Escorts in Greenwich, SE10: who is close, and how soon
Late October, a little after six, and the covered market in the middle of Greenwich has gone dark. The lunchtime queues at its food stalls left with the day visitors, the museum doors are shut, and the town has turned towards its evening tables: pubs with the river at the window, small restaurants in the lanes around the market, a working high street running east. This is the Greenwich of people who sit down to eat once the sightseeing is over.
It is a rewarding town for dinner before an evening with Greenwich escorts, compact enough to go from one table to the next on foot and old enough that eating here has a history of its own. SE10 is home to nobody on the board, so she travels out from town; the trip usually runs to about an hour from the moment the office says she is booked, longer on a Friday, and the thread will tell you the precise time to expect her, while the rates list every length.
On the ground
Greenwich in practice
Landmarks on the arrival slip
By postcode, never by nameSE10 8JA, SE10 0TW.
Nearest stations
Walking timeCutty Sark, 2 minutes. Greenwich, 4 minutes. Maze Hill, 10 minutes.
Getting there
SE10Travel is included across Zones 1 and 2, and counted from the moment the hour is set rather than from when she leaves.
On the board
Nearest prints to Greenwich
Who works here
On the board in Greenwich
The six prints above are a first shortlist for Greenwich tonight. Any of the twenty eight on the who is free page can be asked for by name instead.
Note 02
Round the covered market
Greenwich Market fills a block of old streets at the centre of the town, with College Approach along one side. By day its food stalls are the reason half the visitors come: plates cooked in front of you and eaten standing up or at shared benches under the market roof. It is a lunch place, and a good one, but it is not where an evening happens.
The evening happens in the streets wrapped around it. Greenwich Church Street, Nelson Road and King William Walk hold most of the restaurants and cafés in the town, a mix of small independent rooms and familiar names, with pubs on the corners. They sit close enough together that a drink in one place and dinner in another needs no taxi in between, which is the easiest shape for a first evening here.
Note 03
Whitebait and the river taverns
Greenwich was known for one dish long before it had a market full of street food. In the nineteenth century the taverns on its waterfront served whitebait, tiny fish netted in the Thames and fried whole, and parties came down the river from town to eat them by the plateful. Cabinet ministers made an annual outing of it at the close of the parliamentary session, and the Greenwich whitebait dinner became a fixture of the Victorian political year.
The Trafalgar Tavern, on Park Row beside the naval college, is the grand survivor of that trade, a large pub whose windows look straight out over the water. Further east the riverside path passes smaller and older pubs at Crane Street and Ballast Quay, low rooms with the tide just outside. On a winter evening, with the river running high and the towers opposite lit from top to bottom, these are the most Greenwich places in which to sit and eat.
Note 04
A hall built for dinner, and a ship built for tea
The grandest dining room in Greenwich was hardly ever used for dinner. The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College was built for the retired sailors of Greenwich Hospital to take their meals in, and Sir James Thornhill spent some twenty years covering its walls and ceiling in paint. The result was judged far too splendid for the pensioners, who ate in plainer rooms below, and the hall became something people came to look at instead.
Down by the water, the Cutty Sark carries the other half of the story. She was built as a tea clipper, one of the fast sailing ships racing cargoes of tea from China to London, and she now stands raised in a dry berth beside the river. Walking past her on the way to a table is a small reminder that much of what the city drank once came up this reach of the Thames.
Note 05
East along Trafalgar Road
Walk east past the college and the town turns into East Greenwich along Trafalgar Road, a plain high street of pubs, cafés, takeaways and small restaurants running out towards Maze Hill. This is where people who live locally eat on an ordinary weeknight, and it has none of the weekend crowd that fills the lanes round the market.
Greenwich brews, too. Meantime, a brewery that took its name from the time kept on the hill above the park, was founded here, and a glass of something local is an easy way to start the evening. The park itself offers nothing for dinner after dark, because its gates close in the evening, so every table with a view of the hill is laid in the streets below it.
Note 06
Tables under the dome, and the choice between them
North of the town, inside the O2, dinner is a different thing again. The restaurants gathered under the canopy are mostly chain names feeding a crowd on its way to a show, busy, loud and built for speed. For a night out with escorts in Greenwich that is about the table rather than the concert, the old town is the better bet.
Across the water the Isle of Dogs faces the old college, Canary Wharf rises just behind it, and the Royal Docks lie further downstream. An evening can cross the river easily enough, but the old taverns, the market lanes and the long high street to the east are all on this bank, and so is almost everything this page has been about.
From The Roundup
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Which streets have the most restaurants?
Is whitebait still a Greenwich dish?
Is the covered market any use after dark?
Can we eat by the water rather than in the town?
Would the dome or the old town suit a long dinner better?
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