Romantic Meals

from How to Make Every Trip a Honeymoon

Ask for a quiet, out of the way table. Smooch between courses.

Give the waiter a wrapped gift for your honey; ask that it be brought out with dessert.

Ask for champagne flutes or wine glasses—for your iced tea or soft drinks.

Ask for a recipe from your resort so you can recreate a little taste of your vacation at home.

Book a restaurant’s private dining room for the ultimate in privacy.

Discover an out of the way, off the beaten path restaurant together.

Eat an ice cream cone together.

Feed each other.

Find a lofty perch for a romantic evening meal—a rooftop restaurant, revolving restaurant,or a picnic on a hotel balcony.

Go to a restaurant and tell everyone you just got married.

Have a progressive dinner, hopping from one restaurant to another for appetizers, entrees, and dessert.

Have your resort make you a mini-wedding cake. Surprise your lover after dinner!

Bring a bouquet of your mate’s favorite flowers for the table centerpiece.

Have your resort pack a lunch for the two of you.

Make a restaurant reservation and request “your most romantic table for two.”

Offer to order for your mate.

Order a bottle of champagne and toast your lover.

Order a bottle of wine from the year you met.

Learn enough of a foreign language so you can order for the two of you on international trips.

Order lunch or dinner in bed from room service.

Order room service and eat the entire meal with your hands.

Order room service and feed each other.

Order room service—then eat dinner in the nude.

Before your restaurant visit, order a cake. Light a birthday candle for every month or year of your romance.

Pack a gourmet picnic.

Pack a picnic basket and stop to have a remote picnic.

Pick a restaurant to be “yours” during your vacation. Don’t forget to select “your” table.

Play footsies through the meal.

Pretend you are restaurant critics. Give each other a review of the night’s meal.

Pretend you’re room service.

Share a dessert—with one fork.

Spend a whole meal only talking about what you like about each other.

Start your day with a toast to each other—over orange juice.

Surprise your lover by offering to pick up both your meals at the buffet. Arrange berries in a heart shape atop the breakfast.

Surprise your partner with a late-night dessert delivered by room service.

Toast each other, recalling the best part of the day.

Use chopsticks to feed each other.