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FOOD
Your Heart’s Desire
Area restaurants o er Valentine’s take-out specials.
Light the candles. Start the mood music. Scatter the rose petals. And let Memphis area restaurants provide the romantic Valentine’s Day dinners. Several local establishments put all their hearts into creating dinners you can pick up and enjoy in the privacy of your own love nest. Here’s a sampling:
Erling Jensen: e Restaurant is featuring its Valentine’s Day To-Go, which includes clam and potato bisque and an arugula, pear, chèvre, and almond salad with saba vinaigrette; your choice of a 16-ounce beef Wellington or prosciuttowrapped sea bass served with au gratin potatoes and roasted asparagus; and chocolate-covered strawberries.
Chef Tam’s Underground Cafe is o ering a Steak Valentine’s Box for two, which includes one tomahawk steak with buttered mushrooms, butter-herb asparagus, garlic smashed potatoes, four honey-butter rolls, grilled strawberry shortcake, two premium cocktails, and one bottle of champagne.
Tamboli’s Pasta & Pizza is providing a “fun, interactive Valentine’s meal” for two, says owner Miles Tamboli. His Valentine’s Dinner Date Meal Kit, which will be available February 13th and 14th, includes a bottle of rosé wine, an appetizer, pizza dough, sauce, and toppings; a recipe card so you can make your own pizza; and tiramisu.
Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, Catherine & Mary’s, and e Gray Canary are o ering a four-course Valentine’s Day Take & Bake dinner for two. First course: salmon tartare with trout roe, apple, crème fraîche, ne herb, versus bianco, and C&M cracker. Second course: Gemelli lobster amatriciana, with panna gratta and basil. ird course: beef tenderloin with root vegetable purée and black tru e bordelaise. Fourth course: chocolate sticky butter to ee pudding with brown butter pecan powder and salted caramel gelato. Wine is an Arnaud Lambert Château de Brézé Crémant de Loire cabernet rosé.
Iris restaurant partnered with Muddy’s Bake Shop, Joe’s Wines & Liquor, and Rachel’s Flower Shop. e package for two includes an artisan cheese and accoutrement plate, your choice of slow-roasted American kobe short ribs or red snapper and Gulf shrimp court bouillon. ese are served with sides of grits and roasted Brussels sprouts. Also, two Muddy’s cupcakes, six roses from Rachel’s, two chocolate martinis from Second Line, and a bottle of Constantia Uitsig South African sparkling wine from Joe’s.
Magnolia & May is o ering a Filet and House-Made Pasta Magnolia Farm Chef Box for two. It includes local veggies, including Blu City Fungi mushrooms, and a mustard cream sauce. e box comes with a recipe card and a YouTube video link with preparation instructions. Wine pairings can be added, or you can order a cocktail box, which features Maker’s Mark whiskey and includes a recipe card and video link with directions to make an old fashioned and a blueberry basil smash. Sweet Grass is featuring a Valentine’s
Day Prime Rib Dinner for Two that includes a winter cobb salad, loaded baked potatoes, horseradish cream,
Boursin- and pistachio-stu ed piquillo peppers with black garlic honey, artisan rolls with whipped butter, chocolate-covered strawberries, and a bottle of wine.
Sunrise Memphis is doing Valentine’s Day breakfasts: brioche bread with cheesecake frosting and a chocolate drizzle, topped with a chocolate-covered strawberry, for $14; and a Southern Surf and Turf Benedict: pan-fried country ham with fried oysters on an open-faced biscuit, topped with champagne hollandaise and scallions, for $15. Sunrise also will o er “breakfast in bed” delivery via Chow Now online at sunrise901.com. Sunrise recommends ordering early in the day because delivery orders between 10 a.m. and noon are sometimes severely delayed. For prices, location details, and more info, visit memphis yer.com.
BECKY GITHINJI
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