it gives you a sweet and unique vibe coz dinner mates is not what people normally do but it definitely is interesting . The thing which disappointed me a bit was that the start did involve some good dinners but then dinners just reduced to none and some pretty bad problems came to surface. well without problems drama can't me made but it was just a teeny bit over.They could have included food some more i mean at some point i felt the name of the show didnt match it anymore . later on the show becomes about the problems with exes.
i also read the manga of same title and if you think that you they are same you are wrong coz only the concept of dinner mate has been taken from the manga the story line becomes quite different