Experiences Things to Do in Covent Garden
Street performers, opera and a covered piazza: the theatrical heart of the West End.
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Our guides covering Covent Garden, London.
Covent Garden is London at its most theatrical: a piazza of street performers and grand old houses, ringed by restaurants, hidden cocktail bars and some of the city's prettiest rooms. It draws the crowds, but the discerning know exactly where to slip away from them.
Our Covent Garden guides point you to the best of it, from pre-theatre dinners and grand dining rooms to the bars worth knowing and the romantic tables tucked off the square. Made on merit, for an evening that feels like an occasion.
Experiences Street performers, opera and a covered piazza: the theatrical heart of the West End.
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Afternoon Tea Theatrical spreads and French patisserie a few steps from the piazza, timed neatly between a matinee and the evening show.
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Dining Theatre crowds and tourist footfall, but a genuine cluster of proper brasseries: brunch that holds up before a matinee or well after one.
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Bars Alley taverns, etched-glass gin palaces and ten-pump ale houses, all within a few theatrical minutes of the Piazza.
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Hotels Best Hotels in Covent Garden: chosen on merit by Lamplit London.
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Bars Grand hotel bars, hidden rooms and theatreland classics: the best bars in Covent Garden.
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Dining Beyond the crowds and the chains: where to actually eat well around Covent Garden.
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Spa & Wellness Six London hammams and Turkish baths that actually deliver the scrub, from a candlelit Covent Garden thermal suite to a 1938 Islington bathhouse and a ladies-only Edgware Road steam room.
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Spa & Wellness Six London spas that keep the lights low and the doors open past office hours, from candlelit Roman baths in Covent Garden to Laurent-Perrier on a heated marble lounger by the Thames.
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