Covent Garden

• 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

• 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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• NoMad London

  NYC hotel lands in London

• Tomos Parry, Monica Berg and The Bear actor Will Poulter are creating one-off tacos for Side Hustle

  

  A particularly interesting series of collabs is happening at Side Hustle, the bar inside the NoMad London hotel in Covent Garden. They've picked three decidedly big names to produce special tacos for the next three months. Each of the names has worked with NoMad's team to design the tacos which will be available all month.

  Kicking things off on 1 May

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• 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

  

  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

  

  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

   

  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

  

  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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