Covent Garden

• Chestnut Bakery expands to Covent Garden's Floral Street

  

  14/3/22 - updated with opening date

  Six months after taking over the old Dominique Ansel bakery in Belgravia, Chestnut Bakery are at it again. The bakery that's already created a stellar reputation for its breads and pastries is taking over the other Ansel site in Covent Garden.

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• St Martin’s House takes over the old Tredwells site in Covent Garden

  

  If you were wondering what the plan was for the former Tredwells site in Seven Dials, near Covent Garden, then wonder no more. Having been closed since September 2021, it will re-open as St Martin’s House: a three-floor venue, housing a ground-floor bar, with an all-day restaurant spanning the first and basement levels.

  It’s brought to you by Aspirational Brands, also

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• Test Driving Lahpet West End - Burmese food comes to Covent Garden

  

  Popular Burmese restaurant Lahpet has already won fans in Shoreditch. Now the team behind it have opened an even bigger restaurant, in Covent Garden, to introduce Londoners to the myriad delights of Burmese food. 

• Test Driving Blacklock Covent Garden - new dishes and old favourites keep the formula fresh

  

  The new Blacklock in Covent Garden is the popular chop shop's biggest restaurant yet. We went down to check it out.

• Blacklock's fourth restaurant will be in Covent Garden - bring on the chops

  

  07/02/22 - Updated with imagery

  Originally revealed at the end of 2019 and planned to open the following year (but we all know what happened then), the plans for the fourth iteration of chops purveyors Blacklock are back on. 

  Their next restaurant will open in Covent Garden and will actually be their biggest yet, taking over one of the old Patisserie Valerie spots

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• Top Burmese restaurant Lahpet is opening in Covent Garden

  

  27/1/22 - updated with opening date

  They started life as a stall on Maltby Street before becoming a popular Shoreditch restaurant - and now Lahpet are heading to the centre of town for their biggest venture yet. 

  They're coming to The Yards, a new area carved out in Covent Garden, which the huge Dishoom there is now part of (it backs onto the new space).

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• Mildreds takes over the old Angus Steakhouse on St Martin's Lane

  

  It's good news for anyone looking for a plant-based spot to book in London's theatre district. Mildreds is opening on St Martin's Lane this spring.

  This'll be the vegan restaurant group's sixth London restaurant since they burst onto the London scene with their pioneering opening in Soho back in 1988.

  The all day spot in Covent Garden sounds pretty large - the two floored restaurant actually used to

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• Abandon Ship sails from Scotland to Covent Garden

  

  Abandon Ship are pretty big in Scotland (there are two Abandon Ship bars there already and the group behind them has 13 in total) and now they're getting ready to launch in Covent Garden. 

  Taking over what used to be PIx, their London bar comes with a design that they're describing as a "sensory explosion", so it should definitely stick out in Covent Garden. We'd say it seems closest to

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• Condesa

  Tapast in Covent Garden

• Flat Iron Covent Garden

  Affordable steak in Covent Garden

• Chick n Sours Covent Garden

  Top fried chicken in Covent Garden

• Mon Plaisir

  London's oldest French restaurant

• Margot

  High-end Italian in Covent Garden

• Honest Burgers go vegan with new V Honest restaurant

  

  Updated 11/1/21 with opening date

  After opening Honest Burger restaurants all over town, they're now looking to try something different with V Honest, their first fully vegan burger restaurant. 

  The menu will have vegan versions of the Honest and the Tribute and to that, they're adding the Buffalo, Pesto, Teriyaki and the Chilli burgers. At this point, the Teryaki's the only

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• The Jones Family Affair brings Ginger Pig steaks and more to Covent Garden

  

  After closing their Shoreditch restaurant during lockdown, the folks behind the Jones Family Project have bounced back again and are about to open in Covent Garden.

  The Jones Family Affair takes over the large space that used to be home to Les Deux Salons on William IV Street. If you've been to either their Eccleston Yards space or the old Shoreditch spot you'll know that Jones Family restaurants go

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