The TSR rules for a first date thread

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Don't go anywhere that prevents conversation (cinema, theatre etc) because you won't get to know each other. Leave things like that for a second date.

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Do go somewhere relaxed and where you will both feel comfortable (although posh restaurants are lovely they can be a bit intimidating for a first date-leads to so many worries about looking messy and ettiquite etc). Try coffee shops where you can sit for hours and talk, cafes and fun casual restaurants, exhibitions at galleries/museums (gives you an instant topic of conversation- discussing what you are looking at) or a nice walk.

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Don't go on and on and on about yourself during conversation. Talk about yourself and then listen to what your date has to say. And then be interested in what they have said instead of starting to talk about something totally different that relates to you. Nothing worse than a date who just talks and doesn't listen.

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Do try to get on to a topic that lets you have a discussion. Maybe a film you have both recently seen, or your differing tastes in music, or even politics and current affairs. (I have often found that some of the best first dates have been the ones where a heated discussion has started about something you are both interested in-it shows that you have things in common at least)