Covent Garden

• Harry's is opening its flagship restaurant right on the piazza in Covent Garden

  

  Having rolled out The Ivy to pretty much everywhere (there's a new one of those coming to Battersea in September) it looks like Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings has started focusing on Harry's as their next big brand. They opened in Victoria last year and in King's Cross earlier this summer. But all that was building up to what's going to be the restaurant group's flagship site, which gets its big launch

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• Shake Shack and AngloThai team up for a one-day-only special burger

  

  Having trouble getting a table at Michelin-starred AngloThai restaurant now that they're one of the hottest tickets in town? Well, their new team-up with Shake Shack might be a little easier to get your hands on. 

  For one day only, John Chantarasak is creating two AngloThai specials for the menu. First up is the burger. That's an Aberdeen Angus beef burger

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• Camino are opening Pintxito - a new pintxo bar in Covent Garden

  

  Updated 26/6/25

  It's a busy old year for Spanish restaurant folk Camino who have just spent the last few months buying up several of London's Iberica restaurants out of administration (the Farringdon and Victoria Iberica are now both Caminos as a result). But they're also working on something brand new - a pintxo bar in Covent Garden.

  Pintxito will be a pretty intimate kind of place, with space for

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• Angela Hartnett to bring a new restaurant and rooftop terrace to the Royal Opera House

  

  Big news for anyone heading for Covent Garden or looking for a proper dining experience to complement a cultural excursion: acclaimed chef Angela Hartnett OBE is opening a new restaurant at the Royal Opera House.

  It’s turning into a busy year for Hartnett - we recently told you about her new ...

• Crust Bros' biggest pizzeria yet is opening in Covent Garden

  

  They already have two popular pizzerias in Waterloo and Earl's Court and now Crust Bros are getting ready to open their biggest and most central pizzeria yet. 

  They've taken over a space that was once a Paul patisserie in Covent Garden, which has two floors, fitting in 135 people. The pizzas here are Neapolitan-inspired, with 48-72 hour-proved dough.

  If you haven't been to

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• Test Driving NoMad's new Twenty8 NoMad restaurant - and trying Will Poulter's taco too

  

  There are changes afoot at impressive Covent Garden hotel NoMad. We went down to try their newly relaunched restaurant, as well as sample a celeb-created taco.

• Café Kitsuné is heading to Covent Garden with its matcha teas and patisserie

  

  Updated 15/6/25 with opening date

  Five years on from opening their first London tea shop, the French Japanese brand Café Kitsuné is heading into central London. Up until now if you wanted to try their cute fox-shaped biscuits and matcha lattes you'd have had to head to Belgravia where they have a branch behind the Pantechnicon building. But this Spring they'll be opening in the heart of Covent

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• The best restaurants in Covent Garden

  

  Covent Garden has improved hugely as a food destination so much that there's almost too much choice. With that in mind, here are the very best restaurants in Covent Garden to focus on

• Discover LIMA Cantina's fire roasted chicken and save £18

  

  Try LIMA's critically raved about roast chicken and save £18 with our reader offer.

  Offer: Polla a la brasa with sauces and side for just £21.

  Where: 14 Garrick St, London WC2E 9BJ

  When: 10 June to 31 July 2025

• London gets its own Guinness Storehouse, in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard

  

  Updated 23/05/25 with new 2025 date

  Following in the footsteps of Dublin and Edinburgh, London is the next capital city to get its own huge city-centre brewery/distillery. Guinness are apparently spending £73 million building Guinness at Old Brewer’s Yard in Covent Garden.

  As the name suggests, the arrival of a brewery on this particular spot sees history coming full circle, as the

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• Test Driving Town, Stevie Parle's bold return to the London dining scene

  

  One of the most glamorous arrivals on the Covent Garden dining scene is Stevie Parle's Town. We went to try both its bar and restaurant. 

• The Oystermen

  Seafood in Covent Garden

• Story Cellar

  Parisienne-inspired dining from Tom Sellers in Covent Garden

• Blacklock Covent Garden

  Steak and chops emporium

• Twenty8 NoMad is the Covent Garden hotel's revamped New York-inspired restaurant

  

  NoMad London has had great success with its cocktail bar Side Hustle, but even though it's housed in an incredible room, the hotel's restaurant hasn't had as big a profile. Now they're getting ready to relaunch it as a New-York-inspired brasserie.

  Called Twenty8 NoMad (based on the address of the hotel), it'll also bring in a light refresh of the already impressive room,

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