First date ideas that don't involve drinking

Ice cream or better yet frozen yogurt. It melts, so if the date is not going well, you can leave, but if it is, you can stick around.

fv wrote:

I'm not sure what the OPs main concerns are (recovering alcoholic versus bored of bars), but that makes a difference.

I'm not a recovering alcoholic. I will have a drink in social settings. I just don't really enjoy drinking, and it doesn't sit well in my stomach.

A few drinks a month is no problem. But I go on many dates, and it would be too much if I had a drink every time I went on a date.

I took my wife on our first date to Greyhound Park in Phoenix to watch the dog races. Obviously it worked.

you sound miserable and boring - dinner is not even close to the best first date on this list

girl on letsrun wrote:

fv wrote:

What dates INVOLVE drinking? Going to a bar hardly constitutes a date. Wine tasting can be fun, same with a brewery tour or distillery. That's about all the dates I can think of that involve drinking. The dates that don't involve drinking are endless:

- Bike ride

- mini golf

- movie

- dinner

- walk in downtown area

- ice skating

- hiking

- concert

- play

- street festival

- dinner at home (cooking together can be fun)

- coffee

- mini golf-BORING

-coffiee-BORING

If the OP can't be entertaining enough to his date during coffee or mini-golf then it's not meant to be. The activity themselves aren't boring if the girl is into the OP.

I would go with coffee or a picnic.

If you don't like the idea of a picnic, or dinner at a low-key spot, maybe a museum might be a good place to go. If it were me, I'd think of a place that I like to go that's not super busy all of the time, but has enough people around so your date won't feel unsafe or anything like that.

Go to the market and show her how many grapes you can get in your mouth.

TAA wrote:

I would go with coffee or a picnic.

idiot both of thoes involve drinking

Most strip clubs don't even allow drinking, have you considered that option?

ladylover wrote:

Most strip clubs don't even allow drinking, have you considered that option?

Never been to a strip club that didn't allow drinking. In fact, alcohol is usually priced cheaper to get you more drunk, except for champagne which usually comes with additional benefits.

Museum, garden/greenhouse stroll, lecture/seminar on any joint topic of interest, art gallery, concert of any kind, outdoor/indoor theatre, friend's party, glass blowing/flower arranging/wood working/cooking or other interesting activity/class, opera, ballet, book/poetry reading, bookstore, coffee or tea bar, short trip out of the city to an interesting/aesthetic place, car drive, zoo/aquarium visit, dinner, lunch, brunch (with or without mimosas)... the possibilities are endless if you have a semi-functioning brain and a bit of creativity.

Or you could let her watch over your shoulder as you troll LR.

What about a triple a baseball game in the city?