fancy restaurant or beach date?

Beach or boat..

Local coffee shop

Neither. Don't want sand getting anywhere it shouldn't be and I typically dislike "fancy" restaurants. If I'm going out to eat I prefer a non pretentious place with great food.

Why can't both be accommodated?

Based on where I live, pretty much neither one are a realistic (or at least convenient) option.

So I have to approach the question as purely hypothetical.

Hypothetically, I could go on a date in Hawaii, or California, or Florida, or southern Texas, or the Bahamas.

A lot of places have fancy restaurants on or overlooking a beach.

Not to mention, I like finding people with whom I'd like to date more than once.
Plus, I can go on other dates with other people if one date doesn't work out.

So one date we can go to a fancy restaurant.

Another date, we can go to the beach.


Not to mention other factors.
Like it's winter here. I would prefer to go to a fancy restaurant, when it gets below freezing, than the beach.
In the middle of summer, on a Saturday afternoon, I'd rather pick up and randomly go to the beach and go boating or swimming or something than I would try to deal with reservations and have to wear a suit.

Another factor would be the type of person I'm on the date with.
I would rather go to a fancy restaurant if I knew they enjoyed fancy restaurants too, as opposed to going on a date with someone to a fancy restaurant while they're sitting there the whole time wishing they'd gone to the beach, or vice versa.

They aren't mutually exclusive choices.

Guess

clueless.

I'm unscripted.
Dates are not dates.
Eating is not a date.
Swimming/sunbathing is not a date.

I'd rather dress comforatble for the weather, eat when I'm hungry and do what I want when I want. I'm flexible. If she wants to go do something we go do it but if I am not having a good time, I go do something else, she can come with me or not. If she doesn't want to do something I'm flexible enough to suggest something else we might like.

We actually talk to each other like friends do. Like if she's hungry she will say...I'm hungry. To which I reply, what for? Then we both decide what we want to get to eat. I've been known to cook pretty good dishes and sometimes she wants my cooking instead of a restaurant. and...Vice-Versa.

When we first met we tried that 'date' thing and we were both uncomfortable so we cancelled and decided to just wing it in each other's company and we had so much fun being with each other we've been doing it for over two years and there's no end in sight.

Unscripted and natural is the only way to love to live and live to love.

I have no recollection of 17 Aug 1987.

Where was I on that date?
Who was I doing?

During summer the beach is crammed with German tourists and when they finally go home it's horribly windy and cold.

One of the beach clubs on the beach would be nice. Perry's Beach Club is terrific and has great food & drinks.

Otherwise it's fancy restaurant. Nothing wrong with that :)

A fancy restaurant which allows beach wear...

or take-out fancy food for a picnic on the beach (non-windy day)

Boat or a deer stand neither of the above mentioned

Ahem... boat.. 1st response..
You're welcome

I don't like a fancy restaurant because I don't like to get dressed up and the only thing you can do is eat and talk.

The beach sounds better. Can have a little picnic. Walk in the sand and water. Night time, lay on blankets and look at the stars.

hlo frnds

How about a sleezy restaurant and a couple of cans of their finest wine circa 9/8/2020?

(Tom I'm not making fun of you, just was amused about the canned wine.)

I live at the beach but feel just as comfortable in a fine dining restaurant ., why limit yourself . I like both

Restaurant for me but it doesn’t have to be a fancy one, a plain one will do.

I'm with you cat! But if the fancy restaurant is on the beach that is a maybe unless there is a dress code. I will not dress up to try and impress anyone. If I cannot be casual I am not going. The beach is perfect for there is no annoying sounds of a restaurant (people talking on cell phones, kids running back and forth, listening to what others are ordering, people noisily stirring their ice tea, etc.). At least on the beach the major sound you hear is the sound of the waves lightly brushing up against the shore. Laying on a blanket and looking at the stars is a plus. No one around for miles is another plus.