London date nights
73 dates to choose from
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DhanyaaSwingers West End
Crazy golf you can play with a cocktail in hand, plus a whole arcade of carnival games to keep the scoreline messy. Street food stalls if you get hungry mid-round. Loud, silly and impossible to be awkward at.
Owain UlyetAutm Haus
Autm Haus is tucked away in Hackney Wick and stays properly under the radar — warm low lighting, good music at a volume you can still talk over, and drinks that take themselves just seriously enough. The kind of place you go once and then feel weirdly protective of.
TixSPYGAMES
Get a spy profile, then 50 minutes and 12 game rooms to prove you're not useless under pressure. Designed by actual CIA and special ops people, so it's genuinely hard — which is exactly why it's a brilliant date. You'll find out fast who panics and who takes charge.
LillsSonny's Kingston
A rooftop on the Thames at Kingston where the whole thing peaks at golden hour. Tropical cocktails, boats drifting past, and a terrace that feels like you've left London entirely. Get there before sunset and don't rush it.
JayaQ Shoreditch
Just opened, already rammed. Pool tables, loud music, cocktails you'll pretend you can afford.
JennaClays Bar, Canary Wharf
Interactive clay shooting from your own semi-private peg, with food and drink ordered straight to you mid-game. Ninety minutes, a happy hour before, and an actual prize for whoever shoots best. Properly competitive without needing any skill to start.
Melisa YesilKinboru UK
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold, where cracks are celebrated, not hidden. Over a couple of hours in their Aldgate studio, you'll smash a ceramic piece (weirdly cathartic as a pair) and gold-weld it back together into something to keep. Calm, hands-on, and refreshingly screen-free.
Sara ScarrowDragon Inn Club
Bubbling broth in the middle of the table, endless plates of thinly sliced everything, and a sauce bar you build yourself. It's hands-on, slow and unavoidably chatty — you cook for each other, which does something to a date night.
Tessah27 Old Compton St
Intimate, cosy, and the kind of place you instantly slow down. The pasta's rich and comforting - the sort of meal you're still thinking about days later.
Scarlett Deana ⭐️Bone Hoxton
Slip behind the curtain at Bone Hoxton for live music right on the canal. You two will feast on eight-hour beef short rib, unlimited fries drenched in entrecôte sauce, and warm cookies. Just bring your favourite bottle along.
London Ever AfterJul's London
You come here to be a bit glamorous about it. Med sharing plates, a room that knows it's beautiful, and a wagyu pita you'll try to order twice.
Beks in the CityJunsei
Perch at Junsei’s counter and watch the charcoal grill as smoky, succulent yakitori skewers land between you two. This omakase serves up endless flavour bombs, finished with a cooling yuzu granita to sweeten the show.
neveCahoots Underground
A disused Underground station dressed up as wartime London - live music, staff in on the act, and cocktails served with full theatrical mischief. You don't just drink here, you play along.
Sara 💕📝Cahoots Postal Office
Transport the two of you back in time at Cahoots Postal Office, where delicious cocktails are delivered via pneumatic tubes. Browse newspaper menus, order an Air Mail, and get delightfully lost in every nostalgic detail.
Nyaruaii 🌸Zum Barbarossa
Slip beneath Dean Street into dimly lit Parisian glamour. You two can whisper over crafted cocktails, share fresh oysters, and sink into the intimate atmosphere long into the evening.
lo in londonBar Coyo
Start with the tacos and dangerously drinkable frozen margs, then slip into Bar Coyo - the speakeasy hidden behind the counter. Mezcal, spicy margs by heat level, and a DJ spinning Miami heat till late.
Canning-London spots/cafeTattu London
One of London's most striking dining rooms. Blossom trees, low light, and modern Chinese sharing plates. The cocktails and desserts arrive like a magic act. Come for the spectacle as much as the food.
Best places to go and to eat✨Archive & Myth
A passkey-entry hideaway pouring cocktails built from vintage bottles. 1960s gin, 1970s maraschino, the real thing. Order in "minor" half-pours and taste your way through history.
olivia kayRooftop Cinema Club Peckham
Snuggle up with wireless headphones as the sun dips over the London skyline. You two can order pizza and cocktails straight to your deckchairs while catching a film outdoors.
Jerk SushiTower Bridge Collective
Grab a drink and split birria ramen or spicy Eritrean stews right by the water. With thirteen global vendors and iconic Tower Bridge views, you two never have to compromise on what you're craving.
Summer FoxJuno Omakase
Slip upstairs for an ultra-exclusive 15-course omakase experience. You two will trust the chef, hear stories about each course, and watch pristine, hyper-fresh sushi prepared right before your eyes.
lurialifeKiln
Put your names down for a walk-in counter, grab a drink nearby, and prepare you two for serious spice. Expect explosive charcoal-grilled Thai flavours, from tender pork jowl to rich brown crab claypot noodles.
Lily SmithRonnie Scott's
Dinner at your table while world-class musicians play just feet away. Intimate, a little timeless, and nothing like an ordinary night out. Book ahead; the door queue moves slowly.
M3Dc980K Craft Studio London
Slap on an apron and test your creative spark in East London. You two can paint custom moon lamps with textured wax, making for an intimate, surprisingly therapeutic escape when the weather turns grey.
Ami ♡Taste Film
An immersive screening where every course lands as it appears on screen - Ratatouille's ratatouille, Matilda's Bruce cake, the Cubano from Chef. Themed cocktails included. It runs a few weeks per film and sells out, so grab tickets early and see which movie's on.
shaymulaCrazy Boules
Ditch standard drinks for a chaotic, neon-drenched clash of crazy golf and boules near Elephant and Castle. Settle your rivalries, break out the measuring tape for close calls, and see which of you ends up on the podium.
katewinney_God's Own Junkyard
Wander through a massive gallery of vintage movie props and glowing signs before grabbing a drink at the bar. You two will look completely irresistible lit up beneath the giant glitter ball.
A mum and her babiesMother's Ruin
A tiny Walthamstow distillery with a bar attached - small-batch gin and a dirty (or "filthy") martini poured by the people who actually make it. Relaxed, a bit off the map, open weekends only. Worth leaving the centre for.
Tiny LondonerBarbican Conservatory
Tucked inside the Barbican's brutalist towers is a lush tropical glasshouse with trailing vines, exotic fish ponds, and a bar where you can sip a drink among the plants. Free, peaceful, wildly photogenic. Weekends only, and book a slot ahead.
Kieran | travel more 🛩️🤠The Little Scarlet Door
Two floors done up like an eclectic Soho flat-share -mismatched furniture, warm lighting, a blanket-strewn terrace. It's built to feel like a friend's house party, not a bar. Come for cocktails or the bottomless brunch and stay late.
Kezia KeikoThe Top Secret Comedy Club
No frills, low-ceilinged basement bar/club with a regular programme of stand-up and improv shows.
Yasmin | Travel & LondonChez Lui
Step out of the Notting Hill chill and slip into a candlelit corner. Share truffle-topped emmental soufflé before sneaking off to the secret bar—you two won't want to leave. And there's live jazz on Sundays too.
The EadesRenegade Urban Winery
An East London urban winery where the wine's made on-site. Book a guided tasting and work through their funky naturals and orange wines, all oddly named after people, poured by the people who actually make them. Small plates, relaxed, low on pretension.
J Glo 🤍 | Food & TravelWagtail
Cocktails and seafood on a slick City rooftop, skyline in every direction. Time it for sunset and ask about the upper open-air deck, the best seat in the place.
London Food BabesSUSHISAMBA London
An express glass lift straight to the 39th floor of Heron Tower for Japanese-Brazilian-Peruvian fusion with the city spread out below - samba rolls, marbled fatty tuna, a lively terrace bar. A proper occasion, and priced like one.
Tadiwa☆ | 20s & travelNetil360 Rooftop Bar - Restaurant
A laid-back Hackney rooftop above London Fields, frozen margaritas, proper pizza, wine deals, and a young, easy crowd taking in the skyline from a creative-studios building. Built for a sunny afternoon that rolls into the night.
steph 💗 london lifeQUEENS skate dine bowl
An underground Bayswater playground - ice rink, bowling, darts, pool, retro arcade games, plus a bar and restaurant to regroup. The date for when you'd rather do something than stare at a menu across the table. Skating's the highlight.
sabrinataylaBounce Battersea
ing pong, cocktails and pizza in a buzzy Battersea Power Station room. Competitive enough to break the ice, low-key enough to actually talk - a great early-date move.
Amelia | Travel Creator ✈️Fairgame
Canary Wharf's carnival for adults. Hook-a-duck, test-your-strength and other fairground games given a slick, competitive makeover, with a scoring card, cocktails in built-in holders and street food. Nostalgic, genuinely fun, and competitive enough to demand a rematch.
whitneyyyGutterball Ealing Broadway
A stylish West London games den - bowling, karaoke, shuffleboard, darts, pool and arcade, all done with real design flair. No full menu though, just snacks, so eat before you come. For a playful, competitive night out in Ealing, it's hard to beat.
Bianca’s Plates 🫒Pinot & Picasso - Sip and Paint London
A guided paint-and-sip in Shoreditch where a warm instructor walks you through a whole canvas step by step, drink in hand - a skyline, Mount Fuji, whatever's on that night. No experience needed, genuinely relaxing, and you both go home with a painting.
★ Holly Gardner ★Maison S.Sommet (studio)
A BYOB pottery class in a Bermondsey railway arch - two hours at the wheel, a bottle open beside you, clay everywhere. Messy, hands-on, quietly romantic, and you leave with a wonky bowl you made together (glaze and keep it for a few quid more).
Adriana❤️Avora London
Part cocktail bar, part immersive theatre - you're put in costume and led through three acts of a fantasy world, a themed (smoking, colour-changing) cocktail per act, actors drawing you into the story. Not a normal night out. Ticketed and timed, so book ahead.
Plush lifeSeabird
A 14th-floor seafood spot with what's said to be London's longest terrace - oysters, lobster rice and cocktails looking across the water to St Paul's and the City. Come for a sunny evening up top; the terrace and the view are the main event.
gioacchinorusso_Gordon's Wine Bar
Duck beneath Embankment into low stone arches, flickering candlelight and classic European wines. Share a generous cheese board, squeeze in close, and forget which century you two are living in.
Traveltothefridge | London ✨Lady of The Grapes Covent Garden
Take a table under the dim lights for French small plates and exceptional bottles produced by female winemakers. It is cosy, intimate, and made for lingering over that second glass together.
Rosie DartLe Beaujolais
Settle into this quirky 1972 Soho wine bar for proper French bottles and generous cheese boards. With its ceiling of vintage ties and eccentric nostalgia, it’s the ultimate spot for you two to whisper over a post-show drink.
PhoebeatsssPedro's Wine Bar
Settle into this rustic Bermondsey spot for bespoke wine pairings and garlic chilli prawns that transport you straight to Portugal. Just make sure you two save room for the ridiculously affordable chocolate mousse.
lilleylovesfoodMarjorie's
Inspired by the wine bars on the edges of Paris, and it shows - candle on the table, glass in hand, the whole room a warm hum of chatter. It's snug, a little romantic, and easy to lose an evening in. Order the snails even if you think you don't like snails; they'll change your mind.
Caitlin CapaldiFrankie’s W10
Settle into this intimate Portobello Road haunt where the lighting is low and there is zero rush. Order a fine bottle, lean in close, and let the two of you take your time.
Frankie | Travel & London lifeStable Wines
A wine shop up top, a proper vaulted cellar bar down below, the kind of arched, low-lit room that makes a Tuesday feel like you're getting away with something. The wine leans natural and low-intervention (nothing added, nothing taken away), there's a long list by the glass, and a small, punchy kitchen from Goodbye Horses to keep you there for one more.
Alex ZouaghiLittle Venice
Trace the canal together past colourful houseboats, grabbing coffee from waterside spots as you wander towards Camden. At around a 50 minute walk, it's easily London's most romantic stroll, whatever the season.
In The Borough 💌 London LifeBarnes Bridge
Slip away from the city crowds for a quiet riverside stroll. Hand in hand, you two can watch the rowing boats drift past as the leafy Thames Path leads you towards Putney.
jesshallcooksKing’s Cross
Slowly trace the water, stopping for barge-bound books and warm focaccia. Linger over fire-cooked Italian and wine, before you two soak in sweeping skyline views high above the city. The walk is 1.5-2hrs but you'll definitely need longer for some impromptu stop offs along the way.
DafniFulham Pier
A gentle west-London wander with a suspiciously high pub-per-mile ratio. Set off from the pier and follow the river toward Chiswick, past the Mall's line-up of riverside boozers, a flotilla of rowers, and enough handsome real estate to make you both quietly recalculate your life choices. It's flat, it's leafy, and there's always somewhere good to stop, which is really the whole point.
LizzyPutney Bridge
Meander through 900-year-old palace gardens before trailing the river to Wandsworth. Once you two reach Old York Road, grab hot coffees and rich Swedish pastries at Soderberg.
sannylondonRegent's Canal
A walk that quietly builds to something. From Angel you'll dip to the canal, wind up through the streets where the tunnel cuts underground, and land at King's Cross — where Coal Drops Yard has turned old coal warehouses into one of the prettiest corners of the city. From there the towpath takes over: houseboats, still water, the odd heron, all the way toward Camden. Finish with the short pull up Primrose Hill, where London rolls out below you and there's nowhere either of you needs to be. 📍Angel 📍Coal Drops Yard 📍Camden 📍Primrose Hill
Milly GurtonElliot's - Borough Market
Skip the tourist traps and pull up a chair for brilliant wines by the glass and a food menu that changes by the season. You two need to share the garlicky, egg-yolk mushrooms and signature cheese puffs in this deliciously buzzy spot.
Traveltothefridge | London ✨The Palomar
Soho's gloriously loud love letter to modern Jerusalem - serving the bold, spice-and-citrus food of modern Jerusalem across a menu of small sharing plates. Grab two seats at the zinc kitchen counter if you can - front-row to the chefs, the chatter and the controlled chaos.
charlotte • Irish in LondonFAN Restaurant
A slice of Lima's cult Nikkei scene, quietly landed in Notting Hill. Japanese technique meets Peruvian and Cantonese flavour - across an à la carte spread of ceviches, inventive nigiri and crispy-rice plates, or a full omakase if you're feeling it.
ScoutFrameless
Floor-to-ceiling projections bring paintings to life at Frameless, an immersive art experience at Marble Arch. Four galleries reimagine works by Monet, Van Gogh and Klimt through animation and music, with a café bar for afterwards. Wander together at your own pace, then compare favourites over coffee or cocktail - a date with plenty to look at and talk about.
sineadtravels ☆Meiro Ceramics
A women-owned Holloway studio where pottery comes with a twist and something extra. Taste rare matcha then hand-build the bowl you'd whisk it in, bring a bottle for a relaxed BYOB painting session, or try your hand at the wheel. Whichever you pick, it's calm, hands-on and refreshingly screen-free, with tutors who actually teach.
Tania | London Guides ✨The Magicians Table
At The Magicians Table in Waterloo’s Vaults, magicians perform inches away at shared tables of ten. Live music and a fictional magician’s memorial weave the tricks into a theatrical evening. Expect cocktails and bar snacks, rather than dinner.
MissdemsxoEnigma Quests Holborn
Thirty tiny rooms, five minutes each, one hour on the clock - this is the escape room reinvented as a fast, silly, gloriously competitive dash. You'll dive through door after door tackling quick-fire challenges (dodge a giant Snake, survive the floor turning to lava) as a team of two, then reward yourselves with a proper cocktail from the bar. It's daft, it's frantic, and it turns out there's no better way to find out how you handle chaos together.
CORRINAOriental Food Cooking Class
Pick a dish and learn to make it properly at this much-loved Archway kitchen - hand-pulled noodles, dim sum, bao buns or a Korean bento, all from scratch under an expert's eye. Then you sit down and eat everything the two of you made. A hands-on, slightly competitive, deeply satisfying way to spend an evening together.
itsalexlately | 30s abroadImperfect Art Peckham
The whole point of this Peckham art café is that your art doesn't have to be good and neither do you. Drop in for a couple of hours, pick your medium (watercolour, charcoal, pastels, or upgrade to lino printing or clay), and just make something with your hands, no tutor hovering and no masterpiece expected. Tea, coffee and biscuits keep coming, phones stay down, and you'll each leave with a piece to take home. Refreshingly, joyfully low-stakes.
mollsinterludeThe Blues Kitchen Shoreditch
A converted Victorian warehouse in Shoreditch where the music's live most nights and the food comes straight from America's Deep South. Settle into a booth for slow-smoked BBQ, burgers and cornbread while resident musicians play soul, R&B and blues, then slip off to the hidden bourbon bar and its 100-plus bottles. It's loud, warm and high-energy.
JennaComptoir Bakery Bermondsey
A proper French bakery school tucked into a railway arch behind Maltby Street Market. Pick your craft - flaky croissants and pain au chocolat, delicate fruit tartelettes, or a loaf of real sourdough and spend a hands-on morning learning to make it from scratch alongside an expert. Aprons provided, no experience needed, and you both go home with what you baked (plus the recipes to show off later).
Zay | Travel & Lifestyle 🌴🐚Florattica Rooftop London
A floral-themed rooftop bar eleven floors above Aldgate, crowned by a vast ceiling hand-wired from preserved flowers and wrapped in floor-to-ceiling City views. The cocktails are botanical and beautifully made, and the terrace stays heated and covered year-round. Stylish, unhurried, and made for a date that wants a bit of a view.
TASMYN 🌺Los Mochis London City
Mexican-Japanese fusion nine floors above Liverpool Street, where sushi and tacos share the table and the tequila list runs to hundreds of rare bottles. The terrace has a retractable roof, heaters and sweeping views of St Paul's and the Shard, and the DJ keeps it going late. Glossy, buzzy and made for a night you want to feel like an event.
Social Pottery Balham
A laid-back BYOB evening of pottery painting, two minutes from Balham station. Choose from 300-plus blanks, bring your own drinks, and spend just under two hours decorating your piece - no skill required, staff on hand for tips. They glaze and fire it for you to collect later. Easygoing, a little silly, and made for a chatty date.
The Font Climbing - Wandsworth
Part bouldering gym, part café-bar and a refreshingly active date. Take on nearly 200 no-ropes climbing routes, cheer each other up the wall, then collapse into the on-site bar for craft beer, coffee and gourmet burgers when your arms give out. Competitive, a bit sweaty, and far more memorable than another dinner.
Battersea Park
The lowest-effort, highest-reward date going. Swing by M&S, load a basket with picky bits - the posh crisps, the little pastries, the dips you'll both fight over - then carry the lot into Battersea Park and find a spot by the river.