Soho has always been the part of London that operates by different rules. It was the city's entertainment district before anyone called it that, the neighborhood where artists and writers drank alongside gangsters and politicians, where Chinatown grew up on its southern edge and the jazz clubs filled the streets with music that the rest of London hadn't heard yet.

This adults-only small-group evening food tour moves through that history while tasting the best of it. It starts in Chinatown for dim sum, the Cantonese tradition that London's Chinese community has been keeping alive on these streets since the 1950s. Then into Soho proper, for Spanish tapas and wine at a bar that has been part of the neighborhood long enough to have regulars who have been coming for decades. A charcuterie board and drinks at a wine bar on one of Soho's most characterful streets, where the buildings above have housed everything from recording studios to private members clubs.

A signature cocktail at a Soho bar that takes its drinks as seriously as the neighborhood takes its history. Artisan gelato to close, steps from Leicester Square, where the evening can continue in whatever direction Soho suggests.

Come and explore the neighborhood that has always done things its own way!