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Romance in NYC Restaurants
There are no better places for a perfect romantic moment than a cafe in a big city. Cafes and restaurants are built for enchantment, and if there’s nothing charming going on, then at least you know that there will be food coming. It’s the perfect place for a first date, or even a seventh date, as well as a wonderful place to take yourself after a bad date to get some honest consolation from your friends. Any big city will work, because they all have their own peculiar charms, but New York is the king of the big cities, and has its own history and revolving cultures that make it particularly hospitable to hosting beautiful romantic moments.
Thinking about New York restaurants and cafes, I usually start running through a visual history of my New York memories. They are iconic places to meet and talk about love, and I have a half dozen memories of my own, but I always find it hard to get the famous scene in When Harry Met Sally out of my head. That never happened to me, but I always hoped it would. Instead of Meg Ryan, I usually end up meeting Rob Reiner’s mom, but we still have a lot to talk about.
Despite the present moments, which continue to slip away much more quickly than I can savor them, the past speaks volumes about what NYC means to me. In the evolution of my own romantic life, I remember two first dates there, and one very intense conversation. The other moments were where my friends and I were sitting around and making fun of our own bad luck. So although my partner now didn’t meet me in a New York cafe, we still know we have the chance to have a life-changing conversation in a restaurant some time, so we go as often as we can, wondering when the other one will begin to flirt with abandon.
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