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The congregation of rich carriages there was said to be one of the great sights of London at this time. [2] It then became a centre of publishing of periodicals such as Country Life (no 8, designed in 1904 by Edwin Lutyens), The Stage and Vanity Fair. [1] The auction business Sotheby's started there as a bookseller. [1]
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". [2]
Southampton Street is a street in central London, running north from the Strand to Covent Garden Market. [1] [2] There are restaurants in the street such as Bistro 1 [3] and Wagamama. There are also shops [4] such as The North Face outdoor clothing shop.
The Ivy Asia is a restaurant coming under the Ivy Restaurant group, offering Asian-inspired food and drink. [15] The original Ivy Asia restaurant launched in May 2021 in the Ivy Manchester Spinningfields branch. [16] Multiple branches have opened across the UK since, including Cardiff, Brighton, London (Chelsea, Mayfair and St Paul's) and Leeds ...
Wellington Street is a street located in Covent Garden, Westminster, London. It connects Bow Street, Russell Street, Tavistock Street, Exeter Street, Strand and Lancaster Place. The street takes its name from Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. [1]
The first Dishoom café opened in Covent Garden in 2010. As of November 2022, there are 10 Dishoom restaurants open around the United Kingdom, with locations in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham. [4] [5] [6] In 2020 Dishoom introduced the Dishoom online store to sit alongside their restaurants. [7]
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Covent Garden.Covent Garden has no formally defined boundaries – those utilised here are: Shaftesbury Avenue to the north-west, New Oxford Street and High Holborn to the north, Kingsway and the western half of the Aldwych semi-circle to the east, Strand to the south and Charing Cross Road to the west.
Henrietta Street on a 1690 map, before Southampton Street was built Henrietta Street was first planned from 1631 and building was completed by 1634. Although the street plan is unchanged from the original, most of the houses are of nineteenth-century construction.