Covent Garden
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TOWN
Destination · Modern British · Covent Garden · $$$
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The dish three national critics wrote about is bread: a small warm loaf of potato sourdough served with Town house gravy, which is a bowl of hot beef dripping (Harden's).
Rules
Destination · British game · Covent Garden · $$$$
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Rules sells more game than any other restaurant in the UK, on an exclusive line to estate game dealer Andy Dent, from a dining room it has occupied on Maiden Lane since 1798 (CNN, July 2026).
Bancone (Covent Garden)
Solid · Fresh pasta · Covent Garden · $$
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One plate built six restaurants: thin sheets of fazzoletti under walnut butter with a confit egg yolk on top, which the Infatuation's reviewer summed up in two words, "order this" (The Infatuation).
Flesh & Buns Covent Garden
Listed · Japanese izakaya · Covent Garden · $$$
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Fillings come off a robata grill and out of a smoker, the buns are steamed in house, and you put them together yourself at the table (venue, Hot Dinners).
Din Tai Fung Covent Garden
Listed · Taiwanese dumplings · Covent Garden · $$$
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Eighteen pleats to a dumpling, folded by hand and steamed to order, and this Henrietta Street room was the group's first door in Britain.
Opera Tavern
Listed · Spanish-Italian tapas · Covent Garden · $$$
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Four years of Harden's survey summaries read in order describe a slide, ending with regulars saying it has "lost its game".
Red Farm
Listed · Modern Chinese · Covent Garden · $$$
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The critic who reviewed it named exactly which half of the menu to order, and it is the American half (Time Out).
Craft beer1
Guinness Open Gate Brewery Londonnew
Listed · Beer · Covent Garden · $$$
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Diageo brews the Guinness and the Guinness 0.0 poured here in Dublin, in its own words, and the only beer it actually makes on this site is the master brewer's small-batch range (Diageo).
Pubs & cask2
The Harp
Temp closed · Cask ale · Covent Garden · $
Ten handpumps in a room the width of a corridor, and Bridget Walsh found two of them when she took the lease in 1995.
The Craft Beer Co. Covent Garden!
Solid · Craft beer · Covent Garden · $$
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CAMRA's North London branch named this its Cider Pub of the Year for 2026, a year after making it runner-up, which is not what anyone expects from a room known for its keg wall.
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Oriole
Solid · Cocktail bar · Covent Garden · $$$$
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Oriole's rebuilt Covent Garden room has its first in-house bar lab, running a centrifuge and an ultrasonic homogeniser to clarify seasonal juices, and the clearest expression of it is a Mizuwari of 12-year-old Highland Park washed with chocolate miso, sake and cold-brewed hojicha…
Eve Bar (Covent Garden)
Listed · Cocktail bar · Covent Garden · $$$$
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The Bone Yard Martini starts with venison bones from the kitchen upstairs, dehydrated and then redistilled with vodka.
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Moto Sake Bar
Solid · Sake · Covent Garden · $$$
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Almost everything on the shelf here was bought direct from the brewery, with no importer in the middle, and co-founder Erika Haigh says the list is drawn from producers she deals with herself, north to south Japan, most of it new to the UK market (Restaurant, 2023).
Bakes & sweet2
Arôme Bakery (Covent Garden)
Solid · French-Asian patisserie · Covent Garden · $$
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Alix André trained as a pâtissier in Lyon and then cooked under Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester before moving through Alan Yau's Yauatcha and Rainer Becker's Roka, which is why the croissants here are built to French spec and filled with miso, laksa and gula melaka (British Baker).
Bageriet
Solid · Swedish bakery · Covent Garden · $
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Two bakers who between them did eight years in Ottolenghi kitchens opened a Swedish bakery in a Covent Garden alley and put the whole operation in the basement (Mynewsdesk).
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