Valentine’s Day is here, and Auburn restaurants are ready for the influx of couples to wine and dine for a romantic evening. Some places are even providing live music.
If your cooking skills aren’t up to par, or you want to impress your significant other with a nice dinner, here are some restaurants in Auburn providing special Valentine’s Day menus.
Ariccia Italian Trattoria & Bar is having special menu with two options. One column says, “for you,” and the other says, “for two.” Each option is $49 per person.
The “for two,” column starts off with a choice between a dozen blackened chard grilled or raw oysters. Another option is the spinach and goat cheese ravioli.
The second course can either be a mixed grill, which includes salmon, shrimp, chicken, Alabama sausage, NY steak, market vegetables and roasted potatoes, or a rack of lamb with herb crust, cast iron potato au gratin, spinach, roasted market vegetables and olive jus.
For desert, they will have a chocolate and barista station with a variety of chocolates, a chocolate fountain and coffee.
Amsterdam Cafe will have a special Valentine’s Day menu, which will not be released until closer to Valentine’s Day. The pricing will be similar to their regular menu.
Hamilton’s will also have special Valentine’s Day features in addition to their regular menu, but the menu won’t be available until Valentine’s Day. If you haven’t had time or a special occasion to try Acre yet, this could be your time.
Acre’s Valentine’s Day menu starts off with deep fried brie with puff pastry and red wine, cherry sauce and arugula, broiled Virginia oysters with pork belly crumbs and fennel butter, gulf blue crab and corn chowder with bacon bits and chives, or strawberry-walnut salad with bleu cheese, bacon, spinach and sherry-honey vinaigrette.
The entrees include a butter-poached grouper with crispy fried Gouda grits and a pickled red onion-arugula salad topped with lemon-herb sauce.
They will also offer seared diver scallops, fried pork belly, picked grapes, sweet potato puree, sherry molasses and fresh basil.
The final two entrees are a crab and lobster pasta with angel hair, vegetables, tomato-basil butter and Parmesan cheese or a grilled filet mignon with whipped potatoes, haricot verts, and crimini-cabernet sauce.
Finish the night off with sweet potato bread pudding, chocolate bette noire, or a raspberry sorbet “float.”
Zazu Gastropub will be setting a romantic atmosphere with a live violinist to go along with their fixed-price $50 dinner menu.
The meal will start off with one of three appetizers, including lump crab cakes and fried green tomato with house-made remoulade and baby arugula, sautéed langostino tails, or porchetta with pork tenderloin stuffed pork belly, shaved parmesan, and baby arugula.
The next portion will offer soup and salad options including shrimp bisque, mixed greens, Caesar, baby spinach, and baby iceberg.
The entrees are pan-seared filet mignon, pan-seared duck breast, mahi-mahi scallopini over house made papparedelle, roasted airline chicken breast, or low country shrimp and grits with Andouille sausage.
Finally, for dessert they have crème brulee, chocolate and hazelnut pudding, or strawberry liquor-soaked sponge cake.
Café 123 has reached their maximum reservation count for Valentine’s Day, and they will not be taking any more reservations or walk-ins.
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