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Hollywood star Robert De Niro has shelved plans to open an 83-bedroom boutique hotel in London. There would have been two restaurants, a spa and a member’s club too. The Oscar-winning actor was due to open the hotel in busy Covent Garden after Westminster City Council granted planning permission for the development in 2016. We had expected […]
Theatreland’s stalwart American diner Joe Allen (a survivor of the ’70s) is to move lock, stock and wood panelling this summer. The restaurant and all its fixtures and fittings will take up a new home, just 25 metres down the road, in Burleigh Street, Covent Garden. Retaining the recognisable wood panelling, classic theatre posters and […]
Joe Allen, one of the longest-running productions in Theatreland, may be facing the final curtain. Never exactly a foodie hotspot – in fact most famous for its off-menu burger – this 1977 recreation of a famous, brick-lined, NYC Theatreland linchpin (off Times Square) has long earned its keep by being “a great place to meet […]
