Nancy, sushi and sunset on Bishopsgate

Golden hair, blue eyes, a laugh you can hear across a terrace: Nancy makes an entrance without trying. She is 170 cm and curvy, with long golden blonde hair that catches every scrap of light. Her style is golden-hour glamour, a silk dress in a warm colour, bare shoulders in summer, a light wrap when the evening cools. She walks fast and smiles faster. Nobody forgets meeting her, and she rarely forgets a name.

Sunny and energetic by nature, she is also genuinely easygoing, the sort of companion who turns a delayed table into a good story. Her English is bright and unfiltered. She swims most mornings, loves a long drive with nowhere to be by dinner, and is devoted to sushi, which she eats with great seriousness and considerable skill with chopsticks. She will tell you, without being asked, which fish is in season.

Her Liverpool Street evening is dinner at SUSHISAMBA, high in the Heron Tower on Bishopsgate, reached by a glass lift that climbs the outside of the building. She asks for a table near the terrace so she can watch the sun go down behind the towers. She has been known to applaud a good sunset, quietly, from her chair. She orders the sushi and lets you choose everything else. When dinner is done, Liverpool Street and the hotels around it are a few minutes' walk below.

Nancy is based in Covent Garden. Midweek evenings are often open; for weekends, ask by Wednesday. A Liverpool Street dinner is one message to booking away, and rates shows the dinner date figure.