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I second Thomas_Traveler's post... as a 40-year-old (not unattractive, employed, divorced) woman who would love to meet a guy in his 40s and hasn't a clue where to start. Where do decent single or divorced men in their 40s hang out? Is TEdward's list valid for someone like me?

Reverse question: what's a good place for guys to meet interesting, cheeky, intelligent women?

I'm a guy in my 40's (single, not unattractive, employed). I want a place where I can actually hear the woman and maybe even get to know her.

When I was out west I was amazed at how easy it is to just mingle and talk with people. Here it seems harder.

Suggestions?

I'm young 20's/F and I agree with many of TEdwards spots.
I'll also throw in Monkey Bar, Flatiron Lounge, Spitzer's Corner, Park Bar, Spring Lounge.
Trial and error is probably the best approach since I am not unsure of the company you wish to keep! Good luck!

make some quiches and freeze them

Try a Kuku (www.chow.com/recipes/11052)! The first time I ever say a recipe for one was in a vegetarian cookbook and I've though of making one ever since. I haven't since I'm not a frittata kind of girl. But baked eggs is my fave way to have them...even something as easy as eggs in hell (hot tomato sauce).

Or you could always make angel food cake and hollandaise sauce with the leftover yolks :)

do Cougar Bars exist in NYC?

Andrearode, if you want to meet guys, I suggest you move out of New York. There are basically 81 single men for 100 single women, and that includes the gay ones and shut-ins.

A friend of mine did meet her husband at a wine tasting in New York, and she did most of the pursuit - she placed an order through him (he worked at the wine store), found out if he was single, asked him out.

Social life has broken down, most men are rightfully content to make women make most of the moves, so good luck out there. Several civilized bars, like L'Acajou, did not survive the smoking ban, unfortunately. The most friendly bar I've been to recently is the Avery Fisher Hall bar, before New York Philharmonic concerts, but it's an older crowd, though devoid of fratboys and a sports TV, and is too expensive to be considered a dive.

Jmforester has some good points. After work might be a better time to meet people. Later at night people tend to be out at bars to "get their drink on".

I get talked to a lot when I take my dog for a walk. It's mostly because you don't really see that many shiba inu around. Both men and women always come up to me, when I'm alone and when I'm with my husband. Girls and women flock to my husband when he's alone with the dog. Our neighborhood is extremely dog friendly so most of the restaurants/shops allow you to take your dog...

Try Jilbour: an Armenian Egg Stew. Here is a simple recipe.

1 pound of onions
1/4 pound of butter
dried mint leaves (dash)
1 pound fresh or 1 large can of tomatoes
eggs to suit
salt & pepper to taste

Method

Cook onions and butter together until lightly browned. Add mint leaf, tomatoes and a little water. Bring to simmer and then crack in as many eggs as you want in the stew poaching same until yolk is cooked. Serve immediately with radishes!

We usually add other veggies too like green pepper with the onions. We also use a lot more butter, and a dozen eggs in this is NOTHING. Just don't stir after you add the eggs.

@EazyB: I didn't say anything about people not eating like this already. When you've had to lift and transport someone that is over 600 pounds and needs a special ambulance or hold up the fat flap of someone with a BMI of 50+ for 2-3 hours for their surgery (that was necessitated by their obesity), then feel free to call me a retard for not understanding that people eat badly already without free health care. My comment's wording was in response to gaffer's wording of "If you really get free health care from Obama you can fearlessly eat this stuff ". You know...the very thing you criticized me for saying. Additionally, I'll admit probably no one has wanted a heart attack so bad but was prevented from "getting one" due to lack of health insurance. However, making an extreme statement like that as an argument is at best marginally helpful to your side. Especially when there are plenty of people who think that modern medicine is so amazing that they can do things (like eating badly) even knowing the consequences (like heart attacks) and that some doctor will fix it. I know this because I've had patients freely admit it to me. At least some of these people would be deterred from eating as badly if they didn't have coverage since it eliminates the "some doctor will fix it" part of their line of reasoning.

@spiderman0521: There's a big difference between free health care and universal health care coverage. Universal health care coverage can be very good if implemented correctly. Giving away something desirable (like health care) for free generally creates demand from people that wouldn't have actually needed it, using up at least part of the supply for people who do need it. Don't assume that I think the US health care system is not broken just because I said that free health care is not a good idea.

@Rdour: I apologize for the derailing. I just think the "bypass surgery after eating something fatty" jokes are incredibly played out. So...

For the sake of at least marginally being on topic, I would probably eat that. Yes. I'd be one of those people who "eat like that already"...at least occasionally. Heart attacks be damned if the alternative is exclusively eating rabbit food for life. It can't be that much worse than a regular Big Mac. The cheese is just moved into the bread...and the bread is fried up somewhat. For the sake of not being misinterpreted, this is not to say that a regular Big Mac is healthy eating and being a little worse than it is also pretty healthy eating. But having indulgences in moderation is acceptable to me.

I had no idea this was endangered- I'll have to make some right away.

@mrslucas: You're right, but the food thing, to my mind, is only a by-product of why Star Trek is superior to Star Wars. Trek is so much more realized in regard to character development and nuance. As I said in the post above, SF often just holds a mirror up to our current world, and the Trek franchise is one of the best examples of that. So it's natural that you'd see the characters in a variety of everyday situations that we would find ourselves in. In contrast, Star Wars, is the basic hero myth set in space. It could exist anywhere, anytime and is really not reliant on the everyday strengths, weaknesses, and struggles of ordinary humans—like Kirk eating greens because he has to lose weight.