New openings in Covent Garden
Covent Garden has 5 new openings on Saunter, newest first: 4 restaurants and 1 bar.
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Max Lewis brings New Haven-style apizza to Henrietta Street.
Cassette · Covent Garden · 23 September 2026Cassette is a Paris bistro with a mixtape, rare Grundig speakers and a pie with a claw
The Levan team's first central London restaurant brings oysters in warm butter sauce, a coq au vin jaune pie for two and a Calvados-and-tonic to a former stained-glass workshop on Maiden Lane.
Burro · Covent Garden · 11 March 2026Burro means butter, and Trullo's Conor Gadd cooks the veal, the sole and the potatoes in it
Gadd's first solo restaurant, in Covent Garden's Floral Court, pairs Trullo-trained pasta with Irish hospitality and a tiramisu that arrives as a doughnut.
Cato · Covent Garden · 5 February 2026Cato swaps Crazy Bear's red leather for a julep room and a basement sorted by colour
Angelos Bafas and Bart & Taylor honour New York's first celebrity bartender on Mercer Street, with mint upstairs and British synaesthesia below.
Town · Covent Garden · May 2025Town turns Drury Lane into a seventies spaceship, with dripping on the bread and a risotto everyone mentions
Stevie Parle's biggest restaurant yet puts the kitchen in the middle of the room and names every farm on the menu, from Wildfarmed beef to his brother's cheese.
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