Restaurant Behind One of London’s Best Sunday Roasts Heads for Covent Garden

Covent Garden’s restaurant chops are on the up

Celebrated London steakhouse and Sunday roast specialist Blacklock is planning to open a fourth restaurant in the city. Gordon Ker’s group will open on Covent Garden’s Henrietta Street, according to Big Hospitality, with a recently submitted planning application to refurbish a townhouse for restaurant use at 3 Henrietta Street a possible final destination. Restaurants on Eastcheap and in Shoreditch have replicated the success of the Soho original, predicated on a close relationship with Cornish butcher Warren’s and a concise, precisely executed menu of chops, steaks, and sides. It’ll have healthy competition: London’s sine qua non of extra restaurant openings, Big Mamma, is planning a huge site on the same street. [Big Hospitality]

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