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.
Frog by Adam Handling
Covent Garden — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 50 guests
Adam Handling's Michelin-starred Covent Garden flagship, with a private dining room and the subterranean Eve cocktail bar below.
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.
Smith & Wollensky
Covent Garden — American Restaurant & Bar
Up to 300 guests
The London flagship of the New York steakhouse, in Covent Garden's art-deco Adelphi Building, with three private dining rooms and whole-restaurant hire for up to 300.
Tattu London
Covent Garden — Chinese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 250 guests
A contemporary Chinese restaurant and rooftop bar above Denmark Street, with a cherry-blossom courtyard, Phoenix Bar, late licence and full hire up to 250 standing.
London Transport Museum
Covent Garden — Event Space
Up to 600 guests
A Victorian iron-and-glass market hall on Covent Garden Piazza, hired after hours, with the buses and Tube cars still in the room.
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.
American Bar
Covent Garden — 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.
Mr Fogg's Society of Exploration
Covent Garden — 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.
The NoMad London
Covent Garden — Hotel
Up to 250 guests
A design-led Covent Garden hotel in the former Bow Street Magistrates' Court, with a dramatic mural-lined ballroom, a glass-roofed atrium and the subterranean Common Decency cocktail lounge.
Ave Mario
Covent Garden — Italian Restaurant
Up to 200 guests
Big Mamma's maximalist Florentine trattoria in Covent Garden, with a mirrored basement and a plant-hung indoor courtyard available for private hire.
Middle Eight
Covent Garden — Hotel
Up to 350 guests
A Covent Garden hotel on the former Kingsway Hall site, home to the QT basement speakeasy, Sycamore restaurant and bar, and a semi-private balcony for private events.
/ 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.