Valentine dinner and a movie

It's Feb 14th,  the night that is to eating what Dec 31st is to drinking. The pros stay home while the pikers clog the streets. Fire and Knives has had enough (via Grinder):

Unless we collectively turn our backs on restaurants on St Valentine's Day, things will only get worse. This is not necessarily as unromantic an idea as it might sound. There has to a better way to say 'I love you' than getting industrially fed in an environment where the one nod to atmosphere is a tealight, a wilting rose and an intrusively sleazy soundtrack. Why buy into a Disney date or a Grand Guignol parody of a candlelit dîner à deux? Since the Vatican have relinquished it, St Valentine's day is up for grabs. You and your partner can choose any other day of the year to go out, get treated well by a decent restaurant and create your own romance.

                                                                                                         

You will want to read the whole thing, especially the part about "Duo of lamb chops, cut to resemble hearts. Coeur a la fucking crème. There will be at least one nancying, ninnying chicken dish, especially for the ladies, and steak, which will be ordered by 80% of the men." After you cancel that reservation, then what? Easy.  Rotisserie chicken from the supermarket, and a DVD of Tom Jones.

UPDATE: DuBarry has chimed in with her Valentine dinner/movie combo. Please feel free to share actual or hypothetical meals or meal film combinations in the comments.

Comments

[dubarry]

2 for the road & hand-made fettucine con sugo al burro e pomodoro.

[Rose's Lime]

For a double date... grilled cheese on bread cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter and The Princess Bride followed by pave du thon dusted with wassabi and sesame, seared lightly. Side of brocoli rabbe with soy and ginger. Maybe garlic mashed if I'm up for it. Devil Wears Prada just came in from NetFlix.

[Rose's Lime]

For a double date... grilled cheese on bread cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter and The Princess Bride followed by pave du thon dusted with wassabi and sesame, seared lightly. Side of brocoli rabbe with soy and ginger. Maybe garlic mashed if I'm up for it. Devil Wears Prada just came in from NetFlix.

[Fesser]

Mashed potatoes and The Devil Wears Prada? Sick. Any film that has Stanley Tucci using "6" as a term of disapprobation is Reefer Madness, except for carbs.

[Skeen]

Alas, no inspired suggestions from me. I spent Valentine's Day negotiating icy/snowy roads to take my 7 year-old to see his first Big East basketball game. Now that's love.

[dubarry]

i am convinced one of the reasons nearly every man i have ever gone out with has asked me to marry* is that i loathe valentine's day. i used to spend my time thinking up things girls would aggressively hate to do.

one year i spent it at espn sport's zone. you HAVE NOT LIVED until you have watched 24 tvs while in a recliner eating wings and jalapeno poppers -- a kind of heaven.

this year i suggested hawaiian tropic zone. i always though hooters would be lovely as well.

*that and (i) putting out on the first date and (ii) the gnocchi.

[Skeen]

"It's Feb 14th, the night that is to eating what Dec 31st is to drinking. The pros stay home while the pikers clog the streets."

Oh, and this is probably totally obvious, but on March 17th you go to the least Irish bar you can find. Think Polynesian, perhaps. A Polynesian bar in River Forest, Ill., perhaps.

[Jette]

Alamo Drafthouse was showing "Harold and Maude" with a five-course meal that paired "aged and young" foods. I like the movie but the menu didn't quite appeal.

My favorite movie to watch on V'Day is "Some Like It Hot," and I'm trying to figure out what I would serve with it. Spicy food seems obvious and not quite in tune with the movie itself. Maybe serve food that was disguised in some way, like pastry-wrapped goodies? Hmm.

[louis vuitton purses]

If that's not good enough, consider the Tim Allen corollary to Ibsen's famous dictum that if you