Venues similar to Swift Soho

Wentworth Street's unmarked basement, the City fringe speakeasy that does not need a velvet rope

Hoxton Square's basement, the small, no-fuss cocktail room the trade has booked since 2010

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

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

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

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

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

World's 50 Best No.5, two rooms that split the modern London bar in half

Remy Savage's Bauhaus-precise cocktail room on Kingsland Road

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

Shoreditch's whisky reference, 250 bottles, no cocktails, a single felled-oak table

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

The wine-magazine bar, Mark Andrew and Daniel Keeling's Bloomsbury original since 2015

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

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

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

Mr Lyan's South Bank flagship, the first 3-PIN bar in the Pinnacle Guide, Thames at the window