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Plan a date

A whole evening, planned in three stops

Choose a neighborhood, a budget and how you'd like the night to end. We'll start you on a walk, sit you down somewhere romantic and send you on to something close by afterward. Swap anything you don't like, then invite someone along.

Want the long version? Read our date-night guides or browse date ideas.

Your evening in

Midtown

  1. 1

    7:00 · Start with a walk

    Top of the Rock

    The deck where the Empire State Building and Central Park both line up correctly.

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  2. 2

    7:45 · Dinner · ~10 min walk

    Aquavit

    Two-Michelin-star Nordic cooking in Midtown — herring, gravlax, and house aquavit since 1987.

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  3. 3

    9:45 · A cocktail somewhere close · ~17 min walk

    The Campbell

    A 1920s financier's private palazzo office inside Grand Central, restored as a cocktail bar.

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Times are a suggestion. LovelyNYC doesn't book tables or tickets: reserve dinner and check show times on each place's own site before you go.