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Ten essential Soho experiences

1 Get hit on by an ‘actor’ in Tatty Bogles.

2 Watch a dwarf dance on a table in the Arts Club.

3 To find out what you’re missing, go to the Groucho. If and when you manage to get in, wonder what you’re missing.

4 Visit a strip joint. Or know somebody who has visited a strip joint. Either way, someone has to spend £100 on non-alcoholic champagne before lapsing into selfloathing and denial.

5 Stay at elegant literary hotel/haunt Hazlitt’s on Frith Street.

6 Have gammon with pineapple for under a fiver at the Stockpot.

7 Spot Alex James, and then resolutely ignore him.

8 Fail to find a black cab and argue with a rickshaw rider before falling into the back of a Nissan Sunny ‘minicab’ who charges £15 no matter where you want to go in London, never having heard of anywhere that isn’t Tower Hamlets, and drives like an Italian racing driver on speed.

9 Take drugs in the Brewer Street NCP.

10 In a Class A haze, think that paying £2 for a cappuccino in an Italian café that was once mentioned briefly in a Pulp song is a good idea.