Dining Alone Gifts

'Will you be dining alone tonight, Sir?'

'This year I'm celebrating Valentines Day by myself, I have to economize.'

'You're right. Table for one.'

'...I had nothing in common with myself.'

'I sent out for everything.'

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

Come dine with me!

"Cheers! Well, this is exciting. I've never had a dinner date with a duck before." "Relax, honey. I'm just here for the bread."

"M'lady, we’ve reached peak Brooklyn."

Grace For Flies

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

LAY ZEE FUK

"Stephen and I are today's special."

Sloaney Pony.

"Waitress, have you smoked salmon..?"

"Just bring me something that's going to look good on social media."

'You wanna play another round?' 'Sure....tender, another round!'

"Behold! As I transform this family size frozen lasagna into a meal for one."

"Cheers! Well, this is exciting. I've never had a dinner date with a duck before." "Relax, honey. I'm just here for the bread."

Life is for the birds.

"I know you didn't order the snails, sir. They're complimentary with the salad."

"I'd like the garden salad with the blue cheese dressing, and my mother would like me married by age thirty."

'I'll have the crab cake, and he'll have the crabby cake.'

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

"And I'll also take my steak raw thank you."

Cutaway view of Ocean liner.

The wonderful world of cheese.

"Vintage? What would you like it to be?"

"This place is one of New York's best-kept secrets."

"The fish sticks here are very good."

Diner.

"And which regional cuisine would you be interested in this evening—Northwester, Southwestern, Southeastern, or Northeastern?"

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

"You do like octopus?"