We know, we know. You’re all such foodies that you would never dream of dating someone who wouldn’t plunge headfirst into a plate of organ meat with great gusto. Or would you? There are exceptions to every rule and sometimes those exceptions are totally hot and you want to marry or maybe even just have sex with those totally hot exceptions. Which begs the question, where do you take the dreaded Picky Eater on a date? The answer, after the jump.

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Someone once told us that an actor’s headshot should look like that actor, not like someone else, but it should look like that actor on his best day ever.

That same holds true for a first date. You’ll want to present yourself as you on your best day ever. That brings us to our first type of first date, the false pretenses kind where you don’t have much money, but you want to impress like you do.

Foobooz would never advise lying to a loved one (or even a not-yet-loved one); that’s just not the way to begin a beautiful friendship… but…. you wouldn’t go on a date without putting on some lipstick or those jeans that make your butt look particularly hot? So why wouldn’t you put some thought into how hot the restaurant you’re going to might make you look?

If you don’t have a lot of money, you’ll have to be creative. Which means: a great restaurant on an off night, a bar with a subtle and sophisticated happy hour special and a BYOB situation with a possible trip to New Jersey for supplies. Here are two suggestions for the False Pretenses: I Don’t Have Much Money, But I Want to Impress Date…

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At Foobooz World Headquarters, we get a lot of requests for emergency restaurant assistance. As in:

“I’m celebrating a birthday/graduation/generic special occasion with 12 people, two of whom are vegetarians, one who won’t eat garlic and three who love steak… can you tell us where to go on a Saturday night at 8pm? Oh, and if it’s BYO, that would be better. And it has to be cheap.”

We’re still working on solving that great mystery of the dining universe, but in the meantime, we’re tackling a really important restaurant-related riddle: where should you go on a date?

We’re putting together a comprehensive guide of dating agendas that will address every dating situation we can imagine: Where to go on a first date? Where to go when you’re breaking up? When you’re just trying to get laid? When you’re having a secret affair? When you’re meeting the parents? Where should you take a beer lover? A wine lover? What do you do with a hot vegan?

We’ll be rolling out a new date every Tuesday and then collecting them in a feature, which you’ll find on the menu at the right.

Remember Dating Makes You Want to Die, But You Have to Do It Anyway.