Today, we have for you our first installment of Fall Dates. Like its summer counterpart, it's a creatively titled series where we dream up every kind of person you might be out with, every situation, every weather, and every allergy possibility and put them into a special machine that spits out flawless itineraries for up to a full day of planned togetherness. Either that, or we just craft them from stuff we know and like. We'll never tell.

Kicking things off with The Fall Culinary Date, because we're home free of beach season and ready to shamelessly consume all the ash-roasted sweet potatoes, homemade apple pies and flights of cider October has to offer. 

Let's do so at these places, which are better than other places...