A bar for single ladies with no pick-up lines

It is a Saturday night, and I want to go out for a drink. I don't have anyone to go with but I'm tired of being indoors all day. I need to get dressed up and sip a lovely crisp white wine and relax. So why am I balking and questioning how much do I really want to go out?

I know the answer, because we are tired of being picked up by men who see us alone and think we are vulnerable and well let’s face it -alone. It is that feeling when I sit at a table alone that I'm being assessed by onlookers and soon will be pounced on.

Another reason we don't go out alone is because bars don't have things to entertain women who like to sit and relax with wine. They have pool tables, tv screens and other bloke-based bar entertainment. Where are the glossy magazines or other reading material for women to flick through while sipping wine?

When women drink on our own people expect we are waiting for others. I think women take up smoking because that shows society - I'm alone, I smoke and yeah I drink alone. For nonsmokers we are now having to take out our iPad or iPhone and busy ourselves while we drink. Yes, I'm out but I'm doing something so it's ok! But the lone drinker without friends -"Nigel no friends" - that takes some courage.  

The inevitable result is that many women are forced to go to the local bottle shop and buy bottle of wine, rather than go out for one.

I want a bar made for singles, and specially for single women. A place that has a good selection of wine, cheese and snacks (possibly chocolate when required). I want cushy seats. Some seats with tables for writing, hordes of glossy magazines and maybe even some light reading if I choose to stay a while. I want a place that when I walk in I am the common type of person, I am the expected patron. Alone. Am I asking for too much? A bar that plays 'so you think you can dance on a Friday night' and maybe even episodes of Sex and the City and Seinfeld. I want meals that are low fat for the odd days when I care, and full of fat when I think I deserve it. Maybe it should have areas depending on your mood. Lounges and magazines in one corner, tables for working singles, tv corner for those that just want a different lounge room, and funky bar/ cocktail/food area for when you want the usual bar.

I guess in writing this I know why bars don't cater for this group. We are too picky, too needy and cost more than you will get back in return!

So there I am left with the two options. Buy a bottle and eat in or risk it and step outside. Oh well, here I go to my local Belgium bar. Where I will sit outside and hope nobody pounces, prods or pushes a pathetic pickup line on me.