Looking for an ideal place to make your Valentine’s Day celebration special without breaking the bank?
Stabroek News can suggest a number of fine restaurants with menus featuring exotic gourmet meals, some in addition to the usual fare, at prices starting from $10,000 to as low as $1,200.
The New Thriving Chinese Restaurant is serving a Romantic Gourmet Buffet Dinner, on the top floor, that includes individually plated lobster and salmon and a complimentary glass of red wine at a cost of $10,000 (plus VAT) per person. Tickets are on sale at the restaurant.
New Thriving will also be serving a special Valentine’s buffet lunch and dinner all day long on the ground floor. Guests will also be serenaded by a live jazz band. This option costs $2,000 (plus VAT) per person. Call 225-0038 for reservations.
The Pegasus Hotel’s ‘Valentine’s Dinner and Dance’ will feature a buffet menu including a choice of four appetizers such as a smoked salmon, crab and shrimp platter; a main course with multiple choices of meats such as roasted Kansas beef round with red wine jus, garlic pesto-grilled New Zealand lamb cutlets and pan fried filet of snapper with prawn sauce.
The dessert menu features favourite chocolate dipped strawberries, and for those who prefer something lighter, lemon chiffon tart or sliced tropical fruits, all at a cost of $8,000 per person VAT inclusive. Dinner will be served from 7pm to 11pm. It will be accompanied by live music by DJ Bevaughn from stereosonic. Call 662-6807 for reservations. Tickets are also available at the front desk.
The Princess Hotel is hosting ‘Let’s Dance and Dine this Valentine’ at the Princess Royal Restaurant for $6,500 (VAT included) per person. The menu features a choice of four intriguing appetizers such as salmon rose and vegan penguin, a choice of five salads, seven entrees including mini steak with mushroom sauce and five desserts including tiramisu and fresh fruit salad. Call 265-7009 for reservations.
At OMG, dinner will start off with an appetizer of cheesy spinach love cups and include a main course featuring pepper crusted beef tenderloin with chocolate port sauce, grilled salmon with sherry vinegar honey glaze. Strudel fruit custard will be served for dessert and guests will be treated to a complimentary glass of Valentine cocktail, all at a cost of $6,000 per person VAT inclusive. Dinner will be served from 7pm to 10pm.
The Valentine Cuisine at Antonio’s Grille features a lunch and dinner menu at a cost of $4,500 and $8,500 per person. The lunch menu includes garam masala rubbed Cornish game hens with maple tamarind sauce and prawns with creamy roasted garlic sauce with peach cobbler pie for dessert.
Dinner guests can choose from main courses such as grilled lobster with coconut parsley sauce and chicken roulade with toffee butter cake for dessert. Antonio’s advises that limited seating is available and guests are urged to make reservations via telephone number 225-7933.
The Hot and Spicey Creole Corner is offering a Valentine Lunch special that features exotic fare such as strawberry lovers rice and pork chops in tamarind sauce. The menu also includes lovers lane salad and between the sheets punch, among other fare, at a cost of $3,000 per person. The semi-buffer lunch will be served in an air-conditioned dining room.
The Spicy Dish Valentine’s Day Lunch special will start with an appetizer of chicken bouches, a main course of five choices including Caribbean flavoured trout, jello with fruit topping or baked custard for dessert as well as a complimentary glass of passion fruit juice at a cost of $3,000 per couple or $1,900 per person. Lunch is served from 11.30am.
At Royal Castle, a Valentine special ‘Double the treat’ menu including four pieces of chicken, two servings of fried rice and macaroni, among other things, can be had for $2,200 (VAT inclusive) from any of its four outlets. The treat also includes a special ‘I love you’ gift.
JR Burgers’ Valentine Special features lemon cream chicken and pepper steak with a choice of three sides, a 12oz bottle of soda and decadent red velvet cupcakes, all for a total of $2,000. JR’s Daily Lunch Special will feature an entrée of sweet and sour fish with three sides including calypso rice, and a 12oz bottle of soda, for a cost of $1,400.
At Banks’ DIH’s Qik Serv restaurants, diners can indulge in a serving of four pieces of chicken, a serving of fries, a 16oz bottle of Coca Cola and ice cream for dessert at a cost of $1,800 per person. The New Amsterdam Qik Serve will be offering ginger glazed chicken and deep fried fish logs, among other fare, at a cost of $1,200 per person while at the Idiho Health Bar chicken in pineapple sauce and calypso fish are among the feature choices, at a cost of $1,200 per person. Meanwhile, patrons are also invited to ‘Say I Love You’ with a decadent red velvet cake, available in 1/4lb and 1/2lb sizes at Qik Serv.
