Not sure exactly to what you are referring but I guess it makes sense, lol.
Saint Mary’s College in Moraga was a favorite Friday & Saturday night cheap-date steak or spaghetti house. Those nights it was open to the public, rather than just students and faculty.
Dinner for two, with a pottery ‘bottle’ of Portuguese Lancer wine was very reasonably priced. That combined with the rather dark, candle lit interior & Mission style & dark Spanish beams & paneling archetecture, made a hit with the ladies one was privileged to be escorting.
I lived in Pleasant Hill, so it was on the back way to Oakland/Berlekley; or to the Moraga Theater, known for “art films”, with lots of secluded “rest stops” to park along the way.