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Oriole

A dinner-table stage in Covent Garden, where cocktails and compact live sets share the same low-lit room.

Upcoming shows
25
Address
7-9 Slingsby Place, WC2E 9AB London
Next show
Fri, 9 Oct 2026
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Oriole in London

About Oriole

Oriole is a 90-guest basement music room and restaurant in London’s Covent Garden, with a ground-floor Bamboo Bar above it. The distinction is its show format: a small stage sits amid dinner tables, placing jazz, blues and world-music sets inside a full evening of cocktails and Latin American-influenced cooking. It is designed for seated listening with food and drinks, while the upstairs room gives early arrivals a separate aperitif stop.

A Smithfield return, rebuilt in Covent Garden

Oriole began in 2015 in a basement beneath Smithfield Market, created by Speakeasy Entertainment, the group led by Edmund Weil and Rosie Stimpson. It paired the group’s cocktail-bar craft with live music in a compact speakeasy setting. In 2022, redevelopment of Smithfield Market ended that first seven-year run, sending the team in search of a new home.

The return came by way of Prelude by Oriole, a 34-cover Slingsby Place pop-up that opened in March 2024. That test space preceded a permanent two-level Covent Garden address, reopened on August 28, 2024. The change widened the proposition: a street-level bar and a plush basement restaurant where the music resumes as part of dinner service.

The room during a show

Live music runs Tuesday through Saturday. Standard nights deliver two early 45-minute sets, plus a late Friday-and-Saturday set; the cover charge goes directly to the players, and table bookings are recommended. Jazz, blues and world music dominate, with R&B piano, New Orleans blues and Latin-influenced jazz appearing in the current diary. Downstairs has the focus: low lighting, tropical murals, table service and sightlines directed toward the small stage. The Bamboo Bar has its own drinks-and-small-plates rhythm upstairs.

Sources

  1. Oriole Bar and Restaurant | Cocktails, Dining & Live Music in Covent Garden — Oriole
  2. Nightjar and Bar Swift team to revive Oriole in Covent Garden — Restaurant
  3. Oriole — Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News
  4. Oriole | Bars and pubs in Covent Garden, London — Time Out

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