"Somewhere out there your mother is shopping for a fascinator but you’re like, really casual about this whole third date thing. Totally casual. As casual as dinner at Daddy Bao. At this laid-back Taiwanese restaurant in Tooting the romance kind of sneaks up on you between bites of shiitake mushroom bao and sips of plum wine Negroni. The moody red lighting will hide that inevitable sheen of panic-sweat you’ve developed on the tube and the affordable prices will set a tone of cool and—third date buzzword coming in hot—casual." - heidi lauth beasley