The Beatles sang, “All you need is love.” It was Charles M. Schulz who allegedly added, “… but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Love and food are inseparable, and Valentine’s Day dining in Orlando is practically a love language of its own. Here’s the places we found around Orlando and Central Florida that are doing something special for Valentine’s Day, and in a lot of cases, the weekend just before. Remember – everyone else had the same idea as you and probably had it sooner, so a reservation is a must. (If you do wait too long, consider an al fresco pizza party as a back-up.)
Neighborhood Faves for Valentine’s Day
Both the Mills and Curry Ford locations are popping tacos into a heart-shaped box for a Valentine’s Day treat to go. For $30, you get four tacos in that red heart box and a card to fill out with your own sweet words. Email info@blackroostertaqueria.com to set it up.
The new Filipino casual spot in Mills 50 is bringing in a guest chef for a Valentine’s Day collaboration, Harold Villarosa (aka Unkle Howard). Kaya hasn’t released a menu for the $225 per person prix fixe meal, but promises “five waves” of Filipino food with both the “best local seafood, meat and produce available” as well as “added luxury and decadence.”
The Winter Park gastropub is taking it outside for Valentine’s Day. For $75 per person, starting at 6:30 p.m., you get a three-course prix fixe meal and a screening of “When Harry Met Sally” in the beer garden. The menu includes a wedge salad with house-made blue cheese dressing, filet mignon with crab hash browns, and chocolate tart.
Inside the Mills Park development at Mills 50, Bites & Bubbles is offering indoor, outdoor, and rooftop seating on Valentine’s Day. Chef Eddie‘s prix fixe menu includes an appetizer course with choices including lobster bisque, escargot, and caviar-topped deviled eggs. Entrée options are crab cakes, filet mignon and lobster tail, or roasted lamb shank. Dessert is chocolate lava cake or key lime pie. Everyone closes out the meal with a chocolate covered strawberry. Prices vary from $130 per person (before beverages, tax and tip) for indoor dining to $150 per person for rooftop seating with a glass of Champagne.
The urban farm in Parramore is planning a Valentine’s Day dinner under the stars including some ingredients from right there on property. A table for two ($130) with three-course meal includes wine pairings and an entrée choice of vegan, chicken, or beef. You can also add a lobster tail for $15. Upgrade with premium seating and a parting gift for another $20. Seatings are at 6 and 8:30 p.m. with live music and dancing all evening. Prices do nor include tax, tip or extra beverages.
In downtown Winter Garden, Market to Table is lending their seasonal approach to a four-course prix fixe Valentine’s Day night dinner. Just a few of the options include lobster salad, vegetarian beet carpaccio, truffle gnocchi, Lake Meadow Naturals chicken with truffle risotto, short ribs, Florida Keys yellowtail snapper, chocolate velvet cake, and raspberry macaron with vanilla ice cream. The meal is $95 per person.
SoDo’s veggie-curious spot has a four-course prix fixe “love bird” menu for Valentine’s Day. That’s both the pink main dining area and the darker back room. For $75 a person, you get a vegetarian grazing board, a vegan salad, skewer of your choice and a pick from a coconut curry bowl, combusto pasta or vegetable stir fry. Dessert is a flourless chocolate torte. Meals can also be made vegan and/or gluten-free. You can also add a bottle of wine for $30.
In Winter Park, AVA is theming Valentine’s Day night at “Midnight in Paris.” The five-course prix fixe meal includes choices including seabream carpaccio, truffle spaghetti, seared foie gras, lamb tagine, lobster salad, whole roasted cauliflower, and a dessert with rose/raspberry vacherin (cheese) with lychee. All tables are pre-paid for the night with a two-hour seating. The meal is $115 per person before tax and tip. 
Winter Garden’s newest waffle and ice cream chain franchise has a special sweet for Feb. 14 and 15 only. They’ll take a bubble waffle or paper cup and fill it with strawberry ice cream, Nutella sauce, a pink strawberry Kit Kat, and sweetheart toppings with sprinkles.
On Sand Lake Road, close to I-4, the high-energy bar and kitchen is adding a couple specials for a Valentine’s Day date night. You’ve got a $45 half-pound filet with A.1. demi-glace, crispy fried leeks and potato gratin and $14 strawberries and doughnuts with choclate dipping sause for dessert.
Inside The Hall on the Yard at Ivanhoe Village, The Chef & I concept came to Orlando from Nashville – and so did Executive Chef Chris Rains and CEO Erica Rains, the couple who are the “Chef & I” in the name. For Valentine’s Day, they’re cooking up a $100 per person (including tip) prix fixe dinner with seatings at 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. The menu includes ahu tuna tataki (seared outside, rare inside), pan-seared scallop, caramelized pork belly, braised short rib, and bittersweet chocolate cheesecake.
Winter Park’s old-school cocktail bar is planning a $65 three-course Valentine’s Day meal with BarSwine, the bar’s partnership with Swine & Sons, the Michelin-recognized counter service created by Lexi and Rhys Gawlak that’s just a few blocks away. Of course, you can also order drinks à la carte.
Would you skip a romantic Valentine dinner for a romantic pie-baking class? Winter Park Pie Company is setting up for the night inside the Park Ave. Williams Sonoma, 5 – 8 p.m., for a evening of pies and mocktails led by baker Teri Blais. You’ll learn to roll out pie dough, and bake two mini-pies to take home. You’ll also get to sample three pies made by the pros: chicken pot pie, chocolate pie and triple berry pie. Each is paired with a mocktail – or you can BYOB. The class is $70 per person with room for only 16 students.
Valentine’s Day Dining at Hotels & Resorts
For Valentine’s Day at the Mediterranean/Italian restaurant Primo inside the JW Marriott, James Beard award-winning chef Melissa Kelly is offering a specialty a la carte menu. One highlight would be locally made Dicuru Burrata served with (very pink) beet gastrique, local tomatoes and strawberry vinaigrette with 100-year balsamic vinegar. Other options include butter poached lobster with scallop-stuffed tortellini and a tomahawk steak platter for two.
Inside the Ritz-Carlton, Highball & Harvest’s southern-inspired menu focuses on fresh local ingredients. For Valentine’s Day, H&H will be adding some shared plates to the usual menu. That includes local octopus and scallops, Fried chicken and foie gras, and smoked beef short rib.
At the Lobby Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton, the “sunroom chic” bar will be doing a $30-per-person chocolate buffet with macaroons, cake pops, cookies, fruit tarts and more. For $75 per couple, the bar will also offer hors d’oeuvres including shrimp beignets, beef tartare and wontons. You can add a bottle of Champagne for an extra charge.
Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek
Seafood grill and sushi spot deepblu is adding a couple menu extras just for Valentine’s Day: six Kusshi Oysters from British Columbia for $27 and an 18-ounce ribeye “Oscar” with U-10 scallops, Bearnaise sauce, asparagus and chive potato mousse for $80.
JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek
Sear + Sea is offering a “Bubbles & Caviar” dinner, Feb. 11- 14. For $200 a couple, you get a three-course menu beginning with a glass of Taittinger Champagne. The Sear + Sea lobby bar is featuring live jazz “Lovers Cocktail” specials with an amuse bouche de valentine those same nights.
The Japanese-themed rooftop bar, illume, will offer oyster and Valentine cocktail specials Feb. 11-14, 6 – 10 p.m.
If you’re more of a morning person, UnReserved Food Bazaar is doing a Valentine’s breakfast buffet, Feb. 11 – 14, 7 – 11 a.m. for $39 per person, you start with a glass of Bouvet Champagne and move onto a buffet including the signature eggs Benedict with lobster hollandaise. You go home with a single long stem rose.
UnReserved is also doing a Valentine private igloo dinner from Feb 11 – 14. The intimate dining experience is lit with the glow of flickering candles with a glass of Bouvet Champagne and a three-course dinner with a long stem rose and heart-shaped box of macaroons to take home. The igloo dinner for two is $320. If you’d rather skip the igloo and eat inside UnReserved, the same menu is $85 per person.
The restaurants of Lake Nona Wave Hotel are teaming up with the hotel itself for a Valentine’s Day deal. Balcony rooms and suites are discounted 15-percent on Feb. 14 and you also get $75 credit to use at one of the resort’s restaurants, BACÁN and HAVEN. The hotel is even doing late check-out for free.
Venetian Chop House is adding a special “Love is to Share” five-course Valentine’s Day dinner. Options include an 1855 Black Angus beef tartare and pan-seared foie gras appetizer, orecchiette pasta course, and a mixed grill of 1855 filet mignon and domestic lamb chops with sides. Dessert is raspberry opera cake with chocolate, ganache and raspberry sauce. You can also add a wine pairing for $40. The evening is $125 per person.
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
Todd English’s bluezoo, the celebrity chef’s underwater-themed restaurant, is adding a Valentine’s Day special to the regular menu: poached rockfish with Calvados brandy-braised parsnips, chervil-pear sauce and razor clams.
Shula’s Steak House Valentine’s Day special is roasted Linz Heritage Black Angus beef chateaubriand with confit marbled potatoes, glazed baby carrots and truffle butter.
Melia Orlando Hotel Celebration
The Wilson is doing a $60 three-course Valentine’s Day prix fixe dinner. Choices include Brussels sprout tacos, tuna tartare, lobster risotto, NY Strip stuffed with shrimp and crab, white chocolate bread pudding with raspberries, and salted caramel gelato. You can add a bottle of wine for $40 or Moet Champagne for $80.
At Rollins College in Winter Park, the boutique hotel is planning for a Valentine’s Day night under the stars. For $119 per person, start the night at 7 p.m. with complimentary champagne and cash bar in the Conservatory and then move outside for a three-course plated dinner and a bottle of house wine. The night also includes live music from Johnny & Sonia as well as free valet parking.
Signature restaurant The Boheme has reopened from a remodeling and reimagining just in time for Valentine’s Day. From Friday, Feb. 10 to Tuesday, Feb. 14, The Boheme will offer a four-course prix fixe dinner for $150 a person that includes tuna carpaccio with caviar and kimchi, white truffle ravioli, a choice of petit filet and gulf shrimp or crab-stuffed cod, and a chocolate-on-chocolate dessert. For beef lovers, they’ll also have a $250 dry-aged 44-ounce tomahawk ribeye with pomme puree, forest mushrooms, grilled asparagus and cognac demi-glace. A live trio will also play on Valentine’s Day night.
American Kitchen is serving a $179 per couple Valentine’s Day dinner special, Feb 11 -14. That includes two house drinks (wine, cocktail, beer, or prosecco). The menu is bruschetta de pomodoro secco, ceviche with bay shrimp and lump crab, Angus beef filet with truffle butter wild mushrooms and lobster salad, and red velvet hazelnut cake.
Four Flamingos is doing a $150 per person Valentine’s Day four-course prix fixe menu with amuse bouche and intermezzo. Highlights include foie gras and mango trifle, surf and turf pincho with Wagyu beef and slipper lobster, stuffed Florida flounder, duck and farro risotto, A4 Wagyu chateaubriand and Cuban espresso panna cotta. Price is before tax and 18-percent service charge.
Cala Bella is offering a four-course prix fixe Valentine dinner with complimentary Champagne at $85.95 per person. Menu options are beef carpaccio or beets and burrata, yam agnolotti (like ravioli) or lobster cannelloni, ribeye or Cape Canaveral swordfish, and fromage blanc cheesecake with strawberry compote. Price is before tax and tip. The prix fixe dinner is available Sunday, Feb. 12 through Tuesday, Feb. 14.
A Land Remembered, the Florida chophouse, will be doing a $99.95 per person four-course prix fixe dinner with complimentary Champagne from Sunday, Feb. 12 through Tuesday, Feb. 14. Options are clam chowder with bacon or apple and arugula salad, pork belly or scallops, bone-in ribeye or snapper with Zellwood corn succotash, and vanilla white chocolate mousse with pomegranate jelly. Price is before tax and tip.
Jack’s Place is cooking up a $69 per person three-course fixe prix dinner (before tax and tip) on Feb. 10, 12, and 14. Your choices are lobster bisque or spinach and goat cheese salad, Jack’s Place seafood pescatore or pan-seared filet mignon, and salted caramel lava cake or macarons with Champagne sorbet.
On Saturday, Feb. 11, Sunday, Feb. 12, and Tuesday, Feb. 14, the Florida-inspired Everglades is offering a four-course prix fixe dinner and glass of Champagne for $95 per person. Menu choices are scallop amuse bouche, burrata, macadamia-crusted mahi mahi or chicken with blueberry/pecan relish or filet mignon, and Godiva white chocolate mousse with sweet cherries and chocolate cake.
Harry’s Poolside Bar & Grill is offering a four-course prix fixe dinner with Champagne, live music, and dessert buffet for $75 per person on Saturday, Feb. 11, Sunday, Feb. 12, and Tuesday, Feb. 14. Menu choices include Caribbean crabcakes or cauliflower bisque, Caesar salad or “Valentine” salad with Plant City strawberries, and prawns or swordfish or filet mignon or pear gorgonzola tortellini. The dessert buffet includes raspberry cheesecake, brandied cherry panna cotta, salted caramel brownies, chocolate fondue and more. Price is before tax and service charge.
Disney Springs
The Disney Springs spot for steaks is celebrating Valentine’s Day starting on the Friday before with the $69 “Bubbles & Pearls” special – Dom Perignon Champagne paired with a caviar-topped oyster. Of course, the regular menu of steaks and raw bar will also be available.
Serving both Spanish tapas and full meals at Disney Springs, Jaleo is adding some special menu items just 
for Valentine’s Day. Highlights include an $18 tartelette of cauliflower purée and Royal Ossetra caviar, $28 scallop carpaccio with raspberries and rose petals, and a $158 two-pound (for sharing, we assume) grilled ribeye with confit piquillo peppers (pictured). Two special desserts will be a $16 strawberry cava sorbet with white chocolate foam and a $15 cold berry soup with olive oil yogurt ice cream.
The Irish pub and restaurant at Disney Springs isn’t adding anything to the menu for Valentine’s Day, but staff will be walking among the guests with a complimentary bit of chocolate for guests and a glass of Prosecco for those over 21.
The Italian restaurant at Disney Springs, and its speakeasy neighbor Enzo’s Hideaway, will add a few items to the Valentine’s Day menu: $19 black truffle risotto, $36 short rib lasagna with bechamel sauce, and a $16 torta di pane al cioccolato ( brioche, dark chocolate custard, fresh raspberries).
The Disney Springs spot for gourmet doughnuts and cold brew will be frying up a special Valentine’s Day strawberry-flavored yeast donut iced with chocolate ganache and topped with red and white heart-shaped candies, strawberry buttercream and a chocolate heart.
The Disney Springs pan-Asian creation of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto is adding a few Valentine’s Day menu specials. That includes Japanese ice fish candied with five spice, ginger and tobanjan chili bean paste ($18), whole lobster with lo mein noodles and seafood XO sauce ($50), and red miso-glazed Faroe Island salmon ($39).
The nostalgic 1920’s-themed restaurant at Disney Springs is adding a couple Valentine’s Day specials: butter-poached lobster linguine with sauteed broccolini and pistachio cream sauce ($42) and chocolate-covered bacon for dessert ($22).
A specialty at the Disney Springs restaurant shaped like a riverboat are the seafood boils. For Valentine’s Day, they’re adding the Cupid’s Duo ($99) with Maine lobster, Key West pink shrimp, red potatoes, sweet corn, and cornbread (pictured). Sweethearts can add a bottle of Mas Fi Cava Brut for $30.
The Valentine’s Day special for the Disney Springs rustic Italian ristorante is grilled lamb over sautéed spinach, roasted butternut squash, and sun-dried cranberries topped with a mint gremolata at $36.
Pointe Orlando
Inside Pointe Orlando, the Greek and Mediterranean restaurant will extend its Valentine’s Day special from Friday, Feb 10 through to the 14th. For $95 per couple (plus tax and tip), you’ll get both hot (saganaki) and cold (hummus, marouli salad) appetizers, a surf and turf with filet medallions and lobster tail, balakva, and soft drinks. Belly dancing is the live entertainment at Taverna Opa each night at 7 p.m.
The seafood spot at Pointe Orlando is offering several menu extras Feb 10-14. “Bubbles & Pearls” features Crémant de Bourgogne Brut Rosé and six caviar-dressed oysters for $79. The Wagyu filet (topped with caviar and hollandaise) and cold-water lobster tail is $99. They’ll also have raspberry swirl cheesecake and the “Love Shack” margarita.
The Brazilian steakhouse at Pointe Orlando is offering several Valentine’s Day deals, Feb. 11-14. Lunch on Saturday and Sunday is $39.99. Dinner on Saturday through Monday is $56.99 with an expanded menu featuring lamb chops, filet and grilled shrimp. Valentine’s Day night dinner is $62.99 with the same expanded menu plus unlimited premium desserts. The salad bar only is also available on Valentine’s Day for $52.99. Each couple on Tuesday will also get a coupon for one full dinner with purchase of a dinner on the next visit.
I-Drive
Spotlighting Spanish cuisine on I-Drive, Tapa Toro is spreading out the Valentine’s Day love with a “Dinner for Two” special that runs from Friday, Feb. 10 for Tuesday, Feb. 14. For $95 per couple (before tax and tip), the four-course menu includes tomato-rubbed bread with Iberian ham, shrimp cocktail, surf & turf (two five-ounce filet medallions and a seven-ounce lobster tail), and Basque cheesecake. Each night also features live flamenco dancing at 7 p.m.
On Monday, Feb 13, Tapa Toro will also be cooking up a Galentine’s Day Mix & Munch Cocktail Class, starting at 6 p.m. For $69 per person, the interactive class with communal seating will cover how to make and enjoy two cocktails (strawberry margarita, Spanish 75), as well as serving family-style tapas, dessert, and Champagne.
At ICON park, the chip shop from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey has added a special Valentine milkshake
for all of February. The chocolate-covered cherry shake is topped with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and a maraschino cherry (pictured).
The International Drive spot with small plate, tapas-style menu items and resident visual artists working while you dine is adding a “Tour of Tango for 2” on Valentine’s Day night. For $79.22 per person, the kitchen will surprise diners based on their preferences. That deal also includes a bottle of brut rosé to share.
The International Drive ristorante has a Valentine’s Day $89 “Bottomless Dining for 2” special with all the entrées two people can eat. That’s pizza, spaghetti pomodoro, jumbo shrimp fra diavolo, beef Bolognese lasagna, Nonna’s Sunday gravy and more. If that’s not enough, the deal also includes a bottle of prosecco to share.
The ICON Park restaurant is known for its candy-themed cocktails and colorful desserts. For all of February, the Valentine special is the “Crazy for You” milkshake with strawberry ice cream, cheesecake, whipped cream, cherry gummy hearts, M&M’s, chocolate hearts, gumdrops, and, of course, two straws for sweetheart sharing (pictured).
Promenade at Sunset Walk
A satellite of the original Savannah, Ga. candy kitchen, River City Sweets is doing multiple Valentine’s Day sweet specials. That includes “buy one pound of pralines and get a half-pound free,” “buy two packaged pecan, brittle, popcorn, chocolate peanuts or taffy and get one free,” and “buy one red candy apple, get one free.”
The Cuban restaurant and nightclub is owned by Emilio & Gloria Estefan. Instead of Feb. 14, Estefan Kitchen is doing its Valentine’s Day early on Saturday, Feb. 11, 3 – 6 p.m. For $160 a couple, you get chef and bartender demonstrations, seafood paella, mojito samples, dessert and a sparkling wine toast.
Multiple Locations
Look for special $7 red velvet ice cream brookies at all the Kelly’s Scoop Shops on Valentine’s Day. Those would be Ghirardelli brownies and double chocolate chip cookie dough with red velvet ice cream. Sorry, the special is just at the stand-alone shops and not the counters inside Foxtail coffee locations.
The franchise gelati shop got its start in Winter Park and is offering a “buy one, get one” special on Valentine’s Day for small and medium sweets, but … you must mention the deal to get it. All month long, Jeremiah’s has a few Valentine-themed items on the menu including a chocolate covered strawberry gelati (strawberry Italian ice, chocolate soft ice cream, chocolate hardening shell) and a sea-salted caramel truffle gelati (sea-salted caramel Italian ice, chocolate soft ice cream, and chocolate hardening shell).
In addition to the regular seasonal menu, the locally owned chain has a $110 Valentine’s Day dinner for two that you can only get for take-out. The deal runs Saturday, Feb. 11 to Tuesday, Feb. 14th. You get two six-ounce wood-grilled filet mignon with mushrooms and red wine sauce, broccolini, Yukon Mash, two field greens salads, two of the Seasons 52 signature Mini Indulgences (Belgian chocolate s’mores or raspberry chocolate chip cannoli, and a bottle of Cabernet Savignon or Chardonnay. No reheating needed. Just get it home and dig in.
The locally owned Italian chain is serving up the Valentine’s Heart-Shaped Lasagna Loverfest for Two on Feb. 14. For $59.99, a couple gets a heart-shaped meat lasagna, small salad, garlic bread and mini cannoli. You can get the Loverfest for Two as both dine-in and to-go.
The locally owned deli chain is adding a couple extra desserts for Valentine’s Day: red and white cookies and red velvet cake.
Co-founded by KISS’s Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, the rock-n-roll family restaurant with locations in Kissimmee, Oviedo, and near Orlando International Airport will do some extra menu items from Saturday, Feb. 11 through to Valentine’s Day. The Hooked on a Feeling three-course $80 dinner for two includes choice of appetizer (pretzel with beer cheese, bruschetta), entrée (surf and turf, specialty pasta), and dessert (red velvet cupcake, purple rain drop beignets).
In the Mall at Millenia, the Tuscan villa-styled restaurant is adding a special Valentine’s Day dinner for two. At $69.99 per couple, you get choice of chopped or Caesar salad and entrées including lobster and shrimp fettuccine, gorgonzola-crusted beef medallions, grilled salmon fresca, or sausage rigatoni arrabbiata. For dessert, it’s a shared caramel mascarpone cheesecake with chocolate heart.
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