How We Do… Restaurants

How often do you eat out? Do you get takeout or eat in restaurants? With the whole family or just with your spouse?

I don’t eat out or get takeout ever. I make everything at home, even challah. Very occasionally, the men in my family will go pick up a potato kugel or cholent as a snack, but my feeling is, why spend money on that when I can make it ten times better?

—Dassie Steinberg

My husband and I will occasionally go out to a restaurant, but only for special occasions like birthdays or our anniversary. During Covid, we ordered takeout instead. My husband also likes to eat out with the older kids one-on-one for their birthdays. And we also ate out or got takeout with each kid before they left the country for a significant amount of time, like before they went to seminary.

—Leah Lowy

It depends on how busy we are, but usually we get takeout or eat out as a family once or twice a month and have a restaurant date night once or twice a month.

—Brachi Silver

Once a year at a higher-end restaurant, twice a year tops at cafes or breakfast-type places, so in total about three or four times a year (which includes friend dates). We almost never take our kids out to eat, maybe once in the summer. Eating out is supposed to be a relaxing, pampering experience. Kids stay home!