Price your event
at Darling.

Corporate dinners and off-sites, client entertaining, wrap parties and premieres, birthdays and milestones, rehearsal dinners, holiday parties, and full buyouts. If it belongs around a table or a record player, it belongs here.

Every evening. Wednesday through Saturday, the Spice Room or the whole restaurant. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings, when we have no dinner service, the whole restaurant as a full buyout from 5pm. The Spice Room also books online for Sunday brunch, 11am to 3pm: a family style brunch at $50 a guest, from $4,000 in food and drink (about $5,550 all in).

Yes. The food and drink minimum is $4,000 for the Spice Room (Wednesday to Saturday evenings, and Sunday brunch) and $15,000 for a full restaurant buyout ($17,000 on Saturdays). All in, with 25% service (a 20% gratuity to the team and a 5% administrative fee, which is not a gratuity) and 11% sales tax, that is about $5,550, $20,813 and $23,588. The builder never shows a price below it.

Food and drink: the bar, passed bites and dinner, before the 20% gratuity, 5% administrative fee and sales tax. With the bar billed by the drink, drinks ordered on the night count toward it. If food and drink come to less, the difference is added to reach the minimum, and the gratuity, fee and tax apply to it too. Extra hours on a full buyout are $1,500 each, with no fees or tax, on top of the minimum.

Bar packages are $50, $75 or $100 per guest, tray passed bites $50, $75 or $100 for three, five or seven items (full buyouts only), and family style dinners $75, $100 or $125 (or a family style brunch at $50 on Sundays in the Spice Room). The estimate above adds it all up for your headcount, with gratuity, fees and tax.

With a deposit: $1,000 for the Spice Room or $5,000 for a full buyout, paid by card from this page. It counts toward your final bill. At 10am, 4 days before (7 days before if you pay by bank account), your menu and headcount lock, your price is set, and the balance (the price less the deposit) is charged. On the day, a hold of 20% of the price (up to $3,000; none for a bank account) covers anything added on the night, charged the morning after. The price set at the lock is the minimum for the evening. There is nothing to pay at the table. For Wednesday to Saturday full buyouts through the end of next month, your card is authorized, not charged, and the date is confirmed within 24 hours. Cancelling: 7 or more days out, everything paid is refunded; 3 to 6 days out, half the deposit is kept; under 3 days, the deposit is kept. Anything paid beyond the deposit is always refunded. Need another date? Ask 7 or more days out and we move your booking once, at no cost.

Yes. The deposit is paid by card on this page, and after that a bank transfer is available on your booking page. Paying by bank account, your menu and headcount lock and your price is set at 10am 7 days before instead of 4, and there is no card hold on the day. Reply to your confirmation with the company name for the invoice, and ask us for our W-9 if your accounts team needs one.

No. For up to 12, a table in the main room books on Resy, with no room minimum. For 13 to 20, email events@darling.la with your date and time. If you would rather have the Spice Room to yourselves, the builder above prices it and books it.

Yes. Every event comes with a selector behind the decks and an all-vinyl library to pull from, played through our hi-fi system. Tell us the mood you want and we will build the night around it, or bring your own records and we will play them. Live music or a performing DJ is not included, but can be arranged: ask us when you book. For speeches, we have a speaker and a wired microphone that plugs into the DJ board. Screens or other equipment can be brought in.

Yes. Tables are set with candles, and you are welcome to bring in florals, decor, signage and your own photographer. Mention anything you are sending ahead so we can receive it.

There is no valet at Darling. A parking lot is right nearby, and there are plenty of metered spots on the street outside the restaurant. For a larger event we can arrange valet through a company we work with, at an added cost based on the number of cars.

Yes. The restaurant is ADA compliant. Tell us about any guest who needs help and we will plan for them.

Everything is indoors, so weather never changes your plans. The ceilings are high, daylight comes in through the roof, and a large olive tree stands at the center of the room, so it feels like being outside with all the comforts of being in.

Yes. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and allergy accommodations are built into the menu during planning, and every dish on your menu is marked gluten-free, dairy-free or vegan where it applies. With a week's notice the kitchen can accommodate virtually anything, from a vegan main to a course changed for a seafood allergy.

The sooner the better for December and awards season, which fill first. For everything else, a few weeks is usually enough. A week or less away: call (323) 203-0236. 18 months or more out, or over 200 guests: email events@darling.la.