American diner, café and bar
Boulevard Cafe
Boulevard Cafe offers a first date with an everyday feel: the restaurant serves from breakfast through dinner and keeps the familiar range of an American diner, with a m…
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Filipino comfort-food restaurant
Chibog
Chibog brings Filipino home-style cooking to the table in a format that encourages ordering several dishes. Its website describes the food as comfort cooking, “just like…
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Italian-American restaurant and steakhouse
Original Joe’s Westlake
Original Joe’s Westlake brings an unusual local history to a first date: the original restaurant was a Daly City fixture from 1956 to 2014; after two years closed, it re…
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Soul food and Southern American restaurant
The Serving Spoon
A first date does not have to begin at night. The Serving Spoon has served breakfast and lunch on Centinela Avenue since 1983, with Southern cooking built around generou…
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Italian-American fresh-pasta restaurant
Sunday Gravy
Sunday Gravy gives Italian-American dinner a home-style character on Centinela Avenue. The restaurant’s story reaches back to the pizzeria the current owners’ father ope…
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Afro-centric West African and Californian restaurant
Two Hommés
Two Hommés began as a pop-up kitchen run by two Los Angeles friends before finding a permanent home on North La Brea Avenue. Marcus Yaw Johnson and Abdoulaye Balde launc…
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Italian restaurant and pizzeria
Di Leone's Italian Restaurant
Di Leone's offers a more classic Italian table and a larger dining room for a first date in eastern El Cajon. The restaurant describes itself as family-owned and says it…
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Mexican seafood and grill restaurant
La Casita's Grill & Seafood
La Casita's Grill & Seafood is El Cajon’s most casual first-date option: a family-run Mexican restaurant on Magnolia Avenue with a neighbourhood dining room and a menu t…
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Family-owned Italian restaurant
Mamma Rosa Italian Restaurant
Mamma Rosa brings a family history to Main Street that the restaurant dates to 1982: founders Vince and Dora Ursini grew up in Italy and opened the business after moving…
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Italian and contemporary American bistro
Bistro 135
Bistro 135 is downtown Tracy, close to the commercial stretch of 10th Street. That location changes the shape of a first date: dinner can lead into the district of shops…
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Contemporary American and seafood restaurant
Magellan's Restaurant
On East Sixth Street in downtown Tracy, Magellan's has a deliberately small scale: its own website says it opened in 2002 and operates as a dine-in-only restaurant. The…
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Contemporary American bistro with French-Basque fusion
M & J Bistro
M & J Bistro sits north of Tracy’s historic centre, in a city shaped by the railroad and now connected to the Central Valley and Bay Area by I-5, I-205 and I-580. Its co…
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Thai restaurant
Bangkok Broiler
Bangkok Broiler gives a first date aromas, spice and dishes worth comparing bite by bite. The restaurant is on Main Street, one of Hesperia’s commercial activity corrido…
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Casual pizzeria and craft-beer restaurant
D6 Pizza - Hesperia
D6 Pizza began as a takeout business and turned its Hesperia location into a small dining room with colourful artwork and music spanning several decades. The restaurant…
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Family-run Italian restaurant
Juliano’s Italian Restaurant
Juliano’s brings the pace of a family-run Italian restaurant to the spread-out High Desert. The business says it has served valley diners since March 2004, and its websi…
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Steakhouse, seafood restaurant and bar
Castaway Restaurant, Bar & Special Events
Castaway sits on a hillside east of downtown and makes the view across Burbank and the valley part of the date. The restaurant describes its cooking as seasonal Californ…
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Contemporary American restaurant and bar
GRANVILLE
GRANVILLE is Burbank’s option for a first date that calls for a polished table without the formality of a special-occasion restaurant. Its branch sits on San Fernando Bo…
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California-style café and gourmet market
Olive & Thyme
Olive & Thyme offers a different kind of first date: a daytime table, coffee and conversation in Burbank’s Media District, an area associated with film and television st…
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Japanese izakaya and sushi restaurant
Izakaya Mai
On 2nd Avenue, Izakaya Mai offers a night-time first date built around dishes ordered at an easy pace. The kitchen prepares sashimi to order, rolls and nigiri, but the m…
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Contemporary Italian restaurant
Pausa Bar & Cookery
Pausa is a dinner meant for settling in and letting the conversation find its pace. Chef and co-owner Andrea Giuliani, who grew up in Italy’s Veneto region, built a seas…
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Family-owned wood-fired pizza and rotisserie restaurant
Rise Woodfire
Rise Woodfire occupies the former train-station building on North B Street, giving it a different identity from a neighbourhood pizzeria. The family-owned restaurant off…
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Seasonal contemporary Italian restaurant
Fuso Italian Restaurant
Fuso Italian Restaurant gives a first date a more familiar than formal tone: Italian cooking with Californian influences, daily specials and a patio that extends the mea…
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Seasonal bistro and wine bar
BackDoor Bistro & Wine Bar
BackDoor Bistro & Wine Bar sets a more intimate, food-focused first date: a bistro on Town Square where wine and seasonal plates matter as much as conversation. The kitc…
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Downtown American grill, bar and restaurant
Merchant & Main Grill & Bar
Merchant & Main feels rooted in its street: it opened in downtown Vacaville in 1985 and describes itself as a grill, bar and neighbourhood gathering place. For a first d…
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