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Soho and Covent Garden

  • 1. Courtauld Institute Gallery

    Admire your favorite Impressionist painting upclose, then discover Cranach's mischievous Adam and Eve..

  • 2. Royal Opera House

    Applaud as a ballerina collects roses at the end of her performance.

  • 3. Somerset House

    Watch the skaters and ice-wall climbers on a December evening.

  • Hearing Big Ben

    Let its surprisingly familiar chimes waft down as you stroll down the Embankment.

  • Soho's Chinatown

    Eat the best Singaporean, Thai, and Malaysian food outside of Asia.

Map of Soho and Covent Garden

Once a red-light district, the Soho of today delivers more "grown-up" than "adult" entertainment. Its theaters, restaurants, pubs, and clubs merge with the first-run cinemas of Leicester Square and the venerable venues (Royal and English National Operas) of Covent Garden to create the mega-entertainment district known as the West End. During the day, Covent Garden's historic piazza is packed with shoppers and sightseers, while Soho reverts to the business side of its lively, late-night scene -- ad agencies, media, film distributors, actors, agents, and casting agents all looking for each other.

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