Friday 11th & Saturday 12th February

What more romantic way is there to celebrate St Valentine’s Day than an evening of hot jazz, rug-cutting, cocktail-sipping and general 1920s glamour? (Well, ask the members of Chicago’s North Side Gang who went down in a hail of bullets from Al Capone’s men in the famous St Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 and you might get a different answer, but we’ll gloss over that…)

Live music will come from cheeky jazz chap Jack Calloway and his Parlophonians, raising the rafters with a hurricane of swing to get your feet moving on the dance floor.

Jack Calloway and his band at our 10th birthday party last year

Hosting, of course, will be the Lord of Cabaret misrule, Champagne Charlie, with a slap, a tickle and a saucy song. When the band aren’t playing DJs the Bee’s Knees will be spinning vintage vinyl into the night. There will also be a pop-up vintage jewellery store, a fortune teller and a roaming photographer.

Champagne Charlie

In addition to the main cocktail bar, our rum, absinthe and cigar bar will be selling genuine Havana cigars to smoke in our private garden. You can pre-order a three-course dinner (which includes a table reservation all night) or reserve a table with Champagne but without the dinner. Ticket-holders receive an email two days before revealing the secret location.

Note that our party is not just for spooning couples—as at all our events, we welcome groups of friends, swing dance fans, vintage dandies, lone wolves and conga-dancing party people.