Dining and drinks
Request a table
For a planned dinner, cocktails, or a personal visit with a small party, begin with a restaurant request. You can also tell us if you hope to make the card lounge part of the shape of your evening.
Request a table01 Reservation desk
Plan an evening with room to unfold.
Reservations and FAQ is your practical guide to Gilded Card House: a contemporary Australian restaurant and modern architectural supper club for chef-led dining, cocktails, social gatherings, and a dedicated offline poker and card-lounge experience. Start with the visit you are imagining, then choose the clearest path for your table or occasion.
Groups and occasions
Private booking
For birthdays, corporate gatherings, social groups, or a more tailored format, send a private booking brief. A little context gives the team a clearer place to begin the conversation.
Enquire about a private booking
02 The planning flow
How planning an evening works
A considered visit begins with the occasion, then leaves room for the table, the pace of dinner, and any interest in cards.
Begin with the occasion
Start with the kind of evening you are planning: dining, cocktails, cards, a celebration, or a work gathering. Sharing the shape of the occasion helps you choose between a restaurant request and a private booking brief without forcing the evening into a preset format.
Shape the table
A dining request can include a preferred date and time, party details, dietary considerations, and whether you are imagining drinks or a longer supper-club rhythm. For a tailored group occasion, the private route gives more room to explain what matters.
Add the card lounge
If you are interested in an in-person card-lounge visit or a hosted poker evening, mention it in your enquiry. The lounge is a social companion to dining and cocktails, centred on conversation, shared presence, and considerate table rhythm.
Receive considered next steps
The appropriate team can respond to the details you share and help direct a dining, lounge, or private occasion enquiry. For a birthday, corporate gathering, or tailored format, include the context early so the conversation starts in the right place.
Ready to begin? Request a table for a dining visit or move to the private booking request for a group occasion.
03 The evening
Dinner, cocktails, then cards
The restaurant and lounge can sit in the same night, while each remains a distinct part of the experience.
Set the table first
Gilded Card House is a complete contemporary Australian dining experience in its own right. Food and cocktails set the pace, creating a polished supper-club atmosphere with space for an unhurried meal, conversation, and the particular mood of the people around the table.
Move into a social second act
The dedicated card lounge is an offline, in-person setting where physical cards, tables, conversation, and considerate table rhythm take focus. If that sounds right for your visit, simply signal your interest in an enquiry rather than assuming it forms part of every dining reservation.
Leave room for the occasion
A combined evening may suit a date night, social catch-up, birthday, or hosted group when it is planned with the right context. For larger groups or an idea that needs a more tailored discussion, begin with a private booking brief.
04 Restaurant reservation
Restaurant table request
Send a request for a planned dining visit at Gilded Card House. Use this form for a standard table, with an optional note about cocktails or an interest in the card lounge. Your details begin a request for the team to consider; private occasions are best sent through the separate group brief below.
Prefer a direct planning conversation? Call +61 2 8015 7642 or email [email protected].
A short note about the occasion, food considerations, or the dinner-and-lounge flow you are imagining helps the team understand the visit. It is useful context, not a promise of a particular arrangement.
05 Private occasions
Occasions with room to shape
Private bookings are the right starting point when a birthday, corporate gathering, social group, or combined dining-and-lounge idea needs a more tailored discussion. Share a clear brief and the team can begin from the purpose, people, and pace of the occasion rather than a generic event template.
Birthday gatherings
Mark the occasion your way
A birthday host can share a preferred date, dining intention, estimated group size, and whether a longer social rhythm or lounge interest is part of the idea. A considered brief gives the conversation a useful starting point.
Corporate groups
Bring the purpose
Corporate hosts can begin with the gathering’s purpose, guest estimate, preferred timing, dining needs, and desired social format. The emphasis is on practical planning and conversation-led hosting around the people attending.
Dinner and lounge
Describe the full rhythm
If you are considering dinner, cocktails, and the offline card lounge together, say so early. The lounge is a social, in-person part of the house, and that context helps frame the private enquiry.
06 Before you arrive
Bring the shape of your evening
Location
Find the house
Planning support
Speak with the team
Phone
+61 2 8015 7642
Email
[email protected]
07 Dining and visit FAQ
Questions for the table
A few clear answers for diners deciding how to plan a restaurant visit.
Yes. Use the restaurant reservation request to share a preferred date, time, group size, and the nature of your visit. Sending those details begins a request rather than an instant confirmation, and it gives the team a clear sense of what you are planning. If your visit needs a more tailored group discussion, the private booking brief is the more useful place to start.
Gilded Card House brings contemporary Australian dining and cocktails together in a modern architectural supper-club setting. The restaurant experience remains the centre of the visit, whether you are planning a meal, drinks, or both. In your request note, you are welcome to describe the rhythm you have in mind, so the enquiry reflects the kind of evening you hope to share.
Yes. The reservation request includes room for a note, and dietary considerations are useful context to share there. Clear detail helps the team understand your enquiry from the beginning. This page does not make assumptions about individual arrangements, so use the note to explain what is relevant to your visit and allow the team to respond with the appropriate next conversation.
It is designed around occasion-led social evenings where dining, cocktails, and conversation can sit together. A date night, catch-up, or celebration may each call for a different pace, and you can mention that in your request. For guests curious about a second act after dinner, read more about dinner, cocktails, then cards and include lounge interest in the enquiry.
For a birthday, corporate gathering, or tailored group occasion, use the private booking form. It gives you space to include a preferred date, estimated group size, dining priorities, and the purpose of the gathering. That fuller picture is a clearer starting point than a standard table request when the occasion needs coordination around more than one table.
08 Card lounge FAQ
The lounge, in person
First-time guests can approach the card lounge as a social room for physical cards, attentive company, and generous table manners.
The card lounge is a dedicated, physical and offline social setting within Gilded Card House. It is centred on tables, cards, conversation, and the polished supper-club atmosphere of being present together in the room. Architectural light, a considered table rhythm, and in-person company matter more here than spectacle: card culture is treated as hospitality, ritual, and shared conversation.
The lounge is social, and respectful participation matters more than projecting expertise. Attention to the table, courtesy toward fellow guests and hosts, and a willingness to understand the format all help make the room comfortable. If you are deciding whether a particular visit may suit you, mention that in a reservation or private enquiry and ask the team for guidance on the most appropriate starting point.
It means the experience takes place in person, around physical tables and cards, with guests present in the room rather than participating through a digital product. The emphasis is on table rhythm and company. It can be a companion to a restaurant visit, so see the dinner-and-cards flow and include your interest when you make an enquiry.
Expect the same consideration that makes a good shared dinner feel easy: arrive attentive, respect fellow guests and hosts, follow the table’s guidance, and keep conversation considerate of the people around you. There is no need to turn etiquette into a performance. It is simply a way of protecting collective comfort and allowing the shared pace of the evening to unfold naturally.
Include your interest in a hosted poker evening in a restaurant reservation request or a private booking brief, along with the context for your visit. A personal dining enquiry and a host’s group brief call for different details, so naming the occasion, preferred timing, and group context where relevant helps direct the conversation without assuming a particular format.
09 Group FAQ
For hosts gathering people
A private brief gives birthdays, corporate gatherings, and social groups a clearer path into a considered conversation.
Yes. Birthday celebrations are among the occasions the private booking route is designed to discuss. Begin with a preferred date, estimated group size, dining intention, and the tone you are hoping to create. If the card lounge is part of the idea, include that too. Those early details help make the enquiry useful without reducing the celebration to a fixed template.
Corporate gatherings can begin through a private booking enquiry. Outline the purpose of the group, preferred timing, estimated size, and the dining or social flow you are considering. Gilded Card House approaches hosting through hospitality and conversation, so a clear sense of the people gathering and the feeling you want to create is more helpful than a generic event label alone.
Hosts may describe an interest in combining chef-led dining, cocktails, and the offline card-lounge experience when they send a private brief. Sharing that early helps frame the conversation around the full rhythm of the occasion. The lounge remains a social, in-person setting, and this page does not assume a standard inclusion or arrangement; the useful first step is simply to explain the idea.
Include host details, the occasion, a preferred date, estimated group size, desired dining rhythm, any lounge interest, and priorities worth discussing. Think of the brief as useful context rather than a policy list. It gives the team a way to understand what you are planning and starts a more focused discussion than a short, unframed note.
10 Still deciding?
Choose the clearest starting point
A standard dining visit can begin with a table request. A birthday, corporate gathering, social group, or tailored dinner-and-lounge idea belongs in a private booking brief. If you are still weighing the two, a short description of the occasion will point the conversation in the right direction.
Dining, drinks, a planned visit
Restaurant reservation
For a personal dining visit or a small party, start with the table request and share the rhythm you have in mind.
Request a tableBirthdays, groups, tailored ideas
Private booking
For corporate gatherings, birthdays, groups, or a combined occasion, begin with a fuller private brief.
Start a private booking briefPrefer to speak first? Call +61 2 8015 7642 or email [email protected].