Valentine's Dinner: Who Decides?

[MarkGrace]

I'm going with option 1.

[LiveCoug]

Curse you, MarkGrace, curse you!

[MarkGrace]

Be smart about it. Let her choose.......from your suggestions. heh heh.

This was the list I submitted:

The Corson Building -- No shot. Dillon controls the menu and there's no way my wife subjects herself to someone else's culinary whim. Plus, the Mrs. will deem it too expensive. (Should DDD make it back to Seattle, however, this is our next date)

Joule -- Outside shot. Affordable, good buzz, appears to have some items that will appeal to her.

Olivar -- Decent shot. Arguably the most price conscious choice (which she will like), small to large plates so there will be a variety of options, located in the neighborhood.

Cascina Spinasse -- Again, Neidermeyer (Seattle's reigning God of pasta) more or less controls the menu for the evening, so the Mrs. probably won't go for it.

Cafe Juanita -- Decent shot. Only downsides being the fact that it's on the Eastside and the prices may be running into the bit too expensive territory. This is my first choice in light of Holly Smith's big James Beard win.

Most likely scenario is that she scraps all of these and just chooses something on her own.

I should also mention that I'm available as a date to any of these fine restaurants should SeattleUte ask me out. And if you think Donuthole and his wife had fun with their new Hoover, you ain't seen nothing yet.

[il Padrino Ute]

Valentine Day is just another day at our house.

Dinner will be whatever is on the week's menu and then I'll watch whatever game is on and she'll watch whatever is on HGTV.

[LiveCoug]

Cafe Juanita = Italian? Who woulda thunk?

[MarkGrace]

Cafe Juanita = located in Juanita. Another surprising twist.

[LiveCoug]

Cafe Juanita = located in Juanita. Another surprising twist.

Very interesting indeed.

[cougjunkie]

We will go out to a nice romantic dinner at the Olive Garden, and then come back home and she will go upstairs and watch reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Ellen show, and I will lay on the couch downstairs and watch Sportscenter where I will fall asleep.

[landpoke]

And I already know what I get for Valentine's Day...same thing I have gotten for the last 12 years. So there isn't any suprise to it.

If it is what I think it is that would never get old in a million years.

(She's dressing up in spandex and recreating, move for move, Olivia Newton John's video for "Let's Get Physical," right?)

[Coach McGuirk]

we do nothing. Not even a "happy valentines day" is exchanged. my decision, wife supported. I believe Niku agrees with me on this one. Valentines sucks.

[RockyBalboa]

she will go upstairs and watch reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

That show rules.

[beelzebabette]

this year it falls on a Saturday...so you know what that means.....SNL after we get home! rowrrr!

You and Statman...

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

This was the list I submitted:

The Corson Building -- No shot. Dillon controls the menu and there's no way my wife subjects herself to someone else's culinary whim. Plus, the Mrs. will deem it too expensive. (Should DDD make it back to Seattle, however, this is our next date)

Shows where I stand, DDD and SU get date invites to swanky places. I get taken to the local bar. Am I nothing but a cheap whore?

[MarkGrace]

Wifey made a preliminary review of my submitted list last night, and predictably she's narrowed it down to the two least expensive (Olivar and Joule). We shall see what happens.

Shows where I stand, DDD and SU get date invites to swanky places. I get taken to the local bar. Am I nothing but a cheap whore?

Tell me what you want to eat next time and we'll do it.

[Donuthole]

Shows where I stand, DDD and SU get date invites to swanky places. I get taken to the local bar. Am I nothing but a cheap whore?

Don't feel too bad. All I got was Tasty's Deli.