The Lyric on Great Windmill Street: what to order and when to go
A tiny Victorian pub at the Piccadilly end of Soho, with a long tap list, a ceiling of beer mats and a history that includes being boarded up.
Shaftesbury Avenue theatres, from the Lyric to the Sondheim
Flat White on Berwick Street: what to order and when to go
Christmas in Soho 2026: the lights, Chinatown, late nights and where to eat
Why is Soho called Soho? The hunting cry, checked
Eight streets, eight different nights
Soho by streetWhere we’d go
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The French House
49 Dean Street, Dean & Frith
Ronnie Scott's
47 Frith Street, Dean & Frith
Quo Vadis
26-29 Dean Street, Dean & Frith
Maison Bertaux
28 Greek Street, Greek Street
Soho Theatre
21 Dean Street, Dean & Frith
Admiral Duncan
54 Old Compton Street, Old Compton StreetMore from Soho
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Liberty: the Tudor store made from two ships
A 1924 Tudor-style store with ships' timbers, a Mayflower weather vane and a print studio: how to do Liberty well.
Soho's theatres and cinemas: from Beetlejuice to a 70mm print
A 1930 theatre on Old Compton Street, Harry Potter at Cambridge Circus, a singalong cinema off Leicester Square and new writing on Dean Street: the stages and screens of Soho.
Soho Square: the lawn at lunchtime, and 350 years of history
Laid out in the 1680s as King Square, given a statue that left for Harrow Weald and came back, and home to a hut that is really a tool shed: Soho Square, and where to eat on the lawn.
Kingly Court: what to order and when to go
Three floors of restaurants round an open courtyard behind Carnaby Street: how to find it, what to order and when to arrive.
A Soho history walk: Mozart, Marx, Blake and the pump that stopped the cholera
One hour, a dozen addresses: where Mozart lodged at nine, where Marx wrote in poverty, where Blake was born, where television was first shown and where a doctor took the handle off a pump.
How hot pot works in Chinatown, and what to order
Pick a broth, mix a sauce, cook it yourself: a guide to hot pot in and around Gerrard Street, and what to put in the pot.
A shout from Soho, every Friday.
A shout from Soho: what’s opened, what’s on and where to be this weekend. Free, and easy to leave.