In the market From Desk to Dinner: The Best Restaurants in Soho for Client Dinners

The workday for a lot of us doesn’t end at 6pm, it simply moves location and in Soho that transition from desk to dinner is seamless and essential to how business actually gets done.

We at Rubix are firm believers that sometimes the difference between closing a deal and being left in the wind is how much the client likes the place you suggested for dinner, or how they feel about the bar around the corner from your office. Location, in general, affects whether they feel it’s worth braving the rain or the rush of the tube to even show up to the meeting in the first place.

The reality of modern professional life is that the conversations that actually move businesses forward rarely happen in conference rooms, and almost never happen during office hours. They happen over hand-rolled pasta, a second bottle of red, or a very good martini (or three).

So here’s our working guide to the best restaurants in Soho for a client dinner.

Soho

Soho still packs more serious restaurants per square metre than anywhere else in central London, and sits at the meeting point of Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road and Piccadilly. With iconic streets like Carnaby, Greek Street and Kingly Court it’s easy to get to, easy to leave and easy to impress.

Berenjak

Originating in Soho Berenjak is an absolute crowd pleaser, and despite its expansion to Borough Market and the Cotswolds- the Romilly Street original is still the one to go to. The Persian menu brings good food to a whole new level, and we genuinely could not sing its praises loud enough. The flavours are bold, the interiors elevated, and the whole thing surprises and delights clients in a way a more traditional answer never quite does. We’d bring our favourite clients here, we’d also bring the worst ones too, purely for the excuse to go back.

Bancone Golden Square

A more casual restaurant that puts good food at the forefront, Bancone Golden Square is a laid-back favourite of ours here at Rubix.

Watch the chefs hand-make the pasta every day, order the silk handkerchiefs with walnut butter and confit egg yolk, and let the no-frills format do the work. It’s the kind of dinner that leaves clients surprised by how good something this simple can be. Also only just around the corner from our available office spaces at 5 Golden Square.

The Devonshire

Home to one of London’s best Guinness, and home to a notoriously hard reservation. Upstairs, above the hustle and bustle of the bar, sits an elegant restaurant that brings new meaning to pub grub. The ambiance, the attentive staff and the quality of the food make trying to secure a booking (Thursday mornings, six weeks in advance) well worth the effort. And if things are going well and conversation flowing, take the business lunch downstairs and solidify the relationship over a few pints.

Impala

The new kid on the block of Dean Street, Impala is brought to you by the Super 8 group responsible for some of the best food in London (Mountain, Smoking Goat, Brat). It’s a small-plates restaurant bringing a modern twist to traditional Egyptian food, focused on fire flavours and a wood-fired oven sending out aish baladi on repeat. Dry-aged Devon duck with black lime, grilled beef short ribs, a date and pistachio custard tart people are already calling the dessert of 2026. Book 28 days out; it’s already a hot ticket and we can confirm one of the best restaurants in Soho. Coincindentally, it also happens to be below our 14 Dean Street office spaces.

Kapara

Eran Tibi’s Eastern Mediterranean is a loud, playful and packed two-floor restaurant. Modern Middle Eastern small plates, a generous cocktail list, a luxury terrace for the summer months, and a subterranean private dining space for when the group requires something a little more special.

Grasso

Family-run Italian-American on Dean Street, and a proper antidote to Mayfair fine-dining fatigue. Huge bowls of penne alla vodka, a chicken parm the size of a dinner plate, 48-hour fermented pizza dough, and a New York cheesecake made fresh by the family’s matriarch. Not for every client. For the ones who actually want to enjoy themselves, it’s hard to beat.

Family-run Italian-American on Dean Street, and a proper antidote to Mayfair fine-dining fatigue. Huge bowls of penne alla vodka, a chicken parm the size of a dinner plate, 48-hour fermented pizza dough, and a New York cheesecake made fresh by the family’s matriarch. Not for every client. For the ones who actually want to enjoy themselves, it’s hard to beat.

The Rubix View

At Rubix, we help ambitious businesses find offices in the London neighbourhoods that match how they want to work, and by extension, how they want to entertain. Your workplace extends beyond its walls. These are some of the venues that make it.

Looking for an office in one of these neighbourhoods? Talk to us.