Ronnie Scott's

Opened by tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott in 1959, the Frith Street basement is the longest-running jazz club in Europe and the room every visiting Istanbulite who reads jazz writes home about. Two sets a night, six nights a week — the headline at 19:30, the late at 23:15 — with a steady booking calendar that runs from Stacey Kent and Kurt Elling through Christian McBride and the house Ronnie Scott's All Stars. The Upstairs Bar, free entry after the late set ends, holds the Soho late-night audience the audience has been reading about since their first London trip.