London date ideas
From candlelit wine vaults to skyline views and quiet gallery corners, London is made for a good date. Here are ideas for two — then spin a full date plan, complete with where to eat and what to do nearby.
Tower of London
Tower BridgeCrown Jewels, Beefeaters, ravens and 1,000 years of bloody history by the river.
Westminster Abbey
WestminsterThe coronation church — Poets' Corner, royal tombs and 1,000 years of ceremony.
Churchill War Rooms
WestminsterThe preserved underground bunker where Churchill ran WWII, plus the Churchill Museum.
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
SohoLondon's most famous jazz club since 1959 — intimate tables, world-class players.
The Courtauld Gallery
Covent GardenA jewel-box collection of Impressionists — Manet's barmaid, Van Gogh's bandaged ear.
London Eye
South BankA 30-minute rotation in a glass pod, 135m over the Thames — the classic first-timer's view.
The British Museum
FreeHolbornThe Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon marbles and the Great Court — free and colossal.
Natural History Museum
FreeSouth KensingtonThe blue whale skeleton, dinosaurs and a cathedral-like Hintze Hall — free.
The National Gallery
FreeWestminsterVan Gogh's Sunflowers, Turner and 700 years of painting, free, on Trafalgar Square.
Victoria & Albert Museum
FreeSouth KensingtonThe world's leading museum of art and design, with a gorgeous courtyard café.
Tate Modern
FreeSouth BankModern art in a former power station, with the cavernous Turbine Hall installations.
Sir John Soane's Museum
FreeHolbornAn architect's house left exactly as in 1837 — sarcophagi, mirrors and Hogarths, free.
Spin your date
Turn these ideas into a timed, walkable plan — food, drinks and the best bits nearby. Pull the lever below.