Venues in Covent Garden
Covent Garden’s theatrical heritage infuses its private venues with drama and flair — from hidden basements to rooftop terraces with city views.
Café Clement
Covent Garden — Modern European Restaurant & Bar
Nick Jones's first post-Soho House opening: an all-day brasserie and bar by the Thames, with an open kitchen, olive-leather booths and a red-awninged garden terrace.
Zylia
Covent Garden — Greek Restaurant
Up to 50 guests
A Greek-Cypriot taverna beside Arcade Covent Garden, from Singburi's Nick Molyviatis and Barry Karacostas — charcoal grills, a fifty-cover room and a marble bar in an 1870s former department store.
Dim Sum Library
Covent Garden — Cantonese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 550 guests
Aqua Restaurant Group's Hong Kong dim sum concept on Covent Garden's Long Acre, with a tea-cocktail bar downstairs and a first floor for private dining or exclusive hire.
House of Louie
Covent Garden — French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 350 guests
A restored Covent Garden townhouse from Paris Society, stacked over three floors: the Wani Tzuki izakaya, the jazz-lit Louie brasserie and the late-night Alligator Bar and terrace.
Christopher's
Covent Garden — American Restaurant & Bar
Up to 100 guests
A modern American grill in a Grade II Covent Garden townhouse, refreshed in 2025, with a self-contained Club Room, a river-view Sunset Room and an art-deco Martini Bar.
Oriole
Covent Garden — Latin American Restaurant & Bar
Up to 150 guests
Nightjar's sister bar, reborn in Covent Garden: a vintage ground-floor cocktail bar over a plush basement restaurant with a live-music stage and house PA.
Lima Cantina
Covent Garden — Peruvian Restaurant
Up to 100 guests
The relaxed Covent Garden sibling to LIMA Fitzrovia: ceviche, pisco sours and charcoal-rotisserie chicken in a converted stained-glass workshop, with private spaces for hire.
Story Cellar
Covent Garden — French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 50 guests
Tom Sellers' rotisserie restaurant and wine cellar in Neal's Yard, Seven Dials. A downstairs private room seats up to 18 alongside the walk-in wine cellar.
STEREO
Covent Garden — American Restaurant & Bar
Up to 575 guests
A subterranean live-music and cocktail room beneath Covent Garden Market, from Experimental Group, open until 3am with a 360-degree bar and a stage built for DJ sets.
Ikoyi
Covent Garden — West African Restaurant
Jeremy Chan's two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant on the Strand, with a curtained six-seat private dining room and exclusive hire of the whole restaurant.
Common Decency
Covent Garden — Cocktail Bar
Up to 150 guests
A subterranean Belle Époque cocktail lounge beneath The NoMad London, set in the former Bow Street Magistrates' Court. Now an events-only space for private receptions and celebrations.
/ About Covent Garden▾
Covent Garden takes its name from the convent garden that once supplied Westminster Abbey, but its character was set in the 1630s, when Inigo Jones laid out London's first planned square for the 4th Earl of Bedford. The arcaded, Italianate piazza — modelled on Livorno — was anchored on St Paul's Church, begun in 1631 and long known as the actors' church for its association with the stage. For three centuries the square held London's principal fruit-and-vegetable market; the wholesale trade left for Nine Elms in 1974, and the market halls were restored as shops and stalls, the Apple Market among them.
The quarter is defined by performance and its rooms. The Royal Opera House on Bow Street, home to the Royal Ballet and Opera, has occupied its site since the eighteenth century and remains a working theatre, and the surrounding streets carry one of London's densest concentrations of playhouses. The restored glass-and-iron Market Building at the centre of the piazza, with its covered halls and colonnades, gives the area a set of characterful sheltered spaces, while the star-shaped junction of Seven Dials — laid out in the 1690s around its central pillar — threads north into a grid of independent shops and courtyards.
Dining runs from the piazza's terraces out along Neal Street, Monmouth Street and the lanes of Seven Dials, where restaurants and old public houses sit close together. The churchyard behind St Paul's offers a quiet garden a few steps from the crowds, and the Thames Embankment lies a short walk south. Covent Garden's own Underground station serves the Piccadilly line, with Leicester Square close by on the Northern line and Charing Cross terminus and its trains within easy reach — placing the area at the heart of the West End.