Update: The big list of Fort Worth Valentine’s specials (with plenty of chocolate)
The deadline for planning Valentine’s dinner is now.
If your Valentine’s can start right away, the Silver Fox Steakhouse in Fort Worth has alrady begun serving its 2/$170 steak-and-lobster couples’ curbside dinner special.
It’s already too late to book a table inside some restaurants. But most will sell takeout dinners, some ready to eat Feb. 12-14 and others to heat-and-serve.
Here’s a look at mostly local Valentine’s options, mostly takeout but also some with dining room reservations available inside (reminder: Never go anywhere crowded):
▪ Provender Hall, 122 E. Exchange Ave., the new Marcus Paslay restaurant in Mule Alley, will serve a $50 four-course dinner featuring grilled trout with Hoppin’ John, shrimp-and-grits or an Akaushi steak frites.
The desserts are a chocolate pecan cake or banana pudding; reserve on Resy.com or at 817-782-9170, provenderhall.com.
▪ Clay Pigeon Food & Drink, Paslay’s first restaurant. will serve a $75 dinner featuring a choice of an eye of rib-eye or pan-roasted salmon, both with sides, salad and either chocolate-strawberry cake or butterscotch pot de creme; 817-882-8065, claypigeonfd.com.
▪ Piattello Italian Kitchen, 5924 Convair Drive, a Paslay Italian concept with outdoor seating, will serve an attractive $50 dinner menu featuring a choice of a short rib, lobster ravioli or lasagna Bolognese, with a chocolate taterte or apple panna cotta; 817-349-0484, piattelloitaliankitchen.com.
▪ Feb. 10 is the deadline to order Local Foods Kitchen’s $130/couple Valentine’s curbside take-home dinner for reheating, with pickup at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13.
The menu features roast tenderloin for two with sides, appetizers, ceviche and chocolate lava cakes. Sparkling wines are $30-$55 extra; 817-238-3464, localfoodskitchen.com.
▪ Taste Project, 1200 S. Main St., the charity restaurant where you dine and donate to hunger causes, will serve a $300/couple four-course “Taste the Love” dinner at 6 p.m. Feb. 13.
Taste Project has a safe patio. The menu: strawberry salad, crab cakes, short rib and raspberry cheesecake; 682-233-1255, tasteproject.org, reserve for Valentine’s at eventbrite.com.
▪ Michaels Cuisine, 3413 W. 7th St., will serve either inside or as takeout, featuring a steak-and-lobster combo ($60), swordfish steak ($35) or seasoned roast duck breast ($32).
There’s also a ribeye, chicken-fried seak or crab cakes. Soup or salad is $10-$12 extra, and the desserts cost $8 (strawberry shortcake, ancho raspberry chocolate mousse, creme brulee or jalapeno apple strudel); 817-877-3413, michaelscuisine.com
▪ CRÚ Food & Wine Bar, 5188 Marathon Ave., will serve a $60 four-course dinner inside or a $110/couple chateaubriand dinner as takeout.
The dining-room menu offers a choice of filet mignon, rack of lamb, scallops or sea bass with creme brulee, chocolate lava cake or white chocolate-strawberry mousse. The takeout dinner offers only chateaubriand, with salad and tiramisu; 817-737-9463, cruwinebar.com/fw.
▪ Wicked Butcher, 512 Main St. in the Sinclair, Marriott Autograph Collection hotel, will serve a three-course dinner Feb. 13-14 for $85 per person ($160 per person with wine pairings).
The Butcher doesn’t have a patio, but the dinner can be ordered as takeout.
Entrees include salmon, rack of lamb, a Berkshire pork chop, an 8-ounce wagyu strip or a 32-ounce porterhouse, with dessert choices such as strawberries-and-cream, a chocolate ganache-hazelnut torte, or black-cherry cheesecake; 682-231-8214, wickedbutcher.com.
▪ Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, 2406 N. Main St., is offering specials including a $55 bone-in tenderloin or $45 smoked-lobster pasta; 817-740-8810, lonesomedovefortworth.com.
▪ Gemelle, 4400 White Settlement Road, has a $110/couple dinner Friday through Sunday featuring a choice of beef tenderloin or scallop with sides and black-truffle cacio e pepe; 817-732-9535, gemelleftw.com
▪ Blue Mesa Grill, 612 Carroll St., is selling a $100/couple Valentine’s dinner featuring red chile beef tenderloin, shrimp-and-crab enchiladas and sides.
The regular $24 Sunday brunch will also include a complimentary bottle of champagne for each couple on Valentine’s; 817-332-6372, bluemesagrill.com.
▪ Central Market in Fort Worth and Southlake is a takeout option for Valentine’s.
In particular, Central Market is offering an attractive $59.99 Valentine’s family brunch serving six, along with dinners for two priced at $59.99-$99.99.
The take-home brunch includes a sausage-arugula quiche, challah French toast, a strawberry salad, croissants, fruit and juice.
Dinners range from Mediterranean chicken breast to tenderloin, lobster tails and (for $99.99) filets and lobster tails for two, all with sides and raspberry macarons; centralmarket.com.
▪ Legendary Texas chefs Dean Fearing and Stephan Pyles both have Tarrant County outlets now, and both have Valentine’s menus for next weekend.
Sky Creek Kitchen, the restaurant at the new Delta Hotels location in Southlake, is ready for its first big holiday.
The restaurant will serve a $125 three-course dinner Feb. 12-14, featuring a choice of steak-and-lobster, lemon sole with crab legs, or pan-seared scallops.
The appetizers include lobster bisque or oysters, For dessert, there’s a passion-fruit creme brulee with red-velvet lava cake.
The chef is Enam Chowdhury, with Fearing consulting on the new hotel.
The Delta is at 251 Texas 114 East; 254-727-0811, skycreekkitchen.com.
▪ If you mention Fearing, you have to talk about Pyles.
Pyles is doing a special Valentine’s week menu for Fireside Pies, served beginning Feb. 11 and continuing through Feb. 20.
The three-course dinner costs $55 per person with tenderloin or $45 with salmon. The starter is butternut squash soup, and dessert is butterscotch pudding with salted caramel.
It’s available as takeout for safe home dining, or served at Fireside Pies, including Crockett Row and Grapevine locations.
Fireside Pies is open for lunch and dinner at 2949 Crockett St., 817-769-3590. or 1285 S. Main St., Grapevine, 817-416-1285, firesidepies.com.
▪ Paris 7th/Saint-Émilion, 3324 W. Seventh St., will offer a takeout Valentine’s menu but it has not been announced yet.
The dining room is booked; 817-737-2781, paris7th.com
▪ Righteous Foods, 3405 W. Seventh St., will offer a takeout and dining-room a la carte menu that has not been set; 817-850-9996, eatrighteously.com
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▪ Bird Café is gone but is taking online orders for Valentine’s ribeye, pork chop or shrimp-and-grits dinners to pick up Feb. 12-14 from the kitchen of the nearby Flying Saucer, 111 E. Third St.
Dinners with sides cost about $18-$40. Wedge salads (about $10) and chocolate mousse (about $9) are extra; 817-336-7479, order and pay online at shop.beerknurd.com/fort-worth-valentines-to-go
▪ Riscky’s Steakhouse, 120 E. Exchange Ave., is offering a $69.95/couple curbside or dine-in special with two steaks, calf fries, sides and a choice of either a salad or Riscky’s old-world kapusta (cabbage) soup; 817-624-4800, risckys.com.
▪ Feb. 12 is the deadline to order the 2/$125 Valentine’s Day heat-and-serve take-home dinner with wine from Reata Restaurant, 310 Houston St.
Add flowers and it’s a $160/couple deal featuring a choice of tenderloin-and-shrimp for two or spinach-chicken roulade, with sides, a chocolate bread-pudding tamal and sparkling wine.
Call 817-502-8851 by noon Feb. 12 to order, and expect to pick it up after 5 p.m. Feb. 14 at the Southwest Regional Library lot off South Hulen Street. The last pickup is at 5:45 p.m.
If you’d rather dine at the restaurant or order takeout, the special menu Feb. 12-14 will feature a tenderloin-and-shrimp dinner ($70), a rib-eye ($65), chicken or hailbut ($50-$60); 817-336-1009, reata.net.
▪ Bonnell’s Fine Texas Cuisine, 4259 Bryant Irvin Road, is offering a $135/couple curbside takeout Valentine’s dinner Feb. 14 only, featuring two tenderloins, a lobster tail, salad and a chocolate ganache tart. (It’s two-for-$185 with champagne and a crab cakes appetizer.)
The dining room menu, also served Feb. 14 only, features a $90 dinner with choice of a tenderloin, duck breast, trout or vegetable Wellington with an appetizer, salad and dessert sample; 817-738-5489, bonnellstexas.com.
▪ B&B Butchers & Restaurant, 5212 Marathon Ave., is offering a $150/couple heat-and-serve dinner Feb. 11-14 with a choice of chateaubriand, beef Wellington or two filets mignons, sides and dessert (order a day ahead).
B&B also is offering a $125-per-person takeout dinner featuring a filet mignon and lobster tail; prime rib-eye; seared sea bass; beef Wellington; or crab-stuffed lobster tail, plus appetizers, sides and dessert; 817-737-5212, bbbutchers.com.
▪ Toro Toro, 200 Main St., is offering a $75 takeout or dine-in special featuring either a rib-eye or halibut, an appetizer and chocolate cake; 817-210-2222, torotorofortworth.com.
▪ The Silver Fox Steakhouse, 1651 S. University Drive, is offering a $170/couple curbside-pickup menu beginning Feb. 5, featuring two filets mignons with a lobster tail, salad or soup and chocolate ganache cake; silverfoxcafe.com.
▪ More restaurants with safe outdoor tables: Mercury Chophouse, Piola Italian Restaurant & Garden, Waters, and Wishbone & Flynt, along with several chains such as Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House, Capital Grille and Del Frisco’s Grille.
This story was originally published February 1, 2021 at 5:45 AM.
