A dinner date is the booking people are most nervous about arranging and the one that most often goes well. The nervousness comes from a fair question: how does an evening in a public restaurant work when the two of you have not met? The answer is that it works like any other good dinner, provided a few practical things are settled in advance. This page settles them.
Everything described here applies to adults arranging lawful companionship within Athens.
What a dinner date booking is
It is a booking in which the social part is the point rather than the preamble. You are hiring company for a table, a conversation and a shared evening in public, and the whole booking is charged as time in the ordinary way.
People book them for different reasons. Some have an event or a business dinner and would rather not attend alone. Some are visiting Athens and dislike eating by themselves. Some simply prefer an evening that starts with talk. None of these needs explaining to us when you enquire.
How long to book
Underbooking is the single most common mistake, and it is a mistake of arithmetic rather than judgement. Add it up honestly: an Athenian restaurant will not rush you, and Greeks do not eat early. A table at nine means ordering by half past, plates arriving near ten, and coffee somewhere after eleven.
Three hours is the shortest booking that lets a dinner breathe. Four is the comfortable figure, and it is what we recommend to anyone booking their first. Two hours means eating against a clock, which defeats the purpose of the format entirely.
If the evening is intended to continue after the meal, book that time now rather than extending later. Extensions depend on what follows in the schedule and cannot be promised at the table.
Choosing where to eat
Book somewhere you would happily go anyway. A companion is not a reason to attempt a restaurant you have never tried and cannot pronounce.
Kolonaki suits a formal evening and dressing properly. Plaka and Monastiraki suit a relaxed one, with the rooftops around Monastiraki offering the view most visitors want. Psyrri is louder and later and works better for a younger evening. The southern coast is its own occasion and is covered separately on our Glyfada page. In the centre, anywhere within the Syntagma to Kolonaki to Plaka triangle keeps travel to a few minutes.
One practical note that matters more than the neighbourhood: ask for a table with some separation around it. Conversation is easier when it is not shared with the next table, and every decent restaurant in Athens has a quieter corner if you request it when you reserve.
Making the reservation
Reserve the table yourself, in your own name, for two. Do it when you confirm the booking with us rather than on the night, because the good places in the centre fill by Thursday.
Tell us the restaurant name and the reservation time. We work backwards from that: if your table is at nine and we are meeting you at the restaurant, the booking begins a few minutes before nine so that nobody is left standing at the door.
Meeting: at the table or at your hotel
Both are normal and the choice is yours.
Meeting at the restaurant is the more discreet option. You arrive, you are seated, and your companion joins you a few minutes later exactly as any guest would. Nobody at your hotel sees anything and the evening simply begins.
Meeting at your hotel first suits anyone who would rather not do the introduction in front of a waiter. It costs twenty minutes of the booking and makes the arrival at the restaurant look entirely ordinary, because you walk in together.
Dress and presentation
Tell us the restaurant and the standard sorts itself out. A Kolonaki dining room and a taverna in Plaka call for different things, and the only way your companion can dress correctly for the room is to know which room it is.
The same applies to you. If you have booked somewhere that expects a jacket, wear one. Arriving underdressed to your own reservation is the fastest way to make an evening feel awkward, and it is entirely avoidable.
The conversation
This is the part people worry about and it is the part that needs least management. Our companions are used to restaurants and to strangers, and carrying an evening is a skill they have.
Two small things help. Come with a couple of things you actually want to talk about, as you would to any dinner with someone new. And ask questions rather than conducting an interview about the work; the evening is more enjoyable for both of you when it resembles a normal dinner, because that is what it is.
English is spoken by everyone we work with. Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian are available with some companions. If the language matters, say so when you enquire and we will match accordingly.
The bill, and what the booking covers
You pay for the meal. The booking fee is for time and does not include food, wine or the taxi.
Settle the booking fee at the start, privately, before you go out or on arrival at your hotel. Handling money at the table is the one thing that makes a dinner date look like a transaction to everybody in the room, and it is easily avoided by dealing with it beforehand.
Budget the restaurant separately. A good dinner for two in central Athens with wine sits somewhere between eighty and two hundred euros depending on where you have booked.
After the meal
Whatever you arranged when you booked. If the reservation runs to four hours and dinner takes three, the last hour is yours to spend as agreed. If dinner was the whole booking, the evening ends at the restaurant, and that is a perfectly ordinary outcome that nobody will find strange.
What does not work is deciding at eleven that the evening should run to two. Decide at the point of booking, when the schedule can still accommodate it.
Common questions
How many hours should I book for dinner?
Four is the comfortable answer, three the minimum. Athenian restaurants do not turn tables quickly and you should not want them to.
Do I book the restaurant or do you?
You do, in your own name, for two. Send us the name and the time once it is confirmed.
Do I pay for the meal as well as the booking?
Yes. The booking covers time only; the restaurant bill is separate and is yours.
Can we meet at the restaurant instead of my hotel?
Yes, and it is the most discreet way to do it. Give us the name, the address and the reservation time.
Will the evening be obvious to other diners?
No, provided the money is handled before you leave and you behave as two people having dinner. That is all anyone in a restaurant ever sees.
Can I book a dinner date for a business or social event?
Yes. Tell us the type of event, the dress code and the expected finishing time when you enquire, and mention whether introductions are likely.
What if the restaurant runs late?
Message us. A modest overrun is usually manageable; a long one depends on the rest of the evening’s schedule, which is why booking the full length in advance is worth doing.
Is a dinner date more expensive per hour?
No. The hourly rate is unchanged. Dinner dates cost more in total only because they are longer bookings.
The short version
Book four hours
Three is the floor. Two is eating against a clock.
Reserve the table yourself, early in the week
In your name, for two, and ask for a quieter corner.
Handle the money before you go out
It is the only detail that would make the evening obvious to anyone watching.
Name the restaurant when you enquire
It sets the dress code, the timing and the meeting point in one go.
Related pages
- Glyfada outcall escort service — dining and evenings on the Athens Riviera.
- Kifisia discreet companion booking — the restaurant quarter in the northern suburbs.
- Athens hotel outcall booking — if the evening starts or ends at your hotel.
- How it works and how we verify — booking, confirmation and payment.