Porte Noire can be hired fully privately for up to 40 seated guests, which suits a client dinner, a team celebration or a wine-led evening. The wine bar and restaurant sits inside the Gasholder building at Coal Drops Yard in London, beside King's Cross. A canal-side terrace is available in good weather.
Seminars and company events
The private events page presents the venue for private occasions, from intimate dinners to larger celebrations built around wine, food and company. For an organiser, that means dinners, receptions and hosted tastings rather than daytime conferences. The official site mentions no meeting room, screen or presentation equipment, so ask the team about those before you plan a working session. Full private hire is offered, so your group has the room to itself. Public opening hours are 4 pm to 11:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday, and 11:30 am to 11:30 pm from Wednesday to Saturday. Confirm start and end times for your own event when you send an enquiry.
Rooms and capacities
The restaurant seats up to 40 guests for a fully private hire. The site does not name separate rooms, so plan on one dining space used as a whole.
The canal-side terrace can be added when the weather cooperates. The site gives no capacity for the terrace, and the weather decides whether it is usable, so treat it as an extra and not as part of your guaranteed count. Seated dinners are the format the venue describes. If you want a standing reception, ask the team what number the room can take in that layout.
Catering
The kitchen is in-house and the cooking is French Mediterranean bistro style. The site states that the restaurant holds two AA rosettes. Two group menus are published, and both start from 12 guests. The group menu is three courses including bread and unlimited still and sparkling water. Dishes named on it include tuna tartare, veal tomahawk cordon bleu, butter chicken pie and Baileys tiramisu. The festive group menu is a more generous three-course selection for larger celebrations, with beef carpaccio, short ribs Korean BBQ, cacio e pepe tortellini and sticky toffee madeleines among its dishes.
Wine is the centre of the offer. The venue describes a champagne and wine cabinet built over two decades, with bottles from the Champagne region to Provence, and spirits including Cognac. That makes it a natural choice for a hosted tasting or a dinner paired with wine.
History and setting
Porte Noire is a continental wine bar and restaurant with a stylish setting inside the Gasholder building at Coal Drops Yard. According to its own site, it grew from a shared passion for wine between the Frenchman David Farber and the actor and musician Idris Elba. Coal Drops Yard is a King's Cross destination, and the venue's canal-side terrace belongs to this setting.
Getting there
Porte Noire is inside the Gasholder building at Coal Drops Yard, a stone's throw from King's Cross, according to the venue. The address is Gasholder 10, A, 1 Lewis Cubitt Walk, London N1C 4BX. For a private hire enquiry, call +44 20 3479 1914 or email the booking team at the address shown on the private events page. Guests arriving by rail can walk from King's Cross station.
