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Your A-List: Best Place for a First Date
First dates have been ruined by “The Bachelor.” How can you compete with helicopter rides to the tops of skycrapers or diamond earrings dispensed poolside?
At least at the Alamo Drafthouse, the local movie chain you chose as the No. 1 Place for a First Date with 21 percent of the vote, the management provides the entertainment and the grub. It’s dark. You’re close. Close enough to touch. As long as you both can agree on an amenable movie. There aren’t a lot of obvious date flicks out right now, unless you count “Dan in Real Life” (Alamo Lake Creek) or one of the TV runs (“The Office,” “Heroes”) at Alamo Village.
Which makes No. 2 so attractive, since you can order chocolate for your sweet in the low light and low murmurs of Chez Zee (14 percent of the vote).
(In a side note: The Alamo was the winner at 11 p.m. Tuesday, the time when votes are officially tallied each week, but Chez Zee’s loyal supporters weren’t willing to give up the fight. They kept on voting and helped the eatery narrowly edge the Alamo before the next week’s batch of polls went up online late Wednesday. Alamo is still our official winner, but we congratulate both. And thanks, as always, to everyone for voting.)
No. 3, Hula Hut, tempts with high spirits and lake life, while its near tie, Peter Pan Putt-Putt, can counter with clean fun and heavy putting. (No, I won’t apologize.)
Classy, lakeside coffeehouse Mozart’s, appropriately named Italian trattoria Romeo’s, vivacious Vivo, chummy Enoteca Vespaio, late-night Hyde Park Bar & Grill, exotic Mars, sizzling El Chile, lake-loving Dave & Buster’s and contemporary Clay Pit (order on the hot side) round out the official slate.
Two write-in candidates merit a mention: The ultra-hip Hotel San Jose — and if things go well … — and the high-end eatery Jeffrey’s both would impress on any first encounter.
The Alamo at the Ritz opens tonight, so single ones, time for puttin’ on the ritz.
Photo by Brian K. Diggs
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