Anonymous
Post 07/29/2024 14:07     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Yes, all the time (at least, yes, when I lived places with good restaurants).

One of life's simple/great joys is sitting at a bar of a nice restaurant and slowly enjoying the meal and a few glasses of wine.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2024 14:01     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I prefer to sit at the bar when I’m alone.


Are you male?

I feel awkward doing this (sitting at the bar) by myself.


Nope. I feel awkward at a table by myself. Not at all at the bar.


Same. 30 something woman the bar is great.


Any age woman at the bar (over 21 of course) is great.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2024 14:01     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I prefer to sit at the bar when I’m alone.


Are you male?

I feel awkward doing this (sitting at the bar) by myself.


This is a you issue. I’m female and have no problem eating or getting a drink at the bar alone.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2024 13:59     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:I used to see Lauren Hutton frequently eating brunch alone in Noho while reading a copy of the Sunday New York Times. She looked relaxed and chic and far from weird or awkward.


A lonely elderly widow is the best example you got that dining alone isn't pretty sad?
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2024 13:59     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:I used to see Lauren Hutton frequently eating brunch alone in Noho while reading a copy of the Sunday New York Times. She looked relaxed and chic and far from weird or awkward.


A lonely elderly widow is the best example you got that dining aline isn't pretty sad?
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 19:28     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I prefer to sit at the bar when I’m alone.


Are you male?

I feel awkward doing this (sitting at the bar) by myself.


Nope. I feel awkward at a table by myself. Not at all at the bar.


Same. 30 something woman the bar is great.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:51     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I prefer to sit at the bar when I’m alone.


Are you male?

I feel awkward doing this (sitting at the bar) by myself.


Nope. I feel awkward at a table by myself. Not at all at the bar.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:12     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
I used to see Lauren Hutton frequently eating brunch alone in Noho while reading a copy of the Sunday New York Times. She looked relaxed and chic and far from weird or awkward.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:05     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Those calling it "enjoyable" must be misanthropic loners. It's awkward and sad, if we're being totally honest. Eating out is a social event. Table for one or eating at the bar by yourself and scrolling on your phone or pretending to care about the sports match on the TV (if they have a TV) is embarrassing. Just get it to-go and save yourself the embarrassment.


Who pissed in your soup?


Truth hurts, loner.


Your views are clearly aberrant.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:04     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:Those calling it "enjoyable" must be misanthropic loners. It's awkward and sad, if we're being totally honest. Eating out is a social event. Table for one or eating at the bar by yourself and scrolling on your phone or pretending to care about the sports match on the TV (if they have a TV) is embarrassing. Just get it to-go and save yourself the embarrassment.


Embarrassing?? That is in your judgemental head.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:03     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:Those calling it "enjoyable" must be misanthropic loners. It's awkward and sad, if we're being totally honest. Eating out is a social event. Table for one or eating at the bar by yourself and scrolling on your phone or pretending to care about the sports match on the TV (if they have a TV) is embarrassing. Just get it to-go and save yourself the embarrassment.


I find it very enjoyable, also going to movies alone, and if that bothers you or makes you think I ought to be embarassed I feel sorry for you for being so close minded and judgmental. Try to think outside the box occasionally. Make your own rules. In the meantime rest assured I am not feeling awkward or sad and I am being totally honest. Worry about yourself.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:01     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:Many times. You are not ground breaking.


😂
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:01     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m having sushi at a restaurant by myself this evening.


All the time. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

As long as I have the money to pay for my meal what's to stop me? I do remember once going to a Turkish restaurant and the maitre'd tried to seat me in the back by the bathrooms. I refused and told him I liked another table by the window. There was no "reserved'" sign in the table and I sat down. He was practically apoplectic.




Who said anything about a man


You did not understand the post.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 18:00     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I prefer to sit at the bar when I’m alone.


Are you male?

I feel awkward doing this (sitting at the bar) by myself.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2024 17:58     Subject: Ever have dinner at a restaurant by yourself?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, many times.


+1

More often when I am traveling, but I just did it locally Friday night.