Rose Champagne – If you’re staying in, spring really good rose` Champagne. Billecart-Salmon ($55) is some of the best juice out there and despite their bland mass-market yellow label, Vueve Clicquot Rose ($35) is readily available and quite good. Either way, pink bubbly is the most underrated and sexiest of all beverages.
Cook – If you have absolutely no clue, check out Fresh Direct. They will deliver an entire meal, all you have to do is clean the house and maybe dirty a few dishes to make it seem like you stayed at home cooking.
Or try Jennifer Lynn’s French
Edible flowers – You can’t have a V-day without the flowers, I prefer mine to be edible and I know a few girls who’d agree. Pick up a beautiful bouquet of sugar and almond paste marzipan flowers and have them delivered to her job where her drooling co-workers can reinforce the notion that you are the best man around. Marzipan flora at Martine’s have done me well. East 82nd St and 1st Ave.
Union Square Wines Singles Bash - If your single on Valentine’s Day you won’t have to buy any elaborate gifts or stress over planning the night. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get tipsy and flirt with strangers. Union Square Wine & Spirits will host a free singles-only tasting party complete with gifts, prizes and food pairings. So read some chapters of Wine for Dummies (by Mary Ewing Mulligan and Ed McArthy), put on that pale blue button-down and make a new wine-filled friend. 6-8 pm
140 Fourth Ave. At 13th St.
212-675-8100
Valentine’s at White Castle - Various locations 718- 8404 ext. 304. 48 White Castles in the New York area (I didn’t realize there were any in Manhattan!) will sport hostesses dressed as if they were as Per Se, who escort couples to their tables with pink tablecloths, fresh flowers and mood music. If you can stomach the stench of .49 cent fast-food sliders and your date has a real sense of humor this might be the perfect place if your not expecting any action later on. I have to admit, it’s hilarious.
Nothing says I care like swapping backwash and eating out of the same pot for an hour. Perhaps that’s why fondue is so darn romantic. The Lower East Side’s sweetest little wine bar, Punch & Judy, is sexing-up for the 14th. Low lighting, deep, embracing couches, candles and red wine flowing create a mood ripe for indulgence. Try the special $40 (per couple) Valentine’s prix fixe that includes chocolate fondue with all the accoutrements and a bottle of Champagne.
Punch & Judy 26 Clinton St., between Houston and Stanton Sts.
212-982-1116
The Chocolate Room – if the heady scent of chocolate in the air isn’t enough of an aphrodesiac and the taste of exquisite chocolate fondu by master chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt all served in a seriously cozy candlelit room doesn’t get her endorphins going then you’re dating your high school librarian.
86 Fifth Ave. by Warren St., Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-783-290
If everything goes well, that is if you don’t bring her to White Castle or buy her anything from a mall, she may stay the night. For the morning after: try Ceci-Cela frozen pain au chocolate. Just set the oven to 350 and they bake in minutes. Serve with good strong coffee, fresh berries • $7–$10 at Ceci-Cela, 166 Chambers St., nr. Greenwich St.; 212-566-8933
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