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The gastropub2 here
- The Devonshire — Ranked first in the 2026 Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs, with a wood ember grill above a Guinness bar.
- The French House — Ranked forty-seventh in 2026, in the seven-table room Fergus Henderson opened above the bar in 1992.
Restaurants22
KilnBib3◆
Destination · Thai grill · Soho · $$
walk-in
There is a small insulated furnace behind the counter burning chestnut and oak logs, and the cooks reach into it for glowing embers to feed the grill (Time Out).
Mountain Beak Street★
Destination · Basque-Welsh grill · Soho · $$$
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The spider crab omelette gets cut open the moment it hits the table so the residual heat stops cooking it, and the crab and sugar kelp inside come from Car y Mor in West Wales while the butter comes from Caws Teifi in Cardigan.
Koya Soho
Destination · Udon · Soho · $$
walk-in
The kitchen makes the udon and the dashi from scratch every morning, and the bowl a critic called one of the great modern London dishes is a full English cooked into it.
Humble Chicken
Destination · Yakitori tasting · Soho · $$$$
booking essential
Angelo Sato opened this Frith Street room in 2021 as a casual yakitori bar, turned it into a tasting counter in 2023, and had two Michelin stars by February 2025.
Aulis London★
Destination · Tasting menu · Soho · $$$$
booking essential
The first course is a croustade blackened with charcoal made from the grill's own waste, holding salt-baked kohlrabi in a shell pressed from that kohlrabi's dried skin.
HIMI
Solid · Japanese izakaya · Soho · $$$
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The nigiri arrives with house-made pickled fennel instead of gari, and the reviewer who noticed said she preferred it, which tells you more about this kitchen than the three-star kitchens its chefs came out of (London on the Inside).
Quo Vadis
Solid · Soho
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Jeremy Lee has had the same smoked eel sandwich on the menu at Quo Vadis since his first service in 2012, on Poilane sourdough cut thin, buttered and fried.
Berenjak SohoBib
Solid · Persian · Soho · $$$
booking essential
Come as four. The counter faces a charcoal grill with one cook on bread at one end and another on a rotating spit, and the ordering only makes sense at that size.
Kricket Soho
Solid · Modern Indian · Soho · $$
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James Cochran, who runs 12:51 and Around The Cluck, describes the dish to order better than any menu does: Deep South fried chicken carrying Indian spices, with mayonnaise infused with curry oil, turmeric and black mustard seeds, deep-fried curry leaves and mooli.
Hoppers Soho
Solid · Sri Lankan · Soho · $$
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Skye Gyngell named the bone marrow curry here in 2019. Niklas Ekstedt named the same dish in 2025, asked a different question by different people.
Napoli on the Road (Soho)
Solid · Pizza · Soho · $$
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The dough runs on a bespoke blend of Type 0, Type 1 and Prima Macina, the flour milled off the first breaking of the grain, which the kitchen says gives "a more complex and expressive dough" (venue).
DoniaBib
Solid · Filipino · Soho · $$$
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The pork belly comes lechon-style with a liver and peppercorn sauce, which Harden's respondents call "mind-bendingly good."
The PalomarBib!
Solid · Modern Israeli · Soho · $$$
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Three chefs came over from Machneyuda in Jerusalem in 2014 and brought the polenta with them, and the bread still arrives steaming in its baking tin.
Ducksoup
Solid · Mediterranean / natural wine · Soho · $$$
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Bertie King rebuilds the by-the-glass and the cellar list every day, all of it natural or biodynamic, in a room with about as many seats as a bus shelter (Ducksoup).
Barrafina
Solid · Spanish tapas · Soho · $$$
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Of the five Barrafinas in London, this is the only one that takes no reservations at all, and the group says so itself (Barrafina).
Noble Rot Soho
Solid · Wine restaurant · Soho · $$$
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The Gay Hussar fed the Labour left at 2 Greek Street from 1953 to 2018, and the kitchen that took the room on kept the goulash (National Restaurant Awards, The Infatuation).
Evelyn's Table★
Solid · Modern European counter · Soho · $$$$
booking essential
Twelve seats, five courses, three chefs, which is the ratio that explains both the price and the fact that everybody eats at the same moment.
Blacklock (Soho)
Solid · British chops · Soho · $$$
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The room takes its name from the Blacklock foundry in the American south, and the antique irons it made are what the kitchen uses to press chops onto the grill.
BAO SohoMichelin
Solid · Taiwanese bao · Soho · $$
walk-in
The guinea fowl rice here is a rebuild of the turkey rice bowls of Chiayi City, blowtorched and dressed in goose fat.
The Noodle Inn!
Listed · Xi'an noodles · Soho · $
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The noodles are stretched, smacked and cut in a glass box in the middle of the room, which is why the queue outside is longer than the meal.
Chungdam
Listed · Korean BBQ · Soho · $$$
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The pyeonbaek box is three tiers of hinoki cypress with stock in the bottom one, and the steam coming off it cooks seafood in the middle tier and sliced brisket and ribeye in the top in just under fifteen minutes.
Banh Mi Keu Soho
Listed · Vietnamese · Soho · $
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Hieu Bui left a Kingsland Road kitchen because it ran out of pho broth and had pho back on the menu an hour later: "that is not possible if you are doing things properly" (Restaurant magazine).
Provisions2
3 Greek Street
Solid · Whisky · Soho · $$$
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Walk to Greek Street looking for a Milroy's sign and you will find one that says 3 Greek Street, because the shop renamed itself and the bottling business kept the old name (3 Greek Street, Milroy's).
Rice Wine Shop
Listed · Japanese grocer and sake · Soho · $$
walk-inthe room’s own account
A Japanese grocer on Brewer Street that prints its delivery terms in English and Japanese on the same line.
Pubs & cask5
The Devonshire5◆
Destination · British grill pub · Soho · $$$
booking essential
Ashley Palmer-Watts spent twenty years in the Fat Duck Group and now runs a wood ember grill on Denman Street, a fuel he says is "far more challenging to cook using" than charcoal (Hot Dinners, Restaurant Online).
The French House4◆
Destination · French country cooking · Soho · $$$
booking essential
Fergus and Margot Henderson opened this seven-table room above the bar in 1992, before St. John existed, and Trevor Gulliver, who founded St. John with him, still names it when someone asks where he eats (Conde Nast Traveller).
The Lyric
Solid · Craft beer · Soho · $$
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Up to ten cask ales and two or three ciders on handpump, with over twenty craft keg taps behind them, a hundred and fifty meters from Piccadilly Circus (CAMRA).
The Old Coffee House!
Listed · British · Soho · $
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Brodie's, the Leyton brewpub whose single-hop pale ales helped start London's craft revival, stopped brewing in July 2016, and this Soho pub is one of two central London rooms the family put that beer into (Des de Moor).
The Sun & 13 Cantons
Listed · British · Soho · $$
walk-in
The kitchen is a launchpad, not a restaurant.
Cocktails6
Murder Inc. Cocktails
Solid · Cocktail bar · Soho · $$
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Difford's Guide reckons this is "the only bar in the world with Death In The Afternoon on tap," absinthe with agave-ginger sherbet and champagne, poured from a draught line.
Three Sheets Soho
Solid · Cocktail bar · Soho · $$$
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The White Russian is clarified with egg white, the way a kitchen clears a consomme. Noel Venning on why: "We don't cheat to make them clear" (Foodism).
Swift Soho
Solid · Cocktail bar · Soho · $$$
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The Irish coffee is the one Bobby Hiddleston built at the Dead Rabbit in New York, and the bar keeps it ready so it reaches you in seconds instead of mixing it while you watch.
The Thin White Duke
Solid · Cocktail bar · Soho · $$$
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Under the bar there are two members' recording studios, capped at sixty members between them, one with a stained-glass mural of Bowie and a vocal booth lined floor to ceiling in Christian Lacroix (Decoded, 2022).
Bar Termini
Solid · Aperitivo bar · Soho · $$
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The negronis at Bar Termini are batched and aged before service, so the drink hits the table in seconds at exactly the strength and dilution Tony Conigliaro designed.
Kroketa
Listed · Spanish tapas · Soho · $$
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Brindisa built this counter in December 2022 to sell their own Spanish larder through a croqueta, and the blackboard changes constantly.
Wine1
Bar Crispin
Listed · Natural wine bar · Soho · $$
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The heated terrace runs in January, in an alley ten metres behind a Build-A-Bear shop, and that is what people come for (The Infatuation).
Coffee1
Flat White
Listed · Antipodean coffee · Soho · $
walk-in
The whole of this shop's website is an address, a set of hours and the words "WALK-IN ONLY" in capitals. No menu, no roaster, no history.
Bakes & sweet1
Big Kid Ice Cream
Listed · Ice cream · Soho · $
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Harry Webb builds the vanilla for his new soft-serve counter from organic milk, brown butter and Madagascan vanilla, which makes it a browned-milk-solids custard (Restaurant, 2026).
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