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Going Out For Dinner Is So Underrated
It’s lovely and welcoming.
You’re greeted as if they’ve been expecting you because they have. A host walks you through a sea of people having their own personal social experience and takes you to your table.
Once you’re seated, it begins.
Within minutes, drinks are served and the conversation starts to flow.
There’s light background music, murmuring conversations from every corner, restaurant clinking sounds that become the perfect white noise and privacy barrier, and palpable social energy.
You lean in as if the table is your own personal oasis adorned with everything you need at your fingertips.
It can feel like there’s no one else in the room. The warm and personal nature of the experience opens dialogue and sparks conversation.
It makes you curious.
It relaxes you.
It gives you what you desperately need. Human connection.
It’s not just dinner.
It’s much more than that.
My parents came to the U.S in the 1960s and opened an Italian restaurant. They were amazing cooks, that sort of goes without saying, so we…
