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I think it was about five years ago that my husband and I stopped going out to dinner on Valentine's Day. I remember it pretty clearly. It was when we still lived in DC and we decided to try a new place in Georgetown. The meal, however, like many restaurant Valentine's Day meals turn out to be, was a bust.
It was a prix fixe meal, which automatically turns me off. This is not to be confused with a tasting menu, I should add. Tasting menus are meals planned from start to finish by the chef so that the meal is an experience. The courses are ordered in a way that's the most pleasing to the palette. Prix fixe meals, on the other hand, are the meal deals that you often get when it's a holiday and the restaurant will be serving a lot of people at once. And as described, this restaurant, which shall remain anonymous, served up mass amounts of cheap food to get you in and out as fast as possible. The fish was dry and the dessert tasteless. So in a nutshell you have my opinion on why it's never a good idea to go out to dinner when everyone else decides to go out as well.
This is precisely the reason why I like to cook at home. Why not consider having all your friends over, single or not, for V-day? You can most certainly come up with a better meal than you could get at any crowded restaurant. You can control your ingredients and use the best tasting seasonal foods and you can save some major cash. And here's how:
