Venues in Soho
Soho’s private venues pulse with creative energy — from hidden speakeasies to members’ clubs, each space carries its own distinct character.
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KID
Turkish Restaurant
Sertaç Dirik and David Carter's Anatolian grill house on a Soho corner, with a wine room that doubles as a private dining room.
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Blacks Club
Members' Club
Up to 120 guests
A 1732 Georgian townhouse behind a black door on Dean Street, candlelit across four Dante-themed floors, with a red-lacquered basement built for dancing.
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Chotto Matte Soho
Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 400 guests
The Soho flagship of the Nikkei pioneer, a multi-level world of street-art murals, robata theatre and DJ-led nights on Frith Street.
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Soho House 76 Dean Street
Members' Club
Up to 150 guests
A 1732 Georgian townhouse in Soho, rebuilt after fire and open as a House since 2015. Its 43-seat basement screening room and the bar beside it take public bookings; the club floors above are member-only.
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The Groucho Club
Members' Club
Up to 150 guests
Soho's original creative members' club on Dean Street, founded in 1985 and hung with serious contemporary British art. Colourful private rooms across several floors, available to members and non-members alike.
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Humble Chicken
Japanese Restaurant
Up to 13 guests
A thirteen-seat omakase counter on Frith Street from chef Angelo Sato, holding two MICHELIN stars. The whole counter is available as a private buyout.
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The Palomar
Mediterranean Restaurant
Up to 45 guests
An open-kitchen scene counter on Rupert Street serving the food of Southern Spain, North Africa and the Levant, from the siblings behind the End nightclub.
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Brasserie Zédel
French Restaurant & Bar
Up to 500 guests
A grand 1930s Art Deco brasserie beneath Piccadilly, with a hidden cocktail bar and the Crazy Coqs cabaret room, both available for private hire.
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Manzi's
Seafood Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
The Wolseley Hospitality Group's revival of the Soho seafood institution, with a mermaid-guarded first-floor bar and a built-in clamshell DJ booth for private parties.
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ALTA
Spanish Restaurant & Bar
Up to 80 guests
A live-fire Navarran restaurant in Kingly Court, with a twelve-seat private dining room over Carnaby Street and a pintxos bar on the ground floor.
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Evelyn's Table
Modern British Restaurant
Up to 12 guests
A Michelin-starred chef's counter hidden in the cellar beneath The Blue Posts pub, seating twelve around a marble bar facing the open kitchen.
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Quo Vadis
British Restaurant
Up to 100 guests
A 1926 Soho institution on Dean Street: a Grade I listed townhouse with red-leather restaurant, a members' club above and four private dining rooms across the top floor.
/ About Soho ▾
Soho was built up in the late seventeenth century on former open ground known as Soho Fields, with Soho Square laid out in the 1680s as its centrepiece and first named King Square in honour of Charles II. Immigrants shaped the parish from the start — French Huguenots settled here in numbers after 1688, followed by Italian, Greek and Jewish communities — giving Soho a cosmopolitan character it has never lost. Its tight grid of narrow streets, unusual in the West End, keeps the density and creative energy that have always set the district apart from its grander neighbours.
For events, Soho trades on atmosphere rather than grandeur. Wardour Street became the centre of the British film trade after 1918, and the area is still dense with screening rooms and post-production studios — a working media quarter as much as a going-out one. Members’ clubs are woven through it: Soho House opened its first house on Greek Street in January 1995. Alongside them run restaurants, bars and music rooms of every kind, and Ronnie Scott’s — the jazz club that opened in 1959 and has stood at 47 Frith Street since 1965 — remains the enduring emblem of Soho after dark.
The dining runs the length of Old Compton Street, Dean Street and Frith Street, a concentration of restaurants and bars matched nowhere else in central London, with licensing that keeps the pavements busy long after the rest of the West End has quietened. Soho Square offers a rare patch of green at the northern end, a garden set among the offices and studios. For access the district is ringed by stations — Tottenham Court Road on the Central, Northern and Elizabeth lines, with Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square and Oxford Circus each a short walk — so guests arrive from every direction.