Garlic & Shots

You're walking down Frith Street on a Friday night and the smell hits you first—pungent, garlicky, impossible to ignore. Inside Garlic & Shots, it's packed with the kind of crowd that doesn't care about Instagram angles: groups of mates, date nights, people who came for one drink and are somehow still here at midnight. The menu is refreshingly straightforward—garlic soup, garlic prawns, garlic steak—paired with a shots list that ranges from sensible to absolutely reckless. It's not fancy, the decor won't win awards, but that's precisely the point. This is proper Soho: rowdy, unpretentious, and genuinely fun.