London is never lovelier than from a good table at half past eight, when the windows mist a little and the room has found its own hum. A dinner date seats a companion opposite you for four hours, long enough for a drink beforehand, a meal nobody rushes and the walk home along streets that have gone hushed. It is the evening made for a visitor who wants the best of the city's dining rooms and would rather not sit in them alone.
The fare is £1,300 for those four hours, the restaurant bill stays with you, and like any standard booking it is secured with a 25 percent bank transfer. If your reservation points to a brisker dinner, three hours at £1,050 is usually plenty. Both figures sit alongside the rest on the rates page.
Most dinner dates start at around seven. She meets you in your hotel bar, or at the restaurant if that is simpler, and the opening half hour belongs to a drink and the small, pleasant business of getting acquainted. Dinner fills the middle two hours. The final stretch is yours to shape: a nightcap under low lamps, a slow loop past the lit windows of Bond Street, or straight back to the hotel. A table at nine simply slides everything later.
In Marylebone, Chiltern Firehouse feels like a party that has chosen to keep its voice down, and Trishna on Blandford Street suits a guest who loves spice in a calmer room. In Mayfair, The Wolseley's grand café on Piccadilly is a treat for an early table, and Bentley's Oyster Bar, a few steps off Regent Street, was built for long conversations over seafood.
Towards Covent Garden, Rules on Maiden Lane has fed theatregoers beneath its crowded red walls for generations, and Clos Maggiore hides a conservatory full of blossom behind a modest front. Without a reservation, describe the mood you want and the desk returns two or three suggestions.
Book in your own name, exactly as you would for any dinner guest, then send the desk the restaurant, the time and whether she should call at your hotel first. When you meet at the restaurant itself, she arrives a few minutes early and waits at the bar, so there is never that awkward pause at the door while you search the room. Requests made by mid afternoon enjoy the widest choice of girls, and later ones are answered just as warmly by whoever is still free.
Samanta, slim and 174 cm with sleek dark brown hair, is happiest of all on a dinner date and likes the booking settled by four. Bianka, curvy and hazel eyed, cooks seriously at home and holds firm, generous views on a wine list; give her a day's notice and she will suggest the room. She lives in Knightsbridge, close to the tables of Sloane Street.
Liana prefers calm weeknights and a conversation that drifts towards the novel on her bedside table. Rosa keeps her Sunday to Thursday evenings open for just this kind of booking, and Luna, with long dark auburn hair, shines brightest when theatre tickets are tucked into the plan. Samanta, Bianka, Liana and Rosa all appear among the brunettes.
Let the desk know the restaurant and whether a jacket is expected. What she wears takes its cue from the room: something dark and simple for a candlelit corner in Marylebone, a touch more sparkle for a gilded dining room on Piccadilly. You should look like a pair who put this dinner in the diary weeks ago, and the waiter will treat you exactly so.
If you already suspect dinner will not be the end of the evening, book the night rider overnight at £2,400 from the outset; because her whole night is set aside, it carries a 50 percent deposit. Adding an hour on the evening itself depends on her diary, and any extra time is agreed in writing, in the same chat, before it starts.
No. The fare covers four hours of her time and company. The restaurant, the wine and any taxi between venues are yours, as they would be with any guest you invite to dinner.
Yes. Send the desk the address and table time, and she will be settled at the bar a few minutes before you walk in.
Mid afternoon on the day is ideal, and a day ahead opens the fullest choice. Same evening requests are still worth sending, because someone lovely is often free.
Of course. Inside Zones 1 and 2 nothing changes. Further out, the desk adds a quote for her taxi both ways before you confirm.
Yes. Lunch runs on the same fares, and three hours usually covers a leisurely table with time left for a stroll through Hyde Park or around the Regent's Park lake afterwards.
Say where tonight finds you and roughly what time, and the desk replies with the names of who can meet you there. WhatsApp or Telegram, answered all night long.
