Covent Garden

• 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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• Ukiyo are serving up Japanese hand rolls in Covent Garden

  

  It's been three years since London's first dedicated Japanese hand roll restaurant (Temaki, in case you're wondering) opened in Brixton. Now we've got a new one to try, this time in Covent Garden. Ukiyo is a counter dining spot in The Yards development in Covent Garden that's serving up temaki and sashmi. The chef behind it definitely knows what he's doing - Konstantin Tskhay used to be head chef at

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• Humble Crumble is coming to Seven Dials

  

  Humble Crumble is a dessert shop that serves exactly what you think - various pots of steamed fruit covered with crumble and done extremely well. Since originally starting as a pop-up, they've been hugely popular and now have stalls in Camden and Borough as well as a Spitalfields shop. And now they're coming to central London. 

  They're opening in Seven Dials near Covent Garden, so if you're in the need

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• Sainsbury's are putting on a bargain picnic venue the weather can't spoil

  

  There's no getting away from the fact that, so far, it has been a dismal summer. And there's one activity that the poor weather is guaranteed to mess with which is the great British picnic. Luckily for us, the supermarket giant Sainsbury's has come up with a wheeze that for one weekend at least means Londoners will be able to picnic without worrying about rain stopping the fun.

  They're putting up a

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• Henri bistro from Jackson Boxer to open in Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel

  

  5/6/24 - updated with menu details

  Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel has always been at the cutting edge of fine dining, the 19th-century townhouse opening in 2017 with Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous at its restaurant before he moved on to ...

• Doughnation are bringing potato pizza to Covent Garden

  

  Maybe hoping they'll get the same kind of queues that Alley Cats do, a brand new pizza spot is opening in Covent Garden. Doughnation will be at 3 Henrietta Street, taking over part of the ground floor where Gentlemen Baristas used to be, as well as a terrace on the piazza. 

  Details on exactly what those all pizzas are going to be are being kept a little under wraps for now. However, 

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• Test Driving Thirty7 - The Oystermen's affordable neighbourhood bistro in Covent Garden

  

  The Oystermen have just opened a new bistro (where it's not all about seafood) right around the corner from their original restaurant. We went down to take a look at Thirty7. 

• Maison Bab and Kebab Queen

  Kebabs upstairs and down - but quite different...

• Ave Mario

  Big Mamma's Covent Garden Italian

• Greek hotel group Ergon House are opening a hotel and rooftop restaurant in Covent Garden

  

  Lots of big developments are happening around Covent Garden at the moment. Later on this year, we should be getting the new Guinness Storehouse and now, here comes news about a big new hotel coming to the area. 

  That will be

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• Aguamiel are bringing Mexican churros to Covent Garden

  

  25/3/24 - Updated with the opening date

  Billed as a London 'first' the arrival of Mexican churreria Aguamiel aims to introduce Londoners to the joys of Mexican churros. If, like us, you weren't sure what the difference was between Spanish and Mexican doughnuts, then let owner Bernardo enlighten you.

  "The main difference between Mexican churros and Spanish is the way they are eaten and presented,"

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• Next up from The Oystermen is thirty7 in Covent Garden

  

  29/2/24 - updated with more details about the opening

  They already have a successful restaurant in Covent Garden (which also doubled in size after opening) as well as a wine bar and now The Oystermen, Matt Lovell & Rob Hampton, are gearing up for another. 

  The new restaurant (and cocktail bar) is called thirty7, as it's on 37 Bedford Street (taking over an old

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