Frenchie Covent Garden

"Frenchie is the kind of place where you presume that 90% of the diners have summer homes and the phone number of at least one extended member of the royal family. It might feel a bit socialite central, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go here. Everything about this modern French brasserie is equal parts elegance and fun, whether it’s the marble bar and chatty staff, or their bacon and maple syrup take on the scone. This place works for everything from a boozy grown-up birthday to a romantic date, but if you want to indulge in a deep dive exploration of the menu, it might be best to make sure someone else is paying." - Team Infatuation

"If you’re looking for a restaurant where servers will smile warmly at your family rendition of Hakuna Matata, don’t come to Frenchie. This French brasserie is fun, but it’s adults-out-to-play type fun. The pre-theatre, three-course £34 set is your best bet, as things aren’t too cheap here. But a bacon scone, some foie gras, confit cod, and banoffee to finish, is our kind of circle of life." - Jake Oliver, Rianne Shlebak

"If restaurants like Brasserie Zédel and Casse-Croûte are perfect for fans of Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Luc Godard films, then Frenchie is the restaurant for fans of Léa Seydoux and Phoenix. Frenchie is an oh-so modern and insatiably Good Looking brasserie on Henrietta Street, where dishes like smoked eel tarteletter and parmesan gougères get the elegant international treatment with shiso, smoked ricotta, and black garlic sabayon. It shares its name with the popular original on Rue du Nil in Paris, and despite the presence of pastel velvet seating and warm dome lighting, you can always sit at the shiny bar and eat the set menu. Parfait. " - Heidi Lauth Beasley, Jake Oliver, Daisy Meager

"Frenchie, a (you guessed it) French restaurant in Covent Garden will change your mind about, well, everything. Because this really, really good-looking spot with its shiny bar and herringbone-tiled floors is more than a pretty face. Its sprout tempura—crispy little bites of joy with anchovy and mustard—will convert the scrooges. And if they can change your mind about fancy restaurants and brussels sprouts, maybe, just maybe, with its warm dome lighting and velvet seating, they can change your mind about double dates. " - Heidi Lauth Beasley, Jake Oliver, Sinead Cranna

"At 6.46pm today, your makeover entered the world. And since then, you’ve practised your Oscars speech in the mirror four times, lip synced to every song containing the words ‘hair’, ‘gorgeous’, and basically the entire soundtrack to Hair the musical. Frenchie is a restaurant as beautiful as you are. It’s a modern brasserie in Covent Garden that serves some seriously excellent food like a bacon and maple syrup scone, goat’s cheese manicotti, and a banoffee dessert that’s an absolute must order." - Heidi Lauth Beasley, Rianne Shlebak