Dating Tips: Dating in London

London is a vast, exciting city with absolutely masses to do. In fact, there is so much going on that deciding on a London dating venue can be a little overwhelming. Don’t wimp out and take your dating partner to the local pub for your first night of dating in London. Pick of these outstanding London dating destinations instead!

Best for live music: Proud Galleries Camden

Proud Galleries is set in Stables Market, Camden. Live music is held around the rooms of the 200-year-old Grad II Listed Horse Hospital. The venue has developed a cult celeb following with regulars including Amy Winehouse, The Arctic Monkeys and Sadie Frost. A perfect London Dating location for trendy dates!

Best for food: Chinatown

Chinatown, in the heart of London, has around 80 restaurants with cuisines including Chinese, Cantonese, Szechuan, Mongolian and Malaysian. The area is famous for its huge variety of authentic food, making it a superb spot for dinner dating in London.

Best for wandering: Portobello Market

Even those who aren’t big shopping fans will enjoy wandering the two-mile Portobello Road Market in West London. This is one of the best (if not THE best) street markets in the world, and also benefits from the trendy surroundings of Notting Hill. Activities for Dating in London’s Portobello market can include browsing the antiques, clothes and bric a brac or just sitting in a cafe and people-watching.

Best active dating venue: Natural History Museum Ice Rink

In the winter there are a number of outside ice rinks in London, the one in front of the Natural History Museum is a particularly magical-looking spot. If it’s not winter time, roller-skating is a good alternative – Hyde Park is a good place to show off your skills.

Best for drinking: Cheshire Cheese

If you must settle for pub drinks, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street is a charmingly gloomy place to take your dating partner for a genuinely atmospheric pub experience. On the site of an old monastery, the cellar dates back to the 13th century, the rest of the pub was built in 1538 and was rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire in 1666. Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens were all regulars.

Best for history: Tower of London

The site where Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn executed, Guy Fawkes was interrogated and the ‘princes in the tower’ disappeared is also home place to the Crown Jewels (insert lewd dating joke here). Founded by William the Conqueror, the destination holds almost 1,000 years of British history within its walls

Best for theatrical dating: Globe

The Globe theatre was originally built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. The modern reconstruction, ‘Shakespeare’s Globe’, opened in 1997 and now puts on Shakespeare’s plays to packed audiences

Most Bling London Dating Venue: Buckingham Palace

The official London residence of Her Majesty the Queen offers tours of the Queen’s Gallery, Royal Mews and the State Rooms. This year’s Summer Opening of the State Rooms will have a musical theme, with historic fancy-dress costumes, musical instruments and manuscripts, photographs and souvenirs.

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