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Early twenties: ten companions who like to get there first
The ten companions in this band are aged 22 to 24, every one an adult, with her age confirmed from photo ID seen in person. The number matters less than a manner most of them share: a habit of getting to things first. The new cocktail list, the late comedy set, the painter nobody has written about yet. They like to be in a room before the room is famous.
That makes them good company for a guest who wants a side of W1 that has not reached the guidebooks. They are grouped here by what each tends to find first.
Early twenties, lit
10 women in the windows fit this description, going by the facts on their profiles. Each pane leads to the full picture.
Angelika
Age 24Mayfair
Bianka
Age 23Knightsbridge
Jasmin
Age 22Soho
Lea
Age 23Belgravia
Lucy
Age 24Pimlico
Luna
Age 22Mayfair
Molly
Age 24Soho
Roxi
Age 23Pimlico
Stacy
Age 22Chelsea
Tiffany
Age 24Soho
First to the new list
Jasmin goes to Artesian at The Langham the week the menu changes and tries it before anyone else she knows. Luna is tasting her way through every English sparkling wine on the Coral Room list and keeps the scores. Roxi chooses three kitchens in Kingly Court by the sound of the tables and orders one plate in each, then heads for somewhere with music and space to move.
First to the new name
Angelika has a list of contemporary artists London has not caught up with yet, and will defend every one of them over dinner. Stacy sits near the back of the basement room at Soho Theatre, where comedians try out material before a festival run, and photographs strangers in doorways on the way home.
First to the find
Bianka wears pearls from a market stall and knows which vintage rails are worth the rummage. Molly owns more records than shoes and found the bar near Marble Arch with an armchair by the fire long before you did. Tiffany spots three odd details in any hotel lobby. Lea finds the lamp on the lighting floor at Heal's that would rescue a dull room. Lucy finds Jupiter from the top of Primrose Hill before you have found the Plough.
What the band looks like across a table
Quick opinions, held lightly. A plan that is happy to change halfway through the evening if something better turns up. Questions that are genuinely about you. None of this means inexperience: every one of the ten knows W1 well and has a clear idea of how a good evening runs. It simply means she has not stopped looking, and she would like to hear where you have been.
Hours that lean late
Several of the ten keep late hours by choice. Jasmin starts after nine, Molly at ten, and Stacy takes same night requests more readily than almost anyone. Others belong to the daytime or the early evening: Lucy is at her best over coffee, Lea around a curtain time, Angelika from seven sharp, and Bianka likes a day's notice so the right table can be held. Luna works evenings only, and Tiffany is easiest to place midweek. Roxi, when she is not chasing surf in Cornwall, keeps late dinners in her diary.
Same terms, every band
The band changes nothing about the booking: the same ladder from £250 an hour, the same checks, the same single message to Clementine. Jasmin, Stacy, Molly and Tiffany are regular names on night out, for an evening that moves from Fitzrovia to Oxford Circus after the shops shut. For a different pace, see late twenties or thirties and beyond.
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