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Bar Italia

Not a cocktail bar: a 1949 Italian counter that will make you a spritz at two in the morning.

RelaxedOpen late

Bar Italia on Frith Street. The blue plaque over the door is for John Logie Baird, who demonstrated television in the room above in 1926.

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The Polledris opened it in 1949 and their grandchildren have it now, and it is a café counter before it is anything else - coffee, cakes, chrome stools, flags over the door. But it is licensed, the Aperol spritz is the thing people order after dark, the Peroni is cold, and it goes on serving long after the bars on either side have put the chairs up. Standing outside with a glass is half the point. The room above is where John Logie Baird first demonstrated television in 1926; the blue plaque is over the door.

Where
22 Frith Street, Soho, W1D 4RP
Nearest station
Tottenham Court Road · 3 min walk

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