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did he take you to a expensive restaurant for dinner?
 
No, we went to a sports bar and had wings and beers. I chose the place because it was close to the movie theater we had plans to see a film at. We had so much fun talking and playing pool we never made it to the movie.
 
No. We were at a party.
 
No. We went to an awesome but cheap restaurant in Mexican town and I paid.
 
No, we went to a local diner and had breakfast. He was kind of nervous and didn''t eat a bite, I on the other hand was ravenous and not only ate my french toast but was eyeing his food as well.

He always likes to make jokes about what a good apetite I have...
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It was medium priced. Not a chain restaurant but not a crazy expensive place either. I picked the restaurant because he drove up to my area.
 
No, but he would have if that''s what I wanted. For the first three months we were dating, I wanted to keep it casual (I was still dating other people) so we only ever really met for drinks and dancing. Finally, after 3 months of dating, he asked me out for my birthday and bought me a beautiful watch, and asked if we could date exclusively. He said, "You''ve never even let me take you out to dinner!" So, on our next date we went to my favorite sushi restaurant. It wasn''t that fancy, but it was my pick (I love sushi, and can''t stand anything heavy in August).

That was 6 years ago, though, and since then, we have been to almost all of the best restaurants in the Washington, DC area - Citronelle, Restaurant Eve, 2941, L''Auberge Chez Francois, etc. We both love great food, so he likes to surprise me with super-fancy places for our "special occassions."

He just had to spill the beans that he''ll be taking me to The Inn at Little Washington for Valentine''s Day, because he wanted to give me a choice between there & somewhere else, and he also needed me to choose the time/date since we don''t want to go on a Sunday. I am so excited!!!
 
Why yes, of course. Becky from the country club told me of a 5 star restaurant in our area and I insisted he take me there for dinner. I ordered the filet mignon stuffed with lobster. I almost didn't go on a second date because he drove there instead of hiring a driver but he promised me a shopping spree so I naturally continued dating him.
 
he took me to macdonalds. he was 18 yrs old, i was 22, and i completely fell in love with him. but i thought he was very poor, and probably came from a very poor family. he was just so unassuming, and i was young and stupid. i just knew i was immediately and completely in love with him.

a few months later, when he took me to meet his family, we travelled to his parents'' home on overnight bus. he had told me his dad was a meat operator and i assumed his mom was a housewife (DH is one of 5). i assumed his dad worked in the abattoir, which was the biggest industry in the town where his family lived. for some absolutely unknown reason (probably his nutty sense of humor and the fact that Tim was handsome, but a bit of a jock) i has reached the conclusion that tim was nice - but not aaaall that bright. nice - but average academically.

so we go to meet his family, and my best girlfriend dropped us off at the bus stop. she goes to get our bags out of the car and breaks off the key in the lock. no other means of opening it.

we arrive at the family home in clothes we''ve been wearing for 24 hours, at which point i find his father is one of australia''s premier beef exporters, his mother is a partner in the biggest law firm on the north coast, tim is training to be an actuary and has a brain the size of a planet, and i am an idiot who looks like a mess and who smells like the very dickens.

i will NEVER FORGET the lesson i learnt that day. don''t judge a book by its cover. like - ever.

he took me to macdonalds because he liked hamburgers. still does, in fact. :)
 
For our first date, we ordered in pizza and watched 'Pulp Fiction'! I suppose for our first real 'restaurant' date, he took me to this ghetto restaurant frequented by university students on dates - it's a buy-one-steak-dinner-get-one-free kinda place. Ha.

Have to add, even though he was still in university, he had his own business at that time and earning over 80K/year. But I hated doing things for show (I had a no material gift policy for Christmas/Birthday etc), so I'm infinitely glad he didn't take me to a fancy restaurant or we'd never have made it to a second date. That ghetto restaurant is also where he proposed to me 4 years later
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Yes, but then we were older than many of the brides here. (I was 30.) Of course, he was working for a non-profit at the time and I didn''t know him well enough to know how much he could afford, so though I was touched that he was trying to impress me I ended up ordering the cheapest thing on the menu, no drinks, no appetizers, and no dessert because I didn''t want him to spend too much money!
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He planned to but begged to be allowed to drive my vintage Land Rover to the restaurant. I said he could and he broke it. My pride and joy. We did not eat dinner together that evening.
 
Nope, we ended up at Applebees after happy hour at Chiles. It was a blind date so we had'nt planned anything
past happy hour. Seems we liked each other so we went for a quick bite at Applebees. He had friends flying in
from out of town that he needed to meet and so after dinner he basically booted me out of the car with a little
peck on the cheek. I thought that was weird but he had'nt told me he had friends to meet. I learned that later
after thanking him for slowing the car down enough so when he booted me out I didnt hurt my bum
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He's made up for it since then!
 
Whitby, can I just say I love the way you tell a story. Such a great way with words! I confess I judged my husband when I first met him too, glad it didn''t cost me a wonderful man.
 
It was kind of expensive. Not a place we''d go to every weekend, but the entrees were $20-ish?
 
He took me to a very famous and elegant coffee house where it''s almost impossible to find a seat. I was properly impressed.
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Ok, I just realised that the title is ''dinner date'' and not ''date''. I think we went to a chinese restaurant and it wasn''t expensive.
 
Date: 1/18/2010 2:42:56 PM
Author: vespergirl
No, but he would have if that''s what I wanted. For the first three months we were dating, I wanted to keep it casual (I was still dating other people) so we only ever really met for drinks and dancing. Finally, after 3 months of dating, he asked me out for my birthday and bought me a beautiful watch, and asked if we could date exclusively. He said, ''You''ve never even let me take you out to dinner!'' So, on our next date we went to my favorite sushi restaurant. It wasn''t that fancy, but it was my pick (I love sushi, and can''t stand anything heavy in August).


That was 6 years ago, though, and since then, we have been to almost all of the best restaurants in the Washington, DC area - Citronelle, Restaurant Eve, 2941, L''Auberge Chez Francois, etc. We both love great food, so he likes to surprise me with super-fancy places for our ''special occassions.''


He just had to spill the beans that he''ll be taking me to The Inn at Little Washington for Valentine''s Day, because he wanted to give me a choice between there & somewhere else, and he also needed me to choose the time/date since we don''t want to go on a Sunday. I am so excited!!!
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Oooooo...vesper, I''m jealous!!! That will be delicious!!! Corduroy is still one of my faves in DC.

No, we didn''t go out for a fancy dinner. I asked him out, and had suggested we walk to Chipotle for a bite to eat after a long day of work. He had recently been there, so we went to the Chinese Restaurant in the strip mall instead. He paid.
 
Date: 1/18/2010 2:44:38 PM
Author: fiery
Why yes, of course. Becky from the country club told me of a 5 star restaurant in our area and I assisted he take me there for dinner. I ordered the filet mignon stuffed with lobster. I almost didn''t go on a second date because he drove there instead of hiring a driver but he promised me a shopping spree so I naturally continued dating him.
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Bahahaha!!!
 
our first dinner, I took him to Bucca di Beppo's for a work function. I don't remember the first place he took me to eat, but it was college, so I would have been impressed by pretty much anything, lol... I remember him taking me to PF Changs and Jerry's famous Deli. A lot of late night Popeye's and Krispie Kreme runs, and Carl's Jr. I think our most expensive dinner early on was to Miyagi's in LA. The waitress thought we were so cute and young looking that she gave us free fried ice cream!
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Not expensive, but not cheap. Entrees averaged $13 to $22. I picked it, though.
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If it were up to him, we probably wouldn''t have even done dinner.
 
Date: 1/18/2010 2:44:38 PM
Author: fiery
Why yes, of course. Becky from the country club told me of a 5 star restaurant in our area and I insisted he take me there for dinner. I ordered the filet mignon stuffed with lobster. I almost didn''t go on a second date because he drove there instead of hiring a driver but he promised me a shopping spree so I naturally continued dating him.
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nice.
 
Nope. Our was at Red Robin before a movie. I was only 15 at the time, so I thought nothing of it.
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SO took me to Slippery Noodle to catch a live performance and we ended up eating there (my choice). If he''d done something so typical as to take me to just a restaurant, whether it was expensive or not, I think I would have found him boring. I much prefer creativity/fun over expense.
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gosh...is it pathetic that i honestly cannot remember our first "dinner date" where he actually took me out? i mean, i remember picking up food a bunch of times on our way from my apartment to his house (usually chipotle or wendys) but cannot for the life of me remember the first time he actually took me out to dinner. the first time he cooked dinner for me (might have been before we went out to eat together) we had pork loin, baked potatoes, and buttered frozen corn.

i''ll never forget our first real date- we went and saw the movie Hannibal. i was in college, he was a "real person" with a normal job, working at 7:00am, and we couldn''t go out afterwards since it was a thursday night. i was sad since i didn''t have friday classes so i wanted to keep hanging out. i knew he really liked me since i lived a good 20 minutes from him, had no car, and so he would drive down to campus 2-3 times a week to hang out or pick me up and bring me over his house, then drop me off in the morning and drive to work (which was in the opposite direction).
 
Yes, we went to a tiny Italian restaurant in Newport RI and had a lovely dinner. And then I got food poisoning!
 
Nope. We worked together and he bought me a sandwich at the deli.
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Hah! No way! We were poor college students, after all. I remember that we went to a decent place, not a typical college hangout, but it certainly wasn''t expensive.

I knew a guy who spent tons of money taking girls to one of the nicest restaurants in town. All of the girls just wanted to be friends, not date, and he wasted so much money.
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I kept telling him that a girl who really liked him wouldn''t care if he took her to a less expensive place.
 
I think it was either pizza or Chinese. I can''t remember. Either way, it wouldn''t have been expensive.
 
Date: 1/18/2010 2:42:56 PM
Author: vespergirl
No, but he would have if that''s what I wanted. For the first three months we were dating, I wanted to keep it casual (I was still dating other people) so we only ever really met for drinks and dancing. Finally, after 3 months of dating, he asked me out for my birthday and bought me a beautiful watch, and asked if we could date exclusively. He said, ''You''ve never even let me take you out to dinner!'' So, on our next date we went to my favorite sushi restaurant. It wasn''t that fancy, but it was my pick (I love sushi, and can''t stand anything heavy in August).

That was 6 years ago, though, and since then, we have been to almost all of the best restaurants in the Washington, DC area - Citronelle, Restaurant Eve, 2941, L''Auberge Chez Francois, etc. We both love great food, so he likes to surprise me with super-fancy places for our ''special occassions.''

He just had to spill the beans that he''ll be taking me to The Inn at Little Washington for Valentine''s Day, because he wanted to give me a choice between there & somewhere else, and he also needed me to choose the time/date since we don''t want to go on a Sunday. I am so excited!!!
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You will love The Inn at Little Washington. When you are there, you should read though the guest book on the coffee table. It is quite a who''s who and fascinating to see that people come from all over the world for the experience.
 
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