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Prix-fixe dinners abound on Valentine’s Day, but several restaurants in Orange County, California, are upping the ante to provide guests an extra-special evening. From complimentary glasses of sparkling wine at Pizzeria Ortica to a six-course “feast for the senses” dinner served in a private poolside cabana at The Resort at Pelican Hill, you’ll find amorous options for any budget on our Orange County culinary events calendar.

 

See what else is going on in the Orange County with restaurant news, reviews and the wine tastings calendar, and check out Gayot’s guide to Valentine’s Day for more sexy suggestions.

By André Gayot

 

 

 

The name says it all. In the course of the unwinding world story, an “alinea” would mark the arrival of a new event of an idea of a philosophy. If the surging concept flies, it may be the beginning of a new episode. Alinea situates itself in a sphere in a forthcoming era to succeed the times of the inns, restaurants, brasseries, taverns, bistros, posadas, trattorias, eateries as we have known them so far. So be prepared: Alinea is not a restaurant like another chic restaurant; Alinea is like no other restaurant in the Americas, period.

 

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Our February Edition of the Foodpaper Newsletter is here! 

 

 

Spice up your love life! Check out our list of Top 10 Places to Kiss in the U.S., our favorite sexy hotels, and our Top 10 Valentine’s Day Wines. Mix it up in the kitchen with a decadent recipe for Dark Chocolate Dipped Pineapple with Pistachio or put our list of Top 10 Aphrodisiacs to the test. We also have a Valentine’s Day Guide, a sexy Car of the Month, and much more! 

Palate Food + Wine is one of many L.A.-area restaurants currently offering specially-priced meals.

 

 

Hatfield’s has reopened, but where is its new location? Which Los Angeles restaurant, one of the Top 40 in the U.S., is offering a black truffle tasting menu for just three days this month? Which restaurants are offering specially-priced three-course meals this week? Where will the new Rolling Stone restaurant open?

 

 

Keep reading our Los Angeles area restaurant news, events, and reviews to keep up with all things culinary in the Southland.

 

 

 

 

by Jennifer Olvera

 

Just about everyone fell in love with Labriola Bakery & Café, a handsome offshoot of the esteemed Alsip, Ill., wholesale bakery, when it opened in an upscale, if generic, Oak Brook strip mall outside of Chicago in late 2008.

 

Owner Rich Labriola, a pizza-maker’s son, formed one of the area’s most respected—and profitable—artisan bread-baking companies back in 1993, supplying his wares to hotels and restaurants, such as Rosebud, Phil Stefani ventures and Spago, before taking the next step.

 

Sure, lines snake around the store or out the door during peak times, but few seem to mind—especially now. Labriola just expanded, launching concept-within Labriola Pasticerria, where sweets—almost too pretty to eat—provide eye candy for the lunch-breaking suits, socialites and regular, old carb lovers who gobble fare at wooden tables illuminated by a roaring fire or flickering flat-screens.

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 By Jeff Hoyt

 

Chef Ferran Adrià announced that the world’s center of molecular gastronomy, elBulli in Spain, is to close for 2012 and 2013.

Is this the end of culinary alchemy, as we’ve asked ourselves in our blog in March?

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by Jeff Hoyt

 

Chef/owner Daniel Stern’s (formerly of Le Bec-Fin, Gayle and Rae) contemporary American restaurant R2L has opened on the 37th floor of Two Liberty Place in Center City, the third tallest building in Philly. The posh space, which includes 14 cushy banquettes, a sculpture by artist Ali Ahmad and an open kitchen, is already booked for dinner through January 29th, but you can still enjoy a drink and the views from Bar2L 

Keep coming to GAYOT.com for more Philadelphia restaurant news, reviews, and events. 

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by Jennifer Olvera

 

 

Back in the day, lushes in Chicago could booze it up, get grub to soak it up and—if that failed—get a room for the night under the same roof. Reviving the tradition: Longman & Eagle, a vintage-inspired saloon with rough-hewn-chic vibe. It’s from the folks behind The Empty Bottle, Mode Carpentry and Struggle Inc., and it’s rolling out the first phase—a seasonally minded gastropub—January 20.

 

 

Jared Wentworth, fresh from Quinn’s in Seattle, is in the kitchen, and his menu has us enamored at first glance. First up are small plates like a wild boar sloppy Joe with crispy sage, onion and pickled jalapeño and smoked sweetbreads with salsify, roasted beets and brown butter applesauce. Using willpower, we’ll save room for the charmoula-spiced tuna loin (the pairing of cannellini bean ragout and black trumpet mushrooms in foie broth sounds too good to pass by).

 

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