Soho House (club)

History and ownership

Soho House was started by restaurateur Nick Jones in 1995 on London's Greek Street above his restaurant, Café Bohème. In 2008, Jones sold 80% of the club for £105 million to British businessman Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings.

On 13 January 2012, the Financial Times announced that 60% of Soho House Group had been acquired by the US billionaire Ron Burkle, through his investment fund Yucaipa in a £250 million deal, with Jones retaining 10% and Caring 30%. In September 2015, the company’s high leverage and limited free cash flow was under scrutiny by fixed income investors. However, company profit potential was affected by growth in new clubs.

In 2019, Soho House acquired Scorpios, a beach club compound on a 7000 sqft peninsula in southern Mykonos.

The company filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, and went public in July 2021, trading under the name Membership Collective Group. From then on, Jones owned just under 6% of the shares, alongside Caring (20%) and Burkle (42.5%). The IPO raised $470 million, allowing the company to reduce some of its debt burden. The organization will use the money raised to pay down debt and finance further expansion.

In November 2022, Jones stepped down from day-to-day running of the business, citing a recent cancer diagnosis and recovery, and appointed Andrew Carnie as CEO. On March 20, 2023 Membership Collective Group became Soho House & Company. Their stock symbol changed from MCG to SHCO.

, Soho House had never made a profit; pre-tax losses for 2024 were forecast to be about US$73 million.Craig Karmin and Ben Glickman Follow (18 August 2025), Soho House Members’ Club to Go Private Wall Street Journal.

Membership

Soho House membership policies are said to focus on creativity "above net worth and job titles" with "studied resistance to ostentation...[and] cultivated status signifiers," and favour moral values over financial success ("several execs were banned because they were thought to be abusive to their assistants").

In June 2015, Soho House had over 50,000 members and a global waiting list of over 30,000. In July 2021, Soho House had 119,000 members across 27 houses in 10 countries.

Locations

List of current and planned Houses is maintained on Soho House's website. ;Europe/Middle East :United Kingdom United Kingdom :*London :**180 House :**White City House :**Soho House Hampstead Health (Opening 2027) :**40 Greek Street :**Shoreditch House :**76 Dean Street :**High Road House :**Electric House :**Little House Mayfair :**Little House Balham :**Soho Mews House :*East Sussex :**Brighton Beach House :*Somerset :**Babington House (since 1998) :*Oxfordshire :**Soho Farmhouse (since 2015) :*Windsor :**River House :*Manchester :**Soho House Manchester (opening in 2025) :Netherlands Netherlands :*Amsterdam :**Soho House Amsterdam (since 2018) :Greece Greece :*Mykonos :**Soho Roc House (since 2020) :Spain Spain :*Barcelona :**Soho House Barcelona :**Little Beach House Barcelona :*Ibiza :**Soho Farmhouse Ibiza :Turkey Turkey :*Istanbul :**Soho House Istanbul :Italy Italy :*Rome :**Soho House Rome (since 2021)

:Sweden Sweden :*Stockholm :**Soho House Stockholm :Israel Israel :*Tel Aviv :**Soho House Tel Aviv Jaffa :France France :*Paris :**Soho House Paris :Denmark Denmark :*Copenhagen :**Soho House Copenhagen :Germany Germany :*Berlin :**Soho House Berlin

;North America

:Canada Canada :*Toronto :**Soho House Toronto :Mexico Mexico :*Mexico City :**Soho House Mexico City :USA United States :*New York :**Soho House New York :**DUMBO House :**Ludlow House :*Los Angeles :**Little Beach House Malibu :**Soho Warehouse :**Holloway House :**Soho House West Hollywood (since 2010) :*Chicago :**Soho House Chicago (since 2014) :*Miami :**Soho Beach House :**Miami Pool House :*Nashville :**Soho House Nashville :*Austin :**Soho House Austin :*Portland, Oregon :**Soho House Portland

;Caribbean :Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :*Canouan :**Soho Beach House Canouan

;South America :BRA Brazil :*São Paulo :**Soho House São Paulo

;Asia :Hong Kong Hong Kong :*Hong Kong :**Soho House Hong Kong :India India :*Mumbai :**Soho House Mumbai :Thailand Thailand :*Bangkok :**Soho House Bangkok

Activities

On 13 August 2017, the film Tulip Fever (starring Alicia Vikander) was first screened at London's Soho House.

Incidents and controversies

In 2002, the London branch of the club made headlines as Iris Law, the two-year-old toddler of Jude Law and Sadie Frost, was briefly hospitalised but ultimately unharmed after swallowing part of an ecstasy tablet she had found on the floor of Soho House while attending a children's birthday party.

In 2009, more than eighty residents signed an appeal by a neighbourhood association against allowing Soho House to move into the top two floors of Luckman Plaza in West Hollywood, near Los Angeles, US. The opening of the West Hollywood location also drew opposition from Beverly Hills Mayor Nancy Krasne.

On 9 December 2010, American swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay was found murdered in room 20 of the Manhattan branch. Nicholas Brooks, her boyfriend of six months, was convicted of her second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment.

In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, an attempt to open a new club also met protest, but an Amsterdam House nonetheless opened in August 2018.

In April 2021, Bottega Veneta was criticised for holding maskless indoor dance parties at Berlin's Soho House for artists and celebrities flown in from around the world during a citywide lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though Soho House staff complained about the lack of safety measures and regulatory guidelines, management said nothing and implied that staff were not telling the truth. While the company claimed that what happened was "spontaneous," Berlin's Soho House staff said that the party spaces had been booked in advance. Club members made their dissatisfaction and disappointment known, with some considering ending their membership; police investigated.

In popular culture

Soho House London is mentioned briefly in The Holiday by Jasper (Rufus Sewell). Soho House New York was featured in season 6 of the TV series Sex and the City in an episode titled "Boy Interrupted". In this episode, Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) pretends to be a member by using a stolen membership card.

In 2022, Soho House was mentioned in the Netflix drama Inventing Anna, where con artist Anna Delvey, when asked if she was rejected by Soho House in episode two, replied, "I’d rather hang out at a McDonald's or start my own club and reject their members."

Soho House on 76 Dean Street was used as a location in the 2024 crime novel Crooked Was His Cane, the nineteenth DCI Declan Walsh novel written by Tony Lee using the pen name Jack Gatland. In it, character Anjli Kapoor meets with entrepreneur Eden Storm, who comments during the meeting, "Soho House has a rule that only three guests can come in at any time with a member. I told them if they didn't give me four, I would have to buy the building and evict them." Tony Lee has been an "Everyhouse" member of Soho House since 2014.

Soho Home

In 2016, the club launched a 'modern interiors brand designed for relaxed, sociable living', called Soho Home. The brand's flagship store located in Duke of York Square in Chelsea opened in 2021.

In April 2025, Soho House accused Next of copyright and design right infringements over selling furniture that “closely resembled” that of Soho Home.

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