Late twenties, fourteen girls who know exactly where they like to eat

Danielle loves classic cinema and poetry in South Kensington. Karolina plays piano and follows the opera season from Covent Garden, where her neighbour Tina designs clothes and has a weakness for cocktails and vinyl. Patricia paints watercolours in Belgravia.

Liana, in Marylebone, reads French novels, and her fellow Marylebone girl Rosa spends free afternoons in galleries when she is not baking. Samanta plays violin and knows the design hotels of Mayfair remarkably well.

Cindy and Michelle both sail and both live in Chelsea, though Cindy leans towards yoga and photography and Michelle towards museums and a well made cocktail. Laura rides and skis, Nora hunts through flower markets and designs clothes, and Vanessa cycles beside the canal; all three live in Paddington. Thea is a hiker and a cyclist, and Milena divides her free hours between tennis and ceramics.

Ask Laura about the best run she has skied or Thea about a hike worth the train fare, and the first hour of conversation has already written itself. Cindy will likely have a photograph from the river to show you, and Michelle a museum she thinks you should not miss, and none of it will feel like small talk.

With so many names, geography is a helpful place to start. Paddington and South Kensington have three girls each, so the Royal Lancaster, the Hilton, The Ampersand and the Baglioni are all quick stops. Chelsea, Covent Garden and Marylebone have two each, and Belgravia and Mayfair one apiece. If you would rather choose by conversation than by postcode, tell the desk what you enjoy talking about and we will match the interest first.

This is the chapter in which dinner becomes an occasion in its own right, not a pause between other plans, and our dinner date could have been written for it: four hours for £1,300, long enough for an aperitif, three courses and the unhurried walk back to your hotel. A table at a Marylebone bistro or a Chelsea brasserie suits these girls beautifully, and most of them will have an opinion on the wine list before the menus arrive. If four hours feels too long for a first meeting, three hours at £1,050 is a comfortable middle ground.

Almost everyone here rides another line too. Karolina, Michelle, Milena, Patricia, Samanta and Vanessa are statuesque, while Danielle, Michelle, Milena, Rosa and Thea are among the curvaceous girls. If a different chapter appeals, the early twenties and thirties and beyond pages sit either side of this one, and the rates page lists every fare.