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Formerly the capital of beatnik counterculture, Soho has evolved into a multicultural tourist hotspot that offers visitors everything from swanky restaurants and cozy cafés to great live music and gritty sex shops.

During the day, the main thoroughfare of Old Compton Street doesn’t hide from the fact that it’s the center of London’s gay community, with tons of restaurants, bars, and live theaters pulsing with patrons ready to spend their “pink pounds.”

Although the live music scene may be a shadow of its former self – the careers of The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, and Eric Clapton were all launched here – the beat lives on at stalwart DJ-driven clubs like The Roxy, as well as in the odd jazz joint like Ronnie Scott's, which has survived Soho’s transformation.

Nearby Covent Garden had much more placid origins as the one-time home to London’s largest fruit and vegetable market, but this district has become even more tourist-driven than Soho in recent years. Home to the Royal Opera House and the majestic St. Paul’s church, the area is best known as the home to London’s theater district. Most of the city’s grandest live performance venues surround the Covent Garden Piazza, a famous market hall and entertainment center that routinely fills with street performers, professional actors, and hordes of tourists, allowing visitors to catch everything from experimental one-woman shows to mainstream musical hits.

The streets of Covent Garden and Soho may be bustling with out-of-towners, but it’s for a good reason – from dining to dancing, shopping to sightseeing, this is one area of London that no visitor should miss.

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What to Do in Covent Garden / Soho

Movida

20s / 30s / Bottle Service / Club / DJ

Party Earth Review Movida is an ultra-trendy West End club packed to the rafters every night with a posh international clientele of Europeans, Americans, and Middle-Easterners. In fact, it would be hard ... more

8-9 Argyll Street
London W1F 7

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Strawberry Moons

Beer / Club Kids / Clubwear / Dance

Reviewed by Tara R.

"My take: There are plenty of these bar-clubs in Central London with wicked Happy Hours and less-than-amazing everything else. Along with other central ..." more

15-17 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BF

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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

20s / 30s / 40s / Anything goes / Beer

Party Earth Review Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese had already been a London landmark for more than a hundred years when the Great Fire of 1666 destroyed it – and much of the city. Rebuilt shortly after, the ... more

145 Fleet Street
London, EC4A 2

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Carom at Meza

Bar / Blazers / Budget-friendly

Party Earth Review With curry fast replacing fish and chips as the UK’s national dish, London’s Indian food scene is becoming trendy and even gourmet, a fact that is very evident at Soho ... more

100 Wardour Street
London W1F 0TN

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Project London

20s / 30s / Affluent / Blazers / Dance

Reviewed by Courtney Grace R.

"MY TAKE: Think rave but much, much classier. It’s another one of London’s guest-list only clubs, but just as a function of the style of the place th ..." more

78 Wells Street
London W1T 3QL

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The Cross Keys

30s / 40s / After Work / Ambient / Pop

Party Earth Review A long-time neighborhood favorite, The Cross Keys is an easy go-to joint for a wealth of Covent Garden workers – a place where beer and banter unite under a cornucopia of British bric ... more

31 Endell Street
London WC2H 9BA

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Ain't Nothin' But...

20s / 30s / 40s / Alternative / Bar

Party Earth Review Chaotic as a high-wired vocal scat and frenzied as a free-ballin’ instrumental jam, Ain’t Nothin’ But… is a lively blues bar teeming with music purists paying homage to that good old ... more

20 Kingly Street
London W1B 5PZ

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The Crown

20s / 30s / 40s / After Work / Beer / Pop

Party Earth Review Situated on a bustling corner in Covent Garden opposite the landmark Seven Dials sundial pillar, The Crown is the epitome of a traditional English pub. Wooden tables, heavy drapes ... more

43 Monmouth Street
London WC2H 9EW

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Experimental Cocktail Club

20s / 30s / Actors / Ambient / Couples

Party Earth Review Greeted at the battered, paint-speckled door by a man in a waistcoat, first-time visitors to Experimental Cocktail Club can hardly be blamed if they find themselves a bit skeptical ... more

13A Gerrard Street
London W1D 5PS

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Thirst

20s / 30s / After Work / Ambient / Bar

Party Earth Review Party seekers who are both thirsty and thrifty would do well to stop by Thirst, a snug but chic Soho lounge where the too-good-to-pass-up drink specials explain the continuous crush ... more

53 Greek Street
London W1D 3DR

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The Social

20s / 30s / After Work / Artists / Bar

Party Earth Review Minimal space, nightly DJs and a crowd united by a common interest in the latest live indie music make The Social the most aptly named bar in the city despite its out-of-the-way location ... more

5 Little Portland Street
Westminster, London W1W 7JD

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The French House

20s / 30s / 40s / Actors / After Work

Party Earth Review Draped with British and French flags and cheerful blue canopies that welcome visitors, The French House is a sophisticated establishment with a small bar on the street level where an ... more

49 Dean Street
Soho, London W1D 5BG

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