Yet nothing feels try-hard or pretentious, and this is because of the food: impressive in wizardy flourishes such as dry ice and shells as spoons (to scoop up apple-spiked razor clams); but beneath it all just so darn delicious. Fafa’s – for falafel pittas. Other highlights include citrusy kingfish with a kick of jalapeno, a celeriac, date and truffle dish that Handling invented for his mother (it tastes like the silkiest pasta) and melting pork with kimchi and charred cauliflower. Traditionalists should order the cream-laden shepherd's pie – it's been on the menu pretty much since the start and is as rich (and delicious) as the restaurant's history. For summer there's a Bellini with rhubarb, lime juice and prosecco, and a perfectly blended Scotch cocktail with citrus, Cointreau, homemade marmalade and lemon juice. A milk soda cocktail made with more Grey Goose finishes the evening off as a sweet accompaniment to the pudding. Peppy bright green wild garlic soup leads the charge for the starters, served in a strongly comforting earthenware bowl with pink-fir-apple potatoes and crème fresh. 'Innovative and informal' is the tagline for the food here. By Sarah James, Address: Kebab Queen, 4 Mercer Walk, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9FATelephone: +44 7751 240029Book online, Address: Nutshell, 30 St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, London WC2N 4ERTelephone: no telephone numberWebsite: nutshelllondon.co.uk. It's Modern American and, like modern America, it's truly international: the raw bar features delicate carpaccio, ceviche, tartare. No pressure for Atxa, then. Think again. We tried the punchy Manhattan of London (Bulleit rye, Carpano Antica vermouth, angoustura bitters) and the Shanghai Mule; sweet and tart, made with vodka, goji berry, ginger syrup and lime. Address: The Delaunay, 55 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BBTelephone: +44 20 7499 8558Website: thedelaunay.com. The Covent Garden restaurant is always twinkly and humming; it feels old-world European and yet properly British; it’s where parents meet their son’s girlfriend for the first time, and Tina Turner fans kick up their heels with a pre-theatre menu. By Anna Prendergast, Address: Margot, 45 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5AATelephone: +4420 3409 4777Website: margotrestaurant.com. Prettily presented slices of blackened mackerel are dotted with tangy Bloody Mary tomato. Billed as British with an Asian twist, the cooking here is masterful. The food itself has a Moorish-Mediterranean zest, with crunchy chickpeas and hummus or spicy sausages to start, followed by a pulled-beef burger covered in Parmesan in a buttery bap that is by far the messiest meal we’ve ever had (tip: do not even attempt to cut it in half), or perhaps the deliciously fatty, juicy lamb. No one is taking themselves too seriously – least of all the chefs. Inamo know how to rustle up a cracking deal that'll have you positively beaming when the bill comes around. There could be a colourful shredded salad with buttermilk dressing, or labneh made from milk heated for coffee which would usually go to waste. A main might be a roasted saddle of rabbit on a pillowy bed of white polenta, or homemade pasta baked and oozing with leftover cheese. You’ll keep talking about this leftfield but truly delicious meal long after leaving. Meanwhile, Cora Pearl*might just be the best restaurant named after a courtesan, and Din Tai Fung** is the first UK site of a chain widely claimed to have the world’s best dumplings. The drama of the Art Deco design? It has the feel of a members bar; despite its theatreland location it is quiet midweek - perhaps the prices are high enough to keep out the show crowds (though there is a theatre menu). Steaks are a speciality and come from all over: Kansas, Scotland, Australia, Wagyu from Japan. It could be in danger of veering into see-and-be-see’ territory but that’s avoided by super-attentive staff and a buzzy atmosphere. Address: Sushisamba Covent Garden, 35 The Market, London WC2E 8RFTelephone: +44 20 3053 0000Website: sushisamba.com/covent-garden. Palm Court is the quintessential, intimate Parisian-style brasserie overlooking the piazza of Covent Garden. The wine list is clever, interesting and wholly European: plenty from small, organic and low-intervention vineyards and more than half, including a number from the reserve cellar thanks to clever Coravin, offered by the glass, so do explore. You have successfully subscribed to our newsletter. Here they are perfectly crisp but fluffy, garlic- and thyme-flavoured, triple-cooked, fat Jenga blocks of potato; just the right size and shape to also soak up the last of the little pot of Bordelaise sauce that comes with the flushed-pink veal fillet. An instant classic: smart cooking in a seductive setting. Use it as a vessel for melted tomatoes and divine baba ganoush. Neighborhood: Covent Garden Description: Homeslice began with a hand-built wood fire oven, serving up pizzas in the courtyard of an East London brewery. Covent Garden. Cinnamon Bazaar is a joyous riot of colours and flavours: the menu jumps from Indian street-food classics to regional specialities and British colonial cooking; the dining room dazzles with burnished gold, twinkling lights and acres of rosy fabric, like an ornate Bedouin tent straight out of Arabian Nights. East London Liquor Company gin and tonics are served with a slice of grapefruit and the Zweigelt goes with pretty much everything on the menu. If you want to know where to dine in the area, our pick of the best restaurants Covent Garden has on its streets will offer plenty of sound advice. Address: Christopher's, 18 Wellington Street, Covent Garden, London Telephone: 020 7240 4222Website: www.christophersgrill.com, However sociable you happen to be feeling, there’s a seating situation for you at Beso. The look is modern and minimalist, with a surprisingly chilled vibe coming out of the open kitchen which serves up seasonal dishes. Gloopy, lumpy old porridge, the stuff of boarding-school nightmares, scooped endlessly out of fairytale pots, swiped by bear-provoking girls and stared at mournfully by the prison population in Paddington 2. Nothing that could detract or overpower. Chef Eyal Jagermann has come over from The Palomar, bringing with him the same sense of fun and faultless cooking, taking inspiration from the Barbary Coast of North Africa and Jerusalem. Expect French classics such as bouillabaisse and côte de boeuf; and, from the bakery, gorgeous cakes, quiches and pastries that taste as good as they look. The Jodhpuri one with onion dumplings and curried white peas is particularly moreish, but picky eaters might prefer to call over the restaurant's chaat trolley for a more personalised experience. The menu – Japanese, with influences from Brazil and Peru – is potentially hard to navigate as there’s so much on there. Address: J. Sheekey, 28-32 St Martin's Court, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4AL Website: j-sheekey.co.uk. Enter through a kitchen and duck into the dinky dining room, where the similarities with a dodgy fast-food place end. Fresh and seasonal ingredients extend beyond the kitchen. A talking point round the bar, the pistachio-filled 'hashcake' comes with the satisfyingly smoky aftertaste of a joint. He’s even positioned grand framed vegetable portraits on the wall of the high-ceilinged period space, in which tables are spaced out so as to enable entirely private conversation amid a bubbling atmosphere. Italian, Mediterranean $$ - $$$ Menu. Situated beneath his flagship restaurant Frog by Adam Handling in the heart of Covent Garden on Southampton Street, Eve is a trend-setting basement bar serving innovative signature cocktails and delicious bar snacks. The Palomar is a rare thing - a restaurant that's as buzzy now as it was on opening night. Paul Smith on The Delaunay: A Great Little Place I Know, 22 of the best beer gardens in London right now. Don’t say you weren’t warned. The Best Restaurants In Covent Garden For Students. At Kitty Fisher’s it was all about the wood-fire grill, but here chef George Barson (who now oversees both restaurants) applies a lighter touch to the menu but with a similarly simple, ingredient-led style. In 1926 The Savoy introduced a novel policy to allay the fears of superstitious guests dining in a group of 13: it would set an additional place to round the unlucky number up to 14. The menus are big as a broadsheet, the giant French Antiquité clock is as round as the moon. Young-gun team Stephen Tozer along with Edward Brunet and Manu Canales, who worked together at Michel Roux Jr’s two-Michelin-starred Le Gavroche, are behind clandestine fine-dining joint Kebab Queen. Sit up at the smart marble-trimmed bar or recline on leather banquettes and start with golden balls of truffle arancini or a pea-and-hazelnut-pesto bruschetta doused in ricotta salata. “Favourite Italian restaurant in London”. The sommelier even shows you each bottle before it's poured - it's all very grown-up. Singh's main courses are equally experimental and reveal unexpected, far-flung influences. The restaurant reopened in 2017 after a ridiculously expensive refurb by the Martin Brudnizki Design Studio for its 100th anniversary. Fish is fresh and kept simple: smoked salmon with a squeeze of lemon; lobster mayonnaise with a crisp green salad; and market fish, grilled or pan-fried, with seasonal vegetables on the side. It’s hidden below street level at Maison Bab, the follow-up to the trio’s first restaurant Le Bab (which opened on Carnaby Street in 2016), with a façade that’s a convincing reimagining of a typical British takeaway, down to the flickering fluorescent sign. And what you will wake up pining for the next morning is not home, but the Chocolate Brioche French Toast (pictured), rich and puddling with chocolate sauce, and somehow gone in seconds. As befits the Mittel-European origin of the mains, there’s a hearty Hungarian Syrah, and to finish, a syrupy Tokaji from the same corner of the world. This table offering has already made a name for itself: Williams received complaints when he dared to temporarily remove it. And what is fish without chips? Address: Café Murano, 36 Tavistock St, London WC2E 7PB Telephone: +44 20 7240 3654 Website: cafemurano.co.uk. Christopher's is where well-heeled Americans go when they have a touch of homesickness and a hankering for surf'n'turf. It's a grand old place in an imposing Georgian building - once London's first legal casino - with a discreet entrance that suggests a private club, and indeed the martini bar on the ground floor feels like one. For the latest restaurant openings in London, subscribe to our foodie newsletter. Eve is Adam Handling’s first venture into the bar industry. Head chef Alessio Piras's pasta is not to be missed, his regional menu polished and unfussy – from the buttery, rich ravioli parcels served simply with toasted hazelnuts, to the chicken wrapped in delicate Parma ham and tucked into a bed of sage and shredded rapini – while the wine list is as long as the wait for food was short. 2. First Frenchie landed from across the Channel, the London spin-off of the Paris restaurant of the same name that kickstarted the bistronomy movement. The smiling, unstuffy service? When Cinnamon Club opened in the grand, Grade II-listed Westminster Library in 2001, it was an instant game-changer - a stylish restaurant that championed Indian fine dining in a city still dominated by cheap takeaways and boozy Brick Lane curry houses. That place was occupied by a cat named Kaspar, three-foot tall and made of wood. On the menu: fine French cooking, accompanied by a prize-winning wine list. It’s to be mentioned in the same breath as places such as Shoreditch restaurant Rochelle Canteen. It’s an all-day affair where you’ll want to stay all night. You’ll think you’re too stuffed for pudding until you spy the sugar-dusted dessert delivered to the table beside you in a copper dish – kaiserschmarren, as it turns out, a confection of shredded pancake with a tangy plum compote named after a sweet-toothed Austrian emperor. Thought we’d seen every iteration of a speakeasy imaginable in London by now? “A little piece of Italy in London”. You will hear from us shortly. The menu saunters through South Asia following ancient trade routes that stretch from the Middle East and Afghanistan down to India's central heartland. NYC cult dim sum restaurant RedFarm has arrived in Covent Garden, just a stone's throw from the Piazza, RedFarm is spread over three floors and serviced by two cocktail bars. Afterwards, decadently, there are more desserts on the menu than mains, including a trifle for six, but it’s the cherry-topped round of Earl Grey ice cream with buttery frozen sablé that will make you really swoon. The area surrounding Covent Garden's covered market used to be a culinary desert, all grey steaks, chain restaurants and tired old tourist traps. 1,393 reviews Open Now. It’s located in the Grade-II market building’s Opera Terrace, in the middle of the Piazza, and the design is very smart – as soon as you walk in you’re struck by the soaring glass ceiling draped with tropical greenery and the graphic, monochrome tiled floor. 3rd February 2020 Matt Felix London Life. Large plates, including black cod and sea-bass tempura are delicious, but also pricey – so we recommend you pick and choose between the small plates (perfect shrimp tempura with snap-pea julienne and a decadent black-truffle vinaigrette, crispy lobster taquitos) and the sushi rolls (California maki rolls made with snow crab and Cornish brown crab, avocado and sesame, tuna belly with pickled wasabi and shiso leaf). Expect delicious, simple food (without any frills) conjured from the best organic and seasonal ingredients. Barrafina Drury Lane* serves up some of the best tapas in the city, but is all counter-seated; a good alternative is Opera Tavern*, also delicious, but more relaxing. Somewhat on the sly, Henrietta Street – running off the tourist- and human-statue-chocked Covent Garden Piazza – has become a proper foodie hotspot. The Covent Garden Hotel opened in April 1996 but the building dates back to the 1890’s when it operated as a French hospital. (You know you're in for a treat when your handbag gets its own little stool beside you at the table.) Chef Gregory Marchand (nicknamed 'Frenchie' by Jamie Oliver, who he worked under at restaurant Fifteen) brought Frenchie to Covent Garden's hip Henrietta Street after its success as a restaurant, wine bar and deli in the Sentier neighbourhood of Paris. Address: Frenchie, 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8QH. The wine list is terrific, and practically everything on it is available by the glass, half-bottle or carafe. Spoiler alert: it's served with a blanket of sea-scented mist that covers the table. Head here for a cheeky Peruvian: ultra-colourful dishes with plenty of ceviche, which is raw fish marinated in citrus. Winston Churchill, a lifelong Savoy freak, adored him. Address: Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LATelephone: +44 20 7845 4646Website: bryn-somersethouse.co.uk. Down you go along a gleaming copper staircase past the mezzanine bar to the dining room where exposed steel pillars and spot-lit, scarlet booths make for a dramatic yet somehow laid-back vibe. The Delaunay – the brassy Viennese-style brasserie from restaurant supremos Corbin and King – is one of those places. Address: Cinnamon Bazaar, 28 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E Telephone: +44 207 395 1400 Website: cinnamon-bazaar.com. The beloved London bar is equally ambitious – don’t be afraid to challenge them with an off-piste cocktail or request they select the wine to match your meal. These aren’t the only good-looking item on the menu: the soup dumplings come with a candy-striped straw to slurp out the crab filling. Williams, with both Michel Roux Jr and Marco Pierre White schooling behind him plus the early career highlight of having been selected to craft the Queen’s 80th-birthday fish dish, has earned a reputation for being one of the UK’s most exciting, and affable, young chefs. At £65 for five courses, this is surely one of the best-value tasting menus in town; big flavours, just-right portion sizes, happy-making from start to finish. Gorgeously grand and starched in all the right places, The Delaunay is a trusty name to have in your London address book. The space challenges the traditional French bistro concept – both with its Scandi-inspired interiors, and its dishes. First, Ibérico secreto, a cut of pork favoured by Spanish butchers that’s under the radar in the UK, is silky soft after being briefly chargrilled over the flames and coated in a crispy couscous, followed quickly by a smoky, barbecued slither of foie gras. … and Champagne. Setting expectations high, the charismatic service doesn’t stop there, and neither does the elegant set up at Italian restaurant Margot. The original is in every Manhattan guidebook and always far too busy to be a walk-in-and-dine place – and it's no different at its London sister. Options are surprisingly wide-ranging, from a lemon and tarragon Collins cocktail to IPAs and a hibiscus soda – and a great rosé by the glass. Start with the Kolkata crab bonda, cloud-light croquettes stuffed with flaky crabmeat and beetroot, before crossing the subcontinent for Iranian chicken haleem on masala sourdough toast. Traditionalists should stick to the Bazaar Old Fashioned - a combination of smoky scotch, coconut sugar and burnt cinnamon so smooth you could almost justify a liquid lunch. The main event comes in the form of impossibly thin slices of spit-roast duck, served as a deconstructed (very posh) traditional kebab with pickled vegetables and salad, and sweet chilli and garlic sauce. It takes Elizabeth David’s directive of stripping back the non-essentials and runs with it. We've brought together the very best restaurants in Covent Garden, surrounding the main market and beyond. This is the first London outpost of Eneko Atxa, the young-gun Basque chef whose Azurmendi restaurant in Bilbao is in the world's Top 20. The decor is eclectic: artworks on the walls include a large portrait of two women with mad Medusa hair mid passionate kiss, and there are church-style windows and mismatched light fittings elsewhere. Bring your vegetarian dates to this special Somerset House, Thames-side setting, but also your carnivorous cavalry – Williams has managed to cast fruit and vegetables as his lead stars but won't alienate London’s meat-eating masses. By Becky Lucas, Address: Beso, 190 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JL Telephone: +44 20 3972 8888Website: besolondon.com. I would like to introduce you to 9 great restaurants, all of which constitute a multi-sensory extravaganza of taste, colour and culinary experience. Address: RedFarm, 9 Russell Street, London, England WC2B 5HZWebsite: redfarmldn.com. Taste it and the passion it stirs is understandable: warm, soft, doughy and covered in wheat flakes, it sits somewhere between a fresh muffin, a scone and a bread roll. Vegetarians, vegans or those looking for a healthy option might like these plant-focused options: Wild Food Café‘s crispy dishes of mostly-raw veg, Farmstand‘s* wholesome menu of seasonable produce, Black Penny‘s substantial, satisfying salads, or the ‘vegan junk food’ at NYC import byChloe. But all of a sudden Covent Garden has become a foodie destination in its own right, staking claim to some of the best restaurants in London. Creamy burrata scattered with toasted hazelnuts and served with hunks of sourdough from Bermondsey’s artisanal Little Bread Pedlar; impeccable, flaxen-soft tagliatelle and rigatoni, stirred through pungent sauces of mushroom and walnut, tingly crab arrabbiata salted with samphire, or aubergine ragu; and scoops of ice cream or sorbet. Order the halloumi and tzatziki version brimming with cubes of squeaky cheese and a sprinkling of couscous, or go for a classic pitta pocket drizzled with a slick of … Alternatively, the chocolate pavé, almond and blood orange is a lighter, zestier way to finish. Hawksmoors is taking part in the Government’s “Eat Out To Help Out” scheme. Finnish street food outlet Fafa’s has opened its first London spot, perched at the end of Covent Garden’s Monmouth Street. Best Dining in London, England: See 3,003,713 Tripadvisor traveler reviews of 23,884 London restaurants and search by cuisine, price, location, and more. NB: We’ve tried to make note of which of these restaurants are closed due to COVID-19—as well as which of them are taking part in the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme—but please check in with the restaurants before visiting for the latest information. There's a primi pasta menu which is so good you might want to plus-size it: sausage and fennel ragu with homemade conchiglione; lamb shoulder on pappardelle; broad-bean and ricotta ravioli. 3. Whether you're making the most of their seasonal discounts or bottomless … The glitzy oyster and champagne bar and adjoining fish restaurant have been in business for more than 100 years, and have earned serious foodie credentials on the London restaurant scene. The little sister of Angela Hartnett's Michelin-starred Murano in Mayfair, Café Murano, is a laidback take on traditional Italian fine dining. Da Mario Covent Garden. This place is run by the people behind The Palomar, one of our favorite restaurants in Soho, and they make fresh salads, sandwiches, and baked things like Middle Eastern-style spinach bourekas. The menu is substantial, offering enough memorable starters, salads and dim sum to fill you up before you’ve even moved onto the mains. Barrafina Drury Lane* serves up some of the best tapas in the city, but is all counter-seated; a good alternative is … J Sheekey a historic London restaurant in the heart of Covent Garden, Leicester Square, offers the best seafood, fish, shellfish and oysters with al fresco dining on the terrace. Squeeze in a main; Milanese veal escalope comes with rocket and parmesan, spatchcock baby chicken with fennel, radicchio and walnuts. Ask the sommelier to pair your wine with each course - this works just as well with Champagne as with any other wine. Earlier this summer, Hely-Hutchinson introduced a supper menu: no porridge, but the same focus on simple, carefully sourced ingredients and unfussy yet photogenic presentation. A dessert of refreshing cucumber sorbet and blackberry sponge is topped with frozen meringue spooned out in a smoky haze at the table. End your feast by ordering one of London's best desserts, the lavender meringue, lemon posset, lavender and blueberry ice cream – it’s beautifully sweet, light and makes a pretty combination of pastels on the plate. Address: Kaspar's at The Savoy, Strand, London WC2 Telephone: +44 20 7420 2111 Website: kaspars.co.uk. Determined to squeeze in pudding? Whether you fancy rooftop cocktails or a long lunch on a sun-soaked terrace, here are the area’s best restaurants for al fresco eating and drinking. Citrus-cured salmon tartare is another standout starter, to be scooped up in smoky mouthfuls on crunchy melba toast. Tabitha Joyce, Tabitha is our deputy digital editor and resident foodie. Choose from a five-course tasting menu, or share small plates including duck foie gras with pickled girolles, cherries and pine nuts, and ricotta tortellini with smoked eel and elderflower. Other options in the Covent Garden area include Mexican meals at Wahaca* or hot bowls of noodles from Wagamama*. Save supper at Sushisamba for a special occasion and you’ll be pleased you did. Address: Frog by Adam Handling, 34-38 Southampton St, London WC2E 7HF Telephone: 020 7199 8370 Website: frogbyadamhandling.com. 1,273 reviews Closed today. The frenziedly anticipated follow-up from the team behind Kitty Fisher’s, Cora Pearl is also named after a well-known 19th-century British-born courtesan, who (fittingly, given her new neighbours) plied her trade in Paris. Start with the crisp white G22, a traditional txakoli wine, before moving onto the buttery-yellow, citrussy 42. Sipping wine and happily sinking deeper into your booth as the dining room empties, you completely forget the hectic city life overhead. (And don’t miss the purple bread!). Whether you’re looking for innovative, world-class cooking, a romantic date spot, cuisines from around the world, or maybe just a brilliant burger, these Covent Garden restaurants will have something to satisfy. The best restaurants in London right now, updated every week with a tried-and-tested restaurant, from Shoreditch to Soho, Covent Garden, Mayfair, Islington and Hackney With the fishy starter, the Chablis from Bourgogne is nicely dry and mineraly. Serving traditional Chinese cuisine and fantastic fusion seven days a week. Adam Handling’s flagship Covent Garden restaurant is bringing a bit of laid-back Shoreditch charm to Covent Garden. This is a tongue-in-cheek, quirky take on a classic Chinese, with a menu to make you smile, and a loud, tinkly atmosphere that makes it perfect for a group. The best Covent Garden restaurants to try right now, ideal for pre-theatre dining, special occasion or a destination meal in their own right, By At £20 a head, the Scratch menu (available between 5.30pm and 6.30pm daily) is a happy (and very affordable) way to experience Gyngell's enchanting set-up. Ten bar stools are set around a bar with a front-row view of the open kitchen under pink neon lighting. Among the mains, the grilled hispi cabbage works beautifully as yin to the pork chop’s yang, just as flavourful as the cut of meat it’s served beside. Landing just off London’s Covent Garden Piazza, USA-transfer RedFarm fits instantly with its surroundings (it is, after all, just down the street from fellow NYC expat Balthazar), a glossy, black-fronted restaurant with a small queue of people waiting outside. by entering your email address, you agree to our privacy policy. The three-course set menu changes daily, depending on surplus from service the night before. When you get a craving for some authentic Italian food, these are the places to go. Best Dining in Covent Garden (London), England: See 3,004,061 Tripadvisor traveller reviews of 23,882 London restaurants and search by cuisine, price, location, and more. You can opt out at any time or find out more by reading our cookie policy. Cafe/Bakery in Covent Garden Jacob the Angel is where to escape the crowds and grab a coffee that isn’t from a chain. Very Good. The Comte de Provence rosé comes highly recommended by the waiters: we were sceptical, but the sweetness matches the big flavours of the food brilliantly. There is lobster, grilled and thermidor; delicious Maryland crab cakes, Missouri lamb, Boston baked beans. The unfeasibly light burrata starter and the formaggio being whisked past us to other tables made us long for more room to accommodate a platter – this copper-trimmed, leather-boothed, jazz-infused space is the ideal place to drop in for cheese and wine before hitting the West End. The vegetable party dances off the food menu: cocktails include Savory Beet (beetroot, bourbon, lemon, sugar and a dash of egg white), Sweet Old Fashioned (rhubarb-infused gin, rhubarb-flavoured sugar and old decanter bitter), and Rabbit on a Sidecar (carrot juice, brandy, triple sec and a cheeky hint of ginger). Then more Parisians arrived, with the Experimental Cocktail Club’s playfully retro Henrietta Hotel, with – a total coup – Ollie Dabbous in the kitchen. A new weekly newsletter reviewing the hottest new restaurants and bars in London. Coffee connoisseurs should go for the Sweet 'C' Martini, with Hine Cognac, Crème de Cacao, double cream and Allpress coffee. Dabbous might have moved on to his ambitious new restaurant Hide, but Cora Pearl, is sure to cement the street's place as one of London’s buzziest place to eat. 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