Porters
Porters English Restaurant
17 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,
London WC2
Tel: 020 7836 6466
About Porters English Restaurant
Porters is a traditional English restaurant in every sense of the word, situated on Henrietta Street off the wonderful piazza at London’s Covent Garden and a stone’s throw from the London Transport Museum. For those who are on a family day out or seeking to round it off with hearty fare like mother, nee granny, used to make it, then Porters is just the ticket.
Established in June 1979 and overseen by Richard, the 7th Earl Of Bradford, the reassuringly old-school Porters has a selection of fine English ales and even wine, hangs its Scottish Aberdeen Angus steaks for the regulation 21 days for a fuller flavour, has classic Welsh Leek and Sage Sausages, and completes the British Isles tour with Irish Steak, Guinness and Mushroom Pies. Porters also serves up pre-nouvelle regional cuisine dishes like Yorkshire pudding and steak and kidney pudding, as well as desserts such as spotted dick and steamed syrup pud.
The comfortable surroundings of Porters are in the heart of Covent Garden's theatreland and within easy striking distance of such famous establishments as the Lyceum, Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Royal Opera House. Indeed, packages are available in conjunction with a host of theatres (detailed at the Porters website), and among the offers available all year round are a meal as part of a family day out to the London Eye, the Tower Of London or Madame Tussaud’s, along with a complimentary bottle of wine.
Something of a family attraction in its own right, Porters is within a mile of 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.
After a family day out at one or more family attraction, Porters offers a welcome oasis of calm, with the reassurance that it has thrived upon Covent Garden while no fewer than 26 other restaurants have been and gone. Indeed, during its decades of operation, Porters has served enough sausage to stretch from its shady portals up to Oxford, enough beer and wine to fill an Olympic swimming pool, enough lettuce to fill 32 pods of the London Eye, and enough gravy to paint the whole of the Greenwich O2 Arena six times! At the same time, it’s got through some 81,000 bottles of washing up liquid – though you won’t be expected to do the dishes! With disabled access, Porters is the ideal stop-off for everyone on a family day out.