Valentine’s weekend restaurant info
Here’s an updated partial list of Valentine’s Day and pre-Valentine’s Day special meals and/or deals, based on submissions and/or wandering around on the Web. Tight space unfortunately has meant we’ve had to leave out most menu details, but you can call for details — and to make reservations, because the chance that you’ll be able to walk in and get a table at any place that’s taking reservations are somewhere between “slim” and “you’ve got to be kidding.”
The Afterthought Bistro & Bar will offer a prix fixe ($55) four-course dinner Friday-Sunday. They’ll open as usual, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday for brunch. (501) 663-1196.
Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse offers a special Valentine’s Day menu Friday-Sunday. (501) 821-1838.
Cache Restaurant will be open on Valentine’s Day for its recently installed 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday brunch, but not for dinner. Friday-Saturday they’ll offer a special prix fixe menu for two, in addition to the full regular menu. Menu and price still TBA. (501) 850-0265.
Ciao Baci is offering a special 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Valentine’s Day Sunday brunch, which a spokesman says is, at least for now, a one-shot deal, and a four-course, prix fixe Valentine’s Eve meal ($55) on Saturday. (501) 603-0238.
Graffiti’s Italian Restaurant will open at 5 p.m. Friday-Sunday, offering dinner specials along with the regular menu. (501) 224-9079.
Heritage Grille, Steak and Fin at the Little Rock Marriott will offer a fourcourse Saturday-Sunday meal for two ($150) that includes a bottle of house wine and a Valentine’s Day brunch buffet ($35). (501) 906-4000.
Ira’s Park Hill Grill will open Sunday for brunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (with a few cocktail specials) and for a $65 per person prix fixe dinner, 5-9 p.m. (501) 771-6900.
One Eleven at the Capital in the Capital Hotel will serve a six-course Friday-Saturday Valentine’s dinner and a Valentine’s Day brunch. (501) 370-7011.
Loca Luna and Red Door will offer its regular menus plus a special package dinner (three courses plus sparkling wine, $38 per person) all weekend, 5-10 p.m. Both restaurants will open for Sunday brunch, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. — Loca Luna as normal and Red Door especially for Valentine’s Day. (501) 663-4666 (Loca Luna); (501) 666-8482 (Red Door).
Ristorante Capeo, not normally open on Sunday, will be open, 5-10 p.m. (501) 376-3463.
Root Cafe will have a prix fixe ($53.74), five-course Valentine’s Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Beer and other beverages will be available for separate purchase. Find the menu and buy tickets at tinyurl.com/hr4xf4z.
Samantha’s Tap Room and Wood Oven, also not normally open on Sunday, will crack its doors at 4 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, adding a special entree and dessert to its regular menu. (501) 3798019.
Another downtown restaurant not normally open on Sunday, Sonny Williams Steak Room, will offer a three-course meal Saturday-Sunday in addition to its regular menu. (501) 324-2999.
Chef Tim Morton of RH Catering is offering a fourcourse prix fixe dinner ($75) with two seatings, 6 and 8 p.m., in the former 1620 Savoy space, 1620 Market St. (501) 221-1620.
The Southern Gourmasian will serve up a threecourse dinner Friday-Saturday with two seatings per — 5-6:30 p.m. ($35) and 6:45-9 p.m. ($40). Reservations appear to be mandatory. (501) 313-5645.
Table 28 in west Little Rock’s Burgundy Hotel will serve a four-course, prix fixe dinner, complete with champagne toast ($150 per couple plus tax and tip; check out the menu at theburgundyhotel.com/restaurant/table-28. htm), Friday-Sunday. (501) 224-2828.
And this is not exactly dinner, but Jeremy Bragg, owner of River City Coffee, is producing handmade white, dark or milk chocolate-covered fondant-steeped strawberries, $35.95 a dozen, $17.95 a half dozen, $3 each; deadline for prepaid orders is 7 p.m. Saturday. (501) 661-1496 or (501) 240-3417.