Covent Garden, Leicester Square & Holborn
Come prepared to battle the crowds in Covent Garden and Leicester Square as the area never seems to quiet down regardless of the time of day or night. Covent Garden, home to the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet and numerous west-end theatres, provides for culture fiends, with the street performers in the piazza providing for more unconventional entertainment. If you can somehow snag a spot on the balcony of the Punch and Judy pub, grab a pint and watch the performances in comfort.
The cobbled streets of the area allude to its history as a fruit and vegetable market, though it is now home to high-end restaurants and bars catering to the rich and famous (the Ivy, just north of Seven Dials, is still THE place to catch a glimpse of a famous face). If you want to try to catch some live filming then head to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, where on the weekends the quiet squares of the legal centre of London hosts filming for period films and programs.
Leicester Square unfortunately remains fairly unremarkable, acting as a thoroughfare from Covent Garden to Piccadilly Circus more than anything else, but venture north into Chinatown and the atmosphere quickly changes.
Nightlife
Papageno Restaurant and Bar
Tasca (La) - Covent Garden
The Harp
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Prince Edward Theatre
Roadhouse
Wolfe's Bar & Grill
Duchess Theatre
Tasca (La) - St. Martin's Lane
PJ's Grill
Strand Theatre
Cambridge Theatre
Café des Amis
Light Bar (The)
Duke of York's
Café des Amis du Vin
Gardening Club
Princess Louise
Langley (The)
Camouflage
Tuttons
Rockwell
World Food Cafe
Garrick (The)
Gass Club
Coach and Horses
Round Table
Apex Bar and Restaurant (The)
Navajo Joe
Coal Hole
Tea Palace
Stringfellows
Souk Medina
Lobby Bar (The)
Adam Street
Poetry Cafe (The)
Cittie of Yorke
Cafe Pasta - High Holborn
Bedford & Strand Wine Room and Bistro
Neal's Yard Cafe Society
Cafe Pasta - Shaftesbury Avenue
Columbia Bar
Thai Pot
Bunker Bier Hall
Vats
Conservatory Bar
Porky's Pantry
Vaudeville Theatre
Traffic
Carluccio's
Belgo Centraal
Christopher's American Bar & Grill
Tristan Bates Theatre
Cinnamon Bar (The)
Belgo Kingsway
Cove (The)
Wahaca
Walkabout Covent Garden
Bad Bob's
Covent Garden Film Studios
Conway Hall Humanist Centre
Long Island Iced Tea Shop
Terrace In The Fields (The)
Rules
Peacock Theatre
Zoo Bar
Chez Gerard - Chancery Lane
Centre Stage
Verve
Flower Cellars (The)
The End
Den & Centro (The)
Sway Restaurant
Retro Bar
Cross Keys (The)
Origin Bar & Dining Room
AKA (at The End)
Bar 38
English National Opera (ENO)
Sway Restaurant Bar & Club
Jewel
Crown (The)
The Box
Chandos
79CXR
New Ambassadors
Chez Gérard at The Opera Terrace
Fuel
Lyceum (The)
Marquis of Granby (The)
Knights Templar
First Out Café Bar
Villa Stefano
Monmouth Coffee House
Novello Theatre
Tamarai
Asia de Cuba
Detroit
Salisbury
Deuxieme (Le)
Kingly Club & Kyashii
Cork & Bottle Wine Bar
St. Martin's Theatre
Punch & Judy Pub
Royal Opera House
Dial Restaurant & Bar
Dirty Martini Cocktail Bar
Long Acre (The)
Point 101
Fortune Theatre
Heaven Nightclub
Smollensky's Bar and Grill
Covent Garden Brasserie
Simpson's-in-the-Strand
Caffe Vergnano
Wagamama - Covent Garden
Belushi's
Donmar Warehouse
Bhatti
The Porterhouse Covent Garden
Guanabara
Hospital Club (The)
Mosaique Restaurant & Bar
Octave
Livebait
Na Zdrowie
Salsa!
Lamb & Flag
Odeon Cinema Covent Garden
Attractions
Ted Baker Endurance Store
Gilbert Collection at Somerset House
Agnès B
O'Neill
Wildy & Sons
Mango
Blackout II
Sole Trader
Oasis
Orla Kiely
Harvest Festivals of Pearly Society
Office
Bead Shop (The)
Prince Henry's Room
Swear
Phoenix Garden
Walk-In Backrub
Buffalo
Jones
Royal Opera House
Blade Rubber Stamps Ltd.
Quiksilver
London Transport Museum
Samuel Johnson's House
Ellis Brigham
Warehouse
Oxfam
Bureau
LK Bennett
Murder One
Miss Sixty
Sanctuary (The)
Hermitage Rooms At Somerset House
Modelzone
Perpetuity
Camper
Freemason's Hall
Birkenstock
Theatre Museum
Covent Garden Hotel Spa
Maharishi
Diesel
Somerset House
Mexx
Flower Cellars (The)
fcuk
Garden Pharmacy (The)
Covent Garden Film Studios
Stationery Office (The)
Australia Shop (The)
Adolfo Dominguez
Hobbs
Gap
Pollock's Toy Museum & Toy Shop
Blackwell's
Neal's Yard
Next
Kookaï
Monsoon
Hunterian Museum
Simple Spa
Cats Kids Club
Bead Aura
Mambo
Sportspages
Drury Lane Theatre Royal
Seven Dials
Oasis Sports Centre
Covent Garden Piazza
Offspring
St George's Bloomsbury
Victoria Embankment Gardens
Guanghwa Company
Timberland
Old Bloomsbury - The Literary London Pub Walk
Al-Huda Bookshop
High Jinks
Jungle
Mysteries
Bridge of Aspiration
King's College London
Scribbler
Cybercandy
Reiss
Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery
Rohan
Press & Bastyan
Neal's Yard
Slam City Skates
Disney Store (The)
Monmouth Coffee House
Pepe Jeans
Hope & Greenwood Old Fashioned Sweet Shop
Betsey Johnson
Burro
Twinings
Picadilly
Italian Bookshop
Muffinski's
Culpeper
Boxfresh
Question Air
Restaurants
Wahaca
Walkabout Covent Garden
Neal's Yard Cafe Society
Mosaique Restaurant & Bar
Amoy Noodle Restaurant
Strand Tandoori
Cafe Pasta - Shaftesbury Avenue
Tuscan Steak
Stringfellows
Chez Gérard at The Opera Terrace
Wagamama - Leicester Square
Villa Stefano
Loch Fyne - Covent Garden
Dial Restaurant & Bar
Absolute Thai
The Old Bell
Duemila
Wagamama - Covent Garden
Axis Restaurant & Bar
Terrace In The Fields (The)
Papageno Restaurant and Bar
Palm Court Brasserie
Café Pacifico
Fiori Corner
Chez Gerard - Chancery Lane
Tea Palace
Cittie of Yorke
Harlequin Restaurant
Po Cha
Pasta Brown
Navajo Joe
Salisbury (The)
First Out
Roadhouse
Clos Maggiore
12 Bar Club
Café des Amis du Vin
Brasserie Max
Maggiore's
Blandford Street Restaurant
Jen Café
Zoo Bar & Club
Los Locos Tejas
Le Palais du Jardin
AKA (at The End)
Knights Templar
Cove (The)
Sway Restaurant Bar & Club
Belgo Kingsway
Neal Street
Shanghai Blues
Covent Garden Brasserie
Fryer's Delight
Calabash
The Tipperary
Octave
Wagamama - Haymarket
TGI Friday's
Poetry Cafe (The)
J Sheekey
Orso
Rez's Cucina Italiana
Campana (La)
Rock & Sole Plaice
Apex Bar and Restaurant (The)
Kulu Kulu Sushi
World Food Cafe
Tokyo Diner
Marquis of Granby (The)
Tale of India
Bank
Origin Bar & Dining Room
Tasca (La) - Covent Garden
Detroit
Rock Garden (The)
Livebait
Maxwell's
L'Estaminet
Bertorelli
Thai Square the Strand
Smollensky's Bar and Grill
Na Zdrowie
Sapori in Covent Garden
Thai Pin
Alfred's
Thai Pot
Tandoori Nights
Bea's of Bloomsbury
Tasca (La) - St. Martin's Lane
CIRCUS
Adam Street
Bhangra Beat
Cafe Pasta - High Holborn
Covent Garden Grill
Belgo Centraal
Masala Zone Covent Garden
Langley (The)
Hotels
One Aldwych
West Street Hotel
Covent Garden Hotel
Generator (The)
Thistle Charing Cross
The Waldorf Hilton, London
Radisson Edwardian Pastoria
Swissôtel The Howard, London
