Blind Date: Liz and Lee

With enormous thanks to Steak of the Art, who sponsored this month’s date. 

We sent Liz on a date with Lee, but was there any romance on the menu?

Name: Lee Weston
Occupation: Personal trainer and massage therapist
Name: Liz Cornelius
Occupation: Food and Nutrition secondary school teacher

Have you ever been on a blind date before?
Lee: Yes I have, once, but I knew a little more than her name unlike this date!
Liz: I haven’t.

What made you want to go on this blind date?
Lee: Wanted to go to a new place, eat some food and meet new people.
Liz: One of my best friends challenged a group of her single friends to sign up and I was the first one of us to give it a go. 

What were your first thoughts when you saw your date? 
Lee: She’s attractive, and thankful that I wasn’t stood up and it wasn’t a guy called Les.
Liz: He looked happy at the bar drinking a beer. I was fashionably late.

What did you talk about?
Lee: Allsorts – love of food, work, Bristol and all things in between. The rest was blurred by cocktail-induced hazy memory.
Liz: Lots of things. We started off with the sensible stuff and then ended up talking about running home barefoot from La Rocca.

What was the atmosphere like?
Lee: Good – chilled, relaxed and easy-going.
Liz: Relaxed and fun. Lee was really easy to talk to. 

Any moments when you wished you were somewhere else?
Lee: Not really.
Liz: Only when the waiting staff looked at us with that ‘we know you’re on a blind date’ look.

What would you say is the best characteristic of your date?
Lee: Drinks pints, likes rum and likes an adventure.
Liz: Our shared love of Espresso Martinis! 

What do you think your date made of you?
Lee: I’m not sure, couldn’t quite read Liz in that respect. Hopefully she thought I was good company and interesting.
Liz: That I perhaps liked Espresso Martini’s a little too much…

Is there anything you would change about the evening? 
Lee: No it was a really nice meal, company and night out.
Liz: Well, I think Lee wanted to go to La Rocca.

Did you go somewhere else after your meal?
Lee: We went to The Cuban for more cocktails but La Rocca was a step too far!
Liz: We went to The Cuban for cocktails. We were dangerously close to joining in with the Macarena but realised we didn’t know all the moves.

Were there any sparks of potential?
Lee: Hard to tell, wasn’t especially feeling the vibe from Liz but you never know.
Liz: He’s a really nice guy and we got on well. 

Will you meet again?
Lee: Hard when you don’t have their number…so no.
Liz: Yeah, it would be fun to catch up with him at some point for another Espresso Martini.

If you would like to take part in one of our blind dates, please email meena@bristol247.com. You will have your meal and drinks taken care of, leaving you to concentrate on the chemistry of love!