The opening comes hot on the heels of a site in Canary Wharf that launched towards the end of last year and a site in Shoreditch that launched at the beginning of last month.
Located in Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden’s Seven Dials area, the new site will have room for over 130 diners across 4,000 sq ft and - like Kricket’s Shoreditch site - will be positioned as an all-day restaurant offering breakfast.
Campbell and Bowlby founded Kricket as a pop-up in a shipping container at Pop Brixton in 2015 and launched a permanent restaurant in Soho the following year after receiving an initial injection of funding from White Rabbit Projects (WRP).
The pair - who also run bar concept SOMA in Soho and Canary Wharf - recently secured a new round of funding from WRP.
Alongside the restaurants, Kricket also runs a delivery-only concept via an exclusive partnership with Deliveroo that was launched in 2021 in response to the Coronavirus pandemic and continues to deliver 2,000 orders per week.
“Covent Garden is already home to the city’s best dining concepts, and the addition of Kricket, with their take on Indian cuisine that blends Indian flavours with London’s culinary creativity, will complement this line-up,” says Emma Matus, head of restaurant leasing at landlord Shaftesbury Capital.
“The signing is among the first of many new dining options set to be introduced to the destination this year, as we get ready to bolster Covent Garden’s high calibre offer with new, unique and diverse concepts.”