Don’t have to say a name, something like “local thai place” is fine.
Bonus: What makes it a perfect date dinner spot?
Go to where you actually like to eat, because you’re testing out this person for long term compatibility.
Pizza. If you don’t like getting pizza, then you don’t like me.
Korean BBQ.
Share food and cook for each other. Creates instant intimacy, great food too
Hot pot works too.
I got with the combo =)
Oh yeah and it has conveyor belt stuff going as well.
Asian food is great for groups! So much is made for sharing. Can go Japanese too - shabu shabu, izakayas.
Special mention for Spanish tapas:)
Also breweries if they like beer.
My place. First, the food is fabulous. Second, the food is cheap.
Edit: This pizza cost about $3 to make and it’s a really great, authentic sourdough Neapolitan.
Recipe?
Apologies, I only just now saw this. The recipe I used for this pizza is below.
Tomato Sauce (makes enough for four pizzas)
One 28-oz can of San Marzano whole peeled tomatoes
3 tbs tomato paste
1 tbs olive oil
1 1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp dried basilCheese
2 oz fresh mozzarella, thinly sliced (can use more if you like)Toppings
Fresh basilDough
258g 00 flour
50g sourdough starter (at peak)
162g water
5g sea salt
3/4 tsp olive oilInstructions
Blend juice from tomatoes with other sauce ingredients well in blender. Add tomatoes and pulse to crush, leaving chunks. Refrigerate until ready to use, stir before applyingMix all dough ingredients (except salt) in stand mixer bowl with dough hook
Knead at medium speed in stand mixer for 15 minutes, adding salt in about halfway through
Let sit for 15 minutes, covered
Do a final knead, 4 minutes
Round dough and place in container and cover, allow bench ferment until at least doubled (use spray oil on container to keep from sticking)
Punch down, re-round and put in refrigerator for cold ferment 24-72 hours
Preheat outdoor oven to at least 900F (~15 minutes on high) Stretch and top your pizza with the sauce and cheese (the pictured pizza was stretched to about 14" and feeds two comfortably)
Turn oven to low, place pizza in oven, close and allow ~15-20 seconds for bottom to firm up, then turn flame back to high
Turn pizza 1/4 turn, 15-20 seconds each turn until 360 is complete
Pizza should bake in around 90 seconds, being careful to turn as necessary to avoid burning near the flame
Add basil after the bake is complete
I also choose this guy’s place.
If the answer is anything other than Long John Silvers then you don’t have enough game to get beyond the first date.
Nothing says game like frozen fish sticks.
I prefer the chicken also if you can find an a&w combo one to get root beer it’s over.
That’s like ordering tacos at a pub. Hamburger at a Mexican joint. Chicken at a seafood restaurant? That’s been in the Frigidaire single the day they bought it.
Waffle House for the opportunity to demonstrate my martial prowess
Naw down in Tennessee you mostly gotta show your musical talents by singing classics while drunk. With the rare but fucking awesome backflip spin kick that you gotta serve to some rando.
That vietnamese restaurant i frequent. If she never had vietnamese cuisine before, she need ti know about vietnamese cuisine, it’s important.
Somewhere with vegan food.
sup bby?
Hello.
Vegan dating is hard hey.
I’m more so vegetarian. I still eat dairy and eggs. I can’t find anyone who would want to date anyway.
Figure out what you like and who you are and do it meticulously. I’m also extremely picky but also wildly pansexual and used to be extremely confused by that. Another thing that might help is to lean into any known kinks or find out more about yourself, to further compatibility. After that, you just gotta go on dates and start figuring out what you actually hate in other people.
For you, diet sounds like a big one. It is for me, too, but not in a vegetarian way. I’m like the opposite, where everybody I end up meeting has super restrictive diets, and I really like most kinds of food.
I dunno. Dating and finding good partners feels easier than finding friends, because at least there’s an industry around finding potential partners and it also feels weirdly more socially acceptable to put out your sexual/partner compatibility needs than your friend/social ones; having specific friends standards seems really taboo.
The problem is I feel like a burden. I also have low self-esteem and not a lot of life experience.
Everybody has fucked up self esteem right now: conservatives are in power.
As far as experience, there’s only one way to get that.
And for being a burden, just don’t be a burden. Your presence is not a burden. Wanting to find love or companionship is not a burden. You’re obviously surviving without them, now. That’s gotta show for something.
Just go on like two or three bad dates. Do your best, treat people like friends like how you’d want to be treated, take a shower and wear clean clothes. You’re gonna get rejected, you’re gonna run into people who you hurt or are hurt by you, you’re gonna get hurt. And that sucks, but it’s okay.
Be honest, if you want to find someone, you have to start doing that. Life is shockingly similar to RPGs and leveling up skills.
You have something to offer, so will somebody else. Relationships are about sharing. Find somebody worth sharing with who wants to share with you, too. Or somebodies… Life doesn’t have to be all about fulfilling or being fulfilled by a single partner, cheating is about breaking promises or assumed intent, love is not finite, only time. Look up “ethical non monogamy” (ENM) if that sounds viable to you. Requires a lot of emotional maturity, though, like high levels of emotional wisdom and self honesty.
I suggest just giving a few dates a real shot and seeing how annoying most other people actually are before you start putting everybody else on a pedestal. Even people who have their lives together can be the most unbearable people in the world.
Can’t go wrong with Italian, IMO.
Is this like a cautious first date or is there a good chance I’m bringing them home tonight?
If the former, let’s get some spicy Asian noodles with a huge beer.
If the latter, appies at a safe restaurant. Easy on the oil, garlic, spice, onion, and alcohol.
Dives with shitty food and cheap drinks. During a slow hour when we’ll get special treatment and can use the building’s jukebox to play cringe music
I do like sandwiches
While not strictly a dinner, I’m usually opting (or at least suggest, if the other side would be interested) for a local billiard place. It’s not just a pub with a random one table, but an actual cue sports place/bar, with like 20 tables. It does have drinks and is also a restaurant, and in general looks relatively fancy.
I like billiard (pool) because it’s easy to pick up, gives you something to do during/between conversations without requiring too much focus, can be done in fancy clothes without needing to change into anything, and can look fancy with drinks. It’s also something that everyone plays basically on the same skill level, whether you are playing for a first time or for 50th time, with only people who are actually practicing regularly being noticeably better (which I’m not), so it’s never really too one-sided. And it’s fun.
So far it has worked well.
Went on a date last night. We saw some live music and walked around. Took her to a really good ramen place that I had left an emphatic, detailed 5 star review for previously.
The review was so good, the staff treated us like royalty and even the owner stopped by our table.
Bam, got hugs and kisses.
From the date or restaurant staff?
Yes.
I know “it depends” is a wishy washy answer, but really it depends. I fucking love outrageously spicy food - scared my now husband when he took me to a Thai place by ordering papaya salad authentically spicy, it’s been a dozen years and he still brings it up, like he tried it & it gave him PTSD. It was so good though, and I was so happy they did not pull any punches.
If it’s a first date, I wouldn’t like to drink, so maybe pizza? I think what makes a place good for a date is when all the food is for the table, not each of you separately. If the guy was loaded and wanting to go someplace pricy, there are very fancy restaurants here that serve that way, but pizza I like, most people like, and it is not usually a drinking food IMO, it’s better with water or soda. And you share it.
If a foodie guy, I’d ask for Ethiopian food. Those meals are also served on one big injera for the table and wow so delicious and also not a drinking sort of meal.
Local family-owned restaurant that I frequent and find delicious. Chances are they wouldn’t have tried it before, and if they like to try new things, chances are they’d like it.
