Covent Garden

• BungaTINI pizzeria and all day bar opens its doors in Covent Garden

  

  There’s now wood-fired pizza, cured meats, pastas and Italian treats-a-plenty up for grabs in Covent Garden, thanks to BungaTINI which has just opened its doors.

  It’s the sister restaurant to Bunga Bunga, making it the second offering from its general manager Matthew Richardson, who also managed Venetian small plate institution Polpo.

  There’ll be several menus on offer to suit your mood, depending

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• Casual and fun Cinnamon Bazaar to open in Covent Garden

  

  4/11/16 - updated with soft launch details

  If you’ve always dreamed of visiting Westminster’s majestic Cinnamon Club, but haven’t yet found the right special occasion/outfit/windfall to revel in all its old world plushness, you’re in luck. Coming soon to Covent Garden is another addition to the Cinnamon family, the Cinnamon Bazaar.

  Setting itself apart as a far more relaxed restaurant than its Cinnamon counterparts, the Bazaar will be

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• Test Driving Margot in Covent Garden - a classic Italian restaurant with top notch service

  We Test Drive Margot, an Italian restaurant bringing a little of Mayfair service to Covent Garden.

• Bread Ahead to open second shop in Seven Dials, plus new artisan baking classes

  

  Keeping London stocked with quality British baking - that’s the mission of bakery Bread Ahead, who’ll be opening their second shop in Seven Dials this October following the ongoing success of their Borough Market branch. Expect to see lots of their famous sugary doughnuts - great for those who’ve accepted welcomed carbs back into their lives with open arms. We hear their Vanilla Custard; Salted Caramel custard and Honeycomb; and Homemade Jam doughnuts will

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• Robert De Niro to open the Wellington Hotel in Covent Garden

  

  So Robert De Niro has just been given the go-ahead to open his first hotel in London (his third after New York and the Philippines). Here's what you need to know about it.

  • It's in Covent Garden - the new hotel will take over a triangular block between Wellington Street, Tavistock Street, Burleigh Street and Exeter Street. The address will give the hotel its name, the Wellington.
  • Expect it to be pretty darned big - the plans submitted to
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• Chick n Sours is coming to Seven Dials

  

  16/8/16 - updated with an opening date and LOTS more of the menu.
  

  We unashamedly LOVE Chick 'n' Sours. Everything we've had there from the AMAZING Szechuan aubergine dish to the massive deep fried whole chicken hasn't failed to thrill. Our only regret is not making it out to Dalston enough - so

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• Milk Train Cafe are doing a candyfloss soft serve in Covent Garden

  

  When they say a picture's worth a thousand words this one really is. I mean soft serve ice-cream on top of a cloud of candy floss, what more is there to say?

  This new ice-cream spot in Covent Garden is brought to you by the couple who did Nice Ice shaved Japanese ice. They're serving up three types of soft serve - vanilla, matcha and hojicha (green tea). Oh and they're putting it on a whole heap of candyfloss.

  Milk Train Cafe is open at 44 Bedford

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• Test Driving The Barbary - Barbary Coast hospitality in Neal's Yard

  Enjoy the hustle and bustle of this sister restaurant to The Palomar

• The Barbary in Neal's Yard is the next restaurant from The Palomar team

  

  Hot Dinners Exclusive

  Forgive us if we just get a little bit freaking excited about the news we're bringing you today. Yes, we have the exclusive scoop on what the team at The Palomar are doing next.

  The Barbary will be their new restaurant and it's opening its doors in June in Neal's Yard. It's early days yet and we have just few details to whet your appetite. They'll be taking Londoners on a gastronomic tour from the Barbary Coast of

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• Balthazar London have just launched a Bobbi Brown afternoon tea

  

  We can't go a week without hearing about some new innovative take on afternoon tea and this week's story comes courtesy of Balthazar which has just launched a Bobbi Brown tea.

  The tea ties in with the cosmetic giant's 25th anniversary. So there's a chocolate and sharp blackberry Sachertorte for the Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner, Shimmer Bricks are made with champagne-infused rhubarb with orange and ginger cream, and redcurrant & lemon posset macarons are

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• Encant tapas restaurant in Covent Garden will be Bravas Tapas chef's first solo venture

  

   

   

  Updated with confirmed opening date. 

  We (and a lot of other people) were big fans of Tower Bridge Spanish spot Bravas Tapas, so news that the restaurant's co-founder Victor Garvey was opening his first solo venture gladdens our hearts. Opening in February in

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• Sheekey's Oyster Bar to host all-female guest chef series

  

  There's an interesting series of chefs hitting Sheekey's oyster bar in 2016 and they all have one thing in common, they're women.

  The all-female guest chef series will run at the bar throughout the Spring and Summer and they've already announced the first three chefs who'll be cooking alongside resident executive chef Andy McLay. Rosie Birkett, Olia Hercules and Anna Jones also have another thing in common - they all began their careers as a writer and stylist, which

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• Bodean's take over from Mishkin's on Catherine Street

  

  Clearly it's a 'cue kind of day. Hot on the heels of our news that Bukowski Grill were opening their third restaurant, this time in Soho - comes news that Bodean's are opening their seventh place, in Covent Garden. They'll be taking over the space previously occupied by Russell Norman's Mishkin's.

  And while the 60 seat restaurant will serve

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• Honest Burgers launch in Covent Garden, team up with Rib Man

  

  Burger purveyors Honest Burgers are continuing their gradual takeover of London with their latest opening - this time in Covent Garden.

  They'll have the usual array of burgers and rosemary fries, and there'll be some special launch days action too. From 25-27 January 2016, the first 100 burgers each day will be free from 11.30. 

  And that's not all, as they've a

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• Flat Iron plans huge new restaurant for Henrietta Street in Covent Garden

  

  Updated 26/11/15 with soft launch details

  We've been big fans of Flat Iron since its early days as a pop-up so news that they're expanding to a massive new Covent Garden restaurant before the end of the year fills us with good cheer.

  The new restaurant on Henrietta Street is going to have room for 180 diners - three times as many as their other places on Beak St and Denmark St. And, as they have so much space to play with, they've got some new features

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