Foods to Avoid on Your First Dinner Date

Although the point of a dinner date is to eat and enjoy yourself while getting to know someone new, there are a few foods you may want to consider avoiding:

• Leafy greens: yes, they’re great for you, but chomping into a spinach salad may lead to green flecks in your teeth – yikes!
• Anything spicy or unexpected: you may want to come off as daring, but if you’re trying something you've never had before, you may be setting yourself up for disaster. 
• Finger foods: can we say messy much?
• Excessive garlic and/or onion: this one should be very self-explanatory.
• Food you need to “work” at: lobster and crab may be some of the best food in the ocean, but if you have to spend the majority of your date focusing on your crustacean, then you could be missing out on conversation.

-Estelle
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Make Time for Dessert on Your Dinner Date

Once the dinner is over, don’t rush your date out the door. Dessert is the sweetest part after all! Be courteous enough to realize that perhaps your date may want to end the meal with dessert and/or coffee, so make sure you put that option out there. Proper meals don’t end at the entrée and another course is more time to get to know the person sitting across from you.

-Estelle
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The Dinner Date is Essential in the Courting Process

Commit to “breaking bread.” Traditionally, the breaking of bread is steeped in a history of celebration and the beginning of relationships. To decide on just drinks or coffee is limiting yourself from perhaps finding someone that just might be a great fit for you.

While both men and women occasionally express a fear of committing to an entire dinner because they don’t want to be “stuck” with someone that’s not working out, it’s important to keep your mind open. Don’t ever think of yourself as stuck. There’s nothing wrong in taking time out of your life to meet someone new; even if you feel “it’s just not there,” in the initial few minutes, those feelings may change by the end of the evening. In passing up dinner and opting for a casual drink, you diminish your chances of getting to really know someone.

Some love coaches blame the fact that people are putting the dinner date off as a reason why there are so many singles out there. They also cite that just a drink lowers the level of enthusiasm and romance. Marriage starts with courtship and the dinner date is essential in that courting process, so do both you and your date a favor and insist on dinner.

-Estelle
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Estelle is the president/owner of Estelle Matchmaking, LLC a boutique matchmaking service for selective singles in the NYC area (including Westchester and Fairfield Counties) and South Florida.