&gt; but the area seems otherwise unremarkable<p>You should have continued to look around, you were in soho. There are so many great pubs, restaurants, coffee places within a few streets of the John Snow - it&#x27;s one of my favourite areas of London to wander around in and try new places.<p>If you&#x27;re talking unremarkable in terms of history, I&#x27;ll defer to your judgement on that because I&#x27;m no expert! Certainly it&#x27;s no modern glass-and-concrete jungle in soho though - the architecture&#x27;s very interesting, Victorian in places, and I know for sure there&#x27;s at least plenty of post-war historical sites of interest around those streets.