Patch Picks: Where To Go For Valentine's Day Dinner

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Your heart receives an awful lot of attention on Valentine’s Day, but be sure not to neglect your stomach. Champagne and chocolate bon bons will hold you over for only so long. Grab your special someone and head over to one of these local eateries, where romance isn’t the only thing on the menu.

Here are some neighborhood spots with Valentine’s Day specials.

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's Valentine’s Day Dinner

After squeezing into a vintage church pew at this American eatery, you and your sweetheart can dig into one of four entrées: a trio of duck, a duo of beef, roasted wild halibut or butter-poached lobster. The special three-course prix fixe dinner also includes a champagne toast and a choice of four appetizers and three desserts.

$56. 

's Classic New York Valentine’s Day Dinner 

Get a taste of retro romance with what this Italian restaurant calls its “Classic New York Valentine’s Day dinner.” The five-course prix fixe meal includes Big Apple-themed starters like oysters Rockefeller and Manhattan clam chowder. The menu also offers two choices of pasta for the third course and the option of either duck or lobster for the main dish. 

$65

Saint Valentine’s menu 

The Valentine’s Day menu at this bold French bistro starts with an amuse bouche of lobster toast and ends with “sweet satiation” of white chocolate mousse, apple strudel or corn tequila crème brulee. In between you can select one of four first taste options and opt for grilled black Atlantic angus filet mignon, Jolie duo margquet fish, seared American red snapper or roast organic chicken breast for your second taste.

$50 

's Valentine’s Day Menu 

Greek may not be the language of love, but on this Valentine's Day it is! A Greek salad will kick-off your four-course meal at this family-run restaurant, followed by a choice of four appetizers, four entrées (a rack of lamb, surf and turf, stuffed chicken breast or stuffed filet of sole), and two desserts. Plus, every couple receives a complimentary bottle of wine. Opa!

$49.95

s Special Valentine’s Day menu

For late-night romance and a midnight meal, head over to this renovated apartment space for the special Valentine's Day menu. Apartment 138 (open until 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday) offers a three-course meal, with three appetizer options, a choice of lamb, filet mignon or halibut for an entrée, topped off with hibiscus semifreddo.

Items priced individually.

’s A Night in Venice Candlelight Dinner

In addition to offering patrons a special four-course menu that includes favorites like veal scaloppine, homemade ravioli and traditional risotto, this classic Italian eatery is adding an extra twist: the restaurant will be covered with candles and the staff will be dressed up as gondoliere.

Items priced individually.

's Valentine’s Day menu

The Valentine’s Day tasting menu at this vintage-y Cobble Hill spot — with exposed brick and a tin ceiling — begins the way any romantic dinner should: with a flute of bubbly. Then comes an oyster with Asian mignonette, celeriac soup, lobster salad and a choice of three entrees. For the finale: red velvet cake.

$75

's Valentine’s Day menu

Planning on a double- or triple-date for Valentine’s Day? This homey American bistro, known for catering to large parities, is offering a special Valentine’s Day meal in place of its usual menu. You and your crew won’t go hungry with seven choices for the first course, seven options for the second and a Dutch apple tart, Valrhona chocolate chip bread or Doug’s Pecan Pie Sundae for dessert.

$65

's Happy Valentine's Day menu

After a glass of Prosseco and the antipasto course, this authentic Italian eatery treats its Valentine's Day patrons to a main course of either sautéed halibut or grilled filet mignon.  The meal comes to a sweet conclusion with chocolate mousse and strawberries.

$40

's Valentine Specials 2011

Need a tasty treat to top off your Valentine’s Day feast? Betty’s Valentine Special 2011 offers three cakes that should do the trick: the Red Rose Chocolate Heart Cake (serves 6, $60), the Sprinkle Cake (serves 6, $45) and Red Velvet Cake (serves 6-8, $30). Call 718-246-2402 to pre-order.