Or we should have more US style sports bars where you can eat and just watch TV. We probably don’t have enough sports for that though, need something you can watch without the need for sound. Gameshows?
I sometimes forget how weird the upper classes are. One of the best things about going to Oxford as a Welsh working class lad was just laughing at them, tbh
While you’re on, I saw this the other day, which I think you’d be interested in
Fucking love shit like this, thank you
Re: taking a book. I once ate alone at a big country house hotel for work, full tasting menu, matching wines etc. The waiter started the meal by noting that I was dining alone and asking if I would like a book to read. Then he wheeled out a trolley full of books for me to choose from, chose a big hardback coffee table type book that I could leave open on the table so I could read while I ate. That’s the solution though, book trolleys in all restaurants.
The big pen and notebook accessories are also useful here.
I do this whenever I’m on holiday from work. I see it as a real luxury. The only reason I don’t do it more often is laziness.
The song is awesome too though.
I don’t mind going to gigs, the cinema etc. on my own and in principle have no problem with someone eating at a restaurant alone, but I think I’m just so self-conscious that I don’t like other people watching me eat ever, and restaurants just make that feel so much worse anyway.
Also, when I’m actually eating in a restaurant alone, this is what I think I look like:
Sometimes its good, sometimes its bad. Sometimes if I’m with someone pressure to talk can be too great
When I was younger I was SO shy and awkward and self-conscious, I still am to a degree of course but I feel younger me would feel proud that older me feels okay enough to go do a lot of things on my own, eating in a restaurant being one of them. Saying that I’ve only ever done it in really big busy places like wahaca and Wagamama’s.
I can think of two times if felt pretty awkward though, one was trying to go for a drink on my own in my favourite pub but it was totally rammed and I stood at the bar. Someone knocked a pint over some doughnuts right next to me and I remember just feeling really flustered and embarrassed by it. I think I may have also drunkenly tried to get the chat with someone I vaguely knew who worked in a beer shop and i felt I sounded a bit weird. Blah blah.
The two times I went to a gig on my own I felt a bit sad initially. Ended up being pretty brilliant though in the end. Could stand wherever I wanted, wander off as much as I wanted without having to let someone know.
I say alone, but obviously I spent 80% of my time talking to DiS so I’m never really alone alone.
Sorry this is such a big boring ramble, my train has been delayed so I’m just filling time
Yes but I tend to specifically sit at the bar when I do so as opposed to a table
Always try to save a few days holiday at the end of the year so I can drop my son at school and go to restaurants on my own. Scuppered this year by covid and I was more gutted about it than our Xmas day plans being ruined. Had been looking forward to it for months.
Once had a tasting menu at a fancy restaurant in Tokyo on my own and they treated me like a celebrity. The manager kept giving me extra dishes to try and when I left he shook my hand and gave me his card. It was the best.
I don’t think you need a book. You can tear through a meal far quicker on your own. I get them to bring the bill with the dessert.
I’m a bit of a loner and have done restaurants alone many times. 90% of my gigs are alone as are a lot of my holidays.
See, told you guys I’m a loner.
Imagining a DiS meat where everyone has a table for one at the same restaurant, nobody is allowed to talk in person.
“What is my dream social scenario”?
Going for a local Indian alone with a book is one of life’s great pleasures IMHO.
All posting in an evening thread with selfies.