This is the fourth feature “Charlottesville Deathmatch” where we put two or more similar businesses, places, restaurants or things into a sealed cage of pain, suffering and death. Ultimately only one contestant lives and it’s up to you to figure out who that is.
In this town that is often touted as having one of the highest per capita number of restaurants, I find myself often running into a dilemma shared by many singles (or swingers) in this town. Going to dinner with someone in Charlottesville strikes me as a decision that’s almost as difficult as getting someone to go to dinner with you.
We’ve got a long list of contenders (pretty much every restaurant in town). If you add any chain to this list, then cVillain may implode.
So, the decision making process for the first several dates has to incorporate the following factors (poll after the break):
– Secrecy. What if this dude (or chick) doesn’t want to be seen with this person. No one wants to be on display in the middle of the mall, especially if it’s going to be uncomfortable.
- Price. No one wants to spend an arm and a leg without really knowing someone that well.
- Fare. What do you want to eat on date in front of a new person. I usually go all out, smash food with my hammer, and eat with my hands, but this isn’t for everyone.
- Bar. Is the bar important for pre-dinner nerve soothage? Who knows.
- Service. Bad service is no fun for a date, especially when people rush you.
- Proximity. To your crib or the next stop?
[pic from gingiber]
Related posts:
- Charlottesville Deathmatch Round 3: Battle of the Sandwich Places
- Charlottesville Deathmatch Round 2: Battle of the Local Radio Stations
- Charlottesville Deathmatch Round 1: C-Ville Weekly vs The Hook
Petit Pois. It’s masculine. Getchyo genders straight Thor.
People pronounce it “petty paw”. People I know.
@2 fixed. sorry. am headachy.
price- go cheap and make the date think they don’t have high value to you? Nope. Hey I’m not saying pay more than you can afford but what about seduction. I have found that impressing a date with a super nice place excites them and helps with sweeping them off their feet.
location can be important but the far away place can make the ride a part of the date. But I get it- no one wasn’t the first date DWI.
What I really want to say is don’t make yourself uncomfortable but try and find a place that they want to go. Being tuned in to your date is the whole point, no?
I would write in L’Etoile, but the election seems to be rigged.
I’m surprised Bang is still in business.
Who put my bedroom????!!!!
@5 – you are correct. We rig every poll and meticulously vote every 2 minutes so it appears we aren’t cheating.
Well I did write in L’Etoile: it strikes a balance that’s tough to capture. Fleurie is for later, if things are working? (So is unmentioned Palladio.) Duner’s could work, if you are over 40…
With the others on the list, even while I like many of them for different reasons, there are definite hitches that could easily spoil the broth!
who put in my house? i don’t even live there any more.
FWIW, IMO, LOLIPOP, dinner dates are high tension, high risk, low reward. dinner is for people who know each other. NIFOC.
Not fair, I voted before all those write-ins went up. I want a re-vote.
Who put my bedroom????!!!!
I didn’t, but I’m voting for it…
@12 me too.. reservation for 3 at 7pm please. thanks.
ahhh somebody get me off c-villain, i have a 15 pager due tomorrow!
@15
many people prefer themselves to, and prefer that their dates also, bathe.
teahouse appears not to allow admission when you bring your personal hygiene.
reservation for 3 at 7pm please
No fair peeking into my fantasies…
I actually went to eat at The Boathouse (where Maverick’s was) the other day and it was delicious…I need to write a review of it. The drinks were really good (cocktail list and wine list) and the food was excellent and the service wasn’t bad. I think it would be a very nice spot for a 1st date.
Nobody’s eating in my room!
@19: So go out and do something about it… don’t just complain about it here.
Snort!
@19, I’m sure some kind of eating has gone on in there
/mind in the gutter today
mind in the gutter today
Today?
@15, I’ve used that place for many a first date. The tea, the sitting all close and cozy… take only people you’re sure you like, because bomchica wow wow…
Otherwise you’re sitting uncomfortably close to someone that you thought was cute until you got a whiff of their halitosis and propensity for collecting vintage beer steins. Ugh.
Photo:
1) isn’t that a left hand and a wedding ring of sorts?
2) aren’t her hands looking sortof cyanotic as with gangrene, or from oxygen-deprivation (like babies)?
3) explain to me again why the nail on her forefinger is cut short but the others are long?
@24
“many a first date…”
/anyone on this website EVUH had a second date?
i also cannot believe bang is still in business. worst. food. ever.
i’d vote for continental divide if the stoopid voting machine would let me do so. harumph.
I tend to hate myself after every time I’ve eaten at Bang. Or rather, my ass hates me.
The Korean beef (dog?) in lettuce is stupendous.
Whoever wrote Orzo in: YES!
Al Hamraa at the Ix
I think that bang is a great place for a first date
The tuna pizza is gud!
@32 That shit is fabulous. Almost as good as the seared tuna sandwiches from Fuel (rip) were.
When I single I loved Bizou for a date. I also loved going to sit out in the garden at Bang. Now that I’m married I love Duner’s.
A few days later, I look back and discover there haven’t been a whole lot of comments on this thread — you can see that there was a much bigger reaction to the poll on sandwich places.
What is that telling me? Is it simply that CVillains are cheap?
Or is it bigger… maybe at this juncture no one can get a first date…
@35 don’t overthink. We’re not that complicated.