Six rooms over four floors, on a quiet stretch of Albemarle Street. By invitation, by application, or by introduction.
Coterie occupies a townhouse on the quiet end of Albemarle Street, behind a door without a sign and a brass plate that simply reads "Coterie · No. 24". It was a private dining society in the 1980s. It became a club in 1996.
We do not advertise. We do not hold launch parties. Our membership is capped at six hundred and has been since 2008. New membership opens roughly twice a year, by invitation from existing members and at the discretion of the membership committee.
Inside: a ground-floor dining room, a first-floor library, a second-floor terrace, a basement bar, six guest bedrooms, and a small garden behind. No phones in the dining room. No cameras anywhere.
Forty-two seats, oak panelling, an open kitchen at the back. Chef Anita Mendes. Lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Saturday.
Walls of books — fiction, poetry, art, philosophy. Honesty bar. Silent before 18h, conversational after. Members & their guests only.
Open all year, heated in winter, planted by the Garden Museum. Cocktails, oysters and the only place in the house where you may take a call.
Below the dining room, low-lit, eighteen seats at the bar plus four banquettes. Open from 17h every day. A serious cocktail list.
Six bedrooms on the upper floors. Available to members and to members' guests visiting London. Booked through the membership office.
A small walled garden behind the house. Open in the warmer months. Members may book for private events of up to thirty.
Membership of Coterie is by personal recommendation from an existing member, by application to the membership committee, or — occasionally — by invitation. The committee meets quarterly.
Request application form— By post or by email, never by web form.