Covent Garden

• Camino are opening Pintxito - a new pintxo bar in Covent Garden

  

  It's a busy old year for Spanish restaurant folk Camino who have just spent the last few months buying up several of London's Iberica restaurants out of administration (the Farringdon and Victoria Iberica will both become Camino as a result). But they're also working on something brand new too - a pintxo bar in Covent Garden.

• MEATliquor are opening BLOODsports bar and Hideout Coffee in Covent Garden

  

  It's been a while since we had anything new in from the team behind MEATliquor, so it's fair to say we're looking forward to seeing what they have planned for their next venture in Covent Garden. From a peruse of their socials it looks like Londoners are getting a two-for-one with both BLOODsports and Hideout Coffee opening in the same spot. The space itself used to be Circus so it's a cavernous underground

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• Officina 00's next pasta restaurant is in Covent Garden

  

  13/12/24 - updated with more opening details

  One of London's best pasta restaurants is gearing up for a new opening. They already have popular restaurants on Old Street and in Fitzrovia, and now Officina 00 are going even more central for their next

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• Test Driving Delamina Townhouse - a cornucopia of good things in Covent Garden

  

  Tourists and theatregoers in Covent Garden now have a really good restaurant on their doorstep to try, with the latest restaurant from the Delamina Group.

• Delamina Townhouse is opening in Covent Garden

  

  Updated 28/10/24 with soft launch details

  They already have the original Delamina in Marylebone and Delamina East in Shoreditch and now restaurateurs Limor and Amir Chen are adding a third restaurant to the group. Delamina Townhouse will launch in Covent Garden (taking over the Volto do Mar space). 

  As with their previous restaurants, the Townhouse will have an Eastern

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• Yari Club lets the robots do the yakitori cooking

  

  Updated 9/10/24 with revised opening date

  What's the next step for yakitori restaurants? Getting the robots in, of course. That's what Yari Club has planned for St Martin's Lane.

  The new restaurant needs a little help from those pesky humans though. Once an order is placed, the staff will load a machine with the skewers, then the robot takes over. Over five minutes, it will

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• The best restaurants in Covent Garden

  

  Covent Garden has improved hugely as a food destination so much that there's almost too much choice. With that in mind, here are the very best restaurants in Covent Garden to focus on

• The Oystermen

  Seafood in Covent Garden

• The Barbary Next Door

  Mini wine-bar sibling to The Barbary

• Brother Marcus are taking their Eastern Med plates to Covent Garden

  

  1/9/24 - updated with the opening date

  Brother Marcus, which has already opened in Islington, Spitalfields, Borough and Kensington, are getting ready to open their fifth restaurant. This time, it's in Covent Garden and will be the latest opening in The Yards development. They'll be taking over the site that was Miscusi and more recently hosted the Prelude by Oriole

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• Monmouth Street Wines is the new wine bar pop up from The Oystermen duo

  

  We'll confess we had no idea that Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton - the duo better known as The Oystermen - had opened a wine bar called Bedford Street Wines in Covent Garden a few years back. But you live and learn and now the pair are at it again. They're just about to launch a pop-up wine bar and bottle shop, Monmouth Street Wines, in Covent Garden's Seven Dials.

  They've taken over the corner site at the

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• London gets its own Guinness Storehouse, in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard

  

  Updated 30/12/23 with new 2024 date

  Following in the footsteps of Dublin and Edinburgh, London is the next capital city to get its own huge city-centre brewery/distillery. Guinness announced they're spending £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

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• Test Driving Ukiyo - hand rolls, sushi and sake on tap in Covent Garden

  

  Covent Garden gets a very useful little sushi spot with the opening of Japanese hand roll bar Ukiyo in The Yards.

• Test Driving Henri - Jackson Boxer recreates Paris in Covent Garden

  

  Jackson Boxer has taken over the restaurant at a Covent Garden hotel to create Henri, his own take on a Parisian Bistro. We went down to get a slice of France in the heart of London.

• Oriole's permanent bar and restaurant comes to Covent Garden, mixing Latin American food with complex cocktails

   

  It's been popping up as Prelude for the past few months but now award-winning bar Oriole is getting ready to move into its shiny new digs in Covent Garden. And like the pop-up, this permanent Oriole is as much a restaurant as it is a bar. 

  Split across two floors, the main restaurant and bar is in the basement, reminiscent of

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