The pub that changed me: ‘While drinking and singing there I met my partner’

Rachel Dixon (second left), with members of London City Voices, in Auberge, February 2024. Composite: Guardian Design; Neil Clive Fowler

Auberge, central London

When I walked into Auberge, a pub near Waterloo station in London, on Thursday 21 October 2021, I didn’t know a soul. By kicking-out time, I had 50 new friends. I’ve been back almost every Thursday since.