I’ll give you a good place for a shiduch, but I’m sure people will criticize it: people’s homes. I’m not talking about the people dating but some family home. I believe chasidim do this. The setting is more relaxed and the kids bopping around gets people in the right frame of mind. Restaurants are completely goyish creations and they put us in the wrong frame of mind. Same with hotels.
You get no more privacy in a packed restaurant than somebody’s living room.