Notting Hill escorts in W11, for townhouse evenings off Portobello

Portobello Road leaves Pembridge Road as a quiet residential street and turns into a market within about ten minutes' walk north. On Saturdays the antique arcades open early and the crowds build by mid morning; by evening the stalls are packed away and the street belongs to its bars and restaurants. Blenheim Crescent keeps The Notting Hill Bookshop, and Kensington Park Road and Ledbury Road hold some of the most celebrated kitchens in west London, among them Core by Clare Smyth and The Ledbury.

West of Portobello, the Ladbroke estate was laid out in the middle of the nineteenth century with its houses arranged around shared gardens, reached only through the back doors of the homes that face them. The August bank holiday weekend belongs to Carnival; the rest of the year W11 grows noticeably quiet once the restaurants start clearing tables at around 23:00.

Hotel rooms are rare in W11 while flats are everywhere, so the majority of bookings go to private addresses: apartments on the crescents, mews houses, converted townhouses with a column of doorbells by the door. Each is visited just as a hotel room would be.

A handful of hotels are near enough to name. On Stanley Gardens, The Portobello Hotel is known for rooms that are each decorated in their own way. Close to the station, Pembridge Square holds The Laslett, a boutique hotel made from several Victorian houses joined together. Guests who prefer something large head further west to Hilton London Kensington, at the Holland Park end of the avenue, while Hilton London Hyde Park on Queensway is a 10 minute walk east. All are listed as venues companions come to, and not one of them is a partner.

Notting Hill Gate, served by the Central, Circle and District lines, sits 1 minute from the Pembridge streets and the southern end of Portobello Road. Bayswater, on the Circle and District lines, is a walk of about 6 minutes east along Moscow Road. For the market's northern stretch, Ladbroke Grove, on the Circle and Hammersmith and City lines, is around 8 minutes on foot.

No W11 booking carries a travel charge, because the district sits within the Zone 1 and Zone 2 boundary that every fee already covers.

Send the message with the companion, date, start time, length and address, and the answer follows within 10 to 15 minutes. At a private address the desk needs the booking name with the door number, or the flat and its buzzer; at a hotel it needs your full name and the room. Standard evenings are held with 25 percent sent by transfer. Anything overnight, any event and any trip is held with half, and the travel costs inside that half are kept if you cancel.

From Paddington a companion reaches W11 in about 10 minutes by taxi, so a same evening booking usually sees her arrive in under an hour. For the smoothest night, book in the afternoon and name the minute: Notting Hill tables are worth reserving early, and so is the companion you want.

Residents first, people who own or rent the flats on the crescents and prefer an evening at home to a trip into the West End. Then visitors staying a week in a boutique hotel or a short let townhouse, who came for the market and stayed for the restaurants. And guests from the station hotels in W2 who want dinner somewhere with more character than a hotel dining room, ten minutes up the road.

19:00, she meets you at your address or in the lounge of your hotel. 19:30, a walk down Pembridge Road into the top of Portobello as the shops pull down their shutters. 20:00, a table on Kensington Park Road, reserved well ahead. 22:15, a slow stroll through the crescents, the streets almost silent. 22:45, a last glass at home or at the hotel. 23:00, the dinner date closes after exactly four hours, £900.

Nobody on the lineup calls W11 home, but several keep it firmly on their map. Danielle, based in South Kensington, is devoted to the old single screen cinema at Notting Hill Gate and prefers starts after 8pm. Rosa, from Marylebone, likes to go record hunting just off Portobello before dinner. Patricia gets to Notting Hill from Belgravia in about 20 minutes and prefers a quiet evening arranged a day or two ahead.

The companions who live in Paddington, Laura, Nora and Vanessa, are about 10 minutes away and can often take a later request at short notice.

Holland Park lies west along the avenue, with its villas and a park of its own. Bayswater and Queensway are east, a short walk or one stop on the Central line. For the hotels ringing the big park, see Hyde Park.