Dinner on your side of town: how the office books dinner date escorts in London
The dinner date is the plan this board is asked for most often after the door call, and the one the women themselves prefer. Four hours at £900 covers a drink first, a table for as long as it takes and the walk afterwards. Three hours at £700 does the same thing with one less course and no second stop, and plenty of evenings are better for it. Most requests for dinner date escorts in London settle on one of those two lengths.
What makes dinner work here is geography. Twenty eight companions live across ten districts, so the office starts by asking where you are staying rather than which restaurant you had in mind. A woman eating in her own postcode knows which room is on form this month, which one has been coasting, and how to get you back to your hotel afterwards without touching a main road.
On the board
Suited to dinner on your side of town
Note 02
How the four hours usually run
A drink somewhere near you for the first half hour, largely so neither of you is meeting across a menu. Then the table, which is the point of the whole plan and should be allowed to take two hours if the room is any good. Then whatever the night wants: a nightcap in a quiet bar, a walk through streets that have emptied, or the short ride back.
Nobody is hurried into the next part and nobody is made to feel the clock. If you would rather skip the first drink and start at the table, say so when you write. Half the women on the board would agree with you.
Note 03
Who books the table
Either of you. If your hotel has already booked somewhere, she will eat there happily and tell you honestly afterwards what she thought. If the evening is open, name the zone and she will suggest a room she actually eats in, which is a different list from the one a concierge works off.
The office does not take a cut from a restaurant, hold accounts anywhere or steer you towards a particular room. What it will do is tell you when a table at eight is unrealistic on a Thursday and offer nine instead.
Note 04
Two zones that dine differently
Knightsbridge makes the case for an early table, and the women who live there agree with it: a seven or eight o'clock start, a room that has been feeding the same sort of people for decades, and a clear finish. Marylebone is a village that happens to sit in the middle of London, where dinner runs long because the street encourages it and the walk home takes in a church garden rather than a bus lane.
The other zones each have their own version of the same evening, and the zones page sets out which women cover them.
Note 05
What she wears and what she does with her phone
Something that reads as dinner rather than as an occasion. Dark and well cut is the house default, because nobody at a neighbouring table should be able to guess anything at all about the arrangement. If the room you have chosen is more informal than that, say so and she will dress down without making a production of it.
Her phone stays out of sight for the whole of the meal. That sounds like a small thing until you have sat opposite somebody who could not manage it.
Note 06
Five who take a table seriously
Bianka builds her whole evening around one long dinner in Knightsbridge and stays until the room empties. Liana reads the wine list before the menu and asks what you enjoy before she suggests anything. Nancy wants a nine o'clock booth in a loud brasserie and is at her best in exactly that kind of room. Samanta will always choose the restaurant with thirty seats over the famous one, and Patricia books a fourteen table room with no music in it and stays past eleven.
Any other name on the who is free page takes dinner at the same figures. Two or three names in your first message and the office will tell you which of them can hold the night.
Note 07
Notice, and why a day helps
Dinner can often be arranged the same afternoon. What a day of warning buys is the table she actually wants rather than whatever is left at eight, and in a small room that is the whole difference. Where a curtain or a train is involved, put the time in the first message, because it sets the shape of everything around it.
The figure is settled the same way as every other plan on the board: it goes to her when she arrives, and nothing is added later. Longer evenings work out cheaper by the hour, which is deliberate.
Note 08
After the plates go
Some evenings end at the restaurant door and that is a perfectly good ending. Others want twenty more minutes of walking, which in this city is often the part people remember. If yours is going to keep going, out late across town is the plan written for it, and if it has no end in mind at all then the whole night is the honest booking to make.
From The Roundup
Two notes worth reading first
More plans
Other ways an evening is arranged
Last strip
Say a name and an hour
Write in with a length, a time and the zone you are staying in, and a name from the board comes back with a window attached. That is the whole of the arrangement.