Dining alone

Okay I'm not a girl, but I think it probably has to do with the way people live and travel in the bigger cities. In Chicago and New York it's much easier to go out to each because all you have to do is walk a block or two. In St. Louis you have to make a much bigger effort. Also, there is always people everywhere in the big cities, in St. Louis even the most happening place could be dead on any given night.

Honestly, I would never go to a bar alone (just to drink, no way). But like a sports bar that serves food or if I was at a hotel or airport, sure I wouldn't mind eating or drinking alone. I live in a small town now, and I go eat/drink alone often. And when I travel, I have done it too, and I have done that in St. Louis, just at the airport though. There is a stigma about drinking alone. It's not very safe for a woman to be by herself intoxicated for one, but I have always been told that the image of a drunk single woman is not attractive. I did eat/drink alone in Atlanta and Chicago, and never had a problem.