In this new column, food critic Charles Pelham writes about where to eat after Mass, from London to Lisbon.
St Patrick’s, Soho Square and Manzi’s
Consecrated in 1792, shortly after the French Revolution, St Patrick’s was probably the first church in England to be dedicated to the Patron Saint of Ireland. Its establishment was also as a direct result of the Relief Act of 1791, which sought to abolish the forbidding of the Sacraments to non-Protestants, such as the large group of very poor Irish people living around Soho Square at the time.
