Covent Garden

• Sukoshi Sushi brings a sushi bar to Seven Dials Market

  

  Seven Dials Market already has quite a few restaurants and stalls to choose from but now it's about to get something brand new - a sushi bar. 

  Sukoshi Sushi is setting up shop on the Cucumber Alley section of the market and as well as having sushi you can take away, there will be a proper sit-down sushi bar here too, with room for 12.

  Sukoshi Sushi itself is a family business that

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• Peruvian restaurant Floral by Lima relaunching as Lima Cantina

  

  If you’ve enjoyed the Peruvian flavours of Floral by Lima over the past decade, there’s a shake-up on the way. Be alert, not alarmed, though. In these recent weeks of significant restaurant closures, it’s reassuring to learn that this much-loved venue in Covent Garden is still

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• Aqua's next is Italian restaurant and cafe Luci in Covent Garden

  

  9/8/23 - Updated with the opening date

  They opened Shiro in Broadgate only late last year, but the Aqua Restaurant Group already have another restaurant lined up called Luci. They've taken over a space in The Yards section of  Covent Garden (once held by a Jack Wills store

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• Test Driving The Portrait Restaurant - Richard Corrigan's rooftop blockbuster

  

  Boasting great views over central London, the arrival of Richard Corrigan to run this rooftop restaurant at the National Portrait Gallery proves to be a real draw.

• Kebab Queen relaunches with new chef Pamir Zeydan

  

  Changes are afoot at Kebab Queen, the hidden counter restaurant underneath Maison Bab in Covent Garden. If you're unfamiliar with the place, it's counter dining with a difference - in that the counter itself is heated and the meal is cooked and served directly onto that, no plates required. 

  Now, after former chef Manu Canales has moved on, they've brought in a brand new head chef to

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• The Avocado Show is coming to Covent Garden

  

  5/7/23 - updated with the opening date

  Is Covent Garden ready for two avocado-based restaurants? There's already an Avobar near the Piazza, but now we hear news that The Avocado Show is getting ready to open there too. 

  The Avocado Show originally came from Amsterdam and set up its first restaurant in London ...

• Test Driving Story Cellar - a London spin on Parisian bistronomie

  

  With his new Covent Garden opening Story Cellar, Tom Sellers has given London the perfect Parisian bistro it didn't know it needed. 

• Beer battle is on as Bierschenke are opening opposite new Guinness Brewery in Covent Garden

  

  20/6/23 - updated with the opening date

  Now, this is the kind of showdown we like to see. There's obviously been a lot of hype about the new £70m Guinness Brewery opening in Covent Garden. So it takes a considerable amount of cojones for another brewery to

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• Gaucho is opening a new steakhouse in Covent Garden

  

  12/5/23 - updated with the opening details

  It's been a while since we had a brand new Gaucho in London, the steakhouse from Martin Williams (who also runs M Restaurants) - over a decade, it turns out. But now they have a new restaurant coming to Covent Garden.

  It's landing in a familiar site too. It's where Wahlburgers spent a few months pre-pandemic and where the great ...

• MasterChef finalist Philli Armitage-Mattin takes over Kebab Queen

  

  We quickly became big fans of Kebab Queen, the counter restaurant below Le Bab in Covent Garden where everything's served to you on a heated countertop. It all sounds mad, but it works really, really well. 

  They're now changing things up for the next few months, bringing in a guest chef to run the counter (while chef Manu Canales takes a break). It's MasterChef The

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• Browns Covent Garden reopens with a new Scottish-themed Spey Bar

  

  Welcoming their 50th birthday with a £2.5 million refurbishment, Browns Covent Garden has had quite the refit, with a new art deco look. It's also opened a new drinking venue on its first floor called Spey Bar. And it comes with some fine credentials - the people responsible are behind Quaich Bar at Scotland’s Craigellachie Hotel. That, in

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• Tom Sellers to open Story Cellar in Covent Garden's Neal's Yard - mixing rotisserie chicken and wine

  

  Updated 29/3/23 with details of the menu

  What is it with London's Michelin-starred chefs. Not content with having at least one big new project on the go, they're already planning more openings before they've opened the doors on their latest. In addition to ...

• Charco Charco Hot Pot opens in Covent Garden

  

  If you’re craving some quality Chinese comfort food as ballast against the daily doom and gloom, then put Covent Garden on your itinerary: Charco Charco Hot Pot is open and waiting for you. It’s a new dining destination spanning two floors, with a ground-floor sushi bar as well as a 100-seater restaurant serving regional street-food dishes and, as the name suggests, a hot-pot burner on every table for your

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• Bar hop - down in the basement at Nomad for some Common Decency

   

  You may already know about Side Hustle - but the NoMad London in Covent Garden now has another pretty big new lounge bar in the basement. We paid it a visit.  

• Stereo, a new late-night dining and music venue, is coming to Covent Garden

  

  7/12/22 - updated with the opening date

  There’ll be a new reason to dance, dine and linger into the wee hours in Covent Garden soon. With the pandemic closure of Roadhouse, once one of the area’s oldest live-music venues, there’s been a gap in the market (actually, beneath Covent Garden Market) waiting to be filled. Step up, Stereo, the latest initiative from global hospitality brand Experimental

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