Dating App Bumble to Open an IRL Space for Dates This Summer

"Scheduled to open on July 24 in New York City, this 80-seat café and wine bar was developed by the dating-app company in partnership with Delicious Hospitality (operators of Pasquale Jones and Charlie Bird) as a ‘safe space’ for healthy, equitable relationships and connections. The yellow, honeycomb-accented room offers a deliberately date-friendly menu with items such as morel mushroom omelets, dry-aged cheeseburgers, squid-ink chitarra with crab, and a runny egg on wild greens, alongside an ambitious coffee program and wines by the glass or bottle to help conversation flow. The launch will be phased (breakfast the first week, then lunch, then dinner), and the space could later function as a programming hub for the app." - Rachel Sugar