Covent Garden Grind

Grind & Co is a group of espresso bars, cocktails bars and restaurants in London, currently with sites in Shoreditch, Soho, Holborn, London Bridge and coming soon in Covent Garden.

Covent Garden Grind

Please note we only seat parties when everyone has arrived and we can only hold your reservation for 10 minutes.

For parties larger than 8 please email [email protected] to book.

http://grind.co.uk

A Morning in London: Coffee at Grind & Soutine's Portraits at the ...

With the sun shining brightly on an autumnal November morning, I decided to head into central London to see Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & Bellboys, an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House.

The Courtauld Gallery is one of my favourite places: a small, friendly gallery that often has wonderful exhibitions.

I’m very Italian about my coffee (yes I know flat whites are Antipodean) – I never order anything other than small (regular).

He lived in poverty for a time in the Montparnassse area of Paris before his portraits of Parisian hotel and restaurant workers were noticed and bought.

It is interesting therefore that he chose to paint portraits of Parisian lower life, by which I mean people with low-paid jobs in the service industry, whose lives were full of drudgery, to express his own inner angst.

Covent Garden Grind | Covent Garden London

Covent Garden Grind found its home at Maiden Lane early 2016, followed with sites in the city; Clerkenwell, Exmouth Market and Whitechapel.

With its connections to music and culture, Covent Garden provides the perfect backdrop for Grind’s electric, fast paced attitude.

Born from a desire to recreate the espresso taste found in Melbourne, Grind roast their signature Grind House Blend in their Shoreditch roastery before it’s packed and shipped across London.

As well serving the Grind House Blend, Covent Garden Grind offers an all-day food offering, as well as cocktails late into the evening.

As the day moves on, Covent Garden Grind offers up a selection of small plates - dishes such as salt cod brandade with garlic crostini, sprout and goats cheese panzanella, and the favourite; middle-white pork belly with charred onions.

Covent Garden Grind for Private Venue Hire | Prices & Reviews ...

The venue has a standing capacity of 80, with outdoor seating during the warmer months, and a private room downstairs.

The fabulous location and open plan interior make this the perfect venue for anything from business breakfasts to cocktail parties!

Covent Garden Grind's New Evening Menu

Now, under the creative force that is Kyle Boyce, Former Executive Chef of Soho House Group’s public restaurants, they are serving up an evening menu of small plates from 5pm Monday to Saturday.

Dishes include the likes of burrata, heritage beetroot and ciabatta; sprout panzanella and goat’s cheese and kale, brown rice, cauliflower, pine nuts and pomegranates.

What We Ate: There are Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavours running through the dishes, with plenty of pine nuts, burrata yoghurt and pomegranates.

There’s a pretty dish of burrata, heritage beetroot and ciabatta and we were big fans of the kale, with brown rice, cauliflower, pine nuts and pomegranate.

What We Drank: Despite being only a Tuesday we had to go for a classic Grind espresso martini, it’s slick, smooth an all too easy to drink.

Covent Garden Grind | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London

Sibarita | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London

A tapas and wine bar from the crew behind nearby Encant.

Sibarita has pulled off a neat little trick.

Sibarita is a spin-off of Encant (a swisher spot a few doors down) and deals in charcuterie, cheese and a few tapas plates.

Worse still, a plate of (overcooked) octopus was chewy to the point of being inedible.

Welcome to Covent Garden, Sibarita.