I know that people eat dinner at different times. This might stem from when you ate dinner as you were growing up, it could depend on your schedule, maybe you are just hungry earlier or later? For most of my life, we ate dinner pretty regularly around 5:30. Sometimes it was later, depend on sports practice, but it was rarely after 6:00pm. This has stuck with me even now; 5-6 is the dinner hour. I would rather not eat after 6:30, for a few different reasons. Luckily, Ross is in the same camp as me - unlike our roommate Josh, he often makes his dinner around 8pm!
This habit of eating early probably saves us from waiting for a table at many restaurants, because for the most part we are beating the crowd. I take that back - when we go to Olive Garden at 5:00, we might have to wait - but when we go to Figlio's, we will likely be the only ones in the dining room! My friend sometimes asks me to dinner at Figlios.....at 9:00pm.....and I usually laugh because to me that is not dinner :)
This past Friday was our anniversary, so along with a day at the Zoo and a night in the downtown Hyatt, we planned to have dinner at Buca de Beppo's. I thought, being a Friday night, it might be smart to make reservations. I don't go out downtown too often, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I called and made reservations for 5:30pm. Due to a rainstorm that would bring a heavy downpour from about 5-6, we headed to Buca's at 4:45 for a before dinner drink. Getting there, we found that we were the second couple in the place. This didn't change much as it got closer to 5:30. When we were lead to our table, I think there were 3 other parties in the restaurant. I couldn't help but laugh that I had made a reservation. Better safe than sorry?
More on the food coming later....
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I agree with 5:30 being a good dinner time but that translates to 6:30 in Michigan time which is pretty much when we eat. Living so close to the Central Time Zone makes it hard to stick to the 5:30 time. You didn't tell us if the food was good or not at the restaurant you went to on Friday???
At my dad's house we used to eat at 5:30 and at my mom's we would eat around 8:00. My stomach was always confused when I had to switch houses. I think I prefer somewhere in the middle... maybe 7:00.
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