Bottomless Brunch in
Covent Garden

The format is two courses with 90 minutes of free-flowing drinks. Three packages: food only at £45, food with prosecco or spritz at £54, and food with Champagne at £64. The table is held for two hours, so the drinks window sits inside a longer, slower booking rather than defining it.

What separates it from the rest of the category is the seafood. Most bottomless brunches in central London are built around eggs and pastries with drinks attached. Here lobster anchors the menu: a lobster roll, pasta with half a lobster, or half a lobster Thermidor, with an extra half available for £8. It reads closer to a long weekend lunch than to a brunch in the usual London sense.

What is on the menu

The first course is built to share between two: an antipasti platter with mixed grilled vegetables, Italian charcuterie, arancini and burrata, or an XL Scottish beef carpaccio. It arrives at the table rather than plated individually, which sets the pace for the afternoon.

Mains are choice-led: lobster roll, black caviar and truffle fries, pasta with half lobster, truffle pasta, or half lobster Thermidor with chips. Vegetarian antipasti, pasta and mains run through the menu for guests who do not want seafood, with the same drinks package regardless of the food choice. Dietary requirements are best flagged at the point of booking.

The three drinks packages

Food only at £45 for guests who want the menu without the bottomless element. Prosecco, Aperol Spritz, Luxardo Limoncello Spritz or Mondoro Hugo Spritz at £54. Champagne at £64, which is the version most booked for birthdays and celebrations.

Drinks run for 90 minutes from the reservation time, refilled at the table rather than at a bar, and the kitchen is paced so nothing is waiting on a refill. Over 18s only, and a discretionary service charge is added to the final bill.

Lobster brunch in London: a narrow category

Bottomless brunch in London is a crowded market, but lobster brunch is not. Most weekend packages compete on price and on how fast the prosecco arrives, with the food built to be cheap to produce at volume. Putting whole lobster at the centre changes what the booking is for: it moves the meal from a drinking occasion with food attached to a proper lunch that happens to be bottomless.

That shows up in who books it. The Champagne package goes to birthdays and anniversaries, the prosecco version to groups of friends and hen days, and the food-only option to guests who want the lobster without the afternoon that follows.

Groups, hen parties and celebrations

Tables of four, six and eight are the most common bookings, and the main room holds parties up to twelve. Beyond that, the private dining room takes 26 seated and the semi-private space takes 40, which gives a group its own space with the same brunch menu and drinks packages. Private dining at Osteria.

The Strand position works for a day that starts or ends elsewhere: Covent Garden piazza, the Royal Opera House and the Savoy are all a short walk, as are Charing Cross, Embankment and Temple stations.

Sunday: brunch or the seafood buffet

On Sundays there are two formats in the same building. The bottomless brunch runs as it does on Saturday, sit-down and choice-led. The Italian seafood buffet runs alongside it, with lobster, oysters, prawns and crab laid out cold, plus handmade pasta, antipasti and desserts. The buffet suits guests who want to graze across an afternoon; the brunch suits those who want a course structure and a drinks package. Both are Sunday-only decisions worth making at the point of booking.

Booking

Bookings open four weeks ahead. Saturdays fill faster than Sundays, and the Champagne tables go first. Reserve online or call 020 7499 4510 for larger groups and private spaces. The table is held for two hours from the booking time, with the 90-minute drinks window running from the start.

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