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Inviting Venue with Fully Equipped Kitchen and Bar.

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Space
A 44 sqm (475 sq ft) basement bar and brand activation space in Wembley Park, northwest London, available for short-term rental with exposed red brick, dark green and white tiling, hardwood floors and soft furnishings in an old Irish pub idiom. Capacity is 45 guests seated and standing across one self-contained room.
Best For
Strongest fit is a cocktail reception or collection launch party using the on-site bar and kitchen, followed by a press day venue and collection preview with garment rails and fitting rooms in place. Also suited to sample sale space and short run temporary retail, full day wholesale appointments and buyer previews, and content studio or brand shoot hire against the brick and tile backdrop.
Standout Features
Fully equipped bar and commercial kitchen on site remove the need for external catering infrastructure, and the retail fit out is already installed with fitting rooms, garment rails, a lockable stock room and service counters. Sound and video equipment, air conditioning and heating, a monitored security system, elevator access with no steps from street to floor, and on-site parking for load in complete a move-in ready room vetted by Fashion Week Venues.
Location
Wembley Park Underground on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines is roughly 6 minutes on foot, Wembley Stadium station on Chiltern Railways around 9 minutes, and London Designer Outlet about 7 minutes south, all within the HA9 district. The immediate street reads as everyday residential high street with newsagents, convenience stores and independent restaurants, quiet for morning build days, with the Novotel and Premier Inn under 350 m for crew and guests and parking included in the rental.
Availability
Day rate is £600 with a one day minimum, so brands can book by the day or by the week with no charge until confirmed. Allow 4 to 6 weeks lead time for London bookings and 10 to 12 weeks for the February and September fashion week windows, as dates here also tighten around stadium and arena event days.
How to Book
Send a brief with your dates, format and guest numbers and our team will reply within 24h to confirm whether the room is held, with permit paperwork, event staffing and fit out coordination handled by Fashion Week Venues on the brand's behalf. Enquire now to request availability for your preferred dates.
44 m²
475 sq ft
wembley park
GB
£600 / day
per day
private event
1 use case
in short
A 44 sqm (475 sq ft) basement bar and brand activation space in Wembley Park, northwest London, available for short-term rental with exposed red brick, dark green and white tiling, hardwood floors and soft furnishings in an old Irish pub idiom. Capacity is 45 guests seated and standing across one self-contained room.…
city
Wembley Park
area
44 sqm
day rate
£600 / day
postcode
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use cases
cocktail reception · private event · corporate event
included
Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

This space is designed with an old Irish aesthetic, providing a comfortable atmosphere for any occasion. It features a fully equipped kitchen and bar, complemented by dark green and white tiles that pair beautifully with the exposed red brick walls. The hardwood floors and soft furnishings enhance the inviting ambiance. Additional amenities include internet access, air conditioning, a security system, stock room, counters, fitting rooms, garment rack, lighting, furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, an elevator, and the kitchen.

the fwv take

Book this Wembley Park basement for an invite-only collection launch or after-hours cocktail reception, because the fully equipped bar and commercial kitchen mean the hospitality element runs in-house rather than through an external caterer eating half the budget.

The room's real asset is the pre-installed retail infrastructure sitting behind the bar service: fitting rooms, garment rails, service counters and a lockable stock room let a 45-person guest list event convert into a working press day venue or sample sale space the following morning without a single day of build, while the exposed red brick, dark green tiling and hardwood floors give you a finished set that needs lighting rather than fabrication.

Aesthetically and commercially this belongs to founder-led menswear, denim and workwear labels, terrace-culture streetwear, knitwear, footwear and craft spirits or provenance-led grooming brands at three to twenty people and one to six years of trading, and we would be direct about the limit: a luxury maison seeking a Mayfair-adjacent white cube for an international buyer list should be looking at more central spaces in London, because a basement with no daylight and no street frontage will not carry that positioning.

In our experience four to six weeks is enough lead time for a standard week here, but the February and September fashion week windows want ten to twelve, and the operational quirk worth knowing is that dates also vanish around stadium and arena nights, so cross-check the event calendar before you commit and use our activation timeline to work backwards from your launch date.

what's included

  • Internet
  • Air Conditioning
  • Security System
  • Stock Room
  • Counters
  • Fitting Rooms
  • Garment Rack
  • Lighting
  • Furniture
  • Sound & Video Equipment
  • Electricity
  • Heating
  • Parking
  • Elevator
  • Kitchen

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how to book this space

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 44 sqm floor plan and amenities for Inviting Venue with Fully Equipped Kitchen and Bar, then note the window you want in Wembley Park. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.

  2. 02

    Send the brief

    Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €720 per day.

  3. 03

    Get availability and a quote

    We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Wembley Park.

  4. 04

    Lock the contract

    Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.

  5. 05

    Build and open

    Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Wembley Park.

use cases

cocktail receptionprivate eventcorporate eventnetworking event

location

plotting…
wembley park·51.5613° · -0.2839°

what's around

12 stores within 600 m, incl. Coral, Londis, Lidl

brands nearby

CoralLondisLidlJD SportscurrysPremier InnMoobooUrban Rose BeautySpecsaversBlack Sheep CoffeeStarbucksBread AheadSainsbury's LocalCosta
fashion stores
8
beauty
3
department stores
1
culture
1
hotels
3
cafés
10
restaurants & bars
11
other retail
23
  • Concord Newsagents70 m
  • Massage Therapy70 m
  • Coral80 m
  • Ecco'la90 m
  • Sara's Kitchen110 m
  • Capital120 m

the neighbourhood

Sportswear labels, streetwear brands, music and entertainment marketing teams and event production companies are the operators who genuinely use Wembley Park, and the ecosystem here looks nothing like a central London creative quarter. The working population is built around the stadium and arena calendar: activation crews servicing match days and concert nights, content teams shooting athlete and artist campaigns, agency satellite desks around Olympic Way and Engineers Way, and rehearsal and studio space clustered toward the Brent Civic Centre end. Fresh Arts and the independent operators along Wembley Hill Road provide a modest but real cultural layer, while London Designer Outlet five minutes south keeps Nike, New Balance, ASICS, Clarks, Religion and Phase Eight retail teams on the ground daily. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, the ones who succeed treat it as an audience and scale play rather than a fashion district address, using the room as a showroom space, press day location or launch venue tied to something already happening nearby. If you are weighing this against more established creative postcodes, it is worth cross-checking other spaces in London before locking a date.

Cost per square metre and access to event-scale crowds are the two reasons brands choose Wembley Park over Shoreditch, Soho, Mayfair or King's Cross. A 44 sqm licensed venue with a full kitchen and bar at £600 per day simply does not exist at that rate in Hackney or Fitzrovia, and the gap is not marginal. What you gain is affordability across multiple days, on-site parking for load in, step-free access via elevator, a Jubilee and Metropolitan line station with fast links to Bond Street and West End hotel clusters, and the option to time a brand activation to a stadium or arena night when the district fills with tens of thousands of people. What you give up is the editorial credibility of a Marylebone or Mayfair address during London Fashion Week and walking proximity to press and buyer hotels in the centre. This works well as a cocktail reception venue, sample sale space, content studio or short-term commercial space for a founder-led label with a North and West London following. It works less well as a fashion presentation space for a fly-in international buyer list. Our venue sourcing team consistently steers brands here when the budget needs to stretch across a week rather than fund one prestige day.

Arriving here for a press day means a short walk from the station past newsagents, convenience stores, a betting shop and a run of independent restaurants including Sara's Kitchen, Mezze Grill and Wembley Tandoori, so the block reads as everyday residential high street rather than curated retail. The space itself sits at basement level, which removes street visibility entirely but returns something useful: a controlled, self-contained room with dark green tiling, exposed brick and hardwood floors that photographs warmly and holds around 45 people comfortably. Mornings are quiet and functional, mostly residents and guests walking down from the Novotel and Premier Inn. Afternoons and evenings pick up considerably, and on event days the pedestrian flow along Olympic Way changes the character of the whole district within an hour. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that the room performs best for invite-only, ticketed or appointment-based formats where you control who arrives and when. Be honest about the limitation: this is not a location for spontaneous walk-in traffic, high-volume tourist retail or brands needing street frontage, because a basement bar will never generate passing discovery. Model attendance with the ROI estimator before committing to multiple days.

getting here & street life

nearest transit

  • Wembley Parkmetro376 m · 5 min
  • Wembley Stadiumrail781 m · 10 min
  • Empire Waybus · 5938081 m · 1 min
  • Fulton Roadbus · 7604090 m · 1 min
  • Manor Drivebus155 m · 2 min
  • Wembley Arenabus · 75070211 m · 3 min

street activity

high footfall.

12 places within 200 m · 35 stores · 21 cafés and restaurants

within 200 m
12
within 400 m
31
within 600 m
60

the neighbourhood

Fountain Studios was an independently owned television studio in Wembley Park, north-west London, England. The company was last part of the Avesco Group plc.

  • Elite Cinema, Wembley Park · 293 m
  • Brent Civic Centre · 301 m
  • Olympic Way · 322 m
  • Wembley Stadium Bowl · 352 m
  • Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics · 356 m

frequently asked

Yes — Inviting Venue with Fully Equipped Kitchen and Bar is a vetted pop-up ready space in Wembley Park, 44 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.

who it suits

Brand Scale

This space fits a brand with a 3 to 20 person team, roughly 1 to 6 years of trading, and an established DTC audience or a small wholesale book of 10 to 40 stockists. At 44 sqm with a 45 person capacity, a full kitchen, a bar, fitting rooms, a stock room and counters already installed, it carries a guest list event and a working showroom without any structural build, which is the economics that suit a brand running its activation calendar in house rather than through a production agency. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is the founder led label with a North and West London community it can physically pull into a room. Where we see mismatches is when a heritage house or a listed group books it for a global press day, expecting 120 attendees and press pen space, or when a first season brand with no mailing list takes a basement in Wembley Park and finds passing footfall does not compensate. Brands needing a Zone 1 postcode for editor attendance should compare spaces in London more centrally before enquiring.

Aesthetic Fit

Brands with a heritage, craft or workwear visual language read strongly here. Exposed red brick, dark green and white tiling, hardwood floors and soft furnishings in an old Irish pub idiom support denim, selvedge and workwear labels, British menswear and tailoring, knitwear, outerwear, terrace and football culture streetwear, leather goods, footwear, craft spirits and beer, and grooming or fragrance lines built on provenance storytelling. The bar and kitchen let the brand story extend into food and drink rather than treating hospitality as an add on. What does not work is the minimal white cube identity. A clean line contemporary label, a pastel resort collection, a clinical beauty brand or a gallery style conceptual presentation will fight the brick and the wood in every frame, and as a basement there is no daylight to soften it. Colour heavy Gen Z brands can work only if the palette is deliberately set against the dark green, not layered over it. If the interior needs neutralising rather than using, budget for branded store design or look elsewhere.

Best Use Cases

First choice is the cocktail reception or collection launch party, because the fully equipped bar, kitchen, sound and video equipment and 45 person capacity mean the space runs an evening without external catering infrastructure. Second is the press day and collection preview, since fitting rooms, garment rails, a stock room and counters are already in place and turn the room into a working fashion showroom within a day. Third is the sample sale or short run temporary retail, where the stock room, counters, fitting rooms and secure entry handle stock control and queue flow in a compact footprint. Fourth is wholesale appointments, as the seated soft furnishing areas support buyer conversations across a full day with catering on site. Fifth is content studio use, where the brick, tile and hardwood give a finished set that needs lighting rather than build. Sixth is community and networking programming, dinners, panels or workshops, supported by parking, an elevator and heating. Seventh is a corporate or partner hosting night where the pub atmosphere does the hospitality work for you.

Budget Signal

This sits in the accessible to mid tier band for London event and retail hire, materially below Soho, Shoreditch or Mayfair equivalents and priced for outer London rather than a prime commercial address. What the money buys is fit out you would otherwise pay to install: a licensed style bar, a commercial kitchen, fitting rooms, garment rails, a stock room, sound and video equipment, air conditioning, heating, security and parking. Against a hotel event space you avoid minimum spend on F&B and gain full control of the room. Against a co-working venue you gain the retail infrastructure that most co-working sites simply do not have. Against a shared pop-up format you gain exclusivity and a full day of build access. Brands at this stage typically find the true cost sits in staffing, stock and promotion rather than hire, so model the full picture with our budget calculator before committing to a multi day booking.

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