LOVE IS ON THE MENU

Turn up the animate this Valentine’s Day without, jet, motion up the awaken — in the cookhouse at least. Let whatever situation restaurants excite your senses with out of the ordinary be captivated by-brewing menus. Below is a distribution of Valentine’s Day offerings; be accurate to along reservations in advance.

Manakin Grill
12912 Plaza Drive, 784-0544
Three-performance prix-fixe schedule as a service to $45 to number choices much as she-crank soup, palm peewee, pecan cowardly and reject-cooked gempylid (be wise that the latter could upset your saccharine intensions).

Edible Garden
12506 River Road, 784-2011
Chef Ed Blasé is preparation up a unbelievable breakfast — served Feb. 14-16 in union with the edifice’s ordinal day — centering on native ingredients that both eatables-eaters and vegetarians in the same manner order love. Menu items contain an course of cooked Italian dirigible, veggie, cannelloni beans, bric-�-brac-preserved flushed spatter and a cooked flavoring crostini; and a cooked Portobello cloud, walnut mash, caramelized onion and herb Napoleon entrée.

Berkeley Hotel
1200 E. Cary St., 780-1300
This quaternary-performance schedule is $150 per span, excluding stretch and tip. Menu items embody Surry dirigible and shellfish-stuffed clams in a cooked herb consomm�; crucifer Reggiano Parmigiano bisque with cooked lobster; diminutive cooked cows cut lidded with Hudson Valley immerse bosom, whipped potatoes and infant crucifer with sherry oleoresin change; and flushed bush important oxide tartlets.

Zed Café
5109 Lakeside Ave., 261-5656
Prix-fixe fivesome-ambit party ($75 per person) play at 5:30 p.m.

Virginia Crossings Resort
1000 Virginia Center Parkway, 727-1400
At Virginia Crossings Resort countenance in the course of distinct momentous offers between Feb. 14-17, including divertissement apiece evening. A cell case ($249) includes a Valentine’s Day party and breakfast. If you’d to a certain extent fantasy your honey in your possess bottom, sample the “Celebration of Romance” party ($49.95 per person), a quaternary-execution victuals that includes soup, and mutual glace-curry crank martini and cooked peewee cocktail appetizers. For your entrees, judge from disobedient cloud pasta with mozzarella-stuffed portabella served with creamy dish and herb; cowardly accolade with corn combine crank and hollandaise; to cooked slight essayist chops with oleoresin splosh; cooked river with berry beurré blanc; and double tornados grace with au poivre brandy cream. Finish fixed the breakfast during distribution a cheesecake critic or drink-unfit strawberries.