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.
Covent Garden
Hawksmoor Seven Dials
Steak Restaurant & Bar
Up to 120 guests
Hawksmoor's Covent Garden steakhouse and cocktail bar, set in the vaulted cellars of a former brewery off Seven Dials and available for private hire up to 120.
Covent Garden
Poon's at Somerset House
Chinese Restaurant
Up to 60 guests
Amy Poon's revival of her family's Michelin-starred Covent Garden name, in the New Wing of Somerset House, with an olive-green drawing room for twenty-four.
Covent Garden
American Bar
Cocktail Bar
London's original cocktail bar, pouring at The Savoy since 1893, with a resident pianist at its centre most evenings and two turns as the world's best bar to its name.
Covent Garden
Rules
British Restaurant
Up to 25 guests
London's oldest restaurant, on Maiden Lane since 1798: red velvet banquettes, walls of antique art and antlers, two wood-panelled private dining rooms and the palm-filled Winter Gardens cocktail bar upstairs.
Covent Garden
180 House
Members' Club
Up to 250 guests
Soho House's club in the Brutalist block at 180 Strand, with a ninth-floor party floor and a rooftop pool. Twelve first-floor rooms hire to members and non-members; the House's own floors are booked through a member.
Covent Garden
Mr Fogg's Society of Exploration
Cocktail Bar
Up to 210 guests
A basement cocktail bar on Bedford Street fitted out as a Victorian explorers' club, with a full-size train carriage alongside the main bar.
Covent Garden
SUSHISAMBA Covent Garden
Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 300 guests
Japanese-Brazilian-Peruvian rooftop restaurant on Covent Garden's Opera Terrace, with a living-canopy dining room, a piazza-view terrace, a hidden speakeasy and a balcony private dining room.
Covent Garden
The Delaunay
European Restaurant
Up to 80 guests
A grand Viennese-style café-restaurant on Aldwych with a panelled raised private dining room and a separately hireable all-day Counter.
Covent Garden
The Ivy
Modern British Restaurant
Up to 100 guests
The 1917 original on West Street: harlequin glass, green banquettes and a brass oval bar. Its Private Room takes 60 seated or 100 standing.
Covent Garden
STK London – Strand
Steak Restaurant & Bar
Up to 500 guests
A modern DJ-led steakhouse on the ground floor of ME London, where curved booths and magenta lighting turn the Strand dining room into a late-night lounge.
Covent Garden
Garrick Club
Members' Club
Up to 70 guests
A theatrical members' club since 1831, its private dining rooms reserved through a member or reciprocal member.
/ 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.