Covent Garden

• Uncle Zorro is part café, part 70s bar in Covent Garden from the people behind Abuelo

  

  The people behind popular cafe Abuelo in Covent Garden are expanding. They'll be launching another cafe, Uncle Zorro, just around the corner and this one also features a basement bar. 

  The ground floor will be the cafe. There you'll find gourmet salads and hot sandwiches as well as the speciality coffee they currently serve up Abuelo. They'll be

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• The Patate bring French beef bourguignon burgers to Covent Garden

  

  They have restaurants north and south in Kentish Town and Battersea but now The Patate are bringing their French burgers to central London, opening in Covent Garden. 

  They're taking over a space that used to be a vegan cafe, so this is a bit of a change, for sure. If you're unfamiliar with them, the idea is to serve up burgers inspired by French cooking techniques. This is

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• 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.

  If you recall,

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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).

  As in

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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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