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Soho is perhaps London’s most bar-studded neighbourhood, but one sits head and shoulders above them all as the greatest place to drink.
It’s a bar that Time Out has diligently supported over the years (aka drank there a lot), and we’re happy to call it the best bar in Soho for 2025; it’s the excellent Trisha’s on Greek Street!
The bar’s proper name is the New Evaristo Club, but the basement hangout and member’s club is fondly known as Trisha’s in homage to the venue’s leading lady and de facto Queen of Soho, Trisha Bergonzi.
Late chef and presenter Anthony Bourdain infamously branded Trisha’s the ‘Dean Martin of drinking establishments’ after he visited with Marco Pierre White in a 2011 episode of his show The Layover.
Once a men-only Italian gambling club, Liverpool-born publican’s daughter Bergonzi began drinking in the club with her late husband decades before she took over the bar. ‘They wouldn’t let me in, but I made such a fuss over it that they had to,’ she once said. ‘Then I just stayed there!’ The bar has been open for over 80 years.
The bar is behind a discreet blue door on Greek Street and down a rickety flight of stairs. ‘We’ve never advertised,’ explained Bergonzi. ‘We just sort of grew – we’re one of those little gems.’
Trisha’s was saved from closure in 2013, after making headlines when Westminster Council applied for a licence review, stating that the bar was being investigated due to complaints from local residents.
Other bars to feature in Time Out’s Top 20 Bars in Soho include Three Sheets, which was recently tipped by bartending experts as the best first date bar in London, as well as the bar at restaurant Bebe Bob, Bar Termini, and Garlic and Shots.
The best bars in Soho, according to Time Out.
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