10 Best Places in L.A. For a First Date

Courtesy of Dave Welch
Cicada Club
See also:
*10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying
*10 Oddball L.A. Museums Worth Seeing
*10 Places in L.A. to Draw Nude Models

Coffee dates are the worn-in blue jeans of the dating world: about as unoriginal as a third date at a sushi bar, but still used as the comfortable, familiar fallback of choice for an outing you've been on more times you care to admit. You (and the person you're meeting) can do better. Los Angeles has other, sometimes just-as-affordable locales to get to know a potential new paramour.

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LACMA's Urban Lights
10. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Meet under LACMA's Urban Lights display on Wilshire Boulevard and head inside to check out the art (the museum has free general admission on certain days), see a film or play, or listen to free concerts during the Sundays Live events. Afterward, get some drinks at the on-premises Stark Bar. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Miracle Mile. (323) 857-6197. More information: www.lacma.org.

Tessie Navarro / LA Weekly
9. First Fridays at Abbot Kinney
Because even if things don't go so well that you're picking out artwork for your future abode, you can still make small talk over people watching and food trucks at this monthly gathering on Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard. From 6 to 10 p.m. the first Friday of every month. Check out this slideshow for more photos of First Fridays.

Up next: a pier and an arcade

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Category: General

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Abbot Kinney Blvd.

1507 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

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Santa Monica Pier

200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA

Category: General

Blipsy Barcade

369 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Category: Music

Silverlake Wine

2395 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Category: General

The Last Bookstore

453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA

Category: Music

Griffith Park

4730 Crystal Springs, Los Angeles, CA

Category: General

Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens

5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles, CA

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Birds

5925 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Category: Restaurant

L.A. Derby Dolls

1910 W. Temple Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Category: General

The Doll Factory

1910 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA

Category: General

Maxwell DeMille's Cicada Club

617 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, CA

Category: Restaurant

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Johnny O's
Johnny O's

My favorite first date spot is the Venice Ocean Front Walk or a picnic on the beach.

Eden Burger Bar
Eden Burger Bar

Eden Burger Bar in Glendale! Delicious burgers, fine wine, speciality beers, macarons...

Victor Revilla
Victor Revilla

Backstage at a concert is also cool. Just saying..

Chringram Chris Ingram Ingy
Chringram Chris Ingram Ingy

Wife and I had our first date at Rose Bowl antique and flea market - must have worked, since we've been together now for 18+ years

Joaquin Gaitán
Joaquin Gaitán

Except for UCB, wine tasting and Cicada, I've been to all of them... by myself :(

Golriz Moeini
Golriz Moeini

White Harte Pub rocks...a fun pub, it's like going to a good friends home...

White Harte Pub (British)
White Harte Pub (British)

Hey White Harte Pub (British) there's Monday Night Dinner & Movie nights, and for same price as going to the theater you can have dinner, movie, dinner and drinks! So why spend a fortune at the movie theater unless there is a must see new film, you're better off going to a quaint and cozy pub for drinks during your movie in a beer garden....

Elizabeth McCoy
Elizabeth McCoy

I went on my first date with my fiance to the Cicada Club. It's a fabulous place to start falling in love with someone.

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