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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.

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The Best Covent Garden Restaurants

Chef’s tables serving kebabs, OTT Italian and the oldest restaurant in London – Covent Garden’s restaurants have a lot more to offer than just pre-theatre dining.

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The Best Bars In Covent Garden

From crepuscular wine bars to glamorous cocktail dens.

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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

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

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

Flat Iron Covent Garden Plumped amid the bustle of Covent Garden’s Henrietta Street, it contains a dedicated Yorkshire Beer bar; a glass-fronted butchery; and a Gelato Counter serving hand-churned soft-serve ice cream.

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.

Bounce Farringdon 17 ping pong tables; a 40 foot bar and a DJ booth….

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

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.

The Ivy Market Grill All the glamour of The Ivy, with a slightly friendlier bill.

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

Mr Fogg’s Tavern Mr Fogg’s is what we’d like to refer to as a ‘bar experience’. As in, it’s technically a bar, but you might prefer to think of it as an experience. Plus, there’s a Gran Cave.

Kanada-Ya Kanada-Ya serves up extremely good ramen. Plus sakes and Japanese whiskeys to wash it down with, in clean, minimalist surroundings.

Barrafina Restaurants In London | All You Need To Know London’s most important, Michelin-starred, tapas restaurant.

The American Bar at the Savoy The city’s oldest cocktail bar, serving iconic drinks with a dinner-jacketed pianist every night.

Big Easy Covent Garden Big Easy numero duo – but still the biggest, easiest meal you’ll ever have.

Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels Whether you’re a wine lover or looking for a new aperitif spot, this will not disappoint….

The 10 Cases The 10 Cases offers a small but constantly changing menu of European fare in a friendly and intimate venue in the heart of Covent Garden. You’ll want to like it for all the right reasons. And like it you will….

Hawksmoor Seven Dials The first sibling to Hawksmoor Spitalfields, set in a spacious, temple-like dining room dedicated to beef….

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.

Noble Rot A laidback wine bar and restaurant, with a wine list tirelessly devised over the course of two years.

Flat Iron Denmark St Dear Vegetarians. This does not inherently regard you. What it does inherently regard is great steak, at affordable prices.

The Black Penny We don’t usually write about coffee shops. Because most of them don’t have food like this….

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

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

Floral by Lima Ambitious, colourful dishes largely made up of mysterious Andean ingredients which – unless you’re familiar with cherimoya and maiz morado – you’ve probably never heard of.

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.

Frenchie A striking modern French restaurant in Covent Garden, serving elegant dishes and excellent wines.

Cafe Murano Covent Garden A more relaxed outpost of Angela Hartnett’s Michelin-starred Murano.

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