Your wrinkles are less obvious to your dining partner.

My dining partner, now looking distraught, asked for the chicken instead.

The fourth dining partner arrived late, apologetic and a little rueful.

My dining partner strayed a bit beyond the boundaries of our hot dog dining mandate and ordered a sausage sandwich.

My dining partner and I savored each piece of the roll.

My dining partners eyed their menus warily, then placed their orders.

My dining partner and I were the only customers in the place.

My advice is to request the music be turned off, or turned down, to a level where one can think, read a newspaper, talk with a dining partner.

I think if she were to look beyond her subpar basil mashed potatoes to her dining partners, her adventure would truly begin.

My dining partners, valley dwellers, reported confronting the same problem on earlier visits.