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Soho Project Preview: Over The Threshold @ 1 Berwick Street

Get a glimpse of what it’s really like to live in Soho

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Gay Couple “Removed” From A Soho Pub “For Kissing”

A popular Soho pub found itself facing accusations of homophobia today after a gay couple claimed they were asked to leave the premises for kissing.

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Independent Record Labels to Take Over Berwick Street

Still prefer to buy your music on vinyl or CD? Take a trip to the heart of Soho on May 21.

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Wanted: People Who Live In Soho

The Photographers’ Gallery may be physically shut but its activities continue with the next instalment of the Soho Projects forthcoming.

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Santa’s Lap: Soho Board Game From Smoke

Smoke magazine launches the most alluring board game since Strip Cluedo. ‘Soho!’ sends players around a stylised version of that neighbourhood, searching in the pubs for tardy journalists.

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El Cantara Opens on Frith Street

Photography by Chris Osburn Think: a downmarket Moro spread across three floors with a lovely Shisha terrace smack dab in the meaty bit of Soho. Not a bad idea really. Londonist cruised along to the launch of El Cantara last night and had a good …

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Londonist Interview: Michael Walling, dir. Re-Orientations @Soho Theatre

Opening this week at Soho Theatre is Re-Orientations, a multi-cultural, multi-media live performance by Border Crossings (the company that brought the Origins festival to London last year) and has been developed over two years, bringing together performers from China, France, India and Sweden. With no …

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New Restaurant Review: Pho Soho

Photography by Chris Osburn We’ve been fans of the original St John Street location of “Vietnamese street food restaurant” Pho since it opened, have been impressed to see the eatery grow to now have multiple locations (four in London and a fairly recent addition in …

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New Restaurant Review: Barrio Central

Photography by Chris Osburn Soho’s got a new “Latin cantina and cocktail lounge” that Londonist recently visited and found to be way better than we had anticipated. Sister bar to Barrio North on Essex Road, Barrio Central serves massive portions of rather yummy dishes as …

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Photographers’ Gallery To Move Into Bars During Refit

What do you do when you’re a popular London gallery but you have to close for a year for a much-needed major refurbishment? If you’re Brett Rogers, director of the Photographers’ Gallery, you move your institution into the pubs and bars of Soho. This morning …

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Kinky Cupcakes @ Cox, Cookies & Cake

Neon: Cox, Cookies & Cake Unless you’re particularly into that kind of thing, a new sex shop in Soho isn’t big news. But at Brewer Street’s latest unsavoury* opening, things aren’t what they seem. There’s no stripping, no adult toys, and not even any “massages” …