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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Soho — Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 150 guests
A two-floor, 150-cover Japanese live-fire restaurant on Wardour Street from MAD Restaurants, with an omakase counter, the Yutori private dining room and a 40-seat vinyl Listening Room hosting DJs.
Chotto Matte Soho
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.
Yauatcha Soho
Soho — Cantonese Restaurant
Up to 250 guests
Alan Yau's all-day dim sum teahouse on Broadwick Street, its candle-lit lower floor set beneath a fibre-optic star ceiling. Both floors take private hire, together or exclusively.
Evelyn's Table
Soho — 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.
Aulis London
Soho — Modern British Restaurant
Up to 12 guests
Simon Rogan's Michelin-starred chef's table on St Anne's Court in Soho, a twelve-seat counter where the kitchen cooks and explains each course in front of you. Available for exclusive private hire.
Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal
Soho — French Restaurant
Up to 60 guests
A two-Michelin-star modern French dining room on the first floor of Hotel Café Royal, overlooking Regent Street, available for exclusive private hire and a six-seat chef's table.
Aqua Kyoto
Soho — Japanese Restaurant & Bar
Up to 400 guests
A rooftop Japanese restaurant and cocktail bar off Regent Street, with a robata-and-sushi dining room, resident DJs and an open-air terrace for receptions up to 400.
Hotel Café Royal
Soho — Hotel
Up to 250 guests
A five-star hotel on Regent Street whose listed Louis XVI salons host intimate dinners and receptions: the gilded Domino Room, the Bowie-inspired Ziggy's bar and a set of panelled private rooms.
Humble Chicken
Soho — 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.
Cahoots
Soho — Cocktail Bar
Up to 320 guests
A disused Kingly Court tube station reworked as a 1940s bar, with a platform bar, a full-size tube carriage and a ground-floor pub above. Hires whole at 320, or platform by platform.
Dean Street Townhouse
Soho — British Restaurant & Bar
Up to 70 guests
A Georgian house on Dean Street with a salon-hung British dining room at street level and two private rooms beside it. Soho House's art collection started here.
/ 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.