get ice cream).
Details: 129 City Road, London, EC1V 1JB | £80
ROOFTOPS
NYE at JOIA
Do you want to tell your grandchildren about the time you didn’t spend NYE on a rooftop bar right next to Battersea Power Station, sipping cocktails and dancing to live disco music as the fireworks went off? Didn’t think so.
Details: art’otel London Battersea Power Station, 15th Floor, 1 Electric Boulevard, London SW11 8BJ | £95+
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NYE at Coq d’Argent
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Ok, so you can’t see the New Year’s Eve fireworks from Coq D’Argent‘s rooftop garden. But no matter, because they’ll be supplying some of their own – alongside DJs, welcome bubbles and the option to tack on a fancy-pants six course tasting menu.
Details: 1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ | £50/£175
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Madera at Treehouse
Frankly, rooftop restaurant Madera could have just let its views do the talking. But they’re going all out for NYE, starting with a celebratory four-course feast of inventive Californian-Mexican dishes, cocktails, welcome Champers and a shedload of dazzling entertainment, from fire breathers to DJs.
Details: 14-15 Langham Place, London W1B 2QS | £195
NOTE: The London New Year’s Day Parade starts at a respectable 12pm on the 1st of January, and will feature an incredible line-up of over 10k performers from across the globe. Might do something for that hangover, too.
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