You can swing by at any time for a sip, or head in for a guided tasting every Monday evening.ĭownstairs: Accessible through a secret door hidden within a false bookcase at the back of the shop is a brooding, underground, candlelit cocktail bar called The Vault. But also a liquor licence a dedicated copper whisky bar and over 500 separate whiskies from every lauded spirit-producing nation on earth, including a selection of handpicked, cask-aged tipples from which you can pour your own bottles and make your own whisky blends. Upstairs: Where London’s oldest whisky shop has resided for more than 50 years, they now have… well, a whisky shop. … who have decided to make a few changes. The same Milroy’s that – after being founded by bothers Jack and Wallace in 1964, appearing in nearly every London travel guide for 10 years thereafter, and subsequently being taken over by two large corporations that ultimately ran it into the ground – is now being brought back to life by a young group of whisky connoisseurs… It was, in chronological order, a farm a park a suburb and then home to London’s first ever speciality whisky store, Milroy’s. In an effort to undermine the popular assumption that history exams get harder every year, may we present to you our all-encompassing, highly detailed analysis of the complete history of Soho.