Just where is Soho?
This small geographical part of Westminster, bounded by Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, Shaftesbury Avenue to the south and Charing Cross Road to the East, is an inner-city village in the heart of the capital. Chinatown is just across Shaftesbury Avenue, if a world apart. With around 5000 residents and a wide-ranging mix of businesses, many of them in the media and entertainment, fashion and tailoring industries, Soho supports an amazingly diverse population.
Who comes to Soho?
Soho-ites come in all forms - the workers in TV and film, the office wallahs, the tailors, the Berwick Street market traders and their customers. Theatre-goers descend in their thousands every night and many more come for the great variety of restaurants, bars and pubs - including Europe's largest Chinatown. Old Compton Street is the focus of the gay scene for Londoners and visitors alike. Another kind of punter is drawn to Soho's red light district. Easier to ask who is not drawn to Soho than who is.