15 Tavistock St. WC2, telephone 011-44-20-7240-1795. Open Monday-Saturday for lunch and dinner. Tube stop: Covent Garden.
Le Cafe du Jardin
Nearest theaters:Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Lyceum, Strand, Aldwych, Fortune, Duchess.
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A pleasant French-style brasserie, Le Cafe du Jardin offers lively Mediterranean dishes. Specialties include crab cake with spring onion risotto ($10), angel hair pasta with smoked chicken and chilies ($15), grilled swordfish with a lemon grass and ginger dressing ($20) and grilled veal chop with tarragon butter ($26).
A prix fixe is offered Monday through Friday (noon-3 p.m., 5-7 p.m., 10 p.m.-midnight), Saturdays (noon-7 p.m., 10 p.m.-midnight) and Sunday (noon-11 p.m.). Two courses are $18, three are $23. Choices include pea and sweet corn risotto, salmon with mashed potatoes, breast of chicken with couscous in a red wine sauce, and white and dark chocolate mousse.
28 Wellington St. WC2, telephone 011-44-20-7836-8769. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Tube stop: Covent Garden.
The Ivy
Nearest theaters: St. Martin's, New Ambassadors, Arts, Cambridge, Palace, Donmar Warehouse, Prince Edward.
The Ivy seems to be on just about everyone's list of favorite London restaurants. Stained-glass windows and walls of contemporary British art create a dramatic backdrop for its impeccable food and service.
Its lengthy menu has something for everyone: leek and wild mushroom tart ($14), gnocchi with Gorgonzola and spinach ($18), fish and chips ($23), roast duck ($30), sticky toffee pudding ($10) and apple crumble ($9).
Saturdays and Sundays, a popular three-course lunch is $28 (with three choices in each category, including asparagus and Parmesan tart, roasted chicken, fillet of sea bass and Italian sponge cake with raspberries).
1 West St. WC2, telephone 011-44-20-7836-4751. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Tube stop: Covent Garden or Leicester Square.
Giovanni's
Nearest theaters: Albery, Duke of York's, Wyndham's, Garrick.
With Giovanni's entrance tucked away in an 18th-century alley, you'll think you're having a secret rendezvous. It is rustically elegant, with beamed ceilings and white stucco walls.
The menu changes often; recent selections have included chicken pasta soup ($10), homemade spinach gnocchi ($13), baked sea bass ($28) and grilled Dover sole ($31).
10 Goodwin's Ct. (St. Martin's Lane) WC, telephone 011-44-20-7240-2877. Open Monday-Friday for lunch, Monday-Saturday for dinner. Tube stop: Leicester Square.
Sharon Watson, a writer in Cabin John, Md., is the author of "Dining in London's Theatreland" (Britain Books).
