Lokale in Soho

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Frith Street's 1959 jazz room, the canonical London jazz club, two sets a night, low ceiling, red lamps

UK's No.1 gastropub 2026, the Soho Guinness pour and the dining room above it

Dean Street's no-music, no-mobiles holdout, the Soho the audience first read about in the 80s

Milroy's reborn under the No. 3 door, Greek Street's whisky merchant and bookcase-speakeasy bar since 1964, rebranded 2024

Erchen Chang and the Chung siblings' original Lexington Street bun counter, Bib Gourmand Taiwanese, queue-only on the corner

Frith Street since 1949, the espresso bar Soho is built around

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

Ben Chapman's Brewer Street counter, Thai grill cooking over wood and clay, no reservations, the Bib Gourmand argument

Pistachio-green Soho deli since 1944, pasta as Italian commute

Greek Street's 1871 patisserie, London's oldest French pastry shop, still hand-laminated upstairs

The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

Two-floor Old Compton Street cocktail room, aperitivo bar upstairs, three-hundred-whisky lounge below