Le Café Du Jardin is generally regarded as Covent Garden's most buzzing and cosmopolitan restaurant. Situated in the heart of London's Theatreland and open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week, the restaurant is equally popular with lunch and post business regulars and pre and post theatre diners. You can find living proof at Le Café Du Jardin that the joys of good food and good wine are here to stay. Split over 2 floors; choose between the conservatory style ground floor where you can see the rush of Covent Garden life or the more spacious lower ground floor with high ceilings, plenty of natural light and a live pianist every evening. It is ideally located for both pre and post theatre dining as we are no more than 10 minutes walk from most of London's major theatres.
They carry an extensive selection of wines.
Last orders at Midnight, so there's no rush.
Private dining facilities for parties of up to 60 guests.
Pianist every evening.
Nearest tube stations:
Covent Garden (2 mins walk)
Charing Cross (10 mins walk)
or Leicester Square (10 mins walk)
Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner
Lunch 12.00 noon - 3.00 pm (last orders)
Dinner 5.30 pm - midnight (last orders)
Sunday: all day 12.00 noon to 11.00pm (last orders)
Seats 105: 50 upstairs
60 downstairs (fully air - conditioned)
Pianist every evening downstairs Monday to Saturday
Average a la carte price for a three-course meal with wine: £35 per person
Sample Dishes Served:
Courgette and rosemary soup 4.50
Bruschetta of slow roasted cherry tomatoes with basil ricotta 6.50
Sauted asparagus with rocket, virgin olive oil and parmesan 6.50
Twice baked souffle of courgette and goat’s cheese 7.50
Artichoke heart filled with mushroom and tomato duxelle, a soft poached egg and hollandaise sauce 6.50
Buffalo mozzarella with a herb and caper salad, salted anchovies, and black olive dressing 7.00
Home cured bresaola with mixed leaves and parmesan 6.50
Potted duck with pickled red cabbage and apple chutney 6.00
Caesar salad 5.50
Deep fried crab cake with spring onion risotto, tomato relish and chilli oil dressing 6.50
Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on a potato and horseradish blini with chive oil 7.50
Shellfish boudin with hazelnut and white truffle potatoes and a butter chive sauce 7.00
Seared scallops on spiced vegetables with red pepper dressing 8.50
Potato and sage dumplings with mascarpone and parmesan cheese sauce 4.50/8.50
Thin pasta with spinach, radicchio, onion, garlic, tomatoes, pine nuts, chopped herbs and parmesan 5.50/9.50
Thin pasta with smoked chicken, chilli, roasted peppers, sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, cream and spring onions 5.50/9.50
Crayfish risotto with caramelised red onions and soft herbs 7.50/13.50
Grilled fillet of salmon with spear chips, caramelised red onion and tarragon dressing 10.50
Rare grilled tuna with savoy cabbage and spiced pimento oil 12.50
Grilled swordfish steak on bok choy with a pineapple and black mustard seed salsa 12.50 Bouillabaisse of grilled fish with lobster ravioli 14.50
Crisp skinned fillet of sea bass with lemon and dill mashed potatoes and a white butter sauce 15.00 Roasted fillet of cod with tomato risotto and basil oil 15.00
Thyme and honey glazed confit of duck leg on bubble and squeak with a citrus jus 11.50
Pan fried Dutch calves liver with Lyonnaise potatoes and smoked bacon 12.50
Stuffed leg of rabbit on a rosti potato with a piquant sauce 13.50
Roasted rump of lamb on champ potatoes with rosemary jus 14.50
Rare grilled fillet of ostrich with sauted new potatoes and red peppers, mushroom duxelle and a port reduction 14.00
Char grilled rib eye of Scotch beef with pommes frites, grilled tomato, mushrooms and béarnaise sauce 14.50
Veal cutlets Milanese with lemon butter 16.00
28 Wellington Street
Covent Garden, London WC2E 7BD