[Boomer]

I think Villager Joyce offers the best suggestion. And then Rubicon provides an example.

Mountaineer, you don't have to be a chef. Your loving thoughtfulness and the time you spend will make far more memories than a restaurant can.

I like Villager Joyce's idea about Fresh Market. They can help you if you are not at home in the kitchen. If your love likes crab cakes, Fresh Market has two kinds. The more expensive of the two has more crab. They come in frozen and all you have to do is heat them and make or buy a little sauce. -- I use Hellman's mayo, throw in a little creamy horseradish, and a tiny bit of ketchup to make the sauce prettier. Get some salad, figure out a side -- like maybe some little red potatoes with real butter and for dessert.......

May I suggest chocolate martinis: 2 parts Godiva chocolate liqueur, 2 parts half and half, one part Grey Goose vodka. (Decent quality ingredients are the key. Godiva and Goose and real half and half.) Shake with ice in a cocktail shaker and strain into a martini glass. You can put a truffle on a cocktail pick for garnish, but my picks are too short for my glasses so that did not work and I had to eat the whole bag of Lindt truffles. (sigh)

The point of all this is that no matter what you make for her at home, your chances of a perfect evening are so much better than going to any restaurant in TV and taking a chance of ending up seated next to one of those tables of those who must travel in great herds to the feeding grounds where they make so much noise that you and yours will have to give up on quiet, sweet conversation, wolf down your expensive dinner, and get out of there as fast as possible, and go home anyway.

wow...... I sure get carried away sometimes when I post.........and now somebody will probably show up and wanna fight that some other vodka is better than Goose. Oh well.....

Boomer