Limehouse, no. 06 of 28
Karolina, companion in Limehouse
Tall, unhurried, and firmly of the opinion that the river side of the table is better.
- Age
- 27
- Works from
- Limehouse
- Height
- 174 cm
- Hair
- long, straight black
- Eyes
- brown
- Figure
- slim
- Languages
- English
- An hour opens at
- £250
Guests are 18+. She sets the limits of her own booking, and a fee covers her time and her company, nothing besides. The whole ladder is on the rates page.
About Karolina
At 174 cm Karolina is usually the tallest person at the table and stopped apologising for it years ago. Slim, long limbed, with black hair worn straight to the middle of her back and brown eyes that are slower to give things away than her mouth is. Her style is minimal to the point of severity: a column dress, flat boots as often as heels, a coat that has clearly cost something and shows it only in the way it hangs. She looks composed in photographs and considerably warmer in person, which is the right way round.
She is 27, speaks English, and listens for real rather than politely. There is a difference and you feel it in the second half of an evening. She is opinionated about buildings, food and ferries, in that order, and will argue any of the three cheerfully. Swimming is her sport, rowing is her envy, and she has a long running plan to learn to sail that she has been not starting for four years. She is honest when a plan is bad, which saves time.
Limehouse is her stretch of the river. The Narrow on Narrow Street, a former dockmaster's house with the tide moving underneath the windows, and a table booked for whenever the water is high, because she has actually checked. Supper there runs slow by design. Afterwards there is the towpath towards the basin, five or six minutes, the masts clinking, the DLR overhead every few minutes on its way into Canary Wharf. Covent Garden is home, but she is east often enough to have opinions about which bridge to take.
The Limehouse page covers the streets around Narrow Street. An hour begins at £250 and everything longer is on rates. A line to booking settles the table and the time together.
- Height 174 cm, slim build
- Long black hair, worn straight; eyes brown
- Age 27, English speaking
- Home district Covent Garden, evenings across E14
- Out of hours: swimming, river walks, architecture she disapproves of
Booking her evening
Dinner down there needs room, so three hours at £700 is the shortest that does not feel clipped, and £900 across four hours lets the tide turn. Maude will check the high water time for that evening if you ask her to.
Her figures are the desk figures, printed in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation.
- 1 hour£250
- 90 minutes£400
- 2 hours£500
- 3 hours£700
- Dinner date£900
- Overnight£1,800
- WeekendPOA
Also on the desk
An evening with Karolina
She likes this one enough to arrive early and take the window herself. The old house sits right on the water and when the tide is up the river is a metre below the glass, moving fast and brown and far more alive than anything in the towers a mile east. Dinner is unhurried and she encourages that, ordering in stages rather than all at once. She is good on the history without lecturing: the dockmaster, the Chinese quarter that stood a street away, the fact that half the people in the room have no idea any of it happened here. Later there is the walk to Limehouse Basin, masts, water, a train going over, and a decision to make about the rest of the night. She makes decisions quickly and tells you what she has decided.
Karolina, in her own words
Does the tide really matter?
Completely. At low water you are looking at mud with a boat sulking in it. At high water the room feels as though it is moving.
Limehouse or the Wharf?
Limehouse for dinner, the Wharf for after. One has a river and the other has a view of one.
Will you go out in bad weather?
Happily, if you mean it. I would rather walk in rain than sit somewhere warm pretending the evening has started.
Where she sits
What guests have written
Nothing is written here for Karolina yet, which is usually what discretion looks like in E14. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.