The Miss Shirley's restaurant, beloved for its hearty Southern brekafasts, serve dinner only one night a year. It's Valentine's Day.
For the fifth time, the Miss Shirley's restaurants are opening up for evening service on Valentine's Day, but they're not serving breakfast for dinner. The $49 three-course menu by executive chef Brigitte Bledsoe includes a trio of bisques, chilled poached Maine lobster, pan-seared diver scallops with cauliflower and goat-cheese pure and a pair of tenderloin fillets. Selected wines are available by the glass and bottle and dessert is a choice of raspberry white-chocolate cheesecake or a sampler of homemade truffles.
"It's a very different atmosphere," says Jennifer McIllwain of Miss Shirley's, about the white-tablecloth dinner. "The Valentine's dinner gives us a chance to show off our chefs. We love doing it and the food is amazing."
The Valentine's Dinner to Remember is being offered at all three Miss Shirley's including the recently opened Annapolis location, the original on Cold Spring Lane and the one on Pratt Street in the Constellation Energy Building.
The Valentine's dinners at Miss Shirley's tend to book solid, McIllwain says, with many repeat guests, but there was more availability at the Pratt Street location as of Feb. 1.
The Valentine's Day Dinner to Remember at Miss Shirley's
Your Aries Valentine wants to be front and center. Red, hot Wit & Wisdom, the restaurant at the new Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore celebrates its first Valentine's Day in Baltimore with an $85 four-course menu available in the dining room and lounge. For Valentine's Day, they will offer a four course menu (with choices) for $85 as well as the tavern menu which will be available to guests in the bar and lounge. The main course options are lobster two-ways and Piedmont Ridge rib eye with Rappahannock River oyster stuffing. The regular tavern menu will be available, too. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)
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