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Covent Garden
- Get a special three courses for £25 deal at Benihana in Covent Garden and Chelsea
Benihana has been offering one of the greatest Teppanyaki experiences in London for decades and now they're giving Hot Dinners readers a special offer.
Offer: 3-course Teppanyaki feast for £25
Where: Covent Garden and Chelsea
When: 3-30 September 2024, Monday - Friday
- 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
... - Yari Club lets the robots do the yakitori cooking
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 (as reported by Restaurant website).
The new restaurant needs a little help from
... - 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,
... - Test Driving Ukiyo - hand rolls, sushi and sake on tap in Covent Garden
Covent Garden gets a very useful little sushi spot with the opening of Japanese hand roll bar Ukiyo in The Yards.
- Test Driving Henri - Jackson Boxer recreates Paris in Covent Garden
Jackson Boxer has taken over the restaurant at a Covent Garden hotel to create Henri, his own take on a Parisian Bistro. We went down to get a slice of France in the heart of London.
- Oriole's permanent bar and restaurant comes to Covent Garden, mixing Latin American food with complex cocktails
It's been popping up as Prelude for the past few months but now award-winning bar Oriole is getting ready to move into its shiny new digs in Covent Garden. And like the pop-up, this permanent Oriole is as much a restaurant as it is a bar.
Split across two floors, the main restaurant and bar is in the basement, reminiscent of
... - Ukiyo are serving up Japanese hand rolls in Covent Garden
It's been three years since London's first dedicated Japanese hand roll restaurant (Temaki, in case you're wondering) opened in Brixton. Now we've got a new one to try, this time in Covent Garden. Ukiyo is a counter dining spot in The Yards development in Covent Garden that's serving up temaki and sashmi. The chef behind it definitely knows what he's doing - Konstantin Tskhay used to be head chef at
... - Humble Crumble is coming to Seven Dials
Humble Crumble is a dessert shop that serves exactly what you think - various pots of steamed fruit covered with crumble and done extremely well. Since originally starting as a pop-up, they've been hugely popular and now have stalls in Camden and Borough as well as a Spitalfields shop. And now they're coming to central London.
They're opening in Seven Dials near Covent Garden, so if you're in the need
... - Sainsbury's are putting on a bargain picnic venue the weather can't spoil
There's no getting away from the fact that, so far, it has been a dismal summer. And there's one activity that the poor weather is guaranteed to mess with which is the great British picnic. Luckily for us, the supermarket giant Sainsbury's has come up with a wheeze that for one weekend at least means Londoners will be able to picnic without worrying about rain stopping the fun.
They're putting up a
... - Henri bistro from Jackson Boxer to open in Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel
5/6/24 - updated with menu details
Covent Garden’s Henrietta Hotel has always been at the cutting edge of fine dining, the 19th-century townhouse opening in 2017 with Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous at its restaurant before he moved on to ...
- 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
- Doughnation are bringing potato pizza to Covent Garden
Maybe hoping they'll get the same kind of queues that Alley Cats do, a brand new pizza spot is opening in Covent Garden. Doughnation will be at 3 Henrietta Street, taking over part of the ground floor where Gentlemen Baristas used to be, as well as a terrace on the piazza.
Details on exactly what those all pizzas are going to be are being kept a little under wraps for now. However,
... - The Oystermen
Seafood in Covent Garden