Updated 13/10/25 with news of the restaurant spaces
it's been a while coming but soon, following in the footsteps of Dublin and Edinburgh, London is the next capital city to get its own huge city-centre brewery/distillery. Guinness have apparently spent £73 million building Guinness at Old Brewer’s Yard in Covent Garden.
As the name suggests, the arrival of a brewery on this particular spot sees history coming full circle, as the space was once home to a brewery back in the day. Now, it's part of a tangle of shops and restaurants that link Langley and Mercer Street to the north of Long Acre.
When the place opens, there will be a microbrewery, which you can tour around, producing limited edition beers. There'll also be a central covered courtyard hosting events. Obviously, a key tourist attraction like this has to have a shop and the Guinness store will sell special limited edition items. A mezzanine-level taproom has also been promised. Plus, if you really love making, drinking and serving beer, this will be the flagship site for Guinness's London training programme.
Now, according to trade publication Propel, we also have news about the restaurants in the space. Apparently Company of Cooks are the team that will be responsible for those. They've been in charge of running restaurants like Jose Pizarro at the RA, as well as the recently opened Angela Hartnett restaurant at the Royal Opera House. At Brewer's Yard, they'll be in charge of two of the courtyard restaurants The Porters Table and Gilroy’s Loft - and at the moment, that's all we know about them.
Originally, the plan was to have a rooftop bar and restaurant with an open-fire kitchen, similar to the Dublin site. We're still waiting to hear more about that.
The building is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year and while an opening date hasn't been announced, they look to be working towards a December reveal.
More about Guinness at Old Brewer’s Yard
Where is it? Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9PU
When? December 2025
Find out more: Follow them on Instagram @guinnessgb
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