Restaurants

Mela

There’s a pleasing bustle here, helped along by the troupe of tandoori chefs in the open kitchen, plentiful and efficient, prompt waiting staff, cool background...

Covent Garden: 152-156 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8HL

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Rossopomodoro

Covent Garden: 50-52 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9EP

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Dial Restaurant & Bar

Situated at Seven Dials in the heart of Covent Garden, Dial is an immensely popular meeting place for people that live and work in the area, as well as...

Leicester Square: The Radisson Edwardian Hotel Seven Dials Mercer Street, London, WC2H 9HD

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Med Kitchen - Cambridge Circus

Med Kitchen in London’s Cambridge Circus is a relaxed, all-day brasserie where you can drop in for breakfast, a quick drink, a leisurely dinner or pretty much...

Covent Garden: 24 Cambridge Circus , London, WC2H 8AA

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Brasserie Max

Buzzy, upbeat hotel brasserie located in the oh so pretty Covent Garden, the heart of London's theatreland. The interior is predictably theatrical therefore, but not...

Covent Garden: Covent Garden Hotel 10 Monmouth Street Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9HB

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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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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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Souk Medina

Seeking the Moroccan party experience on a budget? Souk Medina may be for you. It attracts large groups of twentysomethings into its warren of cave-like rooms with an...

Covent Garden: 1A Short's Gardens, WC2H 9AT

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Mon Plaisir

Proudly claiming to be ‘London’s oldest French restaurant’ (established just after the war), Mon Plaisir is all of its clients’ favourite local. A...

Covent Garden: 19-21 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9DD

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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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Salsa!

There’s rarely a quiet night at Salsa!, a restaurant, café, bar and dance club all rolled in to one. Dance classes suitable for complete beginners through to salsa...

Covent Garden: 96 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JG

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Canela

Canela means cinnamon in Portuguese, which explains why you’re given a quill of the spice when ordering a coffee here. Stir it in for a subtle Christmassy flavour....

Covent Garden: 33 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LS

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Incognico

Renowned interior designer David Collins has transformed Incognico, on Shaftesbury Avenue, into a smart Parisien-style brasserie, complete with comfortable leather...

Leicester Square: 117 Shaftesbury Avenue Soho , London, WC2H 8AN

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Café Pasta

This is the Pizza Express chain's pasta-specialising offshoot, and every inch the imitator of its bigger sibling. No bad thing. Inoffensive, Italian-ish art adorns...

Covent Garden: 184 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JB

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Thai Square

Covent Garden: 166 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JB

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World Food Café

This Covent Garden stalwart in the hippy HQ of Neal’s Yard has a homespun feel. Staff assemble platters right in the middle of the first-floor walk-up as if they...

Covent Garden: 1st floor, 14 Neals Yard, WC2H 9DP

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Piccolo Diavolo

'Little devil' – an appropriate name for a central Soho restaurant, don't you think? Like several of its sister restaurants in the popular Biagio chain, Piccolo...

Leicester Square: 8 Old Compton Street , London, W1D 4TE

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Taro

A pinewood basement refectory with entertaining views through the street-level window of legs walking past. Taro’s menu is at the cheaper end of the canteen...

Soho: 10 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TF

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Food for Thought

The menu of this very much-loved Covent Garden stalwart changes daily, though you can expect three or four main courses, a selection of salads and a few desserts. The...

Covent Garden: 31 Neal Street, WC2H 9PR

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Belgo Centraal

Covent Garden: 50 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LJ

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Amato

This old-school Italian caff is brimming with charm and character. Colourful art deco posters of dancers adorn the walls, and the tables and chairs are made of a dark,...

Soho: 14 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TH

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Stockpot

The menu at this delightful Soho institution has barely changed since the 1960s. Pasta dishes and Anglo-Continental dishes are the mainstay, from spag bol to...

Soho: 18 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TN

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Maison Bertaux

Oozing arty charm, this café dates back to 1871 when Soho was London’s little piece of the Continent. Battered old bentwood tables and chairs add to the feeling of...

Soho: 28 Greek Street, W1D 5DQ

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Bincho

Specialist in grilled skewers

Soho: 16 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TL

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Pizza Express

Soho: 20 Greek Street, W1D 4DU

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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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Maison Touaregue

For a spot of urbanised, Saharan-themed socialising in the middle of Soho, this little north African restaurant provides the perfect mise-en-scène for pre-theatre...

Fitzrovia: 23 - 24 Greek Street Soho , London, W1D 4DZ

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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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