Covent Garden

• 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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• Spanish-Israeli restaurant Penelope’s is opening at Hotel Amano Covent Garden

  

  Dancing on tables could be behaviour from your past (or present, we’re not judging) but it’s the vibe that the new Hotel Amano are looking to bring to their restaurant Penelope’s when it opens. The hotel group want to recreate the monthly parties that are apparently of renown at its Berlin site, selling out in minutes and promising inventive food and cocktails.

  The

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• Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House opens its Piazza restaurant to all

  

  22/9/22 - Updated with photos of the restaurant

  If you’re looking for a restaurant rooftop view that your mates aren’t talking about yet, then plan a little cultural jaunt to Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House. But if culture is not your thing, worry not. For the first time, you won’t need to be in possession of opera or ballet tickets to gain access to the Piazza

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• Test Driving Sunda Kitchen - Covent Garden's new Southeast Asian winner

   

  Out of almost nowhere, an interesting new South East Asian restaurant has appeared in Covent Garden. Sunda Kitchen has some very impressive names behind it - and they've managed to create something that easily meets the high expectations we had for the place. 

• Test Driving Pivot Bar & Bistro - a dining room with a stellar London view

  

  Scottish chef Mark Greenaway has found a prime spot for his London restaurant, right on the piazza at Covent Garden. We booked a table with a great view to check it out. 

• South East Asian restaurant Sunda Kitchen arrives in Covent Garden

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  Wahlburgers was in Covent Garden for a fleeting moment, and ever since its closure we've been wondering who would be taking over that prime Covent Garden space. Now we have the answer - it's Sunda Kitchen. 

  Sunda Kitchen is a South East Asian restaurant and after a little digging, we've discovered it's got some very interesting people

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