Love is in the air at some of your favorite area eateries – see what Boston’s
top chefs will be whipping up on Valentine’s Day and make your reservations
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Spend
Valentine’s Day at 33
Restaurant & Lounge where chef Anthony
Dawodu rolls out the culinary red carpet with a four-course, prix fixe menu
designed to indulge and delight. Spoil your sweetie with dishes like seared
foie gras with butternut squash gratin, apple strudel and sour cider jus; roasted
and pickled beet salad with pine nut-crusted chevre, baby arugula and soy-balsamic
emulsion; roast beef tenderloin with braised ox tail pot-sticker, garlic whipped
potatoes, and foie gras matelote sauce; and chocolate bread pudding with warm
banana soup, banana brûlee and butterscotch ice cream. The festivities cost
$85 per person just for dinner, or $200 per couple with a bottle of champagne.
If you’re in the mood for bubbly, ask about the evening’s champagne/sparkling
wine flight available for $40 per person. Call 33 at 617.572.3311 for reservations
and more information.
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Chef
Tsardounis invites Valentine’s Day celebrants to enjoy a four-course prix
fixe menu at Ariadne
Restaurant & Bar on Tuesday, February 14th. Highlights from this year’s
$75 holiday menu include: Wellfleet oyster with a pineapple mignonette; foie
gras terrine with duck confit and artichokes; and seared sea scallops with shrimp,
asparagus and black truffle risotto. Desserts offerings include chocolate crème
brûlée with pecan shortbread cookies; and Meyer lemon cheesecake
with a walnut crust. Call Ariadne at 617.332.4653 to make reservations.
In
true Four Seasons style, chef Jérôme
Legras and pastry chef Tim
Fonseca have created a splurge-worth menu at Aujourd’hui
that’ll exceed all your Valentine’s wildest expectations. Couples can enjoy
a four-course menu that boasts dishes like coffee-smoked duck breast with arugula,
carica, toasted almonds and espresso vinaigrette; white onion soup and truffle
ravioli with sautéed langoustine and port reduction; and red wine poached veal
tenderloin with potato millefeuille, glazed root vegetables and spiced red wine
jus. Fonseca chimes in with a Valentine’s Day inspired dessert: chocolate passion
fruit torte with passion fruit-ginger coulis and strawberry sorbet. Valentine’s
Day Dinner at Aujourd’hui costs $140 per person, not including tax and gratuity.
Reservations are available between 5:30 and 10:00pm and a credit card is required
to book your table, so call Aujourd’hui at 617.351.2037.
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Woo
your Valentine with a specially designed menu from the chefs at Aura
at the Seaport Hotel. Chef John
Merrill has put together a palate-pleasing menu of Valentine’s Day-appropriate
courses like Cape Cod oysters with sesame seaweed salad and rice wine granité;
crispy Long Island duck breast with a wild mushroom and confit Wellington, and
a charred Vidalia onion-sweet potato gratin; and pan roasted cod loin with a
wild mushroom bread pudding, truffled asparagus tips and chardonnay butter sauce.
Pastry chef Ryan Baldwin offers guests options like warm chocolate cake
with roasted banana ice cream and macadamia bark or the Valentine’s Dessert
for Two. The three-course prix fixe menu costs $55 per person, not including
tax and gratuity. Call Aura at 617.385.4300 to make reservations.
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Avenue One‘s Valentine’s Day celebration lasts from Friday, February 10th through
Tuesday, February 14th. Chef Lisa
Lyon‘s menu includes options like Maine lobster bisque with chive oil and
crème fraiche; filet mignon with cabernet demi glace, truffle mashed potatoes,
roasted Brussels sprouts and toasted almonds; and the aptly-titled Duet for
Lovers, which includes coeur a la crème and chocolate decadence. Dinner at Avenue
One costs $140 per couple, exclusive of tax and gratuity. Make reservations
from 5:00-10:00pm by calling 617.422.5579.
at the Hotel Marlowe extends their Valentine’s Day celebration over the course
of a full week with their Seven Days of Aphrodisiacs menu. The menu, which will
be available from Sunday, February 12th through Saturday, February 18th, starts
off with an amuse of oysters and caviar followed by choices like an arugula
and goat cheese salad with fried goat cheese, pine nuts, figs and 25 year old
balsamic vinaigrette; and grilled venison tenderloin of venison, sweet potato
puree, asparagus and cranberry demi-glace. The $45 four-course menu wraps up
with a chocolate degustation. Call Bambara at 617.868.4444 to make your Valentine’s
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day high above the Theatre District with a holiday dinner
at blu,
where chef Tom
Fosnot offers up a menu of love-inspired specials from Saturday, February
11th through Tuesday, February 14th (though not on Sunday when blu is closed).
Courses inlcude chestnut agnolotti with sage brown butter and parmigiano-reggiano;
and slow roasted duck with pickled cabbage, roasted fingerlings, cippolinis,
bacon and thyme. Pastry chef Lynn Moulton, in her debut Valentine’s Day
menu at blu, caps off the meal with desserts like lychee semifreddo with raspberry
gelee and bittersweet chocolate. The evening’s specials are available a la carte
in addition to blu’s swoon-worthy regular menu. For more information and reservations,
call 617.375.8550.
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Not
big fans of the prix fixe menu, the folks at the Blue
Room will be offering up an artisanal, a la carte Valentines Day Pairing
Menu on Tuesday, February 14th. Reservations for chef Jorge
Lopes menu, which will be matched with small production organic wines, are
available from 5:30 to 10:30pm. Call the Blue Room at 617.494.9034 to make reservations.
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Celebrate
Valentines Day at Bonfire
at the Park Plaza Hotel, where the evening’s menu includes specials like foie
gras PB&J with roasted almond butter, mission fig jam, sweet potato brioche;
Boston bibb salad with hearts of palm, toasted cumin vinaigrette and winter
citrus; Chimicurri-basted grilled lobster with blistered infused rum corn succotash,
garlicky kale and grilled Yukons; and Kalamansi lemon curd filled meringue cups
with prickly pear sorbet and sautéed fresh berries. Call Bonfire at 617.426.2000
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Bask
in the warm and fuzziness of Valentine’s Day at the Bristol
Lounge where chef David
Blessing will be creating a special romance-inspired three-course dinner
that couples can enjoy for $50 per person (not including tax or gratuity). Appetizer
options on the Valentine’s Day prix fixe include Maine lobster bisque with cognac
cream; and tarragon and citrus marinated golden beet carpaccio with arugula,
local goat cheese and blood orange vinaigrette. Entrees range from grilled wild
King salmon with butternut squash puree, braised red cabbage, caramelized lady
apples and sparkling cider nage, to lavender-glazed duck breast with ice, tamarind-glazed
baby turnips, pearl onions and tangerine reduction. On his portion of the menu,
pastry chef Tim
Fonseca features cupid’s triple chocolate layer torte with passionfruit
coulis and fresh raspberries; and ginger-laced pound cake with fresh strawberries,
whipped cream and chocolate fondue. Make reservations for you Valentine’s Day
dinner at the Bristol Lounge by calling 617.351.2037.
Give
your Valentine a night to remember at Café
Fleuri‘s Valentine’s Dinner Dance. Delight your loved one with an
evening of champagne, dancing and chocolate. The evening includes a three-course
meal courtesy of chef John
Lambiase – courses like dried rose petal dusted sea scallop with vanilla
scented parsnips and crisp pancetta; and cabernet braised beef short ribs with
golden potato, horseradish and pickled onions. The evening’s festivities wrap
up with a glass of sparkling wine and a mini version of the Langham Hotel’s
famed chocolate buffet. There’s also live music and dancing for those who are
so inclined. Valentine’s Day Dinner at Café Fleuri costs $65 per person, not
including tax and gratuity. Seatings are available 7:00-10:00pm. Call 617.956.8751
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Enjoy
a four-course menu from chef Laura
Brennan at Caffe
Umbra in the South End. The full menu has yet to be released but we’re pretty
sure it’ll hit all the Valentine’s Day food groups – oysters, lobster, duck
confit, foie gras. The prix fixe menu costs $68 per person. Call 617.867.0707
to reserve your table.
Chef
Parsons welcomes guests to Catch
in Winchester for a three-course prix fixe menu. The evening’s full menu is
still in the works, but we can tell you there’ll be lobster, filet mignon and
some spectacular bubbly wine specials for those who are feeling festive but
would prefer to steer clear of the city. Parson’s prix fixe costs $45 per person.
Call Catch at 781.729.1040 to make reservations or for more information.
Chiara
Chiara, Westwood’s newest eatery, celebrates its inaugural Valentine’s
Day with an assortment of options for lovebirds. If you and your sweetie would
prefer to celebrate at home on the night itself, you can enjoy a three-course
prix fixe menu from chef Steve LaCount from Friday, February 10th through
Monday, February 13th. The menu, which will be available in addition to Chiara’s
regular menu, costs $50 per person or $70 with accompanying wines. If you’d
prefer to celebrate on Valentine’s Day itself, LaCount and company will be offering
a souped-up three-course prix fixe menu that includes courses like foie gras
and duck confit terrine, dried cherry compote, brioche toast and brandied cherry
gastrique; thyme-scented breast of pheasant, tangerine glaze, pheasant mousse
stuffed brussels sprout leaves, root vegetable puree; and white chocolate dipped
strawberries. The Valentine’s Day prix fixe costs $100 per person or $80 per
person without wine, and will be the only menu available for the evening. Reservations
are essential and can be made by calling Chiara at 781.461.8118.
Let
chefs Stephen
Brown, Eric
Swartz and Rodney
Murillo dazzle your Valentine with a four-course prix fixe menu of Davio’s
northern Italian fare. The three chefs have whipped up a menu that boasts options
like duck confit frisee salad with toasted pistachio nuts, caramelized pears;
hand rolled potato gnocchi with king oyster mushrooms, herbs and olive oil;
and roasted rack of lamb with winter vegetables and sugo naturale. Pastry chef
Tom Ponticelli adds a special Valentine’s Day selection of his housemade
Sweetheart Desserts. Dinner at Davio’s on Tuesday, February 14th costs $95 per
person. Give them a call at 617.357.4810 to reserve your table.
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Finalecontinues its annual Valentine’s Day tradition this year with yet another completely
over-the-top Chocolate Plate for Two from pastry chef extraordinaire Nicole
Coady. The Temptation for Two, as this year’s dessert is called,
features a triangle of chocolate hazelnut cake, Dark Chocolate Decadence cake
with honey caramel gelato, Molten Chocolate cake with an apricot sauce, nougat
mousse in a white chocolate Florentine cup and assorted baby cookies. The Temptation
for Two is available at both Finale locations starting Tuesday, February 7th
for those who’d like a pre-Valentine’s Day preview. For folks who’d like to
enjoy Temptation for Two on the day itself, reservations can be made at either
Finale location by calling Finale Harvard Square at 617.441.9797 or Finale Park
Plaza at 617.423.3184. The Temptation for Two costs $26.95, though it can also
be enjoyed as part of a special three-course Valentine’s Day prix fixe for $45
per person or as part of a two-course prix fixe for $35 per person. Call either
location for details about the full menu or for reservations.
Put
your Valentine’s Day dinner in the hands of chef Jason
Santos, who welcomes guests to Gargoyles
on the Square with a celebratory threecourse menu that’s chock full of romance.
You and your beloved can indulge in appetizers like lamb tartare with black
truffle, crunchy mushrooms and chive oil; or foie gras terrine with banana mango
salsa, gingerbread and nasturtiums. Entrée options include a grilled delmonico
steak for two, which comes with two giant grilled prawns, potato soufflé and
New Orleans gumbo; and hoisin and honey-glazed duck confit with sweet sticky
rice, mango, cashews and young coconut milk. The Gargoyles’ prix fixe menu costs
$60 per person. Call the restaurant at 617.776.5300 for more information or
to make reservations.
Chef
Herritt celebrates Valentine’s Day at Grotto
by offering a condensed version of the restaurant’s regular menu with a few
seasonal and holiday inspired dishes. Guests can opt for three courses for $40
per person or four courses for $50 per person. There are still tables left,
so call 617.227.3434 to make a reservation.
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Let
one of Boston’s most beloved culinary couples host you and your sweetheart for
Valentine’s Day. Fiona and Gordon
Hamersley welcome guests to Hamersley’s
Bistro for a four-course prix fixe menu. Some highlights from the evening’s
menu include buckwheat blinis with caviar and crème fraiche; artichoke and potato
soup with parmesan crisps; braised Alaskan halibut with oysters and oyster mushroom
sauce; and Cupid’s Sweet Inspirations: passion fruit milk shake with heart straw,
raspberry mouse heart, chocolate heart, sauces and other stuff. Valentine’s
Day dinner at Hamersley’s costs $95 per person. Call 617.423.2700 to make your
reservations.
For
Valentine’s Day 2006, chef (and newlywed) Keith
Pooler welcomes guests to Harvest
for a romance-filled, three-course prix fixe menu. Valentines can start out
with white asparagus salad with Maine crab meat, blood orange and upland cress
and glaçage; or tempura lobster tail with scallion pancake, oaktree shiitake
mushroom and soy ginger vinaigrette. Entrée options include grilled beef
tenderloin with braised celery, roasted chubby carrots, cipollini onions, portobello
sauce; and baked cannelloni with wilted winter greens, eggplant, sheep’s milk
ricotta, tomato sauce, pinenut-cauliflower polonaise. Pastry chef Liz
O’Connell works her confectionary magic in desserts like blood orange-rhubarb
crepes with champagne sabayon; and chocolate cherry linzer torte with chocolate-port
sauce. The three-courses menu costs $55 per person or can be paired with 1/2
glass wine tastings for $70 per person or with full glass tastings for $80 per
person.
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Enjoy
Valentine’s Day in one of the city’s most romantic dining rooms – Julien
at the Langham Hotel will be presenting a fabulous celebration of Valentine’s
Day that includes a four-course dinner from chef de cuisine Mark
Sapienza, accompanying wines, live entertainment and dancing. Sapienza gets
guests in the mood with an oyster and Ossetra amuse followed by courses like
seared Sonoma foie gras with honey toasted almond, persimmon and ginger essence;
tangerine honey glazed duck confit with white endive and Medajool date salad;
and poached Maine lobster with rosé champagne nage, cockles and spinach flan.
For his first Valentine’s Day at the Langham, pastry chef Alejandro Luna
offers truffle cake with wild stone cherry and whipped chocolate ganache mille
feuillete; and caramelized milk chocolate passion fruit mousse with caramelized
coconut sauce and wild fruits sorbet. The evening’s festivities cost $299 per
couple, exclusive of tax and gratuity. Seatings are available from 5:00-10:30pm.
Call Julien at 617.451.1900 to make reservations. If you’re looking for a new
way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, try the Langham’s Valentine’s Day Cooking
Class – click here
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The
folks at Le
Soir celebrate Valentine’s Day for five full days this year, from Friday,
February 10th through Tuesday, February 14th. Chef Mark
Allen is putting the finishing touches on a luscious four-course menu that
starts off with polenta-crusted rock shrimp with arugula and radicchio salad,
with lemon-tarragon dressing, and finishes with a sumptuous chocolate tasting
for two. In between, guests can enjoy lobster bisque with buttered croutons
and lamb rack for two with roasted peppers and parsnip chickpea purée, rosemary
jus. The Valentine’s Day menu costs $65 per person, not including tax or gratuity,
though sommelier Paul Westerkamp will pair wines with the menu for an additional
$20. Call Le Soir at 617.965.3100 to make your reservations.
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Chef
Leviton of Lumière
in West Newton is preparing a Valentine’s Day that’ll warm your heart and soul.
The $80 four-course menu starts off with fried oysters with lime-green curry
remoulade, green papaya salad and peppered peanuts and continues with choices
like crispy braised pork with potato gnocchi and rosemary jus; Stonington Maine
lobster soup with sherry cream and herb oil; and humanely raised veal chop with
pommes Anna, veal jus and marrow gremolata. Among the evening’s dessert selections:
Meyer lemon tart with fromage blanc sorbet and candied orange peel; or, for
traditionalists, Valrhona Manjari chocolate soufflé cake with peanut butter
ice cream, candied peanuts and sweet cream and caramel sauces. Wine pairings
are available for a $45 supplemental charge. Call Lumière at 617.244.9199 to
make your reservations.
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The
Boston Harbor Hotel, in the midst of the 17th annual Boston Wine Festival,
offers a number of ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day. There’s the Valentine’s
Day Dinner Dance on Friday, February 11th, the Valentine’s
Brunch on Sunday, February 13th and the Champagne
Dinner on Tuesday, February 14th. Then there’s Valentine’s Day dinner at
which will be available from Saturday, February 11th through Saturday, February
18th. Chef Daniel
Bruce has created a five-course menu that’ll romance your palate and your
sweetheart and he’s paired every course with a different rose champagne. Courses
include melted leek and smoked salmon custard with caviar and micro amaranth;
mint-roasted rack of baby lamb with black truffle-laced la ratte potatoes and
sweet dumpling squash; and a duet of dark chocolate Sweetheart and cherry almond
tart. The dinner costs $145 per person, including champagne pairings. For the
Valentine’s Day dinner at Mertiage, make reservations by calling 617.439.3995.
For reservations for Boston Wine Festival events, call 888.660.9463.
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This
Valentine’s Day, the Metropolitan
Club’s chef Jeff
Fournier is honoring love with a decadent three-course prix fix menu that
features lobster with chocolate-dipped claws and sauterne poached lobster tail
with olive oil, new potatoes and golden crostini, as well as smoked sturgeon
with Osetra caviar crème fraîche and sunchoke and preserved lemon salad. For
dessert guests can enjoy the Now…and Later, which features a treat to share
when you’re alone with your sweetheart. The Now: chocolate caramel crème brûleé
with sandwich cookies and black and white cake with white chocolate frosting
and chocolate glaze. The Later: a box of truffles to take home and make your
evening even sweeter. You and your love can also drink your fill of each other
over a cocktail-for-two. Like Water for Chocolate is served tableside, and is
a blend of coffee and hazelnut liqueur with Mexican hot chocolate topped with
pink Chantilly made from muddled rose petals. The cost for the three-course
prix fix menu is $80 per person, plus tax, gratuity and beverages. Menu items
are also available à la carte. For reservations, call 617.731.0600.
Treat
your sweetheart to dinner at Oleana
on or around Valentine’s Day. Chef Ana
Sortun and pastry chef Maureen
Kilpatrick will be offering up some swoon-worthy specials in addition to
their regular menu on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday February 13th, 14th and
15th. Specials include Finger Lickin’ fresh Maine shrimp with sweet and spicy
with grapefruit charmoula; sea scallops with parsnip-apricot Ladies Navel and
pistachio cream; and Turkish ice cream with Sweetheart Lips, lemon syrup and
real rose petal jam. Call Oleana at 617.661.0505 to make reservations.
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Lynn
might be the perfect place to celebrate this Valentine’s Day, now that chef
Fitzgerald and the Oxford
Street Grill are in town. Make reservations to enjoy a four course prix
fixe of Fitzgerald’s central-European fare. The $48 menu includes courses like
cast iron-seared foie gras atop brown butter-griddled pretzel bread with port
wine and game stock reduction; borscht of organic vermont beets with crème
fraiche; cassoulet with goose confit, duck sausage and cannelini beans; and
warm dried-apricot bread pudding with brandy crème anglaise. Call the
Oxford Street Grill at 781.593.3111 to make reservations.
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If
you’d prefer to cuddle up on the Cape for Valentine’s Day, the Red
Pheasant Inn in Dennis Village opens up for the whole week with plenty of
cozy tables for two and a romance-laden menu from chef Bill
Atwood whose menu includes dishes like roast duckling with cranberry and
port sauce; rack of lamb with ratatouille and panna cotta; and seared Cape scallops
with pears and winter root vegetables. Save room for warm chocolate caramel
bread pudding and cinnamon ice cream. Call the Red Pheasant at 508.385.2133.
Enjoy
romantic, oceanfront dining this Valentine’s Day. Take your sweetie to the Red
Rock Bistro in Swampscott where chef Lee
Fannon creates opportunity after opportunity to celebrate the one you love.
Drop by for lunch or brunch all weekend long and dinner nightly starting at
5:00pm. They’ve got live music and some of the best views around. Call 781.595.1414
for reservations and more information.
Treat
your sweetheart to a special Valentine’s Day menu at Rialto.
From Saturday, February 11th through Tuesday, February 14th, chef Jody
Adams will be offering a special menu of love-inspired specials and classic
Rialto favorites. Appetizers include simple lettuces with red radishes, rose
petals and chardonnay vinaigrette; tuna tartar with beets, horseradish crème
fraiche and flying fish roe; and chilled lobster with potato-blood orange salad
and lime. Choose from entrees such as seared scallops with cucumber fondue,
potato puree and caviar; roasted venison with mascarpone pine nut cake, braised
baby beets and cavalo nero; and Rialto’s signature slow-roasted Long Island
duck and Tuscan-style sirloin steak. Pastry Chef Tal Shofman-Schejter
will whip up a special dessert of almond financiers with fried chocolate truffles,
berry coulis and Chambord ice cream. For reservations, call Rialto at 617.661.5050.
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Spend
Valentine’s Day 2006 at Rustic
Kitchen where executive chef Tom
Holloway is adding an assortment of Valentine’s Day-inspired specials to
the evening’s menu. Lovebirds can start out with the antipasto for two and choose
from entrée options like pan roasted duck breast with pomegranate and
cherry glaze, grilled asparagus, roasted garlic whipped sweet potatoes and butternut
squash agro dolce; or seafood risotto with shrimp, squid, mussels and clams
served over a lobster basil risotto. Save room for Chocolate Passion – chocolate
butter cake, chocolate raspberry mousse and raspberry hearts. To make reservations,
call Rustic Kitchen in Cambridge at 617.534.7766 or call the Hingham location
at 781.749.2700.
Join
chef Raymond
Ost at Sandrine’s
for a Celebration de la Saint Valentin. Ost will be offering a special three-course
prix fixe in addition to à la carte selections straight from the regular
menu. The evening’s prix fixe includes dishes like Maine crabmeat stuffed avocado
with tomato caper fruit compote, spicy rouille and balsamic reduction; grilled
angus filet mignon with gratin dauphinois, haricot vert and green peppercorn
sauce; and pan seared sea bass with saffron bouillon and asparagus spears. Pastry
chef Lee
Napoli brings dark chocolate soufflé with brandied cherry reduction
to the table. Dinner costs $67 per person or $75 per person with a (split of
Nicolas Feuillate Brut NV Champagne). Call Sandrine’s at 617.497.5300 to make
reservations.
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Treat
your “someone special” to a romantic evening of French Provencal classics at
de la Terre. Chef Geoff
Gardner will offer a six-course prix fixe menu with highlights like sweet
onion potage with Maine lobster dumpling and black trumpet mushrooms; sautéed
veal paillard with roasted prawn, chickpea cake and haricots verts; and chocolate
bête noire, blood orange ice cream and white chocolate-raspberry tart. Drop
by the bar before or after your meal for Sel de la Terre’s French Kiss Martini
made with French Flacon d’Or vodka, Chambord and a kiss of Champagne. Gardner’s
Valentine’s Day prix fixe costs $89 per person or $124 per person with paired
wines. Call 617.720.1300 for more information.
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Chef
Frasca will be presenting a five-course tasting menu for lovebirds who’d
like to spend Valentine’s Day at Spire
at the Nine Zero Hotel. The evening’s menu starts off with choices like first-date
oysters with caviar and champagne-shallot gelee; and tender lettuces with 18-year
old balsamic vinaigrette, warm brioche croutons and delicate herbs and continues
with course like potato gnocchi with braised oxtail, ricotta salata and black
truffle; and rosé-braised short ribs with Macomber turnip, haricots verts
and almond-mint gremolata. For dessert, guests can enjoy a Valentine’s Day tasting
for two or passionfruit soufflé with toasted coconut ice cream. The dinner
costs $120 per person. Call Spire at 617.772.0202 to make reservations – tables
are going fast.
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Chefs
Duarte and Laura
Henry put a Peruvian twist on Valentine’s Day with a four-course prix fixe
menu at Taranta.
Diners can choose among selections like Bluepoint oysters on the half shell
with a prosecco and blood orange dressing with spicy rocoto peppers; lobster
and crab ravioli with lobster mascarpone herb sauce; braised veal ossobucco
over truffle creamy polenta; and peach ginger mousse. Valentine’s Day dinner
at Taranta costs $75 per person. Call 617.720.0052 for more information or to
have them save you a table.
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Love
is in the air, or maybe it’s in the water, at Turner
Fisheries where chef Christoph
Leu celebrates the season of love with a five-course tasting menu. Leu warms
up with an amuse bouche of frosted cauliflower and vanilla shot with sturgeon
caviar followed by courses like crispy fried Chatham oyster with lemon crème
fraiche; pan-seared diver scallops with sweet and sour savoy cabbage and champagne
blood orange essence; lobster and aged cognac bisque with white truffle foam;
roasted tenderloin of beef with caraway rosti potatoes and sweet garlic jus;
and hot chocolate indulgence cake, passion fruit cream and chambord black raspberry
ice cream. Valentine’s Day dinner at Turner Fisheries costs $85 per person.
Call 617.424.7425 to make reservations.
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As
usual, the ladies of UpStairs
on the Square, Mary Catherine Deibel and Deborah Hughes, give
diners a number of different ways to enjoy Valentine’s Day. Celebrate upstairs
in the Soiree Room with a four-course menu from chef Steven Brand,
where menu selections include wild mushroom “tea” with lemon, thyme and chilies;
and Cote de Boeuf for 2: ribsteak with truffle vinaigrette, potato puree and
wild mushroom sauté. Cleanse your palette with a pre-dessert grapefruit and
campari sorbet followed by Belgian chocolate cheesecake with chambord sauce
or profiteroles with pink peppermint chip ice cream, chocolate sauce and bad
girl plaid mints. The Soiree Room menu costs $125 per person or $185 with accompanying
wines. Guests can also opt for the Monday Club Valentine’s Day menu,
which offers diners a slightly more affordable option ($85 or $135 with wine
pairing) four-course menu with selections like amorous oysters with Persephone’s
pomegranate splash; seared duck breast and confit leg with turnips, frisée and
chestnut jus; and chocolate truffle cake with Grand Marnier sauce and candied
orange peel. Call UpStairs on the Square for more information about all of your
Valentine’s Day options at 617.864.1933.
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Chef
Bogardus hosts Vox
Populi‘s 5th annual Sweethearts Dinner on Tuesday, February 14th.
The evening’s four-course, prix fixe menu includes options like crab-n-leek
dumpling with coriander and tomato; roasted cauliflower soup with truffled Stilton
and chive; all-day-roasted rack of pork with speckled heart grits, roots and
cider mustard gastrique; and white chocolate treacle pudding with gingersnaps
and fresh cream. The Sweethearts Dinner costs $65 per person or $85 with wine
pairings. Call Vox at 617.424.8300 to make reservations or drop an email to
RESERVE your table online ]
