Valentine's Day is a little less than a month away, giving ample time for planning a romantic dinner. Restaurants around Fort Worth are already preparing for the rush with special meals and reservations.
This year, the holiday falls on a Friday — the perfect night for a romantic date. But some restaurants are also extending their Valentine's Day specials for that entire weekend. So if you can't make it on a Friday night, there's always Thursday or Saturday as a backup plan.
Here's where to dine for Valentine's Day in Fort Worth:
97 West Kitchen & Bar. Hotel Drover restaurant featuring special 3-course prix-fixe menu, featuring Rosewood Ranches Wagyu ribeye steak, stuffed lobster tails, decadent desserts, and more. 5-10 pm. $125. Reservations required with $35 deposit per person due upon booking. Deposit will be applied to the total check. Book online here. 682-255-6497
The | Bar. Loews Arlington bar offering Valentine's dinner drinks and a meal featuring Chef Luis Penaloza's Valentine's special, tiger prawn raviolo with shallots, garlic ricotta, prawn bisque, and a charred Fresno reduction. $25. 11 am-11 pm, February 13-14. 682-318-2810.
Blue Mesa Grill. Mexican restaurant offering a dinner including mini crab and shrimp cakes with ancho crema, combo fajitas with black beans, coconut lime rice, guacamole, pico, and jalapeno relish, Mexican chopped salad, a dessert of chocolate empanadas with a sangria dipping sauce, and a bottle of bubbly. $75 per couple. 5-9 pm. Fort Worth 817-332-6372.
Cafe Americana. Arlington restaurant offering a 3-course dinner featuring a wine pairing. 5-11 pm, February 14-16. 682-270-0041.
Cru Food and Wine Bar. Offering 4-course dinner with lobster bisque, filet mignon, and molten chocolate cake. $65. 5-10:30 pm, February 14-15. Shops at Clearfork 817-737-9463.
Eddie V's. Plano steakhouse is doing special Valentine's dishes including surf & turf with 10-ounce center cut filet mignon & 5-ounce South African lobster with lobster beurre blanc, and bananas Foster butter cake. Prices a la carte. 4-10 pm. Plano 469-268-3758 and Fort Worth 817-336-8000.
El Chingon. Mexican restaurant offering their menu of cheese, shredded chicken, beef or shrimp enchiladas, birria tacos, and the shareable Parrillada Chingona with carnitas, grilled skirt steak, grilled chicken breast, smoked pork sausage and shrimp over a bed of pepper and onion fajita mix for $51. They also have a slate of drink specials including a bottle of Luc Belaire Rare Rosé for $69, and “bottles and bouquets," which includes a complimentary bouquet of flowers with the purchase of bottle service. 817-870-9973.
Farena. Loews Arlington Hotel restaurant is offering exclusive dishes and the regular dinner menu including oyster pizzaiolo, beet-stuffed ravioli, King’s Cut Steak for two with Gulf shrimp, marble potatoes, and lobster sauce. Dessert includes a chocolate torta. Prices are a la carte. Reservations are encouraged here. 5-11 pm. 682-318-2810.
Gloria's Latin Cuisine. Offering prix-fixe menu featuring aguachile, choice of serrano garlic salmon or mar y tierra, chocolate turtle brownie for dessert, and a bottle of wine. $100 per couple or $78 per couple without wine. Reservations start at 5 pm. Available at Fort Worth locations.
Malai Kitchen. Thai and Vietnamese restaurant with four locations will feature a special limited menu with crispy lamb “money bag” potstickers, lotus leaf steamed black cod, green chili hanger steak, Vietnamese five-spice pork belly, and Vietnamese tiramisu for dessert. Reservations are recommended. 5-11 pm. Southlake 817-251-9141, Fort Worth 682-707-3959, Preston Center 972-373-4434, Uptown 214-599-7857.
Perry's Steakhouse & Grille. Grapevine restaurant hosting candlelight dinner for two featuring salads a 12-ounce Filet Mignon Roast (prepared medium) for two with bearnaise, truffle merlot, and roasted peppercorn sauces, lobster tails, two sides to share, and chocolate-dipped strawberry kisses. $185 per couple. Reservations available starting at 5:45 pm. 682-477-2261.
Silver Fox. Steakhouse hosting a dinner featuring a six-ounce Certified Angus beef filet and a six-ounce cold water lobster tail. Add a glass or bottle of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne for $28 or $149. $110. 5-10 pm, February 14-15. Fort Worth 817-332-9060.
Toro Toro. Steakhouse offering dinner with Wagyu beef tiradito featuring seared tenderloin, Fresno chili citrus sauce, avocado cream, charred habanero mayo, and pickled chilies, with red velvet tres leches paired with coconut ice cream for dessert. $125. 5-11 pm. 817-975-9895.
Truluck’s. Sinners and Saints menu includes a surf and turf selection featuring Ora King salmon and Wagyu strip steak. Also available are lobster tempura bao, Brie lobster mac & cheese, and the Tru Temptation specialty cocktail. For a special addition, there's Tru Caviar Service, Truluck’s private label caviar. Sinners and Saints menu is $99. 5-10 pm. Dallas 214-220-2401, Plano 972-591-2500, Southlake 817-912-0500.
Wicked Butcher. Sinclair Hotel steakhouse hosting prix-fixe dinner featuring lobster bisque, hamachi crudo, surf turf, ginger miso Chilean sea bass, duck breast, and dessert choices of dark chocolate tart, mango lavender crème brûlée, and banana pudding. $150, $75 for additional wine pairing. 5-11 pm. 817-601-4621.