CAFE BOHEME LTD.

What CAFE BOHEME LTD. does

Cafe Boheme Ltd. operates a single-location French restaurant and live jazz venue at 13 Old Compton Street, Soho, London W1D 5JQ. The business combines traditional French dining with nightly live music programming, a cocktail bar offering, and a recurring calendar of cultural events (including Pride and Bastille Day programming). Revenue is generated through direct-to-consumer channels: walk-in trade, phone and email reservations, and private/group bookings. The venue operates extended hours, including late-night service up to 3am on weekends, and runs a cashless payment policy.

The company operates with a small disclosed headcount of approximately 5 employees and functions as a private limited company with no parent group and no disclosed funding rounds. Its product surface has expanded incrementally through the addition of a Brunch menu (October 2020) and a Late Night menu (June 2021), with both designed to broaden the venue's daypart coverage and capture additional covers from its existing single footprint. There is no disclosed technology stack beyond standard cashless POS, social media channels, and conventional reservation handling.

The business model is straightforward hospitality: per-cover food and beverage sales, supplemented by private event hire. Customer segments span general Soho footfall (tourists and locals), nightlife patrons drawn by the live jazz programming, and group/private bookings. There are no enterprise customers, no contracted revenue, and no online delivery integration disclosed, leaving revenue fully dependent on in-venue covers and discretionary consumer spending in the Soho catchment area.

Name

CAFE BOHEME LTD.

Legal name

CAFE BOHEME LTD.

Website

https://cafeboheme.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cafe Boheme Ltd. operates a single-location French restaurant and live jazz venue on Old Compton Street in London's Soho, serving walk-in diners, reserved guests, and private groups via food, beverage, and event hire sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

French Restaurant and Live Jazz Venue

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

All-Day Dining Restaurants (THAFACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fine Dining Restaurants (THAFACAA)

Keywords

• French restaurant dining
• Live jazz venue
• Soho brasserie
• Cocktail bar service
• Private dining events

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Revenue generated from serving French cuisine including breakfast, all-day dining, brunch, dessert, and cocktails. Restaurant operates from morning hours (8am Monday, 9am weekends) until late night (12am-3am depending on day).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cafe Boheme is a single-location French restaurant and live music venue in Soho, London, serving traditional French cuisine (breakfast, all-day dining, brunch, dessert, late-night menu) alongside a daily live jazz program and full cocktail bar service. The venue operates extended hours from morning until late night (up to 3am on weekends) and accommodates walk-in diners as well as reservations.

Product overview

Cafe Boheme is a single-location French restaurant and live music venue in London's Soho district. The offering consists of a core restaurant serving traditional French cuisine (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night service) combined with a nightly live jazz program. Additional offerings include a cocktail bar and private dining/event capabilities. The restaurant operates extended hours, closing between midnight and 3am depending on the day.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• French Restaurant Dining Full-service French restaurant serving traditional French classics such as confit duck, steak frites, and escargots. Offers breakfast, all-day dining, brunch, dessert, and late-night menus at the Soho, London venue.
• Live Jazz Music Daily in-venue live jazz performances by rotating artists during afternoon and early evening hours, performed alongside dining service at the Soho restaurant.
• Cocktail Bar Service Full cocktail bar service available during all restaurant opening hours, including the late-night service window, supported by a dedicated cocktail menu.
• Private Events and Group Dining Reservation and dining services for groups larger than six people as well as private events and celebrations, coordinated directly with the restaurant via phone or email.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Galvin Bistrot & Bar: London French bistro with all-day service, classic French menu, and cocktail bar — strong comparable on cuisine, service model, and daypart coverage.
• The French House: Soho institution serving French-inspired food with a deep drinks list, very close geographic peer on Soho's French dining corridor; similar heritage, bar-forward, all-day French dining model.
• Le Garrick: Long-established French restaurant near Covent Garden offering traditional French classics — directly comparable traditional French cuisine positioning in Central London.
• Balthazar London: Full-service French-inspired restaurant in Covent Garden with all-day dining, brasserie menu and bar service — directly comparable French bistro concept in Central London.
• Brasserie Zédel: London Soho French brasserie offering classic French cuisine with a strong all-day operating model and high-volume pricing; directly comparable as a full-service French restaurant operating extended hours in a similar London setting.

Others

• Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club: London's flagship live jazz venue in Soho. Not a restaurant peer, but directly comparable on the live-jazz-as-destination-entertainment dimension and in overlapping Soho footfall.

Emerging players

• The Breakfast Club: Multi-site London breakfast/brunch concept with strong brand identity. Comparable on the all-day breakfast/brunch daypart and distinctive themed brand positioning in the London casual dining market.
• The Palomar: Soho all-day restaurant with bar-forward concept and eclectic continental menu; comparable on single-site Soho positioning, extended hours, and bar-driven economics.

Broad incumbents

• Soho House: Broader hospitality operator of multiple venues (and image credits on Cafe Boheme's website suggest an ownership/operator relationship). Comparable as a hospitality platform that owns and operates food-and-beverage venues across London and internationally.

Regional players

• Pizza Express Jazz Club / Live: UK chain combining casual dining with live jazz performance programming — a thematic comparable on the food + live jazz hybrid model, though at smaller per-cover price points.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cafeboheme
• Facebookfacebook.com/cafeboheme.london
• Instagraminstagram.com/cafeboheme
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cafe-boheme-ltd.

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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