Bought this as Christmas present for my adult son’s girlfriend…great idea…they love it.

2025-01-08

Love it, I am very happy and can wait to start out dinner dates. . .

2024-07-25

My husband and I are enjoying the dinner dates we have modified a few recipes but over all amazing experience

2024-02-20

Concept is great - but the recipes themselves are a mess. Instructions don’t match photos. Extra ingredients. Missing ingredients. Ingredients for one dish meant for another. Unsafe cooking techniques. I’m a very experienced cook and recipe writer: these would never pass muster in a cookbook, magazine and even the smallest food blog. The thing is? Such easy fixes if someone actually edited the recipes. We’re on our 4th dinner and it’s been the same, every one. NOT RECOMMENDED for inexperienced cooks who can’t see through this BS.

2024-02-15

My husband and I have thoroughly enjoyed the several dinner dates we’ve completed. We both enjoy cooking, but often, in our busy lives, don’t take much time to do it together or enjoy the process anymore. The dates help force us to slow down, and take some time to enjoy cooking or eating together in different ways. I appreciate the labels/symbols that help you know what you’re getting into (without giving it away), and give you options for how much time/money/travel you want to commit to. Would highly recommend; we've even given Adventure Challenge books as wedding gifts because we think it’s such a fun concept!

2024-02-02

We received this as a Christmas gift and had our first "adventure" last night--great fun! However, we believe there is a mistake in the recipe which should be corrected for future users. In the first Challenge, Gourmet Biscuits and Gravy with Steak, the recipe for biscuit dough shows 1 teaspoon of baking powder. In fact, that should read at least 1 TABLEspoon of baking powder, and perhaps more. i would suggest users look up another basic recipe for biscuits and they will find that for 2 cups of flour, much more baking powder is used. We followed the recipe and had white hockey pucks as our biscuits. This was great fun though, and we look forward to our next dinner adventure.

2024-01-07

Honest review here. I’ll Just paste what I just posted on FB about it. So far my husband and I have completed the first two “dates”. Hint- I’ve never looked forward to dinner this way before. Today, I've had six people ask me about the Adventure Book I have been posting about. We won it at a Christmas Party raffle. Honestly, I wouldn't have bought it myself since it was a bit pricey, and I had some doubts about it being cheesy or uninteresting. But let me tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. The book is well-crafted, and each activity is thoughtfully designed, with perfectly paired recipes. You can tell that whoever put this together actually cared about it. We're really enjoying it. Im sure any reviews you see are all authentic. I've attached some photos of the book and the intro, but I don't want to give too much away since I've already posted the first two activities and recipes. I don’t want to spoil any more since I guess a lot of people are interested. Also, I noticed just now that one of the winners from Chopped created the recipes. Neat. All in all, I highly recommend the Adventure Book Challenge if you're looking for a fun and unique experience.

2023-10-16

This was my first purchase from this company and we LOVE it! We bought it as an engaged couple and ultimately brought it on our honeymoon! The results were magical- breakfast for dinner at the base of Mount Baker in Washington in the peak of the fall color change… you can take this book with you ANYWHERE and have a blast. We’ve enjoyed all of our recipes and have even made a couple again outside of the challenges. And don’t worry, even if you don’t have much experience with cooking, you *can* do this. The recipes are simple and in the end, it’s all about spending quality time making quality food with your honey! We plan on buying more of these books for a few wedding gifts coming up!

2023-10-12

My husband and I loved this book. We only have 2 more dates to complete and would definitely buy another addition. The recipes were delicious and we did most of the activities. The only thing that we found a little frustrating was that when we watched the video, they would use ingredients that were not listed in the recipe or not use ones that were listed.

2023-09-13

I bought this as a dinner date gift for my husband, but the kids got wind and have insisted on participating with us, and it is a highly anticipated event at our house now! The meals are delicious and easy enough to pull off even on a weeknight, and the challenges are a ton of fun and so far all have been adaptable to play with kids. Highly recommend for a break from routine!

2023-04-04

The recipes are delicious. We haven’t had a bad one yet. Some of the activities are silly and fun. Some are weird but we do them anyway. Definitely has made date night at home more entertaining and special.

2023-03-08

I love the idea of this book, and have found that the recipes are diverse and creative. However, the instructions or ingredient lists are almost always missing something. Garlic is not on the list of ingredients…but step 4 is add the garlic, you are making dumpling but it never says how many the recipe makes so you have no idea how big they should be for the time they cook, and on and on. We have done 6 of these and found these types of omissions and issues in every recipe so far. We have enjoyed a couple of the activities but a lot of them are just types of roll playing and that gets old, as least for us. Hoping there will be a volume II that addresses these problems, because it is really such a fun idea.

2023-02-25

Step One - Make sure you have all listed ingredients. You will not use all of them, certainly not the proposed quantities. ex. Ingredient Lists Canola Oil, Directions ask you to use Olive oil. 1/2 c. Parmesan Cheese, only use is to serve it with dinner at the end. Balsamic Vinegar, Never used. etc. , etc. . . Step Two - Begin to follow instructions. 1) Preheat Oven to 250 - this is just to make sure you are cozy at home. . . . you will never use the oven. It is only a game in remembering whether or not you've turned it off after you've prepared dinner. 2) Slice chicken into 1/4" thick pieces. . . you will be asked to do this at the beginning and at the end. . . choose you're own adventure. I could honestly go on, but why take this miraculous guessing game out of your hands. I can't wait to go through further recipes to see what other challenges are ahead. If you too have learned to laugh at your misgivings, this allows you to couple the bitter sweet taste of a questionable meal made, with the chaotic sounds of laughter brought on by the misfortunes you bring on yourself. And all this for the low low price of $49. 99 + shipping, tax, and unnecessary ingredients. Adventure on my friends.

2023-01-19

I was so excited when my friend told me about Adventure Challenge Books! I purchased the Dinner Date version for a couple and they were really excited to receive such a unique and fun gift. I'm waiting for updates from them as they cook :-)

2023-01-09

The people that were given these books were thrilled and have mentioned that they are look forward to using them as intended.

2023-01-08

We've done a couple of these, and I can't say I'm all that impressed. The first one was fun, but incredibly difficult to make with the date added to it. The second recipe was so aggravating that we didn't even bother with the date part of it. When someone is almost in tears because the recipe is so frustrating, it doesn't make for a romantic night. Wishing that the time that they gave included prep time too. One recipe said 30-40 minutes in its "hint," but it also had you rest a dough for an hour. Hard to plan when you don't know how long you will *actually* need.

2022-12-14

There are so many great recipes in this book. however, the estimated times for these recipes are WAYYY off. These recipes already assume that you have things done prior to starting cooking like: cooked bacon, baked potatoes, hard boiled eggs, and handmade dough. There’s no way you can make empanadas in 1 hour if you have to have the dough set for that long. That doesn’t even include baking time. The time really needs to be adjusted for “real cooking” not cooking when someone already has all your cooked food already done.

2022-12-04

It was a lot of fun and the recipe was tasty, however the instructions and ingredients listed didn't match. It said to preheat oven, but never had to put anything in the oven. It called for balsamic vinegar but didn't say in the instructions to use it.

2022-11-06

It was easy to follow we had a blast from wrapping each other to trying to eat by candle light, our electric went out just as we finished cooking! But we had so much fun! We are looking forward to the next experience!

2022-10-14

My husband and I have a newborn and a toddler, and we were looking for a way to go on easy and affordable dates. We ordered the dinner dates book, and it's been fantastic! We put the kids to bed by 8pm, then we do our dinner date. No babysitters needed, and we can enjoy a meal just the two of us. We have done about 6 so far. I'm not a good cook, but these recipes are easy and really delicious too. Highly recommend!

2022-10-05