Experiences Things to Do in Soho
Record shops, jazz clubs and Carnaby Street: London's most concentrated shot of fun.
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Our guides covering Soho, London.
Soho is the opposite of Mayfair and all the better for it: a dense, electric square of theatres, record shops, late bars and restaurants stacked three storeys high. It is where London comes to misbehave a little, and where some of the city's best cooking and most characterful drinking hides behind unremarkable doors.
Our Soho guides map the good stuff, from the cocktail bars and old institutions to the restaurants worth the squeeze and the spots that come alive after midnight. Chosen on merit, for a first drink, a long dinner or a night that runs late.
Experiences Record shops, jazz clubs and Carnaby Street: London's most concentrated shot of fun.
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Dining Delis, diners and bottomless spritz by the glass: Soho brunch never quite sits still, and neither should you.
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Experiences A neighbourhood hub for Soho done properly: where to eat, where to drink, where to catch a late set, and the cafe to end the night. Six picks worth crossing town for, from Jeremy Lee's kitchen to a jazz room that has barely changed since 1959.
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Hotels Best Hotels in Soho: chosen on merit by Lamplit London.
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Dining Crooked corners, proper pints and centuries of history: the best pubs in Soho.
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Bars Soho after dark: the cocktail dens, wine rooms and institutions that make it London's best drinking village.
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Dining Counter seats, old institutions, and last week's opening: the Soho doors worth the queue.
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Experiences Free galleries, the South Bank, Sky Garden and Soho: the best of central London in a day.
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Experiences Riverside glass courts, the Soho House of padel and the UK's biggest venue: where to play London's fastest-growing sport.
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Experiences Brick Lane crate-digging, Soho dance specialists and a Golborne Road jazz institution: London's best record shops.
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Experiences Five days is enough to stop sprinting between sights and start living a little like a local. A grown-up route through the East End, Soho and Brixton, one slow day out at Windsor, and a proper dinner waiting at the end of each one.
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Dining Pudding deserves a destination of its own. Six London places where dessert is the point, from a two Michelin star tasting menu to a Soho patisserie that has been baking since 1871.
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Spa & Wellness Six London gyms that double as members clubs, from a Chelsea spa-and-restaurant townhouse to a Soho pool with a climbing wall above it. Where to train when the changing room matters.
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Bars A walkable Soho run of five characterful pubs, from a grand Victorian gin palace to the half-pints-only bohemian bolthole.
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Bars From a Gothic chapel in Islington to a Soho jazz basement, the London rooms where live music still sounds the way it should.
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