Contents

Preface   Barbara Santich

Allard, alone   Vikki Moore

Alone   Marianne Robins

A table alone   Cassie Harrex

A recipe for nourishment   Marianne Duluk

Table for one   Julia Jenkins

Alone, together   Alyssa Fletcher

Greg   Camellia Aebischer

The lights in Paris   Jennifer Baily

An attentive waiter   Danya Bilinsky

Under the sea   Elizabeth Black

Minestra   Rita Cattoni

A date with destiny   Tibbie Chiu

Cutting ties   Nathalie Craig

From Mykonos to Meteora   Lisa Dempster

The second last supper   Wendy Downes

A comfortable place   Kay Gibbons

A late lunch   David Gilligan

Sydney 1993: Getting over dining alone   Ross Karavis

Don’t dine alone—take an iPad to dinner   Suzanne Le Page Langlois

The Japanese, the chef, the old lady and the fish   Lisa Le Faucheur

I just can’t dine alone anymore   La Vergne Lehmann

Table for six   Lucinda Moody

A waiter’s intrigue   Kate Napper

One is a lonely number   Josie Palombo

Grandmother Chen   Diana Parkyn

Taking flight   Caroline Pearce

The unmarried chapter   Glennise Pinili

Solitude   Banjo Harris Plane

Dining alone with Madame Taittinger   Kate Punshon

Dinner for two   Carli Ratcliff

Velvet   Karen Reyment

The harvest fog   Eloise Riggs

Dining alone, annually   Alister Robertson

Chardonnay or Nebbiolo?   Mandy Rowe

That cherry pie   Catherine Shepherd

Last meal   Carly Slater

The only pub in town   Natasha Stewart

Bitter   Roz Taylor

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