The hottest Valentine’s Day dinners in Miami

You’ll likely need to call in favors to score a table, but the reward for your hard work is a special “Tenderloin Love & Care” menu at $175 per person, featuring steak and eggs paired with a filet with milk toast and Kaluga caviar. It gets even better from there, including a 45-day dry-aged ribeye, a Japanese A5 filet and a soft-serve with heart-shaped sprinkles for dessert. There are lots of VIP add-ons available. Let's just hope you get your spot before finishing this sentence. Feb 13, 14

Executive Chef Daniel Ganem dreamed up a five-course menu priced at $185 on the Monday before Valentine’s and $225 on the day of the holiday. An optional wine pairing will set you back another $155 per person. The menu includes a wahoo crudo with Cara cara navel orange, lobster ravioli with roe, an A5 ribeye with Perigord truffles and a red velvet and robiola heart with 50-year-old balsamic. There are also special cocktails, including the Love Potion No. 9, though it’s still on you to win over that date. Feb 13, 14

If scanning through prix-fixe menus is making you think they all look the same, chef Giorgio Rapicavoli is offering an antidote. His $125 dinner, with an optional wine pairing for $75, offers refreshingly adventurous dishes like Moscato-cured branzino, sea scallop saltimbocca with 600-day prosciutto and a tonka bean panna cotta with Lambrusco caramel and Amarena cherries. Feb 14

The new, very good Wynwood restaurant from celebrated chef Brad Kilgore is offering two special Valentine's-themed menus all February, starting at $90 for four courses or $140 for seven. There are oven-baked oysters, steak au poivre, tortellini with black truffles and a baked Florida semifreddo that’s set aflame at the table, just like your date’s eyes will be when you reveal where you're headed.

LPM will serve up a “French Kiss” prix-fixe menu at $225 per person this holiday. It includes carpaccio de thon with caviar, truffle linguine and a choice of three entrees (though we’d go with the Côelettes D’Agneau Vivienne, lamb chops every bit as pretty as the bouquet you hopefully brought your date). At the end, select from chocolate mousse or Gâteau au Fromage Frais,  a French cheesecake that'll make the entire night feel oh so very Paris. Feb 14

The restaurant in the lobby of the Marriott Stanton South Beach has a $90 five-course meal that shows off its prowess with Asian fusion, including duck croquette with foie gras and a sashimi tuna tasting. But you’re going to have some serious FOMO watching people walk through the speakeasy-like door into The Den, a Michelin-starred omakase that’s offering 20 courses with a welcome drink for $325. Feb 14

Chef Michael Beltran opened many new doors since this time last year, and his new French spot in the Miami Worldcenter Caoba residential tower sounds like a fine place for a romantic dinner. He's put together a four-course menu that includes lots of options and add-ons, like venison tartare, squid provençale, turbot and an opera cake. Feb 14

Austin transplant Uchi will offer a 10-course, $400 omakase tasting menu including king crab, roasted mushrooms and Ōra King salmon for those who planned ahead and got a table. But there’s good news for the sweatpants-wearing, last-minute planners among us: the special is also available as an eight-course to-go order for the slightly easier to swallow price of $250 per person.

Fontainebleau’s indulgent steakhouse makes a long weekend out of Valentine’s by offering a three-course menu at $165 per person. The menu's not yet available to preview in advance, but we do know there’s a complimentary champagne toast in your future here. Feb 10–14

With a theme described as a French-Japanese izakaya and a heavy command of the accent keys on a keyboard, Sérêvène will offer a special menu of one-night-only dishes for $109, plus a $49 optional wine pairing and another $49 optional-but-you-should-splurge-for-it black truffles add-on. The menu ends with a “cookie sandwich” of amaretto brittle and flaming meringue, guaranteeing your night will conclude with at least one fire emoji. Feb 14

If celebrating the holiday as if you were in Tel Aviv sounds about right, this spot in the South of Fifth neighborhood on Miami Beach has a $115 per person menu that starts with prosecco, covers a full-on gamut of Mediterranean dishes and ends with either baklava-pistachio gelato or tahini creme brulee. There’s a wine pairing option too, because, hey, you’re in Tel Aviv, at least for the night. Feb 14

A $200 prix-fixe menu at Acqualina Resort and Residences’ restaurant will include veal marsala, porcini ravioli and langoustines, along with white-glove service that makes this feel like a super important date—we bet the waiters will help you hide that ring in the tiramisu.

The already charming botanical garden will turn into Garden D'Amore throughout the evening, with live jazz and several dining options running from a $75 picnic dinner for two to a $225 table for you and your date. There are lots of add-ons too, including a mini chocolate cocktail flight for $24 per person. Feb 14

If your date for the Big Night Out is a diehard carnivore but also not into the staid (read: boring) atmosphere of most steakhouses, head out west to Pinecrest for Platea, a Peruvian steakhouse from chef-owner Fernando Salazar. There’s a special $100 menu that includes tostones with wagyu picanha, sashimi octopus, a surf-and-turf tomahawk with lobster and something sweet to cut the meat sweats: flourless chocolate cake with dulce du leche mousse. Feb 14

Sunset Harbour’s adoring little fish house will serve up two additions to its regular menu, starting at lunch. A hundred bucks will score you grilled lobster tacos for two, and if things don’t go so well during the entree, continue on to the Broken Heart Strawberry Tart. Feb 14

Sparkly downtown skyline views come free, but the prix-fixe menu will cost you $165 with options for each course. Our pick: beets with ricotta, scallops with sea urchin and roasted fig with walnuts and vanilla gelato (because everybody else on your Instagram will be doing chocolate). Feb 14

Start with the Marky’s caviar service at this Brickell brasserie and then continue on to a $75-per-person set menu. Ladies who reserve a dinner the night before Valentine’s Day will get a welcome Galentine’s glass of bubbly when they also order an entree. Feb 13, 14

Putting the G in OG as usual, Barton G will serve up an appropriately over-the-top menu that includes lobster pop tarts, crab ceviche and a seafood bubble bath, a seafood boil platter served in a bathtub-shaped bowl (DM photos of this one, please). There are also couples cocktails so you can sip from giant goblets at the same time, because Valentine’s. Feb 14

A four-course Southern-inspired menu will include a Riesling-poached pear carpaccio, gnocchi with duck confit and strawberry shortcake. Guests can add a four-course beverage pairing for $25. Fifty bucks per person makes this a solid budget pick for the holiday, even with $25 for booze. Feb 14

The Parrot Jungle island restaurant where views are served up on a family-style platter, Joia Beach is offering a special Prix-fixe menu and entertainment experience dubbed Oui, Joia Amour. For $175 a person, you’ll get beef tenderloin carpaccio, a surf and turf filet with a lobster tail, a dessert platter and a glass of Barons de Rothschild Brut Champagne to toast to that never-ending view of the skyline. Feb 14