Tuttons was there from the beginning. The night we visited, the restaurant was filling up and we grabbed a table overlooking an enclosed conservatory. Inside the restaurant one hundred diners can be served. The conservatory seats another forty and is particularly popular in the summer when opera is featured on big outdoor screens erected across the piazza at the Royal Opera House. Tuttons also covers the basics from breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea to dinner.
Prices are very moderate.
Our third main course, pork escalope, was one of three blackboard specials. For many diners, two courses of Tuttons' generous servings will be enough. Private parties of up to fifty people can be accomodated in cellar vaults. Covent Garden continues to boom so you'd be wise to book ahead at Tuttons, especially during the summer when the outside is one of the Market's most popular spots. Tuttons, 11-12 Russell Street, Covent Garden WC2.