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Porters
Porters English Restaurant
17 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,
London WC2
Tel: 020 7836 6466
About Porters English Restaurant
Porters is a Great British restaurant in all senses of the word, located on Henrietta Street, not far from the grand piazza of London’s Covent Garden and not a million miles from the London Transport Museum. For anyone enjoying a family day out or looking to top it off with grand food like mother, or even grandma, used to make it, Porters is just the ticket.
Founded in June 1979 and led by Richard, the 7th Earl Of Bradford, the assuredly traditional Porters has a range of top English ales and wine, hangs its Scottish Aberdeen Angus steaks for the necessary 3 weeks to gain a fuller flavour, has Welsh Leek and Sage Sausages, and completes its tour of the British Isles with Irish Steak, Guinness and Mushroom Pie. Additionally, Porters offers pre-nouvelle cuisine from the regions, such as Yorkshire pudding and Lancs. steak and kidney pudding, not to mention classic afters like spotted dick and steamed syrup pudding.
The fine surroundings of Porters are in the centre of Covent Garden's theatre district and within easy reach of renowned landmarks like the Lyceum, Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Royal Opera House. In fact, packages can be booked in conjunction with numerous theatres (details are at the Porters website), and on of the all year round offers is a meal as part of a family day out to the London Eye, the Tower Of London or Madame Tussaud’s, plus a free bottle of wine.
A family attraction itself, Porters is not a mile from the British Museum, the Cabinet War Rooms, 10 Downing Street and the Cenotaph, Whitehall and Horseguards Parade with the Changing of the Guards, Trafalgar Square and the Mall, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, the National Portrait Gallery, Piccadilly Circus, Soho, the Old Curiosity Shop, the Roman baths at King’s College, Westminster Abbey, the Wren churches, New Scotland Yard, Hyde Park, the Imperial War Museum, the London Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Millennium Bridge, the Tate Modern, HMS Belfast, the Royal Academy of Arts, St. Paul's Cathedral, Monument, Cleopatra’s Needle, Westminster Cathedral, the Golden Hinde and the Clink Prison.
Following a family day out at one or other of these family attractions, Porters provides a cheery sanctuary of rest and relaxation, which it has provided on Covent Garden as no fewer than 26 other restaurants came and went. In fact, during its many years of service, Porters has dished out enough sausage to run from its lofty portal to Oxford, enough beer and wine to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool, enough lettuce to fill 32 London Eye pods, and enough gravy to paint the Greenwich O2 Arena half a dozen times! It also got through 81,000 bottles of washing up liquid – though you won’t be asked to do the dishes! With disabled access, Porters is a fine stop for anyone on a family day out.