
{"id":8996,"date":"2010-02-11T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=8996"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:21:51","slug":"the-eater-special-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/02\/11\/the-eater-special-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eater: Special Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nAmuse yourselves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of why it pushes our buttons, as Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resident expert on such matters, Margot Lester, notes, you have to hand it to the candy and greeting card industry for ginning up Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day. (Would that National Pie Day was so well observed.)<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, food remains a perfectly acceptable metaphor for love. Cards, candy and flowers are nice, dinner even more so.  This year as always we are blessed with a wide range of romance options for the evening of Feb. 14 and thereabouts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day is when a lot of local eateries kick out some of the fancier dishes of the year. The Eater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research team checked in with a few local chefs and asked what they planned to do to send a little extra love to the table this year.<\/p>\n<p>That usually means the appearance of foie gras, duck and lobster. Some examples:<\/p>\n<p>At Acme, front-of-the-house manager Paul Finn reports that lobster ravioli is one of several specials in store for the evening. Down the street at Elaine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, chef Bret Jennings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 prix fixe menu includes an amuse bouche of lobster bisque<\/p>\n<p>Lantern is offering Cantonese lobster and the roast beef at the Fearrington House has a lobster dressing.<\/p>\n<p>Prix fixe menus are common for the holiday, but not universal.<\/p>\n<p>Provence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Valarie Nordin says the restaurant usually isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t open on Sundays. Rather than a prix fixe evening, she said Provence adopts a sort of greatest-hits approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we do is that we take all of the favorites from our regular menu and add specials to it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have foie gras usually, but we have it that night; we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have duck usually, but we have it that night.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Please note that if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re planning on finding a seat in some of the swankier spots, most of the reservations left, if any, are late or early.<\/p>\n<p>If you can be flexible, Elaine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s G. J. Everson recommends rearranging the weekend a little. Primetime spots on Sunday are already booked, and Saturday, with a 4 p.m. N.C. State-Carolina game, is also filling up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d advise people to avoid the busy nights and go out for an early Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s celebration on Friday night, which should be much more peaceful,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Everson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amuse yourselves Regardless of why it pushes our buttons, as Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resident expert on such matters, Margot Lester, notes, you have to hand it to the candy and greeting card industry for ginning up Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day. (Would that National Pie Day was so well observed.) Thankfully, food remains a perfectly acceptable metaphor for love. 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