Italian
Restaurants: Covent
Garden has a fine selection of Italian restaurants to
suit all budgets and tastes. We list our most popular
eight restaurants..
Established 1913, this is one of London's best known Italian restaurants. Traditional cuisine of high quality includes veal Milanese, calves liver, and a fine selection of pasta dishes. The downstairs cafe has a more modest price range.
Stylishly decorated in gleaming chrome with smart burgundy booths, this is a place to be seen, as well as to people watch, especially in the summer when al fresco dining is popular.
Café Pasta is a small chain of Italian restaurants with a laid-back ambience serving a reliable range of Italian staples. This subterranean branch in Covent Garden's Garrick Street has pleasant, contemporary décor, with wooden floors and creamy walls, while the menu comprises freshly made pizza, pasta and salads together with a strong international wine list.
This Shaftesbury Avenue branch is handily located for theatre-goers, with an welcoming atmosphere and pleasant, stylish décor. The unpretentious menu features a wide range of starters, pizza, pastas and salads, with a good complementary
Charming family run restaurant. The a la carte menu offers the chicken and veal courses one associates with Italian cuisine, such as petto di pollo al limone, and scaloppini di vitello con pepperoni e funghi.
This welcoming, family style restaurant is famous for its affordable, imaginative and home made Italian country cooking. Located with one foot in Covent Garden and the other in Bloomsbury, the Italian Kitchen is ideally situated.
Paradiso e Inferno is a long established family run Italian restaurant offering a varied menu in warm, lively surroundings. The menu offers a wide variety of pastas through to grills and fish which will appeal to tourists on the move or indeed family nights out.
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