Wellness culture tells us to drink less. The apps tell us to date more. But can you do both at once?
’s “amaro sodas,” sparkling and bitter and also sans booze. Nonalcoholic cocktails are on every new restaurant menu I see, and at dinner parties from L.A. to Brooklyn, weed has replaced wine as the thing to bring.
Five minutes into my second first date, with a computer programmer, I knew it was a dud. I extracted myself after one watery gin and tonic and went home to watchI quickly realized I didn’t have the willpower to not drink in bars. So I decided to remove the temptation. It was summer in New York, after all; the parks were crammed with couples. I showed up to my first park date with a bottle of San Pellegrino and a chocolate bar.
Eventually I gave up on my rules. At a bar with a music executive, I ordered a mezcal cocktail right out of the gate. I split frozen margaritas with a Silicon Valley transplant. Negronis with a drummer. Oysters and champagne with a nurse. Whiskey and ginger ale with a photographer while we danced until the sun rose. I had the kind of carefree, high-intensity nights I’d been craving, and I paid for it: with lack of sleep, loss of productivity, lapsed friendships, and actual dollars .
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