Covent Garden

• Prelude by Oriole is popping up in Covent Garden, then the bar is staying for good

  

  Right at the end of 2022, the very highly rated Oriole cocktail bar closed down in its original location - but with a vow to open somewhere else. Early in 2023, they popped up in Southwark, but now they're getting ready to return for good, this time in Covent Garden. 

  They'll be opening up the new Oriole in The Yards in Covent Garden, the same area where you'll find Lahpet, but

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• Test Driving Baudry Greene - a hit of Euro style and substance on a Covent Garden corner

  

  This cosy new Covent Garden spot segues effortlessly from being a place to pop in for breakfast to a post-work hangout. We slinked in for early evening drinks and snacks.

• Seven Dials Market adds burgers, tacos, Kolkata rolls and hot chicken with four new traders

  

  It's all change at Seven Dials Market - this month sees four new traders take up a space at the Covent Garden food hall. If you're heading down there - here's who you've got to look forward to:

  Lucky's - Recently seen at the NT,

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• Bar du Champagne takes over from Avobar in Covent Garden

  

  Should we read something into the fact that Covent Garden visitors' tastes are leaning away from smashed avos and more towards Champagne? That's one conclusion to be drawn from the closure of Avobar which has been replaced by Bar du Champagne from the same owner (although Avobar is apparently moving to a central London location next year). 

  This new bistro and bar is taking up two floors of the

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• Fatto a Mano pizza head to Covent Garden

  

  Updated 4/12/23 with opening date

  Fatto a Mano started selling pizzas in Brighton and Hove before landing in King's Cross last year. Now they're getting ready to double up in London with a second pizzeria, this time in Covent Garden. 

  As with their previous restaurants,

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• Capilungo is a Puglia-inspired café by day, wine bar by night in Covent Garden

  

  Opening in Covent Garden, this Italian cafe and wine bar is very much a family affair. 

  Running things will be Gianluca Capilungo (former Bar Manager for Aqua) and Asia Capilungo (previously a chef at Soho House and Cubitt House) who've joined up with their uncle Luca Capilungo as well as Asia’s partner Huzefa Sajawal (co-owner and Executive Chef of Fatt

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• Gilgamesh has found a new home in Covent Garden

  

  15/11/23 - updated with more details about the opening

  Well, this is a blast from the past. Five years after closing its overly ornate doors in Camden, the pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh is being reincarnated in a new site in Covent Garden.

  When the original opened, it was the biggest restaurant in London (with one of the world's longest bars) that cost millions to build. It

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• Le Bab and Chestnut Bakery team up for the kebab croissant

  

  London does love a special croissant. We've recently had cubed croissants from Le Deli Robuchon and katsu chicken croissants from Hiden and now, here comes the kebab croissant.

  It's a team-up between the ever-popular Chestnut Bakery and the folks behind Le Bab. Inside the Chestnut Bakery croissant, you'll

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• Story Cellar

  Parisienne-inspired dining from Tom Sellers in Covent Garden

• Jamie Oliver Catherine Street is the chef's new London restaurant

  

  13/10/23 - Updated with the opening date and menu details.

  It's been nearly four years since Jamie Oliver's restaurants went into administration in the UK. Since then, he's had pasta pop-ups and opened restaurants abroad but nothing new in the UK - until now. 

  He's getting

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• The Breakfast Club is coming to Covent Garden

  

  There’s news afoot in Breakfast Club land again. We recently told you about the famous yellow ‘caff’ and its first venture into the travel-sphere, with the new outlet at Gatwick’s North Terminal. Now, they’re launching another new site in Seven Dials, Covent Garden - their 15th opening

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• Caravan are opening in Covent Garden

  

  Updated 10/10/23 with the opening date

  It's been a while since coffee roasters and brunch purveyors Caravan opened a new place, but now they're about to hit up Covent Garden. They're one of the restaurants opening in the new workspace Grainstore on Drury Lane.

  It's a pretty big affair, taking over part of a building that was formerly a grain and seed store (which is not dissimilar to their

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• Phil Howard's Notto pasta bar is coming to Covent Garden

  

  28/9/23 - updated with the opening date

  Last year, top chef Phil Howard (of Michelin-starred Elystan Street) got into London's ever-growing fresh pasta scene with Notto, just off Piccadilly Circus. In our original story, we asked "will there be more of them to come" and the answer to that seems to be yes, as new reaches us of a second Notto pasta bar that's being planned for Covent

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• Baudry Greene is the 10 Cases team's new European cafe in Covent Garden

  

  Here at Hot Dinners we are partial to a good cocktail and bar snack offering. So when we heard that the folk behind the 10 Cases and Parsons in Covent Garden were opening a new bar and cafe with some particularly good examples of both on the menu, we paid attention.

  Baudry Greene is right beside owners Will Palmer and Ian Campbell's wine bar 10 Cases and across the road from their fish restaurant Parsons.

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• Calcutta-inspired restaurant Paro is coming to Covent Garden’s Lyceum Theatre

  

  Updated 11/9/23 with opening date and soft launch info

  In excellent news for pre and post-show dining, Covent Garden’s Lyceum Theatre is getting a restaurant that is an ode to all things Calcutta. Called Paro, it will bring a modern spin to the traditional Indian dishes of West Bengal. In a space revamped by Studio G by Giorgia Pellandini, you can choose to dine in

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