Frenchie Covent Garden – Open for (Takeaway) Business Again. Life before Covid seems a distant memory right now. The London-Unattached team went along to Frenchie Covent Garden just before lockdown as a kind of treat, with a view to reviewing. And, before we could publish, everything shut. Rather than taunt the world with the excellent […]
Frog by Adam Handling – Covent Garden
Adam Handling, Covent Garden – Frog Restaurant and Eve Bar. Not bad as a last before lockdown lunch, I’ve been meaning to visit Frog by Adam Handling in Covent Garden for some time. As it happens, I made it just before all restaurants in the UK were closed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s a […]
Volta Do Mar – Covent Garden – Review
Pre Theatre Dining at Volta do Mar, Covent Garden. Finding somewhere new for pre-theatre dining in Covent Garden is a joyful experience. Especially when it’s from Simon Mullins, co-founder of Salt Yard and his wife Isabel Almeida da Silva. With a nod to the navigational skills of the Portuguese, Volta do Mar is named after […]
28-50 Covent Garden – Wine Bar and Kitchen Review
28-50 Covent Garden – a Restaurant Reinvented. At one point London had three restaurants trading as 28-50, all part of a group owned by the Texture group of restaurants and run by Agnar Sverrisson from Iceland. And, at one point fairly recently, the venue that is now a new 28-50 wine bar and kitchen was […]
Moto, Covent Garden – Review
A Japanese Beverage Bar and Shop in Covent Garden – Moto I’m really excited by the way small independent operators are bringing a sense of gastronomic diversity and authenticity to Covent Garden. We loved the Lady of the Grapes wine bar and now recently opened in the same street is Moto. Describing itself as the […]
VyTA Italian Restaurant Covent Garden – Review
La Dolce Vita at VyTA Covent Garden. VyTA describes itself as ‘an elegant Italian lifestyle experience’; in practice, it’s an all-day restaurant handily located in the heart of Covent Garden market ‘open from dusk till dawn serving breakfast and brunch through to dinner and beyond’. New pre-theatre or late-night options in Covent Garden are always […]
Lady of the Grapes Wine Bar – Review
Meeting the Lady of the Grapes in Covent Garden. Tucked away on Maiden Lane, almost opposite Rules, is a charming new(ish) wine bar with a focus on female winemakers. Lady of the Grapes is the brainchild of Parisienne, Carole Bryon, who set the place up to help redress an inherent male balance in the wine […]
Carluccio’s Mushroom Wonderland – Covent Garden
In celebration of the mushroom season at Carluccio’s The word Mushroom is derived from the French word for fungi and moulds. They were first discovered growing on fertilised soil in 1650 by a melon grower near Paris, who decided to cultivate this exotic new delicacy commercially and introduced it to exclusive Parisian restaurants. The rest […]
Art and Brunch at the National Gallery
The National Gallery Cafe Brunch. Have you ever found yourself at a gallery or museum wanting to stay longer to see more, but knowing that you need some food, only to be disappointed with a selection of sad limp cling-film wrapped sandwiches? I know that I have. The good news is that many of our […]
Grays and Feather Covent Garden
Covent Garden Sparkling Wine Bar: Wellington Street, just south of the Opera House, is home to Grays and Feather wine bar, specialising in sparkling wines from around the World. It’s the aim of founder Andrew Gray to introduce Londoners to a wider range of sparkling wines than Champagne and Prosecco – and to work with […]