Soho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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