Why not mark this year’s Mardis Gras in true New Orleans Style by attending a renowned 1920’s speakeasy party? The Candlelight Club will be hosting a one-of-a-kind Mardis Gras party on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd March.

A melting pot of Creole, Catholic, African and Caribbean culture, New Orleans takes Mardi Gras seriously, with a festival of masks, costumes, music and revelry, beginning as early as Twelfth Night and reaching its peak on the weekend of our party, just before Mardi Gras itself (5th March). For over 150 years, they have been hosting parades—various clubs or “Krewes” spend all year planning and building elaborate floats with fantastical themes, on which they process through the streets, tossing purple, green and gold beads, coins and trinkets into the crowd.

As a salute to this great city, we’ll be celebrating Mardi Gras with menus of classic New Orleans cocktails and traditional Louisiana cuisine, plus live New Orleans jazz from the Candid Jug Orange Band, vintage DJing from the Bee’s Knees and cabaret from our own King of the Carnival Champagne Charlie. Channelling the spirit of Voodoo will be our seers Lucius and Foxglove, on hand to tell your fortune.

The Candlelight Club is a pop-up 1920’s speakeasy in a secret, entirely candlelit London venue. Each party offers an elegant cocktail menu, dining, live jazz bands, retro-DJs and a variety of cabaret performances. And of course, you must dress the part!

All guests are welcomed, whether it be for drinks and dancing or the delicious three-course set menu. Guests who have opted for the formal dining experience will be emailed the menu a few days prior to the event, and the menu for each party changes too! This weekend’s menu includes southern style prawns or Cajun spiced corn fritters for starters, some blackened cod, chicken breast or baked Cajun portobello mushroom for main, and a rum and raisin bread pudding or key lime pie for dessert. Mouth-watering!