Restaurants

Café at Foyles

The easy-going Café at Foyles shares floor space with one of London's most cultivated jazz collections – modern, avant-garde, soul, world and blues are all covered...

Covent Garden: Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB

Distance: 0 mls

Assa

Considering it charges the same – less, in fact – than those dreadful eat-all-you-dare buffets that plague the West End, Assa is really rather good. This cosy...

Fitzrovia: 53 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LH

Distance: 0 mls

Woo Jung

Most people come to Woo Jung for the prices rather than the atmosphere. The faded dining room looks like a fish and chip shop in a down-on-its-luck seaside town, but...

Covent Garden: 59 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LH

Distance: 0 mls

Burger Shack

Self-respecting Londoners will probably steer a wide berth around Burger Shack’s location, yet it’s worth asking what this place offers tourists. Well, northerners...

Leicester Square: 147-149 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EE

Distance: 0.1 mls

Salsa!

There’s rarely a quiet night at Salsa!, a restaurant, café, bar and dance club all rolled in to one. Dance classes suitable for complete beginners through to salsa...

Covent Garden: 96 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JG

Distance: 0.1 mls

Centrepoint Sushi

A soothing oasis above St Giles Circus, Hana is a welcoming mix of plush booths, etched glass and Kirin beer posters. Its wide choice of bento boxes includes a hearty...

Covent Garden: 20-21 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LN

Distance: 0.1 mls

Gay Hussar

Despite now being owned by a big hotel group, this venerable Soho institution retains a certain intimacy and old-school charm that’s rare in London. From...

Soho: 2 Greek Street, W1D 4NB

Distance: 0.1 mls

Jazz After Dark

Jazz After Dark is a late-night cocktail bar, restaurant and jazz club of the old school: small, low-lit and laid-back. The young, after-work crowd takes in unsigned...

Soho: 9 Greek Street, W1D 4DQ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Patara

Soho: 15 Greek Street, W1D 4DP

Distance: 0.1 mls

Zebrano at The Establishment

The latest addition to the Soho scene is Zebrano at The Establishment. Back in the sixties The Establishment was an infamous private members club owned by Peter Cook....

Fitzrovia: 18 Greek Street Soho , London, W1D 4DS

Distance: 0.1 mls

Piccolo Diavolo

'Little devil' – an appropriate name for a central Soho restaurant, don't you think? Like several of its sister restaurants in the popular Biagio chain, Piccolo...

Leicester Square: 8 Old Compton Street , London, W1D 4TE

Distance: 0.1 mls

Kaslik

This wonderfully atmospheric restaurant offers a true taste of Lebanon in deepest Soho, a place where you can sink into luxurious embroidered cushions and relax with...

Leicester Square: 58 Greek St , London, W1D 3DY

Distance: 0.1 mls

Incognico

Renowned interior designer David Collins has transformed Incognico, on Shaftesbury Avenue, into a smart Parisien-style brasserie, complete with comfortable leather...

Leicester Square: 117 Shaftesbury Avenue Soho , London, WC2H 8AN

Distance: 0.1 mls

Taro

A pinewood basement refectory with entertaining views through the street-level window of legs walking past. Taro’s menu is at the cheaper end of the canteen...

Soho: 10 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TF

Distance: 0.1 mls

Pizza Express

Soho: 20 Greek Street, W1D 4DU

Distance: 0.1 mls

Bincho

Specialist in grilled skewers

Soho: 16 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Amato

This old-school Italian caff is brimming with charm and character. Colourful art deco posters of dancers adorn the walls, and the tables and chairs are made of a dark,...

Soho: 14 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TH

Distance: 0.1 mls

Golden Oven

Situated on Bateman Street in the heart of the West End, the Golden Oven is ideal for long lunches and pre-theatre dinners – especially if you’re a fan of...

Fitzrovia: Bateman Street , London, W1D 3AL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Stockpot

The menu at this delightful Soho institution has barely changed since the 1960s. Pasta dishes and Anglo-Continental dishes are the mainstay, from spag bol to...

Soho: 18 Old Compton Street, W1D 4TN

Distance: 0.1 mls

L'Escargot Marco Pierre White

It would be hard to imagine Soho without L’Escargot, and hard to imagine L’Escargot without its contingent of theatrical, media-savvy Soho-ites. It looks as good...

Soho: 48 Greek Street, W1D 4EF

Distance: 0.1 mls

Med Kitchen - Cambridge Circus

Med Kitchen in London’s Cambridge Circus is a relaxed, all-day brasserie where you can drop in for breakfast, a quick drink, a leisurely dinner or pretty much...

Covent Garden: 24 Cambridge Circus , London, WC2H 8AA

Distance: 0.1 mls

Maison Touaregue

For a spot of urbanised, Saharan-themed socialising in the middle of Soho, this little north African restaurant provides the perfect mise-en-scène for pre-theatre...

Fitzrovia: 23 - 24 Greek Street Soho , London, W1D 4DZ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Bali Bali

Don't be fooled by the conventional Chinese restaurant decor. Bali Bali is an Indonesian / Malaysian restaurant with distinctive cooking and friendly, helpful staff....

Covent Garden: 150 Shaftesbury Avenue Soho , London, WC2H 8HL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Mela

There’s a pleasing bustle here, helped along by the troupe of tandoori chefs in the open kitchen, plentiful and efficient, prompt waiting staff, cool background...

Covent Garden: 152-156 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8HL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Café Pasta

This is the Pizza Express chain's pasta-specialising offshoot, and every inch the imitator of its bigger sibling. No bad thing. Inoffensive, Italian-ish art adorns...

Covent Garden: 184 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JB

Distance: 0.1 mls

Thai Square

Covent Garden: 166 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JB

Distance: 0.1 mls

Bertorelli - Soho

This is another addition to the Bertorelli family, and a great-looking baby it is, too, all slick and smart with gleaming chrome, comfy red booths, and bright windows...

Leicester Square: 11 Frith Street , London, W1D 4RB

Distance: 0.1 mls

Milk Bar (branch of Flat White)

Soho: 3 Bateman Street, W1D 4AG

Distance: 0.1 mls

Noodle Oodle

Skilful chefs toss and twirl noodles at the front of Inn Noodle. As they’re quick to boast, ‘fresh hand-pulled noodles and chinese dumplings’ are the speciality....

Oxford Street: 25 Oxford Street, W1D 2DW

Distance: 0.1 mls