Covent-Garden Blog

Soho

This is a thumb map of Soho – a very famous place – infamous too. The scale is too small to see the street names – but links to the Mail London Map (loads immediately from the home page)

Some think it is a grubby area full of sex worker establishments and limit their participation to peering from the taxi window.

The natives of the place – especially those who are sending their children to the local school, know that this is an area studded with gems of shops and places to eat or have a coffee and a snack.

Don’t be shy -  walk right in.  They are a welcoming bunch – and not only for the trade – its part of the Soho ethos to be friendly – in a Brit sort of way. The quality and arrangements of goodies on the shelves inside are worth a butchers (that rhymes with butchers hook and with LOOK – a sample of cockney slang).

Carnaby Street and all the paved shopping area around have some of the most interesting things to look at.  Soho has some pretty famous restaurants too and culture, great pubs, bars and still more culture – which means entertainment mainly.

We won’t get too detailed at this stage about Soho Square and Beak Street and the other nostalgic backwaters because we are about to put up some close sections so you can see the specifics complete with some TopSpots.

This map really comes into it’s own in the streets that are still paved over paths that have been trodden for many centuries.

If anybody reading this has a shop to recommend – give us the heads up please, with an email to place<at>covent-garden.co.uk.

What did the shop do for you? We want to know.