Restaurants With Private Rooms in NYC Near Union Square

Among restaurants with private rooms in NYC, the group within a short walk of Union Square lists rooms from Union Square Cafe’s Alcove for up to 10 guests to Pete’s Tavern’s Private Speakeasy Room for up to 44, with Gramercy Tavern, Bar Jamón, Il Fiorista and Scarpetta listing rooms for 20 to 30 in between and Gramercy Tavern’s full buyout reaching 120 seated. Only two of them, Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe, publish a food and beverage minimum, so treat the capacities below, read from each restaurant’s own site in October 2026, as a shortlist and confirm cost and headcount for your date with each events coordinator.

The useful sorting here is not by cuisine. It is by which venues publish a capacity you can plan against and which ones make you submit a form to learn anything at all.

At a glance: private rooms near Union Square, by listed capacity

Restaurant	Private rooms it lists	Full buyout it lists
Union Square Cafe, 101 E 19th St	Alcove, up to 10 seated (semi-private); Park & Irving Room, up to 40 seated or 45 standing	Up to 100 seated or 200 standing
Gramercy Tavern, 42 E 20th St	Private Dining Room, up to 20 seated	120 seated or 150 standing
Bar Jamón and Casa Mono, 52 Irving Pl	Bar Jamón, 22 seated or 33 standing; Casa Mono, 40 seated or 55 standing	Not listed separately
Il Fiorista, 17 W 26th St	Private Dining Room, 25 seated or 40 standing	Main dining room, 60 seated or 90 standing
Scarpetta, 88 Madison Ave	Library Room 20, Private Dining Room 30, Studio Room 50, Madison Room 80 to 180 seated	Main dining room, 115 seated or 200 standing
Pete’s Tavern, 129 E 18th St	Private Speakeasy Room, up to 44 seated (32 in a U shape)	Not listed
abcV, 38 E 19th St	No separate private room	75 seated or 120 cocktail

Rooms get reconfigured and capacities change with them, so confirm the number for your date with the events coordinator before you plan seating.

What does a private room near Union Square cost?

Two of the venues below, Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe, print food and beverage minimums in downloadable event kits rather than on the page itself, and both state that they charge no separate room fee. As a typical current benchmark from those two kits, a private room for 20 to 40 guests runs roughly $4,500 to $5,000 for dinner from January to November and $6,000 to $7,500 in December, with lunch lower and tax and gratuity added on top. Confirm the figure for your date with the events coordinator; our breakdown of private dining minimum spend in NYC explains why December sits higher.

Pete’s Tavern prints its event terms but says its minimum varies by date and time. Everyone else routes you to an inquiry form or an events email, which means the minimum is set per date, per room and per season, and you will not find it before you make contact.

This is normal and it is not evasion. Minimums move with the calendar, and a Tuesday in February is a different conversation from the second week of December. But it does mean that a shortlist built from published capacities alone is only half a shortlist. When you call, ask three things in this order: the food and beverage minimum for your specific date, whether tax and gratuity sit inside or outside that number, and what happens to the minimum if your count drops. The third question is the one people forget, and it is the one that costs money.

Restaurants with private rooms near Union Square, venue by venue

Union Square Cafe, 101 East 19th Street

The most granular published set on this list. Union Square Cafe lists the Alcove for up to 10 seated guests and the Park & Irving Room for up to 40 seated or 45 standing, with a full buyout for up to 100 seated or 200 standing. Having a genuine 10-seater matters more than it sounds, because most rooms in this neighborhood bottom out around 20 and a party of a dozen ends up rattling around a space built for twice that. The reservations line is (212) 243-4020.

Worth knowing: the restaurant describes the Alcove as semi-private, overlooking the main dining room, so it suits a celebration better than a confidential conversation.

Gramercy Tavern, 42 East 20th Street

Gramercy Tavern lists one Private Dining Room for up to 20 guests, for lunch and dinner daily, around a single table, and a full restaurant buyout for 120 seated or 150 standing, the largest buyout on this list. Its downloadable event kit is one of the two here that prints minimums. Event inquiries go through an online form rather than a named events email, so build a day into your timeline for the reply.

Worth asking: whether the buyout number of 120 includes the Tavern room, the dining room, or both.

Pete’s Tavern, 129 East 18th Street at Irving Place

Pete’s Tavern lists its Private Speakeasy Room for up to 44 seated across three straight lines of tables, or 32 in a U shape. For a buffet it holds 45 with seating for 30. For cocktails it takes 50 with seating for 30, or 65 with no seating at all.

The terms are printed too, which is rarer than it should be. The page says 8.875% sales tax and 20% gratuity are added to event invoices, a 20% non-refundable deposit is due at booking, events run to a three-hour maximum with departure times strictly enforced, and the final count is due four days ahead. It does not print per-person package prices; it says the minimum guest count or spend varies by date and time. Contact manager@petestavern.com or 212-473-7676.

Worth asking: the per-person price for your menu and the minimum for your date, since the terms are published but the numbers are not.

abcV, 38 East 19th Street

abcV lists a full buyout at 75 seated or 120 for a cocktail reception and no separate private room, so the model here is take the whole restaurant or book a large table. Parties of 11 to 14 can book a large-party reservation directly; anything larger submits a request. Events run through events@jean-georges.com or 212-358-0688. Its sister restaurant ABC Cocina shares the building and the events team, but its former website no longer loads as a restaurant page, so confirm its numbers with that team directly.

Worth asking: whether a party just over 14 can still be seated at one table, since that is where direct booking stops.

Bar Jamón and Casa Mono, 52 Irving Place

Casa Mono’s events page lists Casa Mono at 40 seated and 55 standing, and Bar Jamón next door at 22 seated or 33 standing. The two sit side by side on Irving Place at 17th Street, just east of Union Square. The standing figure for Bar Jamón appears differently elsewhere on the same site, so get that one confirmed rather than planning to it. Phone (212) 253-2773, or events@casamononyc.com.

Worth asking: whether the two rooms can be taken together, which would be the most interesting configuration on this list and is not addressed anywhere on the site.

Il Fiorista, 17 West 26th Street

Further north in NoMad, but it publishes more detail than most. Il Fiorista lists its private dining room at 25 seated or 40 standing, and its main dining room at 60 seated or 90 standing. It also offers floral arrangement, pasta making and cocktail making classes and wine pairing experiences, which is a genuinely different answer if your brief is a team offsite rather than a dinner.

Worth asking: inquiries go through an Inquire Now form or info@ilfioristanyc.com rather than a named events manager, so ask who will run the night.

Scarpetta, 88 Madison Avenue

The largest set of options here, with the detail on its operator’s Scarpetta events page rather than the restaurant’s own. The main dining room takes 115 seated or 200 standing. The private dining room, on the ground floor behind the wine room, seats 30. On the lower level, the Studio Room takes 50 at a long table or 80 standing, and the Library Room 20 or 30 standing. The Madison Room is listed at 2,200 square feet, from 80 seated at two long tables to 180 at rounds, or 250 standing. Events run through (212) 532-4100.

It is also one of the few venues anywhere near the square that lists screens room by room, with flatscreen TVs in the private dining, Studio and Library rooms. If your dinner includes slides, read booking a private room for a dinner with a presentation before you ask about them.

Worth asking: which rooms are in the restaurant and which are below it, since the distinction affects service and load-in times.

The venues that make you ask

Isabelle’s Osteria at 245 Park Avenue South describes a private dining room on its site but publishes no capacity for it, no minimum, and no room name. What the site does print is that the restaurant is a 150-seat open space, which tells you the building is large enough to be worth a call and nothing about the private room itself.

It is worth the inquiry for a specific brief: a dinner in Gramercy Park where you want contemporary Italian rather than steak or tasting menu formality, and where a bar area matters because guests will arrive across a 40-minute window. The verified detail that makes it useful for that shape of event is the weekday Aperitivo Hour, which runs 2 to 6PM at the bar and gives early arrivals somewhere to be. To get the numbers, learn about private events at Isabelle’s through the inquiry form, or call (212) 388-1145 and ask for the capacity and the minimum on your date in the same breath.

If your event is really a large dinner rather than a private hire, the surrounding blocks are mapped in this guide to restaurants within walking distance of Madison Square Park. And if guests are arriving from a show or a conference, timing matters more than the room, which is the subject of this guide to eating around a Union Square event.

Where to go from a shortlist

Once you have three venues that fit the headcount, the work is the questions rather than the rooms. Our guide to how to plan a private dinner in NYC sets out the sequence from headcount to contract, and the same comparison method applied to the blocks north of here is in how to compare private rooms in Gramercy.

Two variations worth reading separately. If the booking is a midday one, the constraints change completely and are covered in booking a business lunch near Union Square. If the date is fixed by a wedding, see choosing a rehearsal dinner restaurant, where several of the rooms above appear again grouped by guest count.

Capacities on this page were read from each venue’s own site in October 2026, except Scarpetta’s, which are published on its operator’s events site. Confirm the number for your date and get the minimum in writing from the events coordinator before you commit to anything.

Frequently asked questions

How far ahead do I need to book a private room near Union Square?

For a weekday dinner outside the holidays, four to six weeks is usually comfortable. Late November through mid-December is the pressure point, when corporate calendars collide and the good rooms go months out. Most venues on this list have a single private room and can host only one event a night, so build a shortlist of three and hold your date with a deposit as soon as the numbers work.

Which restaurants near Union Square have a private room for 10 or fewer?

Union Square Cafe lists its semi-private Alcove for up to 10 seated guests, the smallest dedicated space on this list. Most other rooms nearby start at about 20, including Gramercy Tavern’s Private Dining Room and Scarpetta’s Library Room. A party of a dozen in a 20-seat room ends up rattling around it, so the Alcove is the one to ask about first.

Do restaurants with private rooms near Union Square publish a minimum spend?

Only two on this list do: Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe print food and beverage minimums in their downloadable event kits. As a typical benchmark there, a room for 20 to 40 guests runs roughly $4,500 to $5,000 for dinner outside December, before tax and gratuity. Everywhere else, ask the events coordinator for the minimum on your date and what happens to it if your count drops.

Editor’s note: Isabelle’s Osteria is affiliated with this publication. Restaurants were selected using the criteria described above.