Take its attitude to takeaway pizza. Westminster council have found a way to spoil even this in Soho. On other evenings, Shrief has encountered licensing officers attending the restaurant to search through bins, checking for timestamps showing takeaway pizza sold after 11pm (always in vain). The CIA is the same mechanism that Westminster council used in its draft policy to ban ‘vertical drinking’ in pubs. Westminster council seems incapable of acknowledging the positive contribution made by Soho’s venues to the reputation of London, the social lives of residents and visitors, or the many jobs they create.