Dating a close friend, need advice

Hi! Long story short, I've started dating a close friend and our first date was amazing and we talked all night, but I've noticed that a lot of the time we're together, it just feels like friendship. We're both interested in a romantic (and eventually physical) intimacy, but I feel like I'm trying to swim upstream in this situation. We're already such close friends that we kind of have this dynamic that's hard to push past to bring the emotional intimacy to the relationship level.For those of you that have been in this situation, how did you move past the friends point? Or I guess advice from anyone would be good. Also, looking for good date ideas :)