temper Soho can host private dinners, corporate events and full-venue receptions for up to about 190 guests. It is an open-fire steakhouse on Broadwick Street in Soho, in central London, with a private dining room for 20 and a sister restaurant in the City for larger groups.
Seminars and company events
The Soho restaurant is used for board dinners, client lunches, team celebrations and standing receptions. It is a restaurant rather than a conference venue, so the offer centers on food, drink and atmosphere instead of meeting-room equipment. The official site presents three formats: private dining, whole-venue takeovers and corporate events.
An events team handles room layouts, dietary requirements and wine pairings, and states that it replies to enquiries within one working day. Groups of nine or more can enquire for either site, and the enquiry form asks for a preferred room, a date and a guest count.
The group also runs temper to you, a service that brings cocktail masterclasses, business lunches and corporate catering to an office, a home or another venue. This helps when a company wants the same kitchen for a smaller or off-site occasion.
Rooms and capacities
Soho offers two hire options. The private dining room sits behind velvet curtains, off the main floor, and seats up to 20. For larger groups, the whole restaurant can be hired for about 190 guests, in a mix of seated and standing arrangements, with the open fire kitchen in view of the room.
The City restaurant, temper City near Bank, covers bigger numbers. Its mezzanine private dining room seats 50 or holds 70 standing, with its own bar and its own staircase. Whole-venue hire there reaches 240 guests across both floors. Organisers with a headcount above 190 should look at that site.
Catering
Catering is in house. Events run on sharing-format feast menus built around the live-fire kitchen, which cooks rare-breed British beef butchered on site, as well as tacos and barbecue dishes. Menus are bespoke: the number of courses, signature cocktails, sommelier-led wine choices and dietary needs are agreed with the events team. Vegan and non-meat feast menus are available on request.
The restaurant also offers to reserve specific steak cuts, aged for a length of time you choose, for a special event. The official site gives the example of a birthday steak in place of a cake.
History and setting
temper has operated in London since 2016. The kitchen is built around an open fire pit, buys whole animals from British farms, butchers them in house and dry-ages the beef, with an average of 60 days and a minimum of 28. The group opened a second restaurant in the City of London after Soho.
The Soho room is at 25 Broadwick Street, W1F 0DF, in an area of restaurants, theaters, shops and offices. Its position suits evening events and working lunches better than a full-day program.
