Native, a restaurant specialising in game and rare breeds from a River Cottage-trained chef, is now open in London’s Covent Garden, in Neal’s Yard.

This site has been co-founded by chef-patron Ivan Tisdall-Downes (and business partner Imogen Davis), who trained at River Cottage, the cookery and chefs’ school and restaurant brand run by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and then went on to run successful supper clubs before creating Native as a permanent venue.

The constantly-changing lunch and dinner menus focus on foraged, forgotten or zero-waste ingredients including game meat, rare-breed meats, wild food and nose-to-tail, root-to-stem eating. Aiming for bold flavours and taking inspiration from street food, the restaurant aims to make game and wild food more accessible in style and price, and also include various foraged and vegetarian options.

The site, a former bead shop, is small and intimate - with space for just a single table on the ground floor, plus space for four diners at a counter that flanks the kitchen. Downstairs there's room for just over 20 covers. Expect white walls and bare wood features reflecting the restaurant’s all-natural ethos.

Typical dishes include the “signature” pigeon kebab, and southern fried rabbit, while the wine list highlights British wines and sparkling wines, and a regularly-changing seasonal cocktail menu.

Ideal For

Full flavour adventures through the British seasons

Signature Dishes

Raw Sussex Venison with treacle cured pheasant egg and hayonnaise; roast celeriac with whipped speltotto, Douglas fir oil and kale and Southern fried rabbit.

Signature Drinks

A Bellini made with Native’s own rhubarb and meadowsweet cordial - a ideal and refreshing aperitif.