SOHO-CARNABY STREET

Full of quirky boutiques, sex shops along Old Compton and tasty morsels (on and off the road), Soho is a tightly knit warren of streets playing home to club-kid favourite Kokon-To-Zai, market-style food on Berwick Street, and books galore on nearby Charing Cross Road (check out Claire De Rouen for amazing fashion/art finds). Carnaby, aside from its famous past, has really grown up to become one of the top spots for lesser known brands and cool names, including outposts of American Apparel and Diesel, whilst the Newburgh Quarter, thanks to a recent revamp, is an amazing, cobbled web of independent stores full of young talent – Beyond the Valley offers fashion, Lifestyle Bazaar homewares, and Soho House’s Cowshed spa has just extended its premises to include treatment rooms. This is also the premier spot for pop-up stores, so you’ll always find something new.