Cafe Boheme

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We’re serving traditional French classics such as soupe de poisson, steak frites and escargots with smoked bacon & garlic.

Join us for hearty French food with simplicity, and live jazz every day.

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Which is odd, given that Café Boheme is the founding link in the Soho House group of private members' clubs, hotels and restaurants, whose gifted owner Nick Jones is notorious for his perfectionism in all things food-related.

It was from this first humble corner site that Jones expanded upwards, creating the first Soho House in the rooms above Café Boheme, and eventually founding sister ventures across London.

With plans for global outposts, Jones has turned his restless attentions back to the place it all began, and made good food the heart of Café Boheme's offer.

The Soho House group's new chef-director, Henry Harris, ex of Racine, has reworked the menu of classic brasserie dishes, offering an artful mix of Gallic crowd-pleasers, like moules marinières and confit de canard, snackier dishes, and diffusion line versions of the sort of food he served in Racine, such as lapin à la moutarde.

But it turned out to be the wrong bit of pavement, off "the strip", and so close to the entrance of Soho House that we were getting commiserating looks from the members waiting to be buzzed in.

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Giving the staff a mere five hours to rest before swinging open their doors in the morning, to once again begin serving: FRENCH FOOD Breakfast kicks things off as they mean to go on with classic mushrooms on toast with gruyere, or the likes of a ham omelette with fine herbs.

Ironically, the one non-French thing on the breakfast menu is French Toast, with chantilly cream plums.

NOTE: Cafe Boheme is open now.

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The décor was carefully in line with expectations: tiled floor, wooden tables, cream walls, black and white prints.

The wine list is entirely French, starting at £15, with selections such as Faugeres Domain des pres Lasses 2005 at £32 for a wine that costs £8 retail, and Mersault Vielle Vignes Domaine Bocard 2005 at £55 for a wine that costs around £24 in the shops.

My main course of chicken with peas and bacon (and a few carrots) was pleasantly cooked, though the chicken did not have much taste (12/20).

Salad Nicoise (£12) had the correct elements and decent dressing but suffered from the use of tinned anchovies and tinned tuna (11/20).

The atmosphere is good, the service fine, but ultimately this is very simple food at a price that means you could have something a lot more ambitious, even in this area, for the money.

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After 25 years of service, Cafe Boheme has been completely refurbished and has reopened in its original Soho location.

We’re serving traditional French classics such as soupe de poisson, steak frites and escargots with smoked bacon & garlic.

Join us for hearty French food with simplicity, and live jazz every day.

Continuing in the tradition of the 19th-century French poets who used to meet on Old Compton Street, Cafe Boheme is a place to eat and drink in laid-back bonhomie.

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It's a flexible spot, too, open from breakfast right through to late night plates.

There's a French slant to food, so expect charcuterie, pâtés, escargots, steak tartare and all kinds of 'oeufs'.

Later night bites include steak frites, ham and cheese croquettes, burgers and croque-monsieurs et madames.