What We OfferCompanionship for couples
One companion, two guests, and an evening chosen by both of you
Couples write to the desk for many reasons. An anniversary spent in London, a visiting pair with a single free night, partners who like a fresh voice at the dinner table. The format is the same every time. One companion joins the two of you for an agreed length, divides her attention evenly between you and helps the evening feel easy for everyone.
It is company and conversation, priced on the same ladder as every other offer. The fee is for one companion's time and company, never per guest.
Windows for Couples
The companions the desk suggests first for this kind of evening. Any other window in the selection can be asked too.
Why Clementine hears from both partners
A couples booking is confirmed only once Clementine has heard from each of you. One partner can open the chat, and the other adds a line of their own, from a second phone or in the same thread. It takes a minute, and it makes the evening plainly a shared choice before anyone sets off.
A Marylebone evening for three
Marylebone is ideal for it. Start with a drink in the armchairs of Seymour's Parlour inside The Zetter Townhouse, walk five minutes to dinner at Trishna or Fischer's, and finish with a nightcap at the bar of The Marylebone on Welbeck Street, or in the courtyard of Chiltern Firehouse during its calmer hours. Tables for three are easy to find here, and the streets are quiet enough to talk between stops. Our Marylebone Village dinner notes list more rooms along the lane.
Daylight, the park and a play
Not every couples booking happens at night. A summer afternoon in Regent's Park, with a picnic on the grass and an outdoor performance as the light fades, makes a lovely three hour plan. So does an hour among the paintings of the Wallace Collection followed by a late lunch beneath its courtyard roof.
The skill of being the third at the table
A good companion for a couple does more than keep up. She notices when one of you has gone quiet and brings them back in, keeps the talk moving when the plates arrive, and knows when to sit back and let the two of you share a look. That balance is the whole skill, and it is why Clementine suggests names for couples with care rather than offering whoever happens to be free.
Three seats for a show
Theatre suits couples well because it hands the evening a shared subject. Book three seats at the Palladium or the Dominion, meet your companion at a bar near Oxford Circus beforehand, and spend supper afterwards debating the second act. On a summer night the stage in the park does the same with the sky overhead.
Allow a little more time
Three people order more slowly, choose the next stop more slowly and say goodnight more slowly, which is part of the pleasure. Three hours at £700 is the shortest length most couples enjoy; four, at £900, suits dinner with a drink on either side.
Who Clementine suggests to couples
Nancy is sunny, quick to laugh and very good at drawing a quieter partner into the conversation. Cindy keeps daylight hours and will happily row the pair of you across the boating lake in Regent's Park, which makes her ideal for an afternoon version. Bianka remembers what each of you said an hour ago and asks about it, and she chooses wine with real care. Tina is warm and easygoing, the sort of person strangers chat to in queues, and knows exactly where to find a well made cocktail. Nancy and Cindy are both among the blondes.
Choosing her together
Look through The Selection side by side, or each pick two names and send all four. Clementine will say who is free and who suits the plan. Keep restaurant and theatre reservations in your own name for three. Prices for every duration live on rates, and how the one check works is explained under booking.
Couples, explained
No. The fee is for one companion's time at the usual rate for the length you choose. Three hours is £700 whether one guest books or two.
Only what you would like her to know: the occasion, the kind of evening you enjoy, subjects you both love. Clementine passes it on before she sets off.
Yes. Dinner for three sent up to your suite is a perfectly good evening, and the same terms apply as for any other booking.
Gladly. Tell Clementine who you saw last time and roughly when you are back, and she will check the diary as soon as you have dates.
That is common and perfectly fine. Mention it when you write, and Clementine will suggest someone known for putting people at ease. The evening then moves at the pace of whichever of you is more cautious.
Read before you go
- 5 min readCharlotte Street after six: Fitzrovia's restaurant row, read by moodFitzrovia's restaurant row runs from white-tablecloth rooms to loud, clever newcomers. How to choose by mood, where to drink first, and how a Charlotte Street evening is paced.
- 5 min readFront row at the pass: counter seats and kitchen tables north of Oxford StreetWatching the pass at work turns dinner into a shared show. The counters and kitchen tables north of Oxford Street, what they ask of an evening, and why they suit two people.
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