Love is in the air: Palm Beach restaurants ready for Valentine's Day
Calling all sweethearts — or anyone who loves fine dining: Palm Beach’s restaurants are set to serve what they say are love-worthy menus and daily specials on Valentine’s Day.
Look for multi-course Valentine’s menus or special dishes geared for two people to share. Heart-shaped garnishes will accent some cocktail specials.
Many island restaurants also will offer their regular menus so guests can dine on their usual favorites. Be sure to make advance reservations: Feb. 14 is one of the busiest dining-out days of the year.
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Flagler Steakhouse
Restaurants planning to serve multi-course menus on Valentine’s Day include The Breakers’ Flagler Steakhouse.
Its special three-course menu ($185) will include Florida stone crab claws; Wagyu steak tartare; crab-stuffed two-pound lobster; and a 36-ounce porterhouse steak for two with shrimp scampi, asparagus, roasted potatoes and garlic butter.
Chocolate cake and red-velvet cheesecake are among the desserts on the menu. The restaurant, which overlooks The Breakers golf course, also will offer a $20 cocktail called Cupid’s Arrow spiked with Nolet’s Gin, Godiva Chocolate Liqueur and more.
Florie's
A three-course Valentine’s menu offered at the Four Seasons’ signature Florie’s restaurant starts with an amuse-bouche of canapes.
The menu ($210 a person) will feature such selections as mushroom velouté, beef filet with creamy polenta and aged parmesan, and sauteed scallops with caramelized cauliflower puree and black-truffle “sponge.”
Valrhona chocolate mousse with raspberry compote and vanilla sable will comprise dessert along with bite-sized sweets such as macarons.
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Le Bilboquet
Le Bilboquet is featuring a four-course Valentine’s menu.
It starts with an amuse bouche of lemongrass bouillon with foie gras and shiitake mushroom, followed by a choice of appetizers, such as daurade crudo with passionfruit, shiso oil and lemon caviar.
Dover sole and Poulet Cajun are among the entrees. For dessert, try raspberry pavlova with vanilla cream and lime confit.
Café Boulud
Café Boulud plans to serve a three-course Valentine’s menu for $214 a person.
After a selection of canapes, choose from such appetizers as beef carpaccio and yellowtail crudo.
John Dory a la mariniere with cockle clams, celery and coconut and filet mignon with truffled potato, bone marrow and shallot jus are among the entrée selections.
Dessert choices will include almond cake with raspberry gelee and cherry-blossom cremeaux. Diners will be given petit-fours to take home.
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Almond
Other multi-course menus planned for Feb. 14: a four-course repast at Almond with selections including ricotta ravioli and royal red shrimp with heirloom zucchini and roasted corn.
Red snapper crudo and shawarma-spiced rack of lamb are among other dishes on Almond’s Valentine’s menu, which is $90 a person.
For dessert, look for a pecan-pie trifle among the choices.
Restaurant 44
At Restaurant 44, a special three-course Valentine’s menu is $150 for two.
Chateaubriand with Bearnaise sauce and butterflied lobster tail with herbs and garlic butter are main-course choices served with creamed spinach, potatoes Anna and grilled asparagus.
For dessert, Restaurant 44 will serve raspberry mousse with dark-chocolate torte, white-chocolate crunch and white chocolate-and-berry sauce.
Polpo
In Manalapan, Polpo, the Italian restaurant at Eau Palm Beach resort, plans to serve a four-course Valentine’s menu for $145 a person.
Taboo
Several restaurants in town will feature special a la carte dishes on Valentine’s Day.
Taboo, for instance, will offer lobster-tail specials: penne with lobster arrabiata ($45) and lobster served with drawn butter, asparagus and mashed potatoes for $65.
Café L’Europe
Five a la carte specials are on tap at Café L’Europe on Feb. 14.
Among the appetizers: seared scallops and julienne vegetables feuillete ($32) and risotto with porcini mushrooms and shaved black truffles ($36).
Seabass with Champagne sauce ($58) and Colorado rack of lamb ($72) are Café L’Europe’s entrée specials. Look for pink meringue with white-and-milk chocolate mousse and raspberries for dessert ($17).
La Goulue
A Valentine’s a la carte menu is planned at La Goulue.
Steamed white-and-green asparagus with truffle vinaigrette ($32) and duck foie-gras mousse ($48) are among the appetizers.
Among the entrees: chateaubriand Rossini for two ($195), as well as caviar “decadence” for two with Altima caviar (50 grams) served with blinis and traditional garnishes ($265).
Berry-and-chocolate mousse ($24) will be a dessert special at La Goulue.
PB Catch
Seafood specials will be showcased at PB Catch on Valentine’s Day.
Most will be market priced, from King Crab legs with drawn butter and lemon to 3-pound lobsters steamed to order and platters of oysters, shrimp, stone crab claws and more.
Osetra golden caviar with traditional accompaniments also will be offered at PB Catch, plus surf and turf with filet mignon and lobster tail.
Swifty's
Meanwhile, at The Colony’s Swifty’s, look for such a la carte Valentine’s specials as six oysters Rockefeller ($42) and lobster Thermidor hash ($82) with potato gnocchi, fennel, maitake mushroom and Gruyere cheese.
A surf-and-turf option also will be offered at Swifty’s for $89 with pan-roasted Creekstone Farm Prime beef filet bordelaise with diver scallops, Bearnaise beurre-blanc, fennel salad, creamed Savoy cabbage and truffled asparagus.
LoLa 41
Valentine’s specials will be available Feb. 10-14 at LoLa 41. Smoked hamachi crudo ($65) with royal osetra caviar, and Wagyu beef tartare ($70) with a garlic-and-chili vinaigrette are among them.
Nantucket bay scallops ($75) with sunchoke puree, sundried-tomato gastrique, artichoke salad and warm-pancetta vinaigrette are the other specials. Dessert? Red-velvet gelato cake with chocolate ganache ($18).
LoLa also will offer LoLa’s Love Spell, a cocktail ($19) with a heart-shaped strawberry garnish.
Café des Beaux-Arts
A special Valentine’s Day tea service will be featured at the Flagler Museum’s lakefront Café des Beaux-Arts in the museum’s Flagler Kenan Pavilion.A harpist will play during the noon and 2 p.m. tea seatings, with fare that includes tea sandwiches and pastries. The cost: $50 for museum members and $80 for non-members. Price includes museum admission and a surprise Valentine’s keepsake.
Cucina
Whole roasted fish for two and Wagyu tomahawk steak for two are among Valentine’s specials (prices yet to be determined) at Cucina.
Meat Market
Elsewhere, women will be given a rose on Feb. 14 at Meat Market, where couples will be served complimentary chocolates after dinner.
Brandon's
At Tideline Ocean Resort’s Brandon’s restaurant, a three-course menu with filet mignon and lobster tail among the selections will cost $150 a person, which includes a bottle of select wine per couple; a saxophonist will provide live music.
Among other places in town planning Valentine’s specials are Acqua Cafe, Al Fresco, Bice, Bricktop’s, Buccan, Café Flora, Palm Beach Grill, Pizza al Fresco, Renato’s, Sant Ambroeus and Trevini.
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Four-course and three-course meals, specials on Palm Beach menus
