Charge bloke and partner in restaurant? (7)
I believe the answer is:
mandate
'charge' is the definition.
(I know that mandate is a more specific form of the action assign)
'bloke and partner in restaurant?' is the wordplay.
'bloke' becomes 'man' (informal term for a man).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'partner in restaurant?' becomes 'date' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'man'+'date'='MANDATE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mandate that I've seen before include "Make compulsory" , "Social appointment for male - or authority given" , "Order - charge" , "Authorisation to a politician" , "Official command; commission" .)