Maison Estelle

Maison Estelle occupies a Grade I-listed Georgian townhouse on Grafton Street, designed originally by Sir Robert Taylor in 1772, and it is the first members’ club from the team behind the Cotswolds hotel Estelle Manor. It sits firmly among Mayfair’s most exclusive private clubs, alongside long-established names like 5 Hertford Street and Annabel’s.

Inside, the club runs to multiple dining rooms and drinking spaces, an all-day brasserie, a more formal restaurant, a roof terrace and a late-night room, along with lounges, a library and a retail area. The scale is considerable for a members’ club, and the interiors lean into the townhouse’s period features rather than fighting them with anything too contemporary.

Discretion is central to how it operates: no photography is permitted inside and no images of the club circulate publicly, which is part of the appeal for the sort of membership it attracts. Service across the food and drink offering is consistently praised by those who have been, described as personalised and attentive rather than merely formal.

Membership requires a proposer who is already a member, along with employment details as part of the application, so this is not somewhere a casual visitor can simply book a table. That closed-door approach is by design, but it does mean most of what can be verified about the food and atmosphere comes from members and press coverage rather than open reviews, and a specific critical account of the cooking itself is hard to find publicly.

As a statement of Mayfair’s private members’ club scene, it is one of the more talked-about recent openings, even if, by its nature, most people will only ever hear about it rather than experience it directly.

It sits within the wider Ennismore portfolio, founded by Sharan Pasricha, whose other projects include The Hoxton hotel group and Estelle Manor in the Cotswolds, and Maison Estelle carries a similar design sensibility into a members’ club format for the first time. Membership fees are not published openly, in keeping with the club’s general approach to discretion, and prospective members should expect a fairly involved application process rather than a simple sign-up.