An Ode to the Coffee Date, the Gateway Social Activity
Welcome to How to Be Social Again: The No-Stress Guide to Returning to Society. In this mini-series, you'll get a brush-up on everything from invitation etiquette to navigating bars again—plus, a drinks menu-planner for any party size and an ode the most underrated of gatherings, the coffee date.
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Los Angeles as I write this, waiting for a girlfriend to meet me for an afternoon coffee date. We agreed to “meet for a coffee,” and we may end up doing that, but we might instead take a stroll through Griffith Park or the more pedestrian-friendly blocks of Los Feliz as we catch up on each other’s lives. Or perhaps we’ll just perch ourselves in the hotel’s sunny courtyard and waste no time talking. Maybe we’ll order tea—or green juice, or kombucha (this is LA, after all)—and skip the coffee altogether. It’s all pretty much one in the same...and yes, it’s all still a “coffee date” in my book.