Slowly this summer, two years after the trend originally kicked off online, restaurants in states from Nebraska to New York ...

The "Girl Dinner" asserts itself as a moment of personal pleasure, a form of listening to oneself, where we eat what we want without guilt.

However, where Girl Dinner celebrates the random chaos that happens when you put all of your disparate favorites onto a dish (or dishes), the Allison Plate is far more intentionally constructed.

Maybe girl dinner needs a rebrand. I give you: Trail Lunch. Although food is part of everyday life, most of the time I tend to fall into auto-pilot.

Stephanie Hernandez and a friend founded Girl Coffee in Greensboro after being inspired by the social media trend "girl dinner." Now, she’s built a brand that supports women coffee growers ...