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NOTE: The following information is current and accurate to the best of the editor's knowledge at the time of publication. Please call ahead before visiting any restaurant. Check back often — the following change frequently!!! Looking for restaurants featuring counter/bar dining? Click: eating at the bar Interested in restaurants featuring communal table dining? Click: eating with others Hot SoloDining.com Tip Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants! Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Alabama Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Arizona Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in California Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in District of Columbia Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Connecticut Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Florida Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Georgia Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Hawaii Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Idaho Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Illinois Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Indiana Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Kentucky Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Louisiana Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Maryland Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Massachusetts Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Michigan Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Missouri Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Nevada Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in New Jersey Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in New Mexico Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in New York Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in North Carolina Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Ohio Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Pennsylvania Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Oregon Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Texas Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Utah Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Virginia Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Washington Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Wisconsin Hot SoloDining.com Restaurants — in Canada Communal Table Dining in Great Britain Return to Top Hot SoloDining.com Tip! Gather information about a restaurant before you commit your $$$ and your self to a meal. Here is a sampling of questions that will help you evaluate how solo diner-friendly a restaurant is: * Do you attract many solo diners? * What time of the day/what day attracts the most solo diners? * Do you facilitate shared-table seating for solos who wish company with a meal? Want more solo dining tips and strategies? Want to learn how to develop solo dining skills or how to enhance the ones you have? Check out: How to dine out alone Members of Solo/Single Travel Yahoo Group, the message board and communication forum for visitors to SoloTravelPortal.com, do more than talk about "travel." Here's an example: Dear Larry, I understand the problems with dining alone. Unless I have something to read, I don't enjoy it much either. When I was traveling alone in Tahiti, I decided to be brave — and I asked the person seating with me if they could seat me with someone else eating alone. It was a bit difficult as the waiter didn't speak English but I got the idea across in my fractured French. He found a man sitting alone who spoke English who was delighted to have someone to talk to and stayed with me long after he had finished his meal. I had a wonderful experience and tried it again in New Zealand. I also had a great evening in Fiji when I started chatting with a couple from Australia at the next table. We ended up spending the rest of the evening sitting on the terrace, enjoying the ocean view, and trading stories. I learned alot about life in Australia from them. I found the people in New Zealand and the Australians I met on that trip to be very open and friendly, much more so than in the US. And I think that tourists everywhere have an 'open' attitude. We want to know about other people and where they have been and what they have seen, or we probably wouldn't be travelling in the first place. So, Go For It! Have your opening phrases ready. I have found "Do you live here?" or "Are you traveling here, too?" to be excellent conversation starters. Then ask, "What should I see here?" Your only problem will be getting away from your new friends...hahahaha. Good luck! Daphne (dstannard@wamail.net) Tacoma, Washington Return to Top If you have questions or comments about this Web page or site, e-mail: webmaster@SoloDining.com. © 2011 SoloDining.com Return to Top