
Here's how to make your dining out experience flawless and memorable.
- Look at online reviews at your local Citysearch or at Zagat.
- Look at the menu and make sure there are multiple options that sound good -- and affordable!
- Call ahead and make a reservation. If reservations are particularly hard to get, try using a service like OpenTable,which will keep trying to make the reservation on your behalf atdifferent times of the day, week and month to catch a cancelled spot.
- Speak to the manager and let them know that this is aspecial occasion. Request an intimate yet prime table in the restaurantso you and your spouse don’t get shuffled away in an awkward spot withwaiters whizzing by you to the kitchen.












