The wine and dine, the movie, the blah, blah, blah has its place in coupling on the sunny side of the street, but it isn't so much that guys cross over so as to skip that part, I don't think, it's more because so often that routine fails to deliver the desired outcome.
Dating is thought of as getting to know one another, but IMO it's partly about getting in sync with each other and seeing if we like tuning in to the other's dynamics or not, and partly about finding out if the potential partner is someone who turns them on in a significant way. Is she the person I hoped she'd be? That's a question I probably asked a lot back when, although I only remember the answer I decided on: either she's everything I've been looking for, or, I don't think I want to get involved with this one.
So for the fantasy, you can pick one you think you'll like in a superficial sense. The joke in the case of the hobby is that what a woman in her role of provider puts forth as her persona is what she thinks is beautiful, so she presents in the superficial expression something that reveals a very true insight into who she really is.
If she thinks guys like bubbly vivacious ladies, and displays that, she reveals that bubbly and vivacious is something beautiful, something to be valued. That says more about who she is than you'll probably learn over dinner.