Covent Garden

  • Be the first to try the Shoryu Japanese breakfast with 50% off food during their launch week

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    Shoryu ramen are launching a new Japanese breakfast menu in Covent Garden, and Hot Dinners can be the first to try it with 50% off their food bill.

    Offer: 50% off the breakfast menu (food only)

    Where: 35 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5AA

    When: 21-27 April 2025

  • Town is Stevie Parle's new Covent Garden restaurant

    Town is Stevie Parle's new Covent Garden restaurant

    It's been planned since late 2023 but now Stevie Parle is getting ready to unveil his new restaurant, Town in Covent Garden. 

    The chef, who in recent years was best known for his post-lockdown hit Joy, has brought in an impressive team to help with the new venture. Executive Chef Olly Pierrepont was previously Head Chef of Luca and La Trompette while Head Chef Andy Bright was previously at

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  • Kricket's next modern Indian restaurant is in Covent Garden

    Kricket's next modern Indian restaurant is in Covent Garden

    It's clear that Kricket is on the expansion trail because, hot on the heels of their Canary Wharf and Shoreditch openings, they're already planning their

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  • A Cornish fisherman's pub has landed in London outside The Ambassadors Theatre

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    Covent Garden has a new pub, but this isn't any ordinary pub. It's a little slice of Cornwall come to town, themed with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button play currently on at The Ambassadors Theatre.

    The Pickled Crab is a custom-built Cornish pub that can be found in the street outside the theatre, and is based on the fictional boozer on the Cornish coast where Benjamin "meets the only woman he will ever

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  • Adam Handling unveils a new chocolate shop in Covent Garden

    Adan Handling's own chocolate shop opens in Covent Garden 

    It's been a while since he opened a new restaurant in London, but chef Adam Handling is doing something a little different for his next launch - he's opened a chocolate shop in Covent Garden. 

    Called rather unfussily The Adam Handling Chocolate Shop, it'll sell filled, hand-painted chocolates, the kind that you might have come across in his restaurants as petit fours. The chocolate

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  • Kung Fu Mama Taiwanese noodle bar picks Covent Garden as its launchpad

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    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

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  • The best restaurants in Covent Garden

    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

    Officina 00's pasta is coming to 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

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

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    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

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  • Godfrey's serves up gourmet popcorn in Covent Garden

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    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.

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  • MEATliquor are opening BLOODsports bar and Hideout Coffee in Covent Garden

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    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.

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

    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

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    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

    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

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  • Yari Club lets the robots do the yakitori cooking

    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

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