Covent Garden

Parisienne-inspired dining from Tom Sellers in Covent Garden

Steak and chops emporium

NoMad London has had great success with its cocktail bar Side Hustle, but even though it's housed in an incredible room, the hotel's restaurant hasn't had as big a profile. Now they're getting ready to relaunch it as a New-York-inspired brasserie.

Called Twenty8 NoMad (based on the address of the hotel), it'll also bring in a light refresh of the already impressive room,

NYC hotel lands in London

A particularly interesting series of collabs is happening at Side Hustle, the bar inside the NoMad London hotel in Covent Garden. They've picked three decidedly big names to produce special tacos for the next three months. Each of the names has worked with NoMad's team to design the tacos which will be available all month.

Kicking things off on 1 May

It's been planned since late 2023 but now Stevie Parle is getting ready to unveil his new restaurant, Town in Covent Garden. 

The chef, who in recent years was best known for his post-lockdown hit Joy, has brought in an impressive team to help with the new venture. Executive Chef Olly Pierrepont was previously Head Chef of Luca and La Trompette while Head Chef Andy Bright was previously at

It's clear that Kricket is on the expansion trail because, hot on the heels of their Canary Wharf and Shoreditch openings, they're already planning their

Covent Garden has a new pub, but this isn't any ordinary pub. It's a little slice of Cornwall come to town, themed with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button play currently on at The Ambassadors Theatre.

The Pickled Crab is a custom-built Cornish pub that can be found in the street outside the theatre, and is based on the fictional boozer on the Cornish coast where Benjamin "meets the only woman he will ever

It's been a while since he opened a new restaurant in London, but chef Adam Handling is doing something a little different for his next launch - he's opened a chocolate shop in Covent Garden. 

Called rather unfussily The Adam Handling Chocolate Shop, it'll sell filled, hand-painted chocolates, the kind that you might have come across in his restaurants as petit fours. The chocolate

What do you get if you pair up the co-founder of Ottolenghi with the founder of a noodle empire? It turns out that a Taiwanese noodle bar in Covent Garden is the answer. The business duo in question are Noam Bar-Chang (Ottolenghi's right-hand man) and Chris Hsu the man behind the best-selling Taiwanese noodles brand in the UK, Kung Fu Mama. They've gone into business to open a noodle bar on Long Acre that'll focus on

5/3/25- updated with opening date

One of London's best pasta restaurants is gearing up for a new opening. They already have popular restaurants on Old Street and in Fitzrovia, and now Officina 00 are going even more central for their next

London's love of a single-item shop shows no signs of going away. And joining the ranks of places focused on crumble (Humble Crumble) or biscuits (The Biscuiteers) is a brand new shop in Covent Garden devoted to popcorn.

Godfrey's, which opened just under a month ago on Tavistock Street just off the Piazza, is the brainchild of three friends, director Rob Smith and co-founders Luke Godfrey and Rachel Cumming.

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.

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.

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