Ergon House finally opens its doors in Covent Garden

Ergon House, the Greek hospitality brand's first venture outside Greece, opens on 26 King Street in Covent Garden on 20 November, more than two years after it was first announced.

The project pairs a boutique hotel with rooms and apartment-style residences, a ground-floor restaurant, a rooftop bar called Veranda, and a deli-shop, Ergon Originals, selling olive oil, truffle dressing and other Greek products. It occupies a listed building on the corner of King Street that most recently housed a branch of Carluccio's, part of Shaftesbury Capital's wider Covent Garden estate, which has spent much of the past decade converting former retail units along the street into restaurants and small hotels.

The restaurant serves what the group calls a contemporary take on Greek food, including grilled octopus with yellow split pea purée and sun-dried tomato paste, and baklava with pistachio ice cream. Breakfast is served daily alongside the main menu.

Two years of delay later, Covent Garden finally gets its slice of Greece.

Ergon House arrives after a long wait

Ergon confirmed the Covent Garden site in April 2024, with an opening pencilled in for 2025. Early plans put the restaurant on the roof; that arrangement has since reversed, with Veranda taking the roof terrace and the restaurant moving to street level instead.

The brand already runs delis and all-day restaurants across Greece built around produce from small growers and producers it sources directly, a model it is importing largely unchanged rather than adapting for a London audience.

London's crowded year for Mediterranean openings

Ergon's date lands in a part of London that has seen plenty of turnover this year: the British Indian Good Food Guide handed the capital just 35 of its 100 marks last week, while Gail's lost its managing director and operations chief in a reshuffle the same week Ergon confirmed its date.

No booking system had gone live at the time of writing; Ergon says reservations for the restaurant and bar will open closer to the hotel's 20 November arrival.