We’ve done all we can to supply you with suggestions for Valentine’s Day gifts and festivities. Here are our last-minute ideas. The rest is up to you.
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Acadia, 3000 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock, is probably fully booked, but you might luck out at getting a reservation for its $50.75 prix fixe menu (with entree choices including smoked gouda mac & cheese, roasted beef tenderloin and blackened salmon filet) with seatings at 5:30, 6, 7, 7:30, 8:45 and 9:15 p.m. today. Call (501) 603-9630 or click here.
Enjoy lunch, dinner or carry-out tonight at Lilly’s Dim Sum Then Some, 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, and the restaurant will donate 15 percent of net sales to CARTI through its One Day, One Community program. To view the menu click here. To reserve a table call (501) 716-2700.
Copper Grill Valentine’s Day specials include appetizers such as grilled oysters with garlic infused compound butter ($7.95), warm wild mushroom salad ($7.25), Boston Newburg ($23.95), mixed grill ($32.95), Parmesan encrusted walleye ($22.95) and bacon-wrapped grilled shrimp ($21.95). Call (501) 375-3333 for reservations.
Starving Artist Cafe, 411 Main St., North Little Rock, will be offering three different three-course menus for $35, $45 and $60. Seatings are from 5-9 p.m. Make reservations online at www.starvingartistcafe.net.
Vieux Carre is serving a Chef’s Favorite menu from 5:30-9:30 p.m. tonight with all sorts of appetizers, salads, entrees and desserts offered a la carte so you can order exactly what you want. Plus there is plenty of bubbly on the wine menu for special toasts and romantic harp music by Allen Alverson. Call (501) 663-1196 for reservations.
You can get a dozen fresh-cut roses for $16.99 (two dozen for $30) at The Fresh Market, 11525 Cantrell Road, Little Rock.
At Whole Foods Market, 10700 Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, you will find 24 wrapped stem roses for $29.99, 24 stem roses wrapped with greenery for $36.99, 24 stem roses with greenery in a vase for $55.99, 20 wrapped stem tulips for $19.99, 20 stem tulips wrapped with greenery for $26.99 and 20 stem roses with greenery in vase for $45.99.
Victorian Garden, 4801 North Hills Blvd., North Little Rock, will serve a Valentine’s Day dinner (with entrees of champagne chicken breast or marinated beef tenderloin) from 5:30-9 p.m., along with its takeout Real Meals for Two specials that include Mediterranean shrimp, salmon en pipillote and beef tenderloin. To see the menu click here. For reservations call (501) 758-4299.
Bold and beautiful jewelry by David Yurman is available at Blakeman’s Fine Jewelry, 3202 Pinnacle Hills Parkway, Rogers. Call (479) 845-0088.
