Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eating alone in a restaurant does not have to be unpleasant. It can actually be a pleasure to treat yourself. Some restaurants, ...

More and more, New Yorkers are dining solo. But there are rules to follow if you book a table for one, according to experts. adobe.com Jess Brohier is sitting alone at Brooklyn’s Chez Alex — and she ...

“Table for one?” the waitress asked me with a touch of “poor dear” in her voice. She couldn’t imagine that I was excited about it. “Maybe you’d be happier at the counter, hon?” she said, folding a ...

A few centuries after Benjamin Franklin first strolled down a Philadelphia street chewing on a loaf of bread, dining alone in public is still uncommon enough to carry a certain social stigma. So much ...

Table for one? That was often met by a surprised, often sympathetic look from a restaurant host - and interpreted by many a solo diner as a sign the host pitied them for not being able to produce a ...