Contents
An evening for two, sorted by how far you have to go. Part of Leisure.
Folders: Food · Media · Games · Places · Permaculture · Recreation · Events · Calendar
This page holds no notes of its own. It borrows from the six maps and rearranges them around one question — are you staying in, going across town, or leaving town? Decide that first and the rest of the evening plans itself.
Staying Home
The cheapest version, and the one you can still call at five o'clock.
- Dinner for two — Date Night Dinners is this section written out as dishes: eighteen of them, sorted by whether you cook for them, with them, or in ten loud minutes
- Cook it together — Cooking · easiest ways to cook · ways to cook · my recipes · best recipes for you friends
- Low effort, good return — Deep-Dish Pizza · Macaroni and Cheese · Grilled Cheese Sandwiches · soup · Crock Pot and slow cooker Recipes for the afternoon start
- Dessert and bread — Baked goods · bread · yogurt
- Backyard — outdoor cooking · smoking wood · outdoor backyard sports
- Something to drink — Drink · coffee · caffeinated teas · smoothies
- Watching — Film And Tv · film and tv genres · Low budget Cinema · stoner flix · best birthday scenes
- Listening and playing — Music · playing guitar · video games · table of all video game consoles
- Reading in the same room — literary genres · Library resources
- Plants — House Plants · Indoor Gardening · Gardening for the evenings that turn into repotting
Going into Town
Out and back the same day. No bag, no booking beyond a table.
- Dinner — Top Ten Restaurants in Columbus · Top Ten restaurants by Country · Dining
- Cheaper dinner — food truck and stands · sub shops
- A drink after — Local bar
- Cuisine to aim for — Cuisines · ethnic cuisine · Italian Cuisine · Columbus Nepali and Bhutan Food
- Seeing something — art museums · Ohio Stage Theatre · movie theatres chains
- Festivals and screenings — best film festivals · Columbus 48 Hour Film Festival
- Daytime version — Farmers Markets · Columbus farmers' market · petting zoo · animal sanctuaries
- Making something — Columbus Makerspacres
- Working off dinner — recreational activities · skateparks
- What else is in the city — Columbus, Oh
Going out of Town
A tank of gas or a ticket, and usually a night away.
- Getting there — car rental · amtrak · US Airports · Direct flights
- Packing — travel bag
- Staying — Ohio Hotel and Lodging · US Hotels and Louging · tripAdvisor · KOA for the version with a tent
- Out in it — state parks · National Park Series
- A walk with something to look for — butterfly · Ohio Pollinators · Wild Mushrooms
- Cities worth the drive — Largest Cities in Ohio · Biggest cities in the Midwest · Pittsburgh Pennsylvania · Buffalo, NY · NYC
By Season
- Winter — the indoor half of this page. Winter Growing, winter cellars, long cooking, and snow for the kit if you go out anyway.
- Spring — Spring Planting and the markets coming back: Farmers Markets.
- Summer — outdoor cooking and state parks.
- Autumn — Wild Mushrooms and leaf-season roads. See Leaf Season Ridge Walk and Autumn Harvest Table.
- The dated one — Valentine's Day. Restaurants are at their busiest that night, so book early or stay home.
Cheap Nights
Staying home costs the groceries and nothing else, which is most of why this page starts there.
- cheapest meats · Cheapest Protein and Dry Protein
- Cheap food that makes sense to order online
- Garden Meal Prepping — if the ingredients came out of the garden
- Free-to-enter walks: state parks · recreational activities
Nearby
- Meals — the full food map
- Screens — everything to watch, play, and listen to
- Places — where to go and how to get there
- Movement — the active version of the same evening
- Events · Calendar — what is already dated
- Ohio Art Museums · Ohio Gardens and Arboretums ·
Ohio Hiking Trails · Columbus Farmers Market Guide — the Ohio
guides that came out of this page's own
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