Neal's Yard
A small, brightly painted courtyard tucked off the streets of Covent Garden, easy to miss unless you know it.
- Hidden gem
- Price: Free
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Did you know
In 1976 Nicholas Saunders turned a derelict former produce warehouse here into the Whole Food Warehouse, starting the wholefood revival. Monty Python's Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam bought offices in the yard the same year.
Local tip
Go mid-morning or mid-afternoon on a weekday. The courtyard is at its most photogenic and least crowded outside the lunchtime rush and weekend crowds.
Finding it
- Address
- Seven Dials, Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, WC2H 9DP
- Nearest station
- Covent Garden (Tube), 148 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Monmouth CoffeeA Covent Garden coffee roaster that's been serving since the 1970s, usually with a small queue of regulars out the door.
- Phoenix GardenA volunteer-run wildlife garden squeezed between Covent Garden and Denmark Street, built on a former bomb site and car park.
- Dishoom Covent GardenAn Irani café-style restaurant modelled on old Bombay cafés, always with a queue but worth it for the bacon naan roll.
- Coach & Horses (Greek Street)The Greek Street pub in Soho made famous by landlord Norman Balon, nicknamed London's rudest landlord, and by Private Eye's fortnightly lunches, with a wood-panelled 1970s feel and a quiet daytime atmosphere.