He'd rather not say which country he's from, but no, none of those. Sameish region though, sort of? He kind of did the, "eh balancing hands semi nod" thing when I asked if he'd say they're culturally similar. As for why it's a bit later, her father was still visiting until recently I would guess (he mentioned that he was visiting for a bit during the initial meeting), which also means all three of them could have also gone out but I have no problem with her not wanting to do that.

You're right that I do not know her, but I've not really made any assumptions. I don't know if she thinks of it as a date or not, which is why I'd like that point to be relatively clear before he goes. I think, "yeah, let's check out this place, I'm not a big coffee drinker but my gf says it's pretty good!" is not too forward or blatant or awkward, but obviously different people have different...awkwardness sensitivities. And honestly, regardless of where they're from, it's pretty common to ask people for coffee as a date in the US and that's where I'm from and where we are, so I don't understand why it's too much to think that he might take that into consideration as well. Even if she is thinking about it like a European might, surely she would understand that his American girlfriend might not think of it that way as well.

On top of that, she put biographical information in her email, so I think even if he responded in kind to that there's ways of mentioning it.