Kettner's on Romilly Street: 1867 to the Champagne Bar
3 July 2026·3 min read
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The latest features, guides, and stories from Soho
BarsSoho's basement bars: where the stairs lead and what to order
Four Soho bars down a flight of stairs, with the door to look for and the drink to ask for.
1 July 2026·3 min read
RestaurantsThe Palomar on Rupert Street: what to order and when to go
A zinc counter, warm kubaneh and Jerusalem-style polenta: how to do The Palomar, 34 Rupert Street, properly.
27 June 2026·3 min read
MusicSounds of the Universe, Soho's Soul Jazz record shop
A record shop with new vinyl upstairs and rarities below, run by the founder of Soul Jazz, a short walk from Berwick Street.
25 June 2026·3 min read
BarsWhere to have a drink before a Shaftesbury Avenue show
Four Soho doors worth your pre-curtain drink: a walk-in cocktail bar, a beer hall, an all-day Italian and a Dean Street wine pub.
23 June 2026·3 min read
CafésWhere to eat breakfast in Soho before nine on a weekday
Six doors that are open and serving before nine on a weekday, from a 7am espresso on Frith Street to Syrian fatteh in Kingly Court.
21 June 2026·3 min read
RestaurantsVegetarian and vegan in Soho: where to book and what to order
One fully vegan townhouse, one old favourite, one vegetarian sharing room and one curry house with a proper vegan menu.
19 June 2026·4 min read
MusicSpice of Life: jazz in the cellar, a pint upstairs
A McMullen pub with a live-music cellar at the Cambridge Circus end of Soho: when to go, what to order, and where to finish the night.
17 June 2026·3 min read
BarsThe Sun & 13 Cantons: what to order and when to go
A Gothic Revival corner pub with a Swiss joke in its name and a Moroccan grill in the kitchen: here is how to do it well.
15 June 2026·3 min read
BarsWhere to drink in Old Compton Street, and what each pub is good for
Three doors, three very different nights: a historic local, a wood-panelled grande dame and a loud, late party bar.
13 June 2026·3 min read
HistoryJohn Snow, the Broad Street pump and the pub that bears his name
A replica pump, a Victorian corner pub and the story of how a physician mapped an outbreak on Broadwick Street, then Broad Street.
11 June 2026·4 min read
RestaurantsBarrafina Dean Street: what to order and when to go
A walk-in Spanish counter on Dean Street in Soho, where the cooking is the theatre and the stool is the prize.
7 June 2026·3 min read
RestaurantsBancone Golden Square: silk handkerchiefs and a counter seat
Handmade pasta at the counter on Lower James Street, with an olive tree in the middle and a silk handkerchief dish worth the trip.
5 June 2026·3 min read
BarsWhere to drink in Wardour Street, pub by bar
From a Fuller's pub with rock history to a three-floor Irish barn, here is what each Wardour Street door is good for.
3 June 2026·3 min read
HistoryThe Soho Village Fête: waiters' race, stalls and history
Free entry, snail racing, a tug of war and waiters sprinting round the streets with fizz on a tray: the Soho Society's fête in St Anne's Gardens.
1 June 2026·4 min read
ShoppingAlgerian Coffee Stores, the Old Compton Street shop of 1887
A takeaway espresso, a bag of house blend and a 19th-century counter: the Old Compton Street shop that has outlasted most of Soho.
30 May 2026·3 min read
CafésGelupo on Archer Street: what to order and when to go
A gelateria with a negroni licence, a curved-booth back room and one scoop worth the queue, tucked on Archer Street in Soho.
28 May 2026·3 min read
BarsDog and Duck, Soho: what to order and when to go
A tiny, tiled Victorian pub on the corner of Bateman and Frith Streets, with a licence going back to 1734 and a pie worth the squeeze.
26 May 2026·3 min read
RestaurantsWhere to eat in Carnaby and Kingly, and what to order
Pasta, Filipino cooking, Japanese small plates and Dishoom, all within a few steps of Carnaby Street.
24 May 2026·3 min read
MusicTrident Studios in St Anne's Court, and the alley today
A basement studio down a narrow Soho alley, where Hey Jude, Life on Mars? and Queen's first albums took shape.
22 May 2026·3 min read
ShoppingBerwick Street Market: a history of Soho's street market
The street is more than 300 years old and the market nearly 250. Here is how it got from pavement shopkeepers to lunchtime queues.
20 May 2026·4 min read
CafésMaison Bertaux on Greek Street: what to order and when to go
A tiny Greek Street pâtisserie founded in 1871, with éclairs in paper cases, a piano by the till and a pub next door for afterwards.
18 May 2026·3 min read
ShoppingFoyles on Charing Cross Road: when to go and what to do
The great bookshop sits on the edge of Soho, with a Greek Street past. Here is when to go, what to see and where to drink afterwards.
16 May 2026·3 min read
HistoryMeard Street and the Georgian houses of Soho
A narrow street off Dean Street holds some of the finest early Georgian houses in London. Here is what to look at, and where to go next.
14 May 2026·5 min read