Where to go on next date? (Bet results at stake!)

[WellAlwaysHaveParis]

Picture the scene: you're seeing someone. The next day after seeing them, you've got a big and challenging event coming up. They say you won't make the event. You say you will (you like a challenge).

So you make a bet with them: if you do manage to make it to the event, you choose the next date. If you don't make it to the event, they choose the next date.

So any ideas? Where to go for next date? (London-based).

Asking for a friend

Bump :)

Why do they say you won't make the event the next day?

Isn't that a strange and slightly dickish thing to say?

Is the loser also paying for your choice of date? 😉

I always enjoy museum dates, YMMV.

Because they stayed out until 5 and the event the next day started at 9! 😂 I should've put light hearted in the title 😂

Loopy ooh that could be an option - I'm not sure! :)

Any ideas? :)

*Why do they say you won't make the event the next day?

Isn't that a strange and slightly dickish thing to say?*

It's obviously a laugh between two people who have just started seeing each other. I don't think it needs an analysis.

Ice skating?

Ice skating at Somerset house then head to flat iron for steak and red wine

I’d go for a nice restaurant with cocktails afterwards.
Duck & Waffle or City Social are lovely!
I definitely think it should be his treat if he’s lost the bet! 😉 x

@shirleyphallus Mmmm...Flat Iron 😋

Fab ideas :) thank you everyone! I'm shit at ice skating 🙈🙈 should I just hope he's brilliant and can guide me?!!

Any more for any more? :)

This whole thread could have been reduced to:
London suggestions for a date please.

Google those igloo pods on Thames. That looks the most romantic place to have a date.

Maidofstars - I like the background. It amused me

I enjoyed the background too!

Other ideas:
Comedy at comedy store following Chinese feast in china town
Drinks at one of the high rise bars
Indian at brick lane and drinks in the pubs after
Cinema at aldgate cinema (the fancy one) with dinner at the pizza union first
BFI for Independant cinema and drinks at the bar after
Bounce in Holborn for ping pong and drinks
Swingers under the gherkin for crazy golf then to that bar beginning with A (not the anthologist, the other one similar?) for cocktails

Ok I’m out!

Wow thanks everyone - these ideas are all amazing!! Please do keep them coming :)

Junkyard Golf in Shoreditch? It's an indoors, grown-up (quite hipster-esque) mini golf place. With booze.

Staying out til 5am before an important work thing is a dick move.

Gloating to a new bf or gf that you are so exciting / the dates or sex is so good that you can encourage them to miss work on the day of an important thing is twattish.

Staying out til 5am before an important work thing is a dick move

Meh. Loads of people have a nightmare night with their crying baby and go to work. I’m sure OP could cope with lack of sleep for one day.

Staying out til 5am before an important work thing is a dick move.

Gloating to a new bf or gf that you are so exciting / the dates or sex is so good that you can encourage them to miss work on the day of an important thing is twattish

Oh come on

Sorry to disappoint, folks, but it wasn't a work thing the next day! I'm too much of a goody two shoes to stay out late on a work night

So what's the consensus?

• Active thing then restaurant/drinks?
• Cinema then restaurant/drinks?

I'm undecided :/ not sure if he's up for ice skating, but I wouldn't say no. I just need to brush up on my skills first!

Just bumping this to get some opinions on active date vs chilled foodie date I'd love to go ice skating, but I'm like bloody Bambi on the ice. I can't really skate, I just stomp everywhere, trying not to fall down

Skating is cliched and cold and not fun unless you can actually skate.

It all seems like a lot of energy and effort for a new relationship: why not just do the usual things a city has to offer, bar, restaurant, film?