Covent Garden

• Bubblewrap waffles are coming to Covent Garden, all ready for Instagram

  

  Instagram fave Bubblewrap are unveiling a new store, this time in the heart of Covent Garden. Expect all the popular flavours and some special exclusives for the new store too. 

• Frenchie starts delivering - including their bacon scones

  

  Next up on the home delivery front is popular Covent Garden restaurant Frenchie - who are kicking off delivery this weekend. 

  Most importantly, this means that you can order chef Greg Marchand's amazing bacon scones and have them delivered right to your door (three for £12) or the alternative goat's cheese scone, if you fancy.  

  Otherwise, it's a set menu affair with three courses -

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• The best food delivery and takeaway restaurants in Central London

  While there aren't that many people working in central London during the lockdown, other than key workers, some great restaurants are still delivering to those living in the centre of town. We round up the best.   

• Test Driving Adam Handling's Hame - chicken butter, cheese doughnuts and a whole lot more

  

  Adam Handling's Hame delivery service includes some of his much-loved signature dishes (yes, there is chicken butter). We give it a try.   

• Din Tai Fung returns to Covent Garden, delivering dumplings, noodles and more...

  

  We are seeing rather a lot of restaurants making their return to London right now. And next up are the hugely popular Din Tai Fung in Covent Garden.

  It's delivery only, of course, so you won't be able to see the artists at work creating the xiao long bao dumplings (it's so soothing - we could watch that for ages) and indeed, it doesn't seem that the soup dumplings available at

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• Adam Handling launches Hame - his home delivery service and yes, the cheese doughnuts are included

  

  The Adam Handling restaurants may be closed, but the chef has just launched his new "at home" service called "Hame" in case you're suffering from chicken butter withdrawal symptoms (we love his chicken butter - you can see it above). 

  it won't be served hot - but everything will be fully prepared and ready to cook, with full instructions (including videos) on how to finish

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• The Oystermen have launched a shop that delivers across London

  

  We've already seen that many restaurants are becoming shops during the current lockdown, and the latest to join them is The Oystermen. They may be based right in the heart of London in Covent Garden - but they're delivering across the capital too. 

  And it's quite the offering. There's a large range of fish, meat veg and quite the impressive deli and grocery range which includes everything from a harissa nut mix to their

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• Test Driving Gizzi Erskine's The Nitery - bringing louche fun to St Martin's Lane

  

  Gizzi Erskine's latest fun project is a three-month popup taking over the old Asia de Cuba site at the St Martin's Lane hotel. Here's what she's serving up.

• Test Driving Dominique Ansel Treehouse - pies. pithiviers and pasta but no Cronut in this Covent Garden restaurant

   

  The famed pastry chef goes cronut-free in Covent Garden, with pies, pithiviers and puddings on the menu. We take a look. 

• Dominique Ansel Treehouse is the chef's Cronut-free bistro and bakery in Covent Garden

  The next opening from Dominique Ansel won't be all about the Cronut - but there will be a lot of pastry involved (and a more traditional bakery downstairs). 

• Apple Butter Café brings a Middle-Eastern inspired cafe to Seven Dials

  This new all-day cafe in Seven Dials aims to be an "east meets west fusion café".

• A new 28:50 wine bar has arrived in Covent Garden

  

  9/12/19 - updated with opening details

  A brand new 28:50 has quietly launched in Covent Garden. The wine bar group started off in Fetter Lane and grew to three different sites over the years, but right now only the Marylebone wine bar remains. The bar was previously launched by Xavier Rousset, but he left to open Blandford Comptoir and Comptoir Cafe. 

  The original venture focuses on 30 wines by the glass,

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• Korean barbecue restaurant Yori to open in Covent Garden

  It’s farewell to the Covent Garden outlet of Jidori and in its place is the third branch of Korean barbecue restaurant Yori.

• Test Driving Volta do Mar - a restaurant using Portugal as its culinary springboard

  

  Having sharpened Londoners' appetites for Spanish and Italian food with the Salt Yard Group, the former founder is now hoping his new opening Volta do Mar will do the same for Portuguese food.

• High-end Japanese coffee % Arabica comes to London, opening in Covent Garden and Broadway market

  

  Following the launch of Omotesando in Fitzrovia, another high-end coffee shop % Arabica (not to be confused with the Levantine restaurant) has come to London. They're going one better than Omotesando, launching two stores almost simultaneously, in Covent Garden and Broadway Market. 

  It has to be said, the coffee shops look very stylish indeed - a very paired back, clean look with their signature coffee

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