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Best Bars in Soho, London

Cocktails, jazz, wine rooms, and central London bars with enough pull to plan the night around.

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Best Bars in Soho, London

Guide: Soho Cocktails, Jazz, and Wine Rooms

Cocktail bars, jazz rooms, and wine-led drinking in Soho, favoring places with distinctive drinks, live programming, or a room worth lingering in.

  • Swift SohoSwift Soho splits the night well: fast, bright aperitif drinks upstairs and a darker basement for more deliberate cocktails, strong technique, and a room polished enough for dates without feeling stiff.
  • Ronnie Scott'sRonnie Scott's is the Soho jazz institution that turns nightlife into a booked event: world-class players, late shows, supper-club atmosphere, and a reason to build the whole evening around music.
  • Noble Rot SohoNoble Rot Soho turns the former Gay Hussar site into a wine-led modern British dining room: go for serious bottles, confident seasonal cooking, and the feeling that dinner is plugged into Soho's literary and political past.
  • The French HouseThe French House is a Soho institution for half-pints, artists, writers, theatre people, and old central-London conversation. Go for the bar's history and upstairs dining, not because the name means French fine dining.
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