Restaurants

Wagamama

Leicester Square: 14 Irving Street, WC2H 7AB

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Salvador and Amanda

Neighbour to The Photographers Gallery on the cusp of Covent Garden and Soho, Salvador and Amanda is the latest blissed-out bar from the reliably funky Breakfast...

Leicester Square: 8 Great Newport Street , London, WC2H 7JA

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Pizza Express

Covent Garden: 80-81 St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4AA

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Café de Hong Kong

Cheesy Cantonese pop blares constantly, the lighting’s garish and the plastic booths can get uncomfortable, but the food here is anything but cringeworthy. All the...

Chinatown: 47-49 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0AN

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Zipangu

A tiny, intimate spot with caring staff and keen prices. Tempting set meals include a generous, nicely cooked tempura featuring three large prawns and a mix of...

Chinatown: 8 Little Newport Street, WC2H 7JJ

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Corean Chilli

Corean Chilli looks like the kind of place where the teenage heroes of Korean martial arts cartoons hang out. The ceilings are low, the walls are covered in chipped...

Chinatown: 51 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0NE

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Malaysia Kopi Tiam

Malaysian fare in Chinatown

Chinatown: 67 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0NE

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Red 'N' Hot

This new Sichuanese adjacent to tacky Chinatown market seems to have an outdated view of non-Chinese diners. Rather than explain and celebrate the more earthy dishes...

Chinatown: 59 Charing Cross Rd, WC2H 0NE

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Baozi Inn

Street food of Sichuan and Beijing

Chinatown: 25 Newport Court, WC2H 7JS

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J Sheekey

Josef Sheekey was a market stall holder given permission by one Lord Salisbury to serve fish and seafood in this 1896 property development, on the proviso that he...

Leicester Square: 28-32 St Martin's Court, WC2N 4AL

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J Sheekey Oyster Bar

Famous fish restaurant spawns

Leicester Square: 33-34 St Martin’s Court, WC2N 4AL

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Stringfellows - Gentleman's Club and Restaurant

Many restaurants in London offer tableside dancing, but let me assure you that the only one that does it in style is Stringfellow's. Opened over twenty years ago,...

Covent Garden: 16/19 Upper St. Martins Lane Covent Garden , London, WC2H 9EF

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Simurgh

Simurgh has all the ingredients for a fun night out with friends – good food, good wine and belly dancers. Who could ask for anything more? Located in Covent Garden...

Leicester Square: 17 Garrick Street Covent Garden , London, WC2E 9BL

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Gaby's

Style zealots will find little reassurance in the spartan floor tiles, utilitarian plastic seating and closely packed Formica tables numbered with handwritten...

Leicester Square: 30 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DB

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Jen Café

Not the fanciest of caffs, but Jen is certainly homely. There’s always at least one nimble-fingered woman manipulating dough by the window to draw in punters, who...

Chinatown: 4-8 Newport Place, WC2H 7JP

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Tokyo Diner

A corner of Chinatown that’s been Japanese since 1992, Tokyo Diner may not be the trend-setter it once was, but it has acquired a patina of homely authenticity. The...

Chinatown: 2 Newport Place, WC2H 7JP

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The Forge

Everyone around us was wearing a suit. Even in the heart of touristy Covent Garden, business diners need somewhere to go - and The Forge caters to their needs...

Covent Garden: 14 Garrick St (entrance on Floral St), WC2E 9BJ

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Canton

Canton isn’t much of a looker. The rack of glistening poultry, slabs of pork belly and neon-orange squid hanging in the window obscures the legion of sated diners...

Chinatown: 11 Newport Place, WC2H 7JR

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The Ivy

That the Ivy continues to be a celeb-magnet is no doubt partly down to the herd mentality of the famous, but also to the fact that it gives them just what they want....

Covent Garden: 1 West Street, WC2H 9NQ

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Med Kitchen - St Martins Lane

Mediterranean Kitchen on St Martin’s Lane, Covent Garden manages to avoid all the predictable Med clichés. What it does provide is simple but delicous food on...

Covent Garden: 50-51 St Martins Lane , London, WC2N 4EA

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Souk Bazaar

It must be those of us who are too young to hit the hippy trail have a secret hankering to get away from it all in a kaftan. However, instead of jumping on a ferry...

Leicester Square: 27 Litchfield Street Leicester Square , London, WC2H 9NJ

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Hing Loon

The two-course set lunch at this tiny, two-floor caff is a bargain at £4.50, but dishes lean towards Anglo-Chinese favourites such as sweet-and-sour pork and...

Chinatown: 25 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA

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Imperial China

Visitors to this regal-looking restaurant must first negotiate a curved red wooden footbridge at the front entrance. Thereafter, hospitable staff lead you to tables in...

Chinatown: White Bear Yard, 25A Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA

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Mr Kong

Re-opened in January 2008 after a refurbishment (the second in two years, following a kitchen fire), the long-established Mr Kong now looks spick and span, with yellow...

Chinatown: 21 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA

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L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

The locations in Joël Robuchon’s restaurant empire sound like 007 stopovers – Macau, Hong Kong, Monaco – but Robuchon is no Bond baddie, he’s a French...

Covent Garden: 13-15 West Street, WC2H 9NE

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Harbour City

Despite a menu and furnishings that have changed very little over the years, the standards at Harbour City remain reliably high. Try to get a table on the airy first...

Chinatown: 46 Gerrard Street, W1D 5QH

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Metra

Take a Soho club, relocate it to a central Leicester Square location, add terrific decor and an eclectic mix of music and voila! It's Metra, a brilliant place to meet,...

Covent Garden: 14 Leicester Square , London, WC2H 7NG

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Cafe Pasta - Garrick Street

A wide range of starters, as well as all the usual salads, pizzas and pastas you’d expect from an Italian restaurant, are presented in accordance with standards of...

Leicester Square: 2 - 4 Garrick Street , London, WC2E 9BH

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Carluccio's Caffè

Covent Garden: 2A Garrick Street, WC2E 9BH

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