Solo dining?
Occasionally, sometimes, but I'm not a regular, and if it's "approved," it's draining my pocketbook and padding my waistline too much already.
No. Don't eat out every mealtime when you're on your own. Buy a few groceries, plan and prepare basic meals on your own or make sandwiches and go on solo picnics.
Solo diner denied a ‘nice’ table at restaurant, walks out — now the internet can’t agree who’s right
That's one of the most valuable options when dining solo. If the place is too crowded or if you can't get your favorite table, you can walk right out and bar-hop somewhere else without hurting anyone's feelings as long as you haven't ordered your meal yet. Check Google or Yelp for a time less crowded and come back later if you like the place and it just happens to be too crowded sometimes.
But don't sit at the bar and stare into your water cup if you don't drink alcohol. If there are loser dudes and hookers who can't find a decent date, you're not one of their kind and it's time to be found somewhere else. Just be discreet and polite, excuse yourself, mill around and lose yourself in the crowd. No big deal. Don't take it personally. Carry yourself confidently, smile, tip your hat, wave if anyone notices, walk out the door, and enjoy the fresh air they don't want you to enjoy.
Solo diner wants table not bar.
by u/JoeAvaraje2 in restaurant
Wilfrid
Wilfrid Posted May 13, 2002
I mentioned a while back that Ilo have an express policy of never accepting table reservations for solo diners. Go sit at the bar, you loser, is the message. …
I Corinthians 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
That's too much alcohol to drink, and bar food even without the alcohol is fattening and causes bloat and malnutrition. And you know how those people hate it when you eat with them but don't drink with them.