How to Go on a Date in Queens

Almost 50% of the residents in Queens, New York are born outside of the United States. As a result, Queens has a huge selection of diversity and different foods and experiences. Treat your date to a great dinner and night out in this often overlooked borough.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Go the inexpensive, ethnic route for dinner with the Great Wall Kitchen in Flushing. If your date is a vegetarian she will have lots of choices. For Indian Food, try Annam Brahma on 164th Street. Try a twist on Latin food with La Pequena Columbia on 6th Avenue. For a more elegant dinner eat at the Erawan Seafood and Steak restaurant on 39th Avenue.

2. Consider seeing a play at the Queens Theater in Corona park located near the Union Turnpike. If it is winter, take your date to the ice skating rink and share some hot chocolate right there inside the park. And of course there is always The Queens Zoo located there on the Flushing Meadows Corona Park grounds.

3. See a movie at the Kew Gardens Theater in Kew gardens. Don't forget you could also take your date to see the Mets at the famous Shea Stadium on 123-01 Roosevelt Avenue.

4. Dance at the Sidetracks Restaurant and Nightclub in a 10th century railway motif or listen to some jazz music and eat some traditional soul food at the Cooking with Jazz restaurant on 12-01 154th St.

5. Finish off the evening with a walk along Rockaway Beach which is south of Rockaway Beach Boulevard on 116th St.

Resources

• Shea Stadium
• Queens Theatre
• Erawan's Seafood and Steak