Covent Garden

• Camino are opening Pintxito, a new Basque pintxo bar in Covent Garden's piazza

  

  Updated 26/8/25 with the opening date. 

  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 are now both Caminos as a result). But they're also working on something brand new - a pintxo bar in Covent Garden.

  Pintxito will be a pretty intimate

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• ADOH! sees the Kolamba team bringing Sri Lankan street food to Covent Garden

  

  14/8/25 - updated with the opening date

  Having already launched two London restaurants devoted to great Sri Lankan food, the couple behind Kolamba are getting ready to open a much more casual affair. ADOH! (a Sri Lankan word which is used both in greeting or to express surprise) is taking over a former Franca Manca space next door to Rules on Maiden Lane. And it's much more of a quick dine and dash

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• St John are switching things up in Covent Garden

  

  It's all change for Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver's teeny bakery in Neal's Yard with the news that they're on the move to bigger and better premises. The good thing is that fans of their custard doughnuts and amazing bread won't have to go too far to find the new bakery. They're moving just across the yard to a much bigger and better space. "It will not be long now until our breads and wines are piled high once more,"

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• Cô Thành to bring a taste of Southern Vietnam to Covent Garden

  

  If you were wondering what would replace Frenchie in Covent Garden we finally have the answer and it’s great news for fans of Vietnamese food: Cô Thành is coming. Inspired by the international legend that is the Lunch Lady, aka Mrs Nguyễn Thị Thanh (who sadly died in May), Cô Thành already has an outpost in Hong Kong

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• Harry's is opening its flagship restaurant right on the piazza in Covent Garden

  

  Having rolled out The Ivy to pretty much everywhere (there's a new one of those coming to Battersea in September) it looks like Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings has started focusing on Harry's as their next big brand. They opened in Victoria last year and in King's Cross earlier this summer. But all that was building up to what's going to be the restaurant group's flagship site, which gets its big launch

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• Shake Shack and AngloThai team up for a one-day-only special burger

  

  Having trouble getting a table at Michelin-starred AngloThai restaurant now that they're one of the hottest tickets in town? Well, their new team-up with Shake Shack might be a little easier to get your hands on. 

  For one day only, John Chantarasak is creating two AngloThai specials for the menu. First up is the burger. That's an Aberdeen Angus beef burger

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• Cicoria by Angela Hartnett brings a new restaurant and rooftop terrace to the Royal Opera House

  

  Big news for anyone heading for Covent Garden or looking for a proper dining experience to complement a cultural excursion: acclaimed chef Angela Hartnett OBE is opening a new restaurant at the Royal Opera House, Cicoria by Angela Hartnett.

  It’s turning into a busy year for Hartnett - we recently told you about her new ...

• Crust Bros' biggest pizzeria yet is opening in Covent Garden

  

  They already have two popular pizzerias in Waterloo and Earl's Court and now Crust Bros are getting ready to open their biggest and most central pizzeria yet. 

  They've taken over a space that was once a Paul patisserie in Covent Garden, which has two floors, fitting in 135 people. The pizzas here are Neapolitan-inspired, with 48-72 hour-proved dough.

  If you haven't been to

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• 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

• London gets its own Guinness Storehouse, in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard

  

  Updated 23/05/25 with new 2025 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 are apparently 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, as the

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• 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. 

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