Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
CHESTER C0. COMMUNITY CELEBRATES VALENTINE’S DAY
KENNETT SQUARE >> Valentine’s Day offers loved ones an opportunity to celebrate one another with the poetry of romance in the air.
Local businesses across Chester County, and America and across countries around the world, are featuring special romantic menus for patrons to enjoy on Tuesday in celebration of the annual holiday.
Dining is intimate eating. When dining, we are not grabbing a quick meal to fuel our body; we are sharing an experience. While sitting around a table, maybe with a candle and a fabulous bottle of wine, we are tasting the flavors of love,” said Sandra Morris, who owns Portabellos of Kennett Square, alongside her husband, Brett Hulbert, culinary executive chef.
“Love is the companionship, the conversation and the specially of prepared food. Love is the atmosphere, the music and the flavors of delicious food,” Morris said on Monday.
“That is why Valentine’s Day is about sharing your love, enjoying a special meal at your favorite place,” she said.
Porabellos, located at 108 State St. in Kennett Square, is open this Tuesday just for the special Valentine’s Day holiday. Normally the business is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays of each week.
“At Portabellos of Kennett Square we our sharing our love this Valentine’s Day with an intimate evening of music with Mr. Wayne James and a chef’s four course dinner prepared by Brett Hulbert and his team,” Morris said. “After all, food is love, and this is our love language!”
In Kennett Township, local police gathered attend a “Cupid & and Copy” event at The Flats on Millers Hill to connect with local residents, who were encouraged to bring their pups for a special Valentine inspired photo-opt.
Still, for some in the Greater Philadelphia Region, regardless of Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, this week continues to be difficult following the heart-breaking loss of the Eagles in the Super Bowl on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs.
However, love is, above all, enduring. Fearless. True.
Aimee Ednie is the owner of Bombshell Styles for J on Route 896 in London Britain Township.
“My family and my team and I are saddened by the loss of the Eagles, but we know the Eagles will only be stronger next year,” Ednie said on Monday.
“The love we have for the city of Philadelphia will never die,” she said “Go Birds,” Ednie said. Indeed, love endures. Love uplifts. Love inspires.
As Shakespeare declared in Sonnet 116:
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.”