Guys on this thread who get pissy when your girl doesn't want to go anywhere, listen up.

The proper reaction to the turn-everything-down, no-alternative problem when presenting your girl with options of places you may/may not want to eat is not an exasperated arm flap, yelling, or bitching about how crazy your girlfriend is. I mean, yeah, it's annoying, but a lot of the time the fact is we simply don't want to go out to eat.

It's exhausting. We have to get dressed, do our hair, sometimes put on makeup. We have to be prepared to eat in a manner that may or may not actually match our hunger level or preferences (for instance, some of us feel awkward/self conscious about asking for sauce or certain doneness of meat or extra cheese at a restaurant, but have no problem grabbing it from the fridge or cooking it a few extra minutes or slathering it on at home). We have to deal with the weird mental stigma that comes from being taken out to eat, or the uncomfortable "shit who's paying, him or me? Should I offer to pay or will it annoy him?" moment when the bill comes. We have to focus on light, impersonal things to chat about, and avoid the temptation to look at our phones or people-watch or eavesdrop or deal with people doing those things to us.

Going out to eat is not always a great thing that we want or should feel grateful and excited about. Especially if it's an every night or 3 nights a week thing. But when you ask, we don't always know how to say no, because it feels ungrateful/rude/etc., and we're taught by society that we can't refuse you without being perceived as bitches.

So if your SO seems indifferent or unenthusiastic about going out to eat, stop offering options or demanding them from her and offer to cook for her or help her cook dinner instead.

Best way to lead into this (since not all girls necessarily want this, obviously this isn't a catch-all) is to say "Well, do you not want to go out? We can just make dinner ourselves. I'm perfectly happy eating in, if you'd rather." Don't make it about her cooking for you; make it about the two of you preparing a meal together, or if you can't boil water without burning something down ask if she'll cook if you clean up after.

If she warms to the idea, ask what's in the fridge/freezer or if she wants to go to the grocery store. Impromptu meal planning/grocery trips can actually be REALLY fun! It's also not a bad idea to keep a box or two of something special in your freezer specifically for this. If you're not big on cooking, Omaha Steaks actually has precooked options (chicken breasts, stuffed baked potatoes, etc) that are super good restaurant quality stuff. You should keep some of these on hand, they're better than normal 'frozen dinners'.

Once you've fixed the meal together, you can plop down on the couch or at the table together to eat and you already have a great conversation topic at hand - how awesome you guys are at cooking!

Again, this is obviously not a catch all. Not every women is going to respond positively to their indifference to restaurant being countered by the offer to eat at home. But it can offer a really good new option and if the problem is just that she's tired of going out to eat or genuinely indifferent to all restaurant options, she'll usually perk up at the offer to help cook or completely cook her dinner.