# What restaurants do women prefer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431 "2019-12-05T21:44:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/41 "2019-12-07T03:09:49Z")
> [@digs](#): > > This hits close to home. I canNOT get my wife to come to my favorite restaurant. And it’s not because there’s nothing but sports on the big screens (unless Jeopardy’s on, or a dog show). > > Nope, it’s all due to one pesky little detail: there’s nothing healthy on the menu. I am \*not \*exaggerating; no salads, just huge, awesome burgers, fish fry and prime rib, fries and twenty other deep-fried things. > > I swear, those women are so picky… They also live longer than men… ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/42 "2019-12-07T03:17:45Z")
I like those where the menu is wide enough for anybody to have multiple decent choices (mind you: if it’s just me, that’s a pretty wide range), where the laws regarding allergen information are followed (it’s not so effing difficult, you ought’a know which ingredients you use) and the waiters don’t bring the wrong order three times or forget part of the order. If I’m in Europe, I should not be greeted with either a hundred-kilowatt smile or something that looks like the waiter is trying to bow/curtsey and doesn’t know how. > [@Kovitlac](#): > > I think I may be the only woman alive who isn’t into the whole suits/business man thing. Throw him in a t-shirt and jeans/sweats and I’ll swoon. Bonus points for nerdy print on tee. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/43 "2019-12-07T03:28:34Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > They also live longer than men… > ~VOW If you want to call a life without deep fried foods living. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/44 "2019-12-07T11:48:00Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > OTOH, its also kind of fun to learn and gain insight. We’re mostly gaining insight about you in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/45 "2019-12-07T12:08:12Z")
Not really, anybody who’s read what Urbanredneck posts before already knows he likes to speak of women as if we were some sort of alien species incapable of communication. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/46 "2019-12-07T21:41:43Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Not really, anybody who’s read what Urbanredneck posts before already knows he likes to speak of women as if we were some sort of alien species incapable of communication. Oh, sure, it’s not rocket science. But not everyone has encountered him before. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/47 "2019-12-07T21:58:08Z")
My XX chromosomes compel me to prefer sedate, dignified restaurants, either refined restaurants where there are many forks to the left of my plate and I can show off my pretty new hat or tea rooms where there are dainty dishes and I can show off my pretty new hat. My delicate chromosomes also make me cringe at the idea of staining my pretty ruffles with barbecue sauce or, land’s sakes, getting confronted with a slab of meat on a plate. Just thinking about that sort of thing gives me the vapors. Oh, dear. Did I say “thinking”? I’d better stop before I get think lines all over my forehead. They wouldn’t go at all with my pretty new hat. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/48 "2019-12-08T05:28:45Z")
My wife and I are equally likely to pick US or Korean BBQ joints, redneck burger stands, hot burrito wagons, Chinese or Indian or Thai buffets, Subway or deli sandwiches, quiet surf’n’turf, pasta palaces, falafel vendors, or quaint roadhouses. Cleanliness is vital but we’re not quite as picky as our exterminator friend who won’t eat anywhere over five years old because infested. Quiet enough to mostly hear each other is important. Food quality trumps price. Attractive waitrons are nice. We skip sports bars. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431/49 "2019-12-09T18:47:17Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > OTOH, its also kind of fun to learn and gain insight. If only, but alas, you never do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-restaurants-do-women-prefer/844431.md?page=2)