The best places for Tinder dates

Congratulations, you’ve both refrained from being total douchebags at round one. Take another roll of the dice. These are your top three considerations for your second first date.

1. Poor? Get a bottle and go somewhere BYO you love.

2. Both love food? Stick to a great place that’s still casual – do you really want to go to the brand-new untested place? Maybe (but only if you've got a good sense of humour and you think a lame dining experience will forge a bond through trauma.)

3. Don’t overlook your own local restaurant/pub. It's nice to show your date what you’re about.

The historical Meyers Lane Italian is a great place to get the measure of a date. Can you love someone who can’t love Laminex, simple pasta and plonk in tumblers?

The Lebanese restaurant has plenty of vegan and seating options (we really like the courtyard), and it’s BYO. 

It’s our favourite dumpling house in town. Quick, low-key and delicious.

It’s a premium experience with interesting wines that still won’t tie you down. Get one duck waffle or commit to a 800g steak. We like watching what's going on behind the pass.

Pietro Barbagallo’s pizze is phenomenal, and, if it’s sunny, you can get it to go and eat it in the park across the road.

If you like cocktails, whisky, blues, good service and eating Reuben sandwiches at 2am, Beneath Driver Lane is your basement of dreams. If your date doesn't like those things, maybe reconsider why you're on a second date? Booths are in intimate nooks, and the music is never deafening. 

If you both know your wine, the list is unbeatable and the space, filled with Gerald Diffey’s carefully curated assortment of tat is perfect.

This place has great cocktails, wines and beers and excellent lamb ribs, pickles and salumi that you can build into a meal. Plus there are street seats.

This one's for all you discerning drinkers who also like to dance your pants off.