Eat Out London!Le Restaurant de Paul Covent Garden
This is the UK online store of PAUL, a family owned company, who have a passion for cakes, french bread, and coffee.
PAUL Bakery, Patisserie, Café and Restaurant
Choose any coffee, tea or hot chocolate + any freshly baked Viennoiserie for a deliciously French start to the day.
Our hot chocolate is almost sinfully good.
And starting the day with a freshly baked pure butter croissant, pain chocolat, escargot raisin or briochette is certain to put a spring in your step.
* £3.25 to take away, £4.10 to eat in, offer available before midday only, daily.
Limited edition and seasonal items may not be included in this offer.
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Le Restaurant de Paul, review: The dining room is tucked away like an
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Not Paul Hollywood, the bearded lothario from The Great British Bake Off, but Paul the très chic French boulangerie chain that arrived in British high streets in 2000.
Attempts have been made to give it some modish starkness – whitewashed brick walls, stone-flagged floor tiles, an elderly photo-print of a Paul restaurant in the 1920s, and a dramatically black pass behind which the chefs labour away.
Perhaps we shouldn't have attacked the marvellous Paul bread (olive bread, cheese bread, six-cereal bread...) with such gusto.
Puddings at Le Restaurant de Paul were exactly what you'd expect: macarons, tartlets, eclairs, French toast with crème anglaise.
What they're offering is a classic Paul café with a few feeble gestures towards actual cooking, nervously offered to the passing trade.
Paul Hamlyn Hall Balconies Restaurant — Royal Opera House
Once a part of Covent Garden flower market, the spectacular, glass-vaulted Paul Hamlyn Hall has a definite ‘wow’ factor.
At gallery level, the Balconies Restaurant provides a stunning, modern space at the heart of the Royal Opera House.
Amid the energy and excitement of world-class opera and ballet productions, the Paul Hamlyn Hall Balconies Restaurant offers spectacular views, superb, friendly service and a luxurious modern European menu that, like the Paul Hamlyn Hall itself, combines the very best of old and new.
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You can add restaurant reservations to your shopping basket up to 72 hours before performances for which you have tickets.
Paul Covent Garden A Truly French Experience A London ...
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I’m all about the cake and a very long time ago on a visit to Paris, we discovered our very first Paul café which we thought was oh-so-exclusively-Parisienne and quaint.
However, this traditional French import has managed to retain its rich family-owned heritage whilst feeding the masses and I was delighted to discover that Paul Covent Garden, among others, is so much more than ‘just’ a café with now iconic black shop fronts and a line of artisan speciality breads made using sustainably produced winter wheat.
Mains was Entrecôte sirloin steak, Provençale tomato, French fries for me – a no brainer, I adore it – and Emma was already nearly full so opted for Salade Boulangère with roasted peppers, cherry tomatoes, poached egg, and a Paul bread stick.
Emma innocently went for Mousse au Chocolat – Paul bottomless mousse and we could not believe our eyes when it arrived – huge, never ending, and a feast for the eyes as well as the palate!
When you are in Covent Garden, Paul is a must.
Restaurant Review: Le Restaurant de PAUL | The Soulmates Blog
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Tucked away on Bedford Street in Covent Garden, a few minutes from the throbbing heart of tourism that is Leicester Square, Le Restaurant de PAUL sits in the back of its sister patisserie.
Resembling a 19th-century dining room, Le Restaurant de PAUL is fresh and welcoming but lacks some of the warmth you’d expect from a restaurant.
Le Restaurant de PAUL is open for breakfast and also offers an afternoon tea menu that the staff couldn’t recommend highly enough.
If you’re on a date to see a show at one of the many close-by theatres, you’ll be able to take advantage of the pre-theatre menu, which is available between 2:30pm and 7pm and offers two courses for £8.95 or three courses for £11.75.
Out of ten, I’d give Le Restaurant de PAUL an eight.
Meet Feng Shang Princess, the (lousy) Chinese restaurant in a boat ...
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The Feng Shang Princess is a floating Chinese restaurant on the Regent’s Canal in north London, which flows from Little Venice to the Guardian to Limehouse, and in which they quite often find corpses in shopping trolleys and vice versa.
The Regent’s Canal is an ugly stretch of water, which reeks of sexual violence and cheap alcohol and cyclists, and it is desolate; place it near London Zoo and you have a peculiar cognitive dissonance that could only happen in London: a tapir near a canal featuring a floating Chinese restaurant.
Its marketing tic is this: it is a Chinese restaurant on a boat.
The canal here turns north to Camden market and the tattoo parlour called ‘Evil from the Needle’; the Feng Shang Princess is therefore on a watery cul-de-sac, on which float algae and duckweed and Diet Coke cans.
Otherwise, because human stupidity is without end, the Feng Shang Princess won an OpenTable Diners’ Choice award last year: because, on a canal basin near Alan Bennett, it floats.