Love on a budget. (The Roving Eye).EVEN Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. has been hit by the down economy. The special day for lovers is always one of the most profitable nights for L.A. restaurants with the right ambience--and this year it falls on a Friday. It's almost as lucrative as Mother's Day, as chefs comb through their recipes to cobble together cobble together Verb [-bling, -bled] to put together clumsily: a coalition cobbled together from parties with widely differing aims Verb 1. an attractive fixed-price menu that reaches for your heart and tugs at your wallet. But this year many local restaurants and hotels are holding their Valentine's Day prices even with 2002. The Regent Beverly Wilshire hasn't changed the $650 price tag for its Valentine's Day package that includes a night at the hotel, two monogrammed spa robes, champagne, and chocolate-covered strawberries. Same goes for the Valentine's Day meal at Pinot Hollywood, run by Joachim Splichal, the German chef who started Patina patina (păt`ənə), coating of carbonate of copper on articles of copper or bronze, formed after long exposure to a moist atmosphere or burial in the earth. on Melrose Avenue Melrose Avenue is a well-known Los Angeles street that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and ends at Hoover Street in Silver Lake. Melrose runs north of Beverly Boulevard and south of Santa Monica Boulevard. . Pinot Hollywood is charging $45 a person for its fixed price menu that starts with white asparagus and ends with a gateau de St. Valentin. This year, none of Splichal's Pinot restaurants is charging a corkage cork·age n. A charge exacted at a restaurant for every bottle of liquor served that was not bought on the premises. corkage Noun a charge made at a restaurant for serving wine bought elsewhere fee. Diners at the Saddle Peak Lodge, which has been booked up for Valentine's Day since December, will get a four-course meal for $85 per person, same as last year. "We have a waiting list that's three-and-a-half pages long," said Gerhard Tratter, the lodge's managing partner. Jean Francois Meteigner, owner/chef of La Cachette near Century City, has held his prices steady at $80. Valentine's Day is Meteigner's busiest evening of the year and he expects to serve 300 people at the 120-seat establishment. "It's like live theater," he said. "When you remove the curtains, you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what is going to happen." |
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