Covent Garden
- Test Driving Lahpet West End - Burmese food comes to Covent Garden
Popular Burmese restaurant Lahpet has already won fans in Shoreditch. Now the team behind it have opened an even bigger restaurant, in Covent Garden, to introduce Londoners to the myriad delights of Burmese food.
- Test Driving Blacklock Covent Garden - new dishes and old favourites keep the formula fresh
The new Blacklock in Covent Garden is the popular chop shop's biggest restaurant yet. We went down to check it out.
- Blacklock's fourth restaurant will be in Covent Garden - bring on the chops
07/02/22 - Updated with imagery
Originally revealed at the end of 2019 and planned to open the following year (but we all know what happened then), the plans for the fourth iteration of chops purveyors Blacklock are back on.
Their next restaurant will open in Covent Garden and will actually be their biggest yet, taking over one of the old Patisserie Valerie spots
... - Top Burmese restaurant Lahpet is opening in Covent Garden
27/1/22 - updated with opening date
They started life as a stall on Maltby Street before becoming a popular Shoreditch restaurant - and now Lahpet are heading to the centre of town for their biggest venture yet.
They're coming to The Yards, a new area carved out in Covent Garden, which the huge Dishoom there is now part of (it backs onto the new space).
As in
... - Mildreds takes over the old Angus Steakhouse on St Martin's Lane
It's good news for anyone looking for a plant-based spot to book in London's theatre district. Mildreds is opening on St Martin's Lane this spring.
This'll be the vegan restaurant group's sixth London restaurant since they burst onto the London scene with their pioneering opening in Soho back in 1988.
The all day spot in Covent Garden sounds pretty large - the two floored restaurant actually used to
... - Abandon Ship sails from Scotland to Covent Garden
Abandon Ship are pretty big in Scotland (there are two Abandon Ship bars there already and the group behind them has 13 in total) and now they're getting ready to launch in Covent Garden.
Taking over what used to be PIx, their London bar comes with a design that they're describing as a "sensory explosion", so it should definitely stick out in Covent Garden. We'd say it seems closest to
... - Condesa
Tapast in Covent Garden
- Flat Iron Covent Garden
Affordable steak in Covent Garden
- Chick n Sours Covent Garden
Top fried chicken in Covent Garden
- Mon Plaisir
London's oldest French restaurant
- Margot
High-end Italian in Covent Garden
- Honest Burgers go vegan with new V Honest restaurant
Updated 11/1/21 with opening date
After opening Honest Burger restaurants all over town, they're now looking to try something different with V Honest, their first fully vegan burger restaurant.
The menu will have vegan versions of the Honest and the Tribute and to that, they're adding the Buffalo, Pesto, Teriyaki and the Chilli burgers. At this point, the Teryaki's the only
... - The Jones Family Affair brings Ginger Pig steaks and more to Covent Garden
After closing their Shoreditch restaurant during lockdown, the folks behind the Jones Family Project have bounced back again and are about to open in Covent Garden.
The Jones Family Affair takes over the large space that used to be home to Les Deux Salons on William IV Street. If you've been to either their Eccleston Yards space or the old Shoreditch spot you'll know that Jones Family restaurants go
... - Shake Shack and Hoppers team up for the one-off Lankan burger
They already have truffle burgers as their Christmas special, but Shake Shack also have something else pretty special planned for December. Mark Rosati of Shake Shack and Karan Gokani of Hoppers are teaming up for a special Hoppers/Shake Shack burger - but
... - Test Driving The Barbary Next Door - this mini off-shoot is Covent Garden's must-visit bar
The Barbary has expanded next door with a mini version of itself (and a brand new menu). We head down to Covent Garden to try it out.