Fatt Pundit Review: 18,059 People Cannot All Be Wrong
Fatt Pundit Review: 18,059 People Cannot All Be Wrong | The most-reviewed venue in Covent Garden holds a 4.8, which should not be mathematically possible
Tag: Covent Garden
London Transport Museum Confirms Moquette Fabric Has Dedicated Fandom
London Transport Museum Confirms Moquette Fabric Has Dedicated Fandom | Underground seat pattern merchandise outsells expectations among design enthusiasts
Mr Fogg’s Gin Parlour Review: The Third One
Mr Fogg’s Gin Parlour Review: The Third One | Tavern, Society of Exploration, Gin Parlour. One fictional Victorian, three price points, and a chain that has understood the British perfectly.
All Bar One Review: 5,227 People and Nothing to Say
All Bar One Review: 5,227 People and Nothing to Say | A chain bar with more reviews than the Lamb and Flag, and a rating higher than the Salisbury, and no story at all
Moto Sake Bar Review: Britain Is Wrong About Sake
Moto Sake Bar Review: Britain Is Wrong About Sake | A Covent Garden sake bar quietly correcting a national misunderstanding, one warm-sake refusenik at a time
Blacklock Review: Chops, Stacked, Until You Ask Them to Stop
Blacklock Review: Chops, Stacked, Until You Ask Them to Stop | A chop house named after a nail-making foundry, which serves meat on a board in a quantity that constitutes a dare
Voila Review: It Means See There, and It Is an Instruction
Voila Review: It Means See There, and It Is an Instruction | Not there it is. See there. It is a verb, and it is pointing at something, and the exclamation mark is doing real work
Tapas Stories Review: The Tapa Was a Lid
Tapas Stories Review: The Tapa Was a Lid | It was a slice of bread over the glass to keep the flies out. Britain has turned it into eleven small plates and a sixty-pound bill.
The 10 Cases Review: When It Is Gone, It Is Gone
The 10 Cases Review: When It Is Gone, It Is Gone | They buy ten cases of each wine and then never buy it again. It is a business model that sounds insane and is not.
Penelope’s Review: She Unpicked the Shroud Every Night
Penelope’s Review: She Unpicked the Shroud Every Night | Three years of weaving by day and undoing it in the dark, to hold off a hundred and eight men who would not leave her house
Urban Pubs and Bars Review: This Is a Company, Not a Pub
Urban Pubs and Bars Review: This Is a Company, Not a Pub | Thirteen reviews, a 3.8, and a listing that has been filed under the name of the group that owns it
Hawksmoor Review: The Architect Was Accused of Building a Pagan Grid
Hawksmoor Review: The Architect Was Accused of Building a Pagan Grid | Nicholas Hawksmoor built six extraordinary churches and has been posthumously accused of encoding occult geometry into London. He was not.
Philomena’s Review: Saint Philomena Was Deleted
Philomena’s Review: Saint Philomena Was Deleted | She had a cult, a feast day, miracles and a basilica – and in 1961 the Church quietly removed her from the calendar
Bask Street Boys Review: The Pun Is Basque and It Is Very Good
Bask Street Boys Review: The Pun Is Basque and It Is Very Good | Fifty reviews, a 4.9, lowercase, and a joke that took us longer to get than we are prepared to admit
Cecilia’s Review: She Sang While They Were Marrying Her Off
Cecilia’s Review: She Sang While They Were Marrying Her Off | Saint Cecilia is the patron of music because she sang in her heart at her own forced wedding. Then the axe failed three times.
Covent Garden Comedy Point
Covent Garden Comedy Point | Three Reviews, a Four-Point-Three Average, and a Story Still Being Written
Baudry Greene Review: 4.8, and Two Names Nobody Will Explain
Baudry Greene Review: 4.8, and Two Names Nobody Will Explain | One hundred and sixty-seven people, a very high score, and a name that we have added to the unsolved list
Old Brewer’s Yard Review: One to Ten Pounds, in Covent Garden
Old Brewer’s Yard Review: One to Ten Pounds, in Covent Garden | The cheapest venue in the new Covent Garden file, and the third cheap room we have had to describe as endangered
Covent Garden London: Street Performers And Pricey Tea
Covent Garden London: Street Performers And Pricey Tea | Covent garden london combines world-class street performers, a historic market and shops selling tea at gently astonishing prices.
Dalla Terra Review: From the Earth, and the Earth Is the Argument
Dalla Terra Review: From the Earth, and the Earth Is the Argument | Terroir is either the most important idea in wine or the most successful marketing in history, and nobody has settled it
Lobby Bar Review: It Was Built as a Newspaper Office
Lobby Bar Review: It Was Built as a Newspaper Office | One Aldwych was the Morning Post building. A hotel is now standing in a newsroom, and the ceilings are the reason to go.
Cecil Beaton Bar Review: He Dressed Eliza Doolittle
Cecil Beaton Bar Review: He Dressed Eliza Doolittle | He designed My Fair Lady – the story of a Covent Garden flower girl – and won two Oscars for it. He also photographed the Blitz.
Sushisamba Review: Nikkei Is What Happened When Japan Went to Peru
Sushisamba Review: Nikkei Is What Happened When Japan Went to Peru | It is not a fusion invented by a chef. It is a cuisine invented by migrants who could not get the ingredients they wanted.
Champagne and Fromage Review: The Pairing Is Wrong and It Works
Champagne and Fromage Review: The Pairing Is Wrong and It Works | Everything about champagne with cheese is technically a mistake, and everybody who has tried it knows it is not
Plume Review: The Feather Was a Weapon, a Pen, and a Boast
Plume Review: The Feather Was a Weapon, a Pen, and a Boast | A plume is display. It is what an animal grows when it has enough surplus to waste some of it being seen.
Comedy Carnival Covent Garden
Comedy Carnival Covent Garden | More Fun Than the Actual Carnival and Significantly Less Candyfloss in Your Hair
Be At One Lyceum Review: Flair Is Harder Than It Looks
Be At One Lyceum Review: Flair Is Harder Than It Looks | Throwing a bottle over your shoulder is a genuine skill, a genuine risk, and a genuine argument inside the trade
Olea Social Review: An Olive Tree Can Outlive a Civilisation
Olea Social Review: An Olive Tree Can Outlive a Civilisation | Olea europaea. Some of them are two thousand years old and still cropping, and one of them is supposed to be Athena’s.
Maple Laughs Comedy
Maple Laughs Comedy | Seventeen Reviews, Five Stars, and Possibly the Best Discovery in Covent Garden
The Covent Garden Comedy Club
The Covent Garden Comedy Club | Where Street Performers Go When They Want a Ceiling and a Microphone