Contact Us for Nightlife and Event Inquiries

How to Reach Us

We read everything. That's the short version.

The longer version: Dolce London runs on a small editorial team that knows the difference between a genuine question and a templated pitch, so the more specific you are, the faster you'll hear back. Tell us what you actually want — a recommendation, a correction, a collaboration, and we'll route it to the right person rather than letting it sit in a shared inbox. Most messages get a response within a couple of working days. During festival season and big event weekends, it can stretch a little longer, and we'd rather be honest about that than promise something we can't keep.

The fastest route for any inquiry is email: [email protected]. That address reaches Alistair Thorne, our Director, who triages incoming messages personally.

General Business Inquiries

Booked a table somewhere we recommended and it didn't match the write-up? Spotted a venue that closed before we updated the page? This is where you tell us.

General inquiries cover the everyday stuff — feedback on a guide, a tip about a new opening in the cocktails and bars scene, a question about something you read in our brunch coverage. We treat reader corrections seriously because our credibility depends on them. If a listing is wrong, we want to know before the next person plans their evening around it.

Use the same address for these: [email protected]. A subject line that names the page or venue saves everyone time.

Press and Media Requests

Journalists, broadcasters, and producers working on London nightlife or dining stories are welcome to get in touch.

We can offer commentary on trends across our coverage areas, from the sushi dining rooms to the city's shisha lounges and the live music events calendar. If you're on a deadline, say so in the first line — we'll prioritise accordingly. For attributed quotes, we ask that you confirm context before publication, which protects both your piece and our reputation.

Partnership Opportunities

Venues, promoters, and brands occasionally ask how they can work with us. The honest answer is that we're selective, and we're upfront about why.

Our value to readers comes from being trusted, so any partnership has to survive the test of whether it still serves the person planning their Saturday night. We've turned down arrangements that would have paid well and read badly. What does tend to work: genuine collaborations on South Kensington nightlife features, well-run events worth telling people about, and venues confident enough to be reviewed on their merits.

If that sounds like you, pitch us properly. A short message with a logo attached rarely gets far. Tell us what you're proposing, who it reaches, and why our audience would care — then send it to [email protected].

We disclose commercial relationships in line with our editorial standards, and partnership coverage is always labelled.

Our Editorial Team

You won't be writing to a faceless brand. Dolce London is a compact team with deep roots in the city's hospitality scene, and the same people who write the guides answer the mail.

Alistair Thorne leads the editorial side and handles most direct correspondence. He's spent years walking the rooms we cover rather than reading about them, which is the only way we know how to do this job — though no team, however local, gets every closing time and last-orders change right the moment it happens, so a quick correction from you genuinely helps. If you want the full picture of who we are and how we work, the About Dolce London page goes deeper.

One inbox, real names, honest replies. That's the whole promise.