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Published 1999
The main area of Italian settlement in London was not Soho, as popularly believed, but further north in Clerkenwell, where shops, churches, import businesses and community centres still exist. Most of the Italian presence in Soho post-dates the second war and unlike the originally much larger French community, still survives by and large intact. Indeed with the arrival of an excellent pizza place called Spiga, and the energetic Aldo Zilli with his two restaurants and bar, it can truly be sa