Second Date Ideas in Dallas

Make something together at Trade Oak Cliff, an Oak Cliff studio where new potters and artists can join a class any week. Classes include handbuilding, wheel throwing and pottery painting.

A handbuilding ceramics class starts at $75 per person, and you can design a vase or mug. Public open hours include Wednesdays from 10am to 4pm and 6:30pm to 9pm, with classes running all week. The entrance is four doors down from Oak Cliff Brewing Co.

Spend a long afternoon walking the themed gardens at the Dallas Arboretum in East Dallas, including the Rose Garden, Sunken Garden and Jonsson Color Garden. Several picnic areas, flowers and water features are on the grounds.

Bring your own food, drinks and coolers. The Arboretum is open daily from 9am to 5pm. Adult admission is $21.95 Monday through Thursday and $25.95 Friday through Sunday.

Let the art start the conversation at the Nasher Sculpture Center in the Arts District. One ticket covers the galleries, the sculpture garden and the cafe.

Adult admission is $10. Entry is free on the first Saturday of each month from 11am to 5pm, and on the third Friday of the month from 6pm to midnight, March through October. The center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm and closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Buy tickets online ahead of time or at the front desk when you arrive.

Sip cocktails under chandeliers at Bowen House, a Victorian-style house bar in Uptown, with a private bar-within-a-bar in the back. The drinks run from whiskey highballs to a creamy bananas foster take.

The food leans French, with escargot and steak tartare, plus a club sandwich and cacio e pepe with Calabrian chili.

Crown Block, in Reunion Tower downtown, serves dinner with skyline views. The menus cover steak, seafood and sushi, and the dining room sits on the 18th floor with 360-degree views.

Dishes include the mac and cheese waffle and the cotton candy donut holes. Dinner runs Monday through Thursday from 5pm to 10pm and Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 11pm. On Sundays, brunch is 10:30am to 2pm and dinner is 5pm to 9pm.

Wander Bishop Arts District, a walkable Oak Cliff neighborhood with boutiques to browse and places to stop for a drink. The Bishop Arts District Wine Walk runs on several dates, including Thursday, October 29.

Try climbing together at Movement Grapevine, a 36,000-square-foot gym in Grapevine with three open levels. Pick between bouldering, lead climbing or top-rope routes. See how high each of you will climb.

Intro classes cover rope climbing and bouldering for new climbers. The gym is open Monday through Friday from 6am to 10pm, Saturday from 9am to 10pm, and Sunday from 9am to 7pm. Weekday mornings and early afternoons are the quietest, and parking is plentiful.

Take afternoon tea in the French Room at The Adolphus downtown, under twin Italian Murano glass chandeliers and over honed marble floors. Tea runs Monday through Thursday from 11am to 3pm and Friday through Sunday from 10am to 4:30pm, with the last seating at the end of each window.

For the evening, The French Room Bar is open Monday through Saturday from 5pm to midnight, and the kitchen closes at 10pm. The bar is closed Sundays.

Head to the 50th floor of The National downtown for handcrafted cocktails and sushi at Kessaku, with 360-degree skyline views from the historic observation deck. The lounge seats 60.

Come for drinks and sushi before dinner, or for a nightcap after.

Settle in for Italian at Terilli's. The dining room has white tablecloths and an Art Deco interior, and a pianist plays live in the main room on weekends.

Chicken Terilli over angel hair pasta sits alongside lobster bisque and shrimp scampi on the menu. The rooftop has views and espresso martinis.