Covent Garden

• Covent Garden winebar Lady of the Grapes will showcase female winemakers with food by Rambla restaurateur

  Taking over the space where Encant was, Lady of the Grapes will be a wine bar, shop and restaurant focusing on wines created by female winemakers and will food by restaurateur Victor Garvey.

• Test Driving Temper Covent Garden - Neil Rankin's winning pizza joint

  Neil Rankin is back with his third Temper - this time in Covent Garden - and it's all about pizza. We head along to see how he's put his stamp on it.

• Fresh pasta restaurant Bancone comes to Covent Garden with ex Locanda Locatelli talent

  The latest promising pasta spot heads to Covent Garden. Bancone features a chef who trained in Locanda Locatelli and plenty of 10-hour cooked ragus.

• Eneko Basque Kitchen & Bar

  Top Spanish chef Eneko Atxa's London restaurant

• Little Kolkata goes permanent in Covent Garden

  Little Kolkata has been a successful supperclub specialising in Bengali cuisine. Now they're settling down with a permanent restaurant in Covent Garden with a bigger menu, new dishes and more.

• Test Driving The Petersham - the Richmond nurseries bring their A game to Covent Garden

  One of two new restaurants opened up by the Boglione family in the heart of Covent Garden - this mixes British seasonal produce with an Italian aesthetic.

• Joe Allen puts its off-menu burger on the menu for a month-long burger series with guest chefs

  

  For years, the off menu burger at Joe Allen has been one of the worst kept secrets on the London restaurant scene. I mean, it may have been off menu but at any given time you'd easily have found half the tables in the restaurant ordering it.

  And for four weeks next month the burger will actually appear on the menu as the Covent Garden restaurant celebrates

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• Henrietta Bistro will take over from Ollie Dabbous at the Henrietta Hotel

  As Ollie Dabbous focuses his attention on his new restaurant Hide, the boutique hotel where he ran Henrietta will now be opening a more informal restaurant with the former Head Chef of Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels at the helm.

• Cora Pearl in Covent Garden will be the new restaurant from the Kitty Fisher's team - updated

  Following on the success of their Shepherd Market restaurant, the team behind Kitty Fisher's have announced that their second restaurant will be on Covent Garden's Henrietta Street

• The Lebanese Bakery are bringing their flatbreads from Beirut to Covent Garden

  Originally a hit in Beirut, the Lebanese Bakery is coming a long way for its second restaurant - to Covent Garden. Set up by two brothers, expect Lebanese flatbreads to be the main draw.

• Grays and Feather are opening a sparkling wine bar in Covent Garden

  With a wine merchants business and a stall on the South Bank under their belt, Grays and Feather are getting ready to open their first wine bar. And it's all devoted to sparkling wines.

• Neil Rankin's third temper (this time with pizza) is coming to Covent Garden's Mercers Walk - updated

  Neil Rankin's  temper restaurant once again reinvents itself, this time the fire-based chain will focus on pizzas with an extensive list of vermouths too.

• Old Chang Kee are bringing their famous curry puffs to London

  Singapore's famous curry puff house is opening its first UK restaurant in Covent Garden serving up the signature puffs alongside curry and laksa.

• Test Driving Jidori in Covent Garden - yakitori and much more besides

  We head to Covent Garden to see what's new at the second Jidori. 

• Wanted to book lunch at Barrafina? Here's your chance...

  

  We do love Barrafina - but we're not great fans of queuing/waiting for tables. So if you've wanted to try the restaurant but haven't had the time/patience, then their new monthly bookable Friday lunches - held in the Adelaide Street private dining room - might be just what you need. 

  On the first Friday of every month, they'll be running special lunch events, Arroz Friday - where they'll be

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