I like eating with people but not coworkers all the time unless they really cool and not always talking about work. Eating with homies or a female is great if they have class and don't eat with food coming out of their mouths and smacking and shyt and they have engaging convo.
The issue is a lot don't have engaging and dinner appropriate convo when taking them out or eating with them. I love a chick who can talk about a variety of issues from politics, sports, reality TV like love and hip hop and black ink, job market, education, nowadays shyt vs back in the day, science, etc. It's hard to find that tho...my last chick was super introverted and didn't have any friends or any ideas what she wanted to do.