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- Kung Fu Mama Taiwanese noodle bar picks Covent Garden as its launchpad
What do you get if you pair up the co-founder of Ottolenghi with the founder of a noodle empire? It turns out that a Taiwanese noodle bar in Covent Garden is the answer. The business duo in question are Noam Bar-Chang (Ottolenghi's right-hand man) and Chris Hsu the man behind the best-selling Taiwanese noodles brand in the UK, Kung Fu Mama. They've gone into business to open a noodle bar on Long Acre that'll focus on
... - 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
- Officina 00's next pasta restaurant is in Covent Garden
5/3/25- updated with opening date
One of London's best pasta restaurants is gearing up for a new opening. They already have popular restaurants on Old Street and in Fitzrovia, and now Officina 00 are going even more central for their next
... - Café Kitsuné is heading to Covent Garden with its matcha teas and patisserie
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 Garden, on Monmouth Street.
If you haven't
... - Godfrey's serves up gourmet popcorn in Covent Garden
London's love of a single-item shop shows no signs of going away. And joining the ranks of places focused on crumble (Humble Crumble) or biscuits (The Biscuiteers) is a brand new shop in Covent Garden devoted to popcorn.
Godfrey's, which opened just under a month ago on Tavistock Street just off the Piazza, is the brainchild of three friends, director Rob Smith and co-founders Luke Godfrey and Rachel Cumming.
... - MEATliquor are opening BLOODsports bar and Hideout Coffee in Covent Garden
Updated 12/2/25 with opening date and drinks details
It's been a while since we had anything new in from the team behind MEATliquor, so it's fair to say we're looking forward to seeing what they have planned for their next venture in Covent Garden. From a peruse of their socials it looks like Londoners are getting a two-for-one with both BLOODsports and Hideout Coffee opening in the same spot.
... - Camino are opening Pintxito - a new pintxo bar in Covent Garden
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 will both become Camino as a result). But they're also working on something brand new too - a pintxo bar in Covent Garden.
- Test Driving Delamina Townhouse - a cornucopia of good things in Covent Garden
Tourists and theatregoers in Covent Garden now have a really good restaurant on their doorstep to try, with the latest restaurant from the Delamina Group.
- Delamina Townhouse is opening in Covent Garden
Updated 28/10/24 with soft launch details
They already have the original Delamina in Marylebone and Delamina East in Shoreditch and now restaurateurs Limor and Amir Chen are adding a third restaurant to the group. Delamina Townhouse will launch in Covent Garden (taking over the Volto do Mar space).
As with their previous restaurants, the Townhouse will have an Eastern
... - Yari Club lets the robots do the yakitori cooking
Updated 9/10/24 with revised opening date
What's the next step for yakitori restaurants? Getting the robots in, of course. That's what Yari Club has planned for St Martin's Lane.
The new restaurant needs a little help from those pesky humans though. Once an order is placed, the staff will load a machine with the skewers, then the robot takes over. Over five minutes, it will
... - The Oystermen
Seafood in Covent Garden
- The Barbary Next Door
Mini wine-bar sibling to The Barbary
- Brother Marcus are taking their Eastern Med plates to Covent Garden
1/9/24 - updated with the opening date
Brother Marcus, which has already opened in Islington, Spitalfields, Borough and Kensington, are getting ready to open their fifth restaurant. This time, it's in Covent Garden and will be the latest opening in The Yards development. They'll be taking over the site that was Miscusi and more recently hosted the Prelude by Oriole
... - Monmouth Street Wines is the new wine bar pop up from The Oystermen duo
We'll confess we had no idea that Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton - the duo better known as The Oystermen - had opened a wine bar called Bedford Street Wines in Covent Garden a few years back. But you live and learn and now the pair are at it again. They're just about to launch a pop-up wine bar and bottle shop, Monmouth Street Wines, in Covent Garden's Seven Dials.
They've taken over the corner site at the
... - London gets its own Guinness Storehouse, in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard
Updated 30/12/23 with new 2024 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 announced they're 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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