If you don’t want to battle Valentine’s Day crowds over the weekend but still want some quality time with your sweetie here’s some other ideas for celebrating Valentine’s Day in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth Urban Challenge
If you’ve ever seen shows like the Amazing Race where teams race through a city by solving clues and performing tasks that’s what the Urban Challenge is like. This Saturday, February 13th, the race takes place in Fort Worth at Noon starting in Montgomery Plaza. This sounds like a fun activity for couples. From Urban Challenge:
The Fort Worth Urban Challenge is a wacky urban adventure. Teams of two solve twelve clues, have a wild city adventure and complete fun challenges while discovering the city in a fresh way during a fun day.
More details can be found on the website for Fort Worth Urban Challenge, $45 per person registration fee. Proceeds benefit Kidd’s Kids.
Central Market
If you’d rather stay in for Valentine’s Day Central Market has you covered. Set the mood with a lovely flower arrangement from Central Market’s flower department. Fragrant Oriental Lillies provide a nice alternative to traditional roses and are on sale for $7.99 a bunch. Also check out the Third Annual Chocolate Festival from February 12-14 and pick out some chocolates for your Valentine. Central Market has delicious dinner selections and you get your choice of movie. From Central Market:
Nesting on V-day? Let Central Market cater to you with a special Valentine’s Day dinner for two and the movie of your choice. After you decide on your menu and movie, give your store’s Catering department a call. Then on V-day, swing by the Catering Desk to pick up a little love to go!
Movie choices are: 500 Days of Summer, The Proposal, or Ratatouille and menu choices include:
Chateaubriand with Red Currant Demi Glaze
Vegetarian Twice Baked Potato
Baby Vegetables
Crispy Chopped Romaine, Grilled Portabella, Toasted Pumpkin Seeds, and Tomato Vinaigrette
2 Chocolate Dipped Strawberries and Heart Shaped Crème Brulee for 2
~$69.99~Chicken Wellington with Demi Glaze
Roasted Fingerlings
Haricot Vert Amandine
Field Greens, Asparagus, Maytag Blue Cheese, Cashews, Dried Cranberries and Sherry Vinaigrette
2 Strawberry Tuxedo Strawberries and 2 Individual Vanilla Cheesecakes
~$59.99~Beef Tenderloin and Grilled Shrimp
Boursin Potato Soufflé
Grilled Asparagus
Baby Spinach, Toasted Walnuts, Stilton and Port Dressing
2 Strawberry Tuxedo Strawberries and 2 Individual Vanilla Cheesecakes
~$59.99~Oven Baked Cold Water Lobster Tail with Lemon Butter Sauce and Tarragon Linguine
Sautéed Spinach and Tomato Florentine
Mixed Field Greens, Southwest Tortilla Croutons and Lemon Parmesan Vinaigrette
2 Chocolate Dipped Strawberries and Heart Shaped Crème Brulee for 2
~$79.99~Valentine Dinner and a Movie meals will also be available “on the wall” across from the Chefs case, but we encourage you to call and place your order with your store’s Catering desk..
Texas Toast Tours
Foodies will want to hold off until February 16 to celebrate Valentine’s. Texas Toast Tours will be hosting a tour of Forest Park area Restaurants. This is a great chance to get an insight into these restaurants with special wine and food pairings with an explanation from the Chefs of Saprisiti, Ruffino’s, and Grady’s. All this and you are guided by the local diva of dining, June Naylor, and Texas Toast partner Cynthia Wahl. From Texas Toast Culinary Tours:
First course
We start at Sapristi!, a charming bistro where chef Carlos Cavazos makes magic.Second course
We’ll cross Forest Park to enjoy our second course, offered by the inspired Asdren Albanese at Ruffino’s.Third course
Then we’ll walk around the corner to Grady’s, where Grady Spears will show off his creativity with sweet endings for our evening.Each course will include just the right adult beverages, too. You’ll have time to talk with the chefs and hear their stories.
It’s $75, tax and tip included.
Webb Gallery (Waxahachie)
February 12, 7PM – 10PM
If you are a couple with artistic or musical leanings , you will want to take a little road trip to Waxahachie on Friday February 12. Take in the art of Esther Pearl Watson as her solo show, “Space is the Place paintings of UFOs and such”, opens at The Webb Gallery in Waxahachie. As a bonus catch the Darktown Strutters in an intimate venue before their self described “demonic disco” sounds hit the big time. Also the lovely DJ Wild in the Streets rounds out the entertainment for the evening. Afterwards take a romantic little stroll around the quaint, old square of downtown Waxahachie. Check out details on the Facebook Event Page. 209-211 W. Franklin Waxahachie, TX 75165
The Webb Gallery features self taught artists or “outsider art” as well as a vast collection of antiquities and bizarre collectibles that they have gathered over the years: carnival banners, fraternal lodge items, memory jugs, tramp art and many more little oddities that will keep you entertained. A little more about Esther Watson from the Webb Gallery:
Another artist whose work was new to me, Esther Pearl Watson, paints faux Outsider Art. Her Garland TX (1985) depicts a backyard scene with kids fighting, chain-link fences and trash scattered about the place. Suburban stuff, except for the massive silver UFO sitting smack bang in the middle of the lawn. Is her work a metaphor for the acceptance of Outsider Art? Insider or outsider, the scratchy imagery is engaging.Emma Gray, L.A. Confidential, Artnet
Esther Pearl Watson was also recently profiled on Boing Boing.
The Kimball
Friday February 12th from 5:30 – 7:30PM they will feature live music by The Tom Reynolds Trio. From the Kimball:
light dinner buffet feature a light dinner buffet of soups, salads, pasta dishes, and a vegetable torte, with a selection of wines and other beverages. After dinner, take a stroll through the galleries or settle in for some of the best live music in town in front of the beautiful Maillol Courtyard.
