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THE How-to Booklet of Solo Dining Tips & Strategies:
The Art and Satisfaction of Dining Alone — REVEALED!
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I now believe in Restaurant Fairies after having come upon your site so serendipitously. To my absolute delight, I found that every word was of interest to me.
It's been a long, lonely path that I've travelled eating in restaurants for 25 years. Prior to that, I was a shopping columnist for a year in a local 100,000 circ. throwaway newspaper in Toronto. I had two children with me at the time and I was invited to have wonderful meals in dinner houses. My two miserable children sat there scowling because they wanted hot dogs and hamburgers in a place whose specialty was steaks — but, that is another story.
I've never found anyone to sympathize with me on the rigors of lone female dining. Even more catastrophic is lone, older, female dining.
I have a horror story that you've never heard of before and it happened in a restaurant that I used to frequent on Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood [California]. I will not give the name as I don't even want it to have negative publicity.
No mention at all is the best way to treat bad restaurants as it's been my experience that if you tell someone a place is bad they will go there to prove that they could conquer that restaurant that furnished your dining demise.
There's another restaurant on Melrose that I used to eat at twice a day and where I had brought overseas visitors on one occasion as well as having brought in friends. After a particular incident I never went back there and never will.
If you run out of horror stories for your books/website, fear not, I have enough to last many lifetimes!
I'd just like to tell you that if you ever feature restaurants in the Caribbean that cater to solo diners, I have
one to add to your list.
While in Anguilla two years ago, I dined at Pimms restaurant in the Cap Jaluca Resort. I was not a guest there, but had heard the food was delicious and thought I'd give it a shot.
When the Manager of the restaurant found out I was dining alone he offered me a complimentary appetizer and I had the most attentive waitstaff possible!
The Manager invited me to join himself and his dinner guests for after-dinner drinks but I had to decline as it was late and I wanted to get up early the next morning for a trip to St. Martin.
He did arrange for me to come back the following day and receive a tour of the entire resort, including the rooms where celebrities had stayed.
The food and hospitality were superb!!!! It's a wonderful place to visit and even though the restaurant has a romantic setting, I didn't feel at all uncomfortable dining alone!"
Another solo dining problem is solo dining for couples. This is really a problem on most cruise ships. You
have to go through all kinds of hell to get a table for two on most cruise ships !!
Please think about expanding your site to include couples also!
Don't be so U.S.-centric! Let's see something outside of the U.S.! I'm in European cities all the time by
myself.
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