If you are new to town or if he knows you really aren't familiar with a certain venue or if you mentioned you've never been to that restaurant before... you need to be on high alert for this one

Make sure to vet that restaurant or venue he asked you to, do a Google search. Look at the location and the photos. The reviews aren't very helpful from my experience, but the location and photos will give you a good idea of what type of place it is.

Example from my past: him: I live in B-town on main Street are you familiar with that area since you're from c-town?

Me: not really why?

Him: there's this delicious restaurant right near my place, the food is gourmet and it's really a top notch experience. It's my favorite restaurant and usually I don't ask women to go there, but I really like you and think you would appreciate it. It's called gastropub can I take you to dinner there?

Me: gastropub? I have to check what I have going on and will get back to you.

Anyways, he kept hyping up this restaurant saying how fancy it was and that he gets dressed a little more for it... a quick Google search showed me that it was in a really dangerous, low class, unsafe part of town and that it was actually A DIVE BAR with beer and burgers. It looked run down and dumpy.

Lvms will try to hype up places that you aren't familiar with, hoping that they can trick you into a low effort cheapo "date". Your safety is also important though, NEVER go into the dangerous parts of town for a date!