The Brantford Club · The Table

Private Dining in Brantford

The Brantford Club is a private business and social club at 98 George Street, and its dining rooms have been serving the same address since 1898. A private dinner here is a member’s evening: a room of the house, a menu planned with the kitchen, and guests brought in at your side. The house itself is an Italianate residence built around 1855, older than the City of Brantford, and dinner has been part of its work from the beginning; the Club opened on the last night of 1898 with refreshments against the winter cold.

What does private dining at The Brantford Club look like?

A private dinner at The Brantford Club takes one of the house’s own rooms: a table set for your party, a menu settled with the kitchen beforehand, and service that belongs to your evening rather than to a public floor. There is no walk-through traffic and no second seating waiting for the table. Lunch runs the same way on a smaller scale, which is how a good deal of Brantford’s business has been settled since 1898. The evening is arranged by email or a phone call, and the details, the room, the courses, the hour, are a conversation rather than a form.

The Rooms That Dine

A Menu from Chef Eric Wasylenky

The kitchen at The Brantford Club runs under executive chef Eric Wasylenky, from a working lunch to full evening service, and the menu follows the season. The Club’s signature Churchill Pork Chops carry the name of the house’s most famous guest, and the seasonal menu shows what the kitchen is serving now. For a private dinner the menu is planned with you: courses chosen ahead, the table’s preferences taken at booking, and the kitchen told your party’s needs before the first plate is set.

The Member’s Table

Private dining is one of the standing privileges of the roll. Members have the house through the year, the dining room at lunch, the bar after work, and the calendar of club evenings, and they bring guests into the rooms at their side. A private dinner extends that same table to your own occasion: the host signs for the evening, and the house does the rest. If the table interests you beyond one evening, the roll is kept on the membership page, and asking is one email.

Some rooms in Brantford serve dinner; this one has been keeping the habit since 1898.

Worth the Drive

Hosts come to The Brantford Club from Brantford and Brant County, and from Paris, St. George, Cambridge, Ancaster, and Burlington. A private dining room in a c. 1855 house is not something every city keeps, and the table has been reason enough for the drive since the roads were worse.

Questions hosts ask about private dining

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