What’s ‘girl dinner?’ Here are the Fresno-area restaurants where you can find out
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- Several Fresno-area restaurants now offer “girl dinner” menu deals.
- Ten Tavern and Starving Artists Bistro each offer a $20 martini, salad and fries combo.
- CheyAnne’s offers a $29 martini, appetizer and salad special now through Labor Day.
“Girl dinner” has gone so mainstream you can now order it at restaurants in the Fresno area.
The term went viral on the internet recently for that thing that women do when their meat-and-potatoes-loving partners are away and they just don’t feel like cooking.
They eat a combination of snacks that’s just healthy enough to make up a meal, usually with a glass of something alcoholic involved. (And they usually while eat it while planted in front of their favorite TV show or movie.)
So, a plate filled with enough cheese, crackers, pickles and wine to fill them up.
Or maybe a charcuterie board.
The term ripped through TikTok and made it to Merriam Webster online, where one example of it included this description from Threads user @imnotready4thissheet: “Girl dinner should look like a feral raccoon was given access to your kitchen. Girl Dinner should not include cooking or using anything but a knife to prepare it.”
Somewhere along the line, girl dinner evolved to become a Caesar salad, french fries and a drink. It’s different, but still has all the main pillars of the meal: Low effort, yummy and satisfying, and healthy enough.
Several Fresno-area restaurants are jumping on the trend as a way to attract customers, usually with low price.
Where to get girl dinner at Fresno-area restaurants
Ten Tavern, 1177 N. Willow Ave., Clovis.
$20 for a martini, a side salad and french fries. Choose from a “Tentini” made with raspberry and Champagne, an espresso martini or a dirty martini. There’s also a choice between a half a chicken caesar salad or a half a strawberry-spinach salad with chicken.
It’s a limited-time offer that will likely last into the summer.
Starving Artists Bistro, 9447 N. Fort Washington, Fresno.
$20 for a Cosmopolitan cocktail, a salad and french fries.
CheyAnne’s Steakhouse & Lounge, 505 Sierra St., Kingsburg.
$29 for a martini, appetizer and salad. This deal is only available from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. now through Labor Day.
Choose from a vanilla cold-foam espresso martini, CheyAnne’s raspberry lemon drop martini, or a classic gin or vodka martini.
For an appetizer, pick from pork belly tossed in a house glaze, truffle fries or shrimp cocktail.
Salad options include a garden, wedge or Caesar salad.
