Covent Garden

• MEATliquor are opening BLOODsports bar and Hideout Coffee in Covent Garden

  

  Updated 12/2/25 with opening date and drinks details

  It's been a while since we had anything new in from the team behind MEATliquor, so it's fair to say we're looking forward to seeing what they have planned for their next venture in Covent Garden. From a peruse of their socials it looks like Londoners are getting a two-for-one with both BLOODsports and Hideout Coffee opening in the same spot.

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• Test Driving Delamina Townhouse - a cornucopia of good things in Covent Garden

  

  Tourists and theatregoers in Covent Garden now have a really good restaurant on their doorstep to try, with the latest restaurant from the Delamina Group.

• Delamina Townhouse is opening in Covent Garden

  

  Updated 28/10/24 with soft launch details

  They already have the original Delamina in Marylebone and Delamina East in Shoreditch and now restaurateurs Limor and Amir Chen are adding a third restaurant to the group. Delamina Townhouse will launch in Covent Garden (taking over the Volto do Mar space). 

  As with their previous restaurants, the Townhouse will have an Eastern

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• Yari Club lets the robots do the yakitori cooking

  

  Updated 9/10/24 with revised opening date

  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.

  The new restaurant needs a little help from those pesky humans though. Once an order is placed, the staff will load a machine with the skewers, then the robot takes over. Over five minutes, it will

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• The Barbary Next Door

  Mini wine-bar sibling to The Barbary

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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 ...

• 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, 

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