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The team behind popular Soho pub and restaurant The Devonshire is set to open a new venue in Covent Garden.
The grand, six-storey Georgian space on Bedford Street – which previously belonged to the wilfully archaic magazine The Lady – is thought to be reopening as a pub and restaurant in 2027, reports the Standard. The newspaper adds that the venue will be keeping the name of the magazine, which launched in 1885 and published its last magazine in April 2025. The magazine was best-known for classified adverts seeking nannies for posh kids and domestic help.
Westminster Council approved The Lady’s licence earlier this month. It will showcase food by acclaimed chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, while Devonshire landlord Oisín Rogers will also be involved in the new project. The building has been empty since 2019.
News of a new venue for the Devonshire team follows the forthcoming launch of The Marlborough on North Audley Street in Mayfair. The Marlborough, which has been closed since 2020 and was originally known as The Marlborough Head, is being relaunched by Crisp Pizza founder Carl McCluskey, alongside the Devonshire team: Charlie Carroll of Flat Iron, chef Palmer-Watts and publican Rogers.
Crisp is currently based in The Chancellors pub in Hammersmith, which has been run by McCluskey’s family for decades, but will now be moving its centre of operations to Mayfair. According to social media, the pub will be launching this autumn. Like The Devonshire, The Marlborough will pride itself on its Guinness, as well as serving Crisp’s renowned pizza from a bespoke pizzeria downstairs. Upstairs will be more of a traditionally-styled London boozer.
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