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Covent Garden Heritage British

Rules (1798) for game and steak-and-kidney, J Sheekey on St Martin's Court for fish, Cora Pearl for the Henrietta Street nightcap — the WC2 evening built on rooms that outlasted the piazza.

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stops
0.5 km
Total Distance
~7 min
Walking Time
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By Mes Prestiges Editorial Team
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J Sheekey
Restaurant

J Sheekey

Pre-theatre menu 17:00 - 18:30 and post-theatre from 22:00 — both better-value than dinner proper. The fish pie and the Dover sole are the through-lines. Sister oyster bar Sheekey Atlantic Bar next door takes walk-ins. Caprice Holdings group, same kitchen since the Wolseley founders' era.

28-32 St Martin's Court, London WC2N 4AL
303m · ~4 min walk
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Rules
Restaurant

Rules

Book a ground-floor banquette in the front room, not the back conservatory. Game from August through January is the order — grouse, partridge, woodcock — with claret. Jacket required at dinner; trainers refused. The upstairs cocktail bar is open to walk-ins after 17:00.

34-35 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7LB
59m · ~1 min walk
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Cora Pearl
Restaurant

Cora Pearl

Book the back banquette for two; bar seats at the front take limited walk-ins from 17:30. The ham, egg and chips and the cheese toastie are the through-line orders that carried the room from opening; the soufflé is the dessert. Two minutes' walk to the Royal Opera House — pre-curtain seating from 17:30, post-curtain from 22:00.

30 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8NA
142m · ~2 min walk
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Balthazar London
Restaurant

Balthazar London

Book the back banquette section, not the window-line bistro tables which sit on the door. Weekend brunch from 09:00 books up by Wednesday — the eggs benedict and the steak haché are the orders. The Balthazar Boulangerie next door takes walk-ins for the bread and the kouign-amann.

4-6 Russell Street, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5HZ

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