The 5 best function rooms in Victoria

Floral ceilings. Decorative chandeliers. Seats patterned with leaves. Pistachio-coloured walls that serve as a backdrop to framed pelican paintings. Mirrored panels. Healthy plants that guard each corner of the room. Stepping into The Ivy Victoria’s Pelican Room is like entering a whole new world.

On the first floor of the Victoria restaurant, you’ll find The Pelican Room, their 22-person function room that manages to strike a balance between timeless elegance and themed tropical interiors.

As this function room is available for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week, the time and day don’t matter as much as that pending guest list.

Blistering winters. Rainy days. Snowy nights. A roaring fire. Bundled in blankets. A mug of hot chocolate (marshmallows optional). Summery sunrises. Breezy afternoons. Those in-between autumn evenings. Cabins. They’re the pinnacle of cosiness, and replicating that same feeling is Rail House Cafe.

Located on Victoria’s Sir Simon Milton Square, the cafe and bar offer this private space for up to 16 guests. With its simple, wood-on-wood interiors, it’s a function room that makes you want to sit down and talk for hours. So do.

Take your pick from their lunch and dinner menus for a cabin-in-the-city experience that is always seasonally appropriate and undeniably cosy.

Patterned wallpaper. The finest china on display. A faux fireplace. Green velvet chairs, and of course, a small round table to meet at.

With room for up to 6 guests, Ibérica’s private dining room is nothing if not intimate. Full of character and charm, it’s an ideal function room for smaller events. Think private catch-ups with close friends and family, team dinners, and birthday dinners (with a Spanish feast on display, no less).

You can find this function room on Victoria Street.

Meetings in the day. Dinners at night. That’s how things are done at The Hari’s The Muse function room.

Offering their function room as a daytime meeting space and evening private dining room for up to 24 guests, you’ll find an integrated screen and projector (for any presentation run-throughs) and a whiteboard (for those creative brainstorms).

Expect modern wood walls, floor-to-ceiling windows for maximum light, a fireplace to keep things cosy, and the pièce de résistance, the long oak table. Reaching each end of the room, we think it offers plenty of room for centrepieces and contracts.

Tucked away behind three screens is Sachi’s answer to a function room. Housed in the multi-level restaurant, cafe and shopping space, Pantechnicon, you’ll this function room/private dining space on the lower ground floor at the Japanese restaurant, Sachi.

Offering everything from sashimi and tempura to wagyu and nigiri (plus seasonal cocktails like their Kosmos or Sake Sour), this space is an ideal choice for a private dinner or lunch for to 24 guests.

With modern, minimalist and neutral interiors, this function room is a lesson in functionality done right.

You can find them on Motcomb Street.