Today I'd like to discuss dining out in the dating process.   Men, regardless of if you are contemporary or a traditionalist you need to know the basics.  As to whether they apply to your date is a relative decision you should be savvy enough to know.

In the subject area of dining out (formal and fine dining), we are assuming this is at least a fine dining experience.  This dinner logic means a location and etiquette you intend to impress your lady with.  If you are wearing jeans or you both wandered in without planning, this article will bear little relevance.

First you should understand that in today's world women get to have their cake and eat it too.  It's not your part to question this; it's your role to accept it whether you agree or not.   Don't be stubborn or open this up to discussion with a lady.   In short I'm offering that women have fought for equality to men, yet still expect chivalry.  And frankly, you should always be willing to be chivalrous.   Assuming she is an emotionally healthy woman she may demand you vote for a woman candidate because it’s time for woman in the Whitehouse, while justifiably expecting you pull out her chair so she may sit. Life is full of seemingly contradictory states of being but not everything is scientific and manners are a dying art.

Again I'm speaking of a dinner date, not a business lunch which is diametrical in rules.   The rules are drastically different here. You'd insult a woman at a business lunch with much of these rules.  I know… it’s just another one of life’s coded distal causes to man’s stress.

PLAN YOUR DINNER ENGAGEMENT

Plan ahead.  With both your date and the restaurant.  In terms of your date, does she loath seafood or love ...   more »