Mr. Online Dating Matches is back with more tips for the lovelorn male reader. Click here for previous installments of Man Made.

Chances are that if you are reading this article, you have a hard time talking to women in public places. Maybe you are shy….maybe you don’t have enough confidence…..maybe you just don’t know what to say. There are hundreds of websites, “self help” experts like Deepak Chopra, and other love gurus, as well as thousands of well-meaning advice articles on how to pick up women at bars. Let me save you $49.99 and tell you your basic problem as to why you constantly fail at talking to women…

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Nick and Toni’s Cafe
100 W 67th St
New York, NY 10023
(212) 496-4000

Review
Brick ovens, painted frescoes, and Tuscan charm have made this intimate Italian restaurant a hit with the dating crowd since 1994, when the restaurant spun-off from the East Hamptons to the Upper West Side. Make sure to visit N&T’s on a Sunday or a Monday night, when they have a special that you would think was designed by a DateSpacer…

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Mr. Online Dating Matches is back with more tips for the lovelorn male reader. Click here for previous installments of Man Made.

Ever been out on a date with a girl that you really liked and then wondered if you would ever see her again? Ever get lucky enough to meet a girl out
on the street somewhere (that doesn’t charge $250 an hour) who gives you her
number?

Chances are that you have always wondered if there was some sort of secret
to calling a girl for the first time. To be brutally honest with you, the
answer is “no”. Each date you go out on, each new girl that you meet in a
bar is totally different than the last one you met. Take into consideration
the different circumstances in each situation and you can see why it is
impossible to come up with a definitive rule as to when to call her for the
first time.

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Sweetiepie
19 Greenwich Ave.
(10th & Christopher Sts.)
West Village
212-337-3333

Review
In a previous DateSpace of the Week, we recommended that you check out Hearth because, among other date-worthy reasons, that East Village establishment serves the medieval libation known as mead. Sweetiepie, a brand new dessert joint in the West Village, serves another obscure alcohol that is making a smashing debut in the U.S., now that it has been legalized…

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Mr. Online Dating Matches gives you some cheap dates in the face of the economic crisis. He also wants you to know that his site has plenty of eharmony promotional codes as well as reviews for all online dating services. Click here for previous installments of Man Made.

I met this chick at a bar a couple of weeks ago and she gave me her number. We talked back and forth over the phone and through text message and we really seemed to hit it off. Last week we decided to go to a local sushi bar for our first date. It was the date from hell. She looked nothing like I (drunkenly) remembered. There was no chemistry. Conversation sucked. To add insult to injury, the entire dinner date wound up costing me just under $250. That’s $250 that could have been better spent at Amazon on a new BluRay for my living room.

That got me thinking…

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Center Cut
44 West 63rd Street
New York, NY 10023
212-956-1288

Review
Vegetarianism is so 1998, making steakhouses en vogue for today’s date-minded individuals. And so, we recommend to you, our faithful DateSpacers, the latest creation from China Grill management, the firm that brought you such NYC staples as Asia de Cuba, Kobe Club, and Ono…and now, Center Cut.

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Our anonymous writer from Online Dating Matches returns with some advice on dating attire. Click here for his previous installment.

Think back to the last girl you met and took out on a date. Unlike the U.S. Treasury’s shotgun marriage to Citibank this week, you probably spent a good amount of time and/or money before she finally agreed to go out with you. You carefully planned where you would take her, how much you would spend and (hopefully) where you would wind up if the date was a success. Did you give any consideration to the clothes that you were going to wear, or did you just throw together a collared shirt, ironed blue jeans and some tennis shoes that you picked up at Walmart’s Black Friday Sale, hoping for that “casual look” ? There’s a good chance that if the date was a failure, it could be due in part to what you were wearing (or not wearing).

L’Ecole
462 Broadway
Manhattan, NY 10013
212-219-3300

Review
Many native New Yorkers consider this Soho hotspot to be the best deal in town. L’Ecole is the restaurant arm of The French Culinary Institute, the heralded American cooking school. Since these top chefs are essentially students, prices remain astonishingly low despite the restaurant’s fancy neighborhood digs, haute cuisine, white tablecloths, and top-level service.

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We’re proud to announce a new addition to the DateSpaces family: an advice column for the men. Our anonymous writer comes to us from Online Dating Matches. Check his site out and keep coming back for more Man Made advice.

Having a hard time scoring a date online? Chances are it has something to do with your online dating profile. Unless you look like Justin Bobby or have a bank account like Mark Cuban, you are going to have to rely on something other than your looks to get a date online.

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Whole Foods Market
10 Columbus Circle
Suite SC101
Manhattan, NY 10019
212-823-9600

Review
Think you can’t afford to go out on a dinner date anymore? Think again. You can transform the Whole Foods Market in Columbus Circle into your own private romantic dinner locale – and you can do it all for under $20. No joke.

The Columbus Circle Whole Foods, located underground as you walk in through the main entrance of the Time Warner building, boasts a large seating area. Buy a whole herb rotisserie chicken ($7.99), a loaf of delicious Stirrata ($2.99 – the butter packets are free!), and some pre-cut vegetables ($4.99) and you’ll be eating large on the cheap. Make sure you bring with you a white table cloth, and buy a bouquet a roses as soon as you walk into the supermarket. Once you’ve paid, head over to a table, set it, and enjoy!

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