'The air,' wrote Virginia Woolf in The Years, 'smelt strongly of oranges and bananas.' Not for some time. The old fruit and veg businesses vacated the market twenty years ago.
Actually, Covent Garden wasn't even supposed to be a market. It was originally designed by Inigo Jones in the 1630s as a pioneering residential piazza 'fitte for the habitacions of Gentlemen and men of ability'.
The Westminster County Courts were elegantly converted to a Browns Restaurant in 1996. The building now comprises a 320 seat restaurant and bar on the Ground floor, which is open for lunch, afternoon tea, pre and post theatre suppers and of course dinner. The bar boasts our usual fine selection of cocktails. Upstairs The Courtrooms, which still retain the Bench and Judges Chairs, are available for private hire for Meetings, Company Presentations and Product Launches as well as for Lunch and Dinner Parties. We even have a judges costume for hire - to provide stimulus for after dinner speakers!
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