The Covent Garden & Holborn Guide | London Neighbourhood Guides

Covent Garden & Holborn Guide

Your guide to the very best of Covent Garden & Holborn, from top-notch restaurants to hidden spots for a nightcap; plus things to do and unusual activities in this – may we say, rather delightful – part of London.

Features

Covent Garden

The Best Covent Garden Restaurants

The top spots in Covent Garden not to be missed.

Features

Covent Garden

The Best Bars In Covent Garden

From crepuscular wine bars to glamorous cocktail dens.

London Neighbourhood Guide

The Best Covent Garden & Holborn Date Ideas

Dating is complicated. But if you’re going to go anywhere, central London is a good place to start. And to further simplify things, we’ve come up with a bulletproof list of stupidly romantic things to do while you’re there….

Covent Garden & Holborn 24 Hr Guide

Covent Garden and Holborn may make up some of the oldest parts of the city, but their lasting appeal can be generally attributed to the fact that their bars, restaurants, and shops have, ironically, always made up some of the newest parts of the city.

Covent Garden & Holborn Guide

The Best Covent Garden Restaurants

The Best Bars In Covent Garden

The Best Covent Garden & Holborn Date Ideas

Covent Garden & Holborn 24 Hr Guide

Da Henrietta An intimate dining room beneath the chic Henrietta Hotel….

Bounce Farringdon 17 ping pong tables; a 40 foot bar serving seasonally-inspired drinks; a DJ booth and a raised restaurant overlooking all of the action. Ping Pong’s come home… and it’s been upgraded.

Ladurée Covent Garden A patisserie parlour that looks like Marie Antoinette’s attic.

Din Tai Fung Covent Garden It’s only taken 152 restaurants to get here….

The Best Holborn Restaurants The finest dining-houses in Holborn.

London Transport Museum A museum dedicated to all things transportational, telling the history of movement in London over the last 200 years.

Christopher’s One of the most important brunches you will ever eat.

temper Covent Garden It just keeps on rising….

Wonderball Try out Bounce’s new cutting-edge tech before anyone else, with free drinks, and more….

Frog by Adam Handling Adam Handling’s urban fine-dining restaurant in Covent Garden.

Lao Cafe Laotian dishes in a laid-back Covent Garden setting.

Tropicana Beach Club It’s big, it’s bold, and while drinks aren’t quite free, it’s essentially everything George Michael dreamed of.

Clos Maggiore Voted London’s Most Romantic Restaurant over and over again.

Holborn Dining Room Classic British fare served inside the expansive ex-banking hall of a Grade II Listed, Edwardian building.

Spring Spring is the air thanks to Skye Gyngell, who’s opened her highly anticipated restaurant inside an old drawing room at Somerset House which has been off limits to the public for over 150 years.

J Sheekey An elegant, old-school seafood restaurant in the heart of Leicester Square, with intimate wood-panelled walls and romantic low lighting.

The Delaunay From the people behind The Wolseley, The Delaunay is a Grand European Café in the finest tradition.

Barrafina London’s most important, Michelin-starred, tapas restaurant.

Balthazar London A carbon copy of the NYC original, with marble clad pillars, an all-day brasserie menu, and excellent cocktails….

Gordon’s Wine Bar There are a small number of unspoken, detailed and fail-safe rules in the world of dating. Like, for example: 1) Brush your teeth. 2) Be fun. And, 3) Take your date to Gordon’s Wine Bar.

Rules You might know Rules as the self-proclaimed oldest restaurant in London. Established by Thomas Rule in 1798, it serves hyper-modern Asian fusion cuisine traditional British food.

Scarfes Bar Gerald Scarfe has the rare distinction of being the only person on earth who has both a species of pterosaur (Cuspicephalus Scarfi) and a hotel bar named after them. It’s almost cartoonish.

Bunga Bunga Covent Garden Named after Berlusconi’s wild parties, Bunga Bunga offers seriously tongue-in-cheek entertainment, from drag artists to burlesque dancers, to accompany your dinner in their basement den hidden beyond a meat freezer.

Chick ‘N’ Sours The original CnS had everything (great food, lovely drinks, slick decor) except a convenient central London location. Well, not anymore.

Mamie’s Creperie & Cider Bar Mamie’s has sadly now closed. Ah crepe.

Flesh and Buns From the people behind Bone Daddies, Flesh and Buns is yet another restaurant with a name that might also be a strip club.

Monmouth Kitchen Italy and Peru don’t have a huge amount in common. Except for the menu at this Covent Garden restaurant.

The Barbary The second restaurant from the guys at The Palomar. You’ll find it tucked away in a nook in Neal’s Yard, with open kitchen serving up Barbary-inspired goodness.