Valentine’s Day is for Lovers

Chocolate Lover’s Food Tours

Dallas by Chocolate offers several Valentine’s Day themed food tours. They also have a specially curated gift box, filled with some favorite local treats from the actual places we visit on our delicious Dallas Bites! and Dallas by Chocolate food tours for your sweetheart.

Other tours include: The Galentine’s Experience! (ladies-only tour), the Valentine’s Ultimate Chocolate Box, and a fun and spicy Valentine’s Tacos & Three Margaritas Tour.
Book your tours early.

Pizza Lovers

Delucca Gaucho Pizza is a culinary experience created with pizza lovers in mind. In this Gaucho style continuous dining pizzeria, you pay just one fixed price and enjoy several delicious handcrafted pizzas.

Don’t forget to leave room for their dessert pizzas:

  • Italian Nutella
  • Banana Flambé
  • Dulce de Leche and Toasted Coconut
  • Roasted Pear, Gorgonzola, and Honey

Delucca has locations in the Dallas Design District, Southlake, Plano, and the Fort Worth location will open on February 16, 2021.

Dessert Lovers

Bisous Bisous Pâtisserie specializes in French-style pastries, cakes, and French Macarons. Their selection of delicious cookies, croissant, cakes, and confections are a sweet treat for all dessert lovers.

“In French, Bisous Bisous ( /bi-zu/ ) means ‘Kiss, Kiss’ or ‘Lots of Love’. When greeting friends and loved ones, the French kiss each cheek, one kiss each side.

 Bisous Bisous Pâtisserie

Valentine Heart Cakes

Bisous Bisous’ Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, Vanilla Bean Buttercream.  Red Velvet, Mexican Chocolate and decorated with Vanilla Macarons are available in a 6″ solid heart or a 10″ heart with the center removed.  

Order your Valentine cake no later than February 11th. Custom cakes are made to order and require at least a 2-day notice. 

Wine Lovers

Grapevine Wine Tours is a perfect event for Ladies Night or a Valentine’s Day celebration. You will visit three of Grapevine’s popular wineries, including Delaney Vineyards, Messina Hof Winery, and Grapevine Spings Winery.

Wine Tour Schedule

Wine Lunch Tour – $115.00
Monday – Saturday,  11:30 am – 3:30 pm 
Sunday  12:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Wine Dinner Tour – $125.00
Monday – Saturday,  5:30 pm – 9:30 pm 
Sunday, 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Book your wine tour now. Call  817-259-WINE (9463) for other options. Special pickup arrangements will be made for larger groups. Local residents may join the tour at whichever hotel stop is most convenient. *February special:  10% off for all grocery store employees. Use code: FOODIES4WINE  at checkout. Must show proof of employment.

💝 5 more ways to thoughtfully (and safely) spend Valentine’s Day:  Even a lowkey celebration can be made special with the right itinerary. Use this guide – our curated picks for how to spend Valentine’s Day in Dallas – to help make sure your plus one still feels the love. –VisitDallas

💝 Valentine’s Day Dining: This year’, Valentine’s Day falls on a Sunday, prompting many local restaurants to host special dinners all weekend long. With extra days to celebrate, maybe that’ll allow for more social distancing. And most places are doing packaged meals to go. Here’s where you can celebrate Valentine’s Day 2021. – Dallas CultureMap

Have a happy Valentine’s Day💘

Learn How to Create Chocolate Dipped Strawberries Like a Pro

Bring a friend or ‘that special someone‘ and join the fun while you learn how to dip and design strawberries like a pro! Sweet Queen and the Icing King will help you make this a special Valentine’s Day.

In this hands-on class, you will learn you how to properly clean, dip, store, and package chocolate dipped berries.

This Sweet Queen will teach you these strawberry design  techniques: 

  • Classic dip
  • Holiday candy dip
  • Drizzle

Each student will leave with a dozen fresh dipped berries and the skills to recreate them over and over again.

Class Price is $50 per person

*ALL MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED

Class Dates and Times

Friday, Feb. 8th, 6:30-8:00 pm

Sat. Feb 9th, 12:-1:30 pm

Sat. Feb 9th, 4:00-5:30 pm

Sign Up for Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Classes

Sweet Queen’s Studio
3232 North Garland Ave. Suite 104
Garland, Texas 75040

Plan your Valentine’s Escape with Valentine’s Chocolate Tours

Indulge your sweet tooth — and your sweetheart – with a special Valentine’s tour hosted by Dallas by Chocolate.  Board a private motorcoach for a fun afternoon or evening filled with yummy chocolate delights.  This is the kind of pampering you deserve.

It is not too soon to reserve your seat on one of these tours. Make your reservation before February 9 and you can save $4 per ticket.  Use promo code EAT.  This applies to ALL tours (including those before February 11 and those after February 15, 2018). Valentine Tours include these and other offerings at www.dallasbychocolate.com and www.dallasbitesfoodtours.com

  • Hearts & Chocolates Tour: Saturday, February 10 – 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
  • Grapevine/Roanoke/Southlake Valentine’s Chocolate Tour: 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
  • Dallas’ Valentine’s Tacos & Margaritas Tour: 12:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
  • Dallas’ Decadent Desserts Tour – 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  • Winery, Chocolate, Pizza & Jazz Tour – 5:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.
  • The Valentine’s Seduction Tour – 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., Sunday, February 11
  • Have Your Chocolate and Eat It Too Tour – 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
  • Tacos & Margaritas Tour – 12:30-4:30 p.m., Valentine’s Day, February 14
  • Decadent Valentine Dreams Chocolate Tour — 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
  • Valentine’s “Vintage Evening” Wine Tasting, Pizza and Dessert Tour – 6:30 – 10 p.m
  • The Valentine’s Seduction Tour – 6:30-10:30 p.m.
For more information about Valentine’s  events and tours, visit www.dallasbychocolate.com or contact Jeanine Stevens at 972-814-599

5 Fun Things To Do For Valentine’s Day

Tired of the same old boring box of chocolates and dinner for two for Valentines’ Day? Here are a few exciting and fun things couples can do to make this Valentine’s Day a very special day.

Bishop Arts Theatre Center presents the Lovers Jazz Fest

Music Hall at Fair Park
February 10, 7:30pm

This special musical event is a perfect for Valentine’s celebration for anyone who just loves great jazz music. Head down to the Music Hall for a special show featuring Jazz Superstars Althea Rene, Jonathan Fritzen, Javier Colon & Jeanette Harris.For more information, visit www.bishopartstheatre.org.

Valentine’s Day Massacre

Moxley Manor, Bedford, TX
February 14  – 16,  8pm to 10pm

Introducing a different and darker side to love, Moxley Manor will be presenting a three-day haunted house. Groups of 20 or more are eligible for discount tickets so this is a great option for a group of friends.

There have been many stories about the haunted Moxley Manor and the actual mansion has remained uninhabited for many years due to the stories of jealousy, lies, and murder. If the typical Valentine’s Day plans are not what you’re looking for, the haunted Valentine’s Day massacre may be a great alternative choice.

A portion of the proceeds from the events from this year will be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Moxley Manor is an indoor attraction so tickets will be valid rain or shine. For more information, visit www.moxleymanor.com or call (682) 231-1313.

The Cowtown Marathon

February 24-25

The Cowtown Marathon is celebrating its 40th year as it welcomes the world to Fort Worth. The Cowtown offers a race distance for everyone, including the Cook Children’s 5K, Adults 5K and 10K on Saturday and the Ultra Marathon presented by Miller Lite, Marathon, and Half Marathon on Sunday. The entire family can participate either as a runner or a spectator cheering along the route. Ambitious runners can take The Cowtown Challenge and run a race both days.

The Cowtown Marathon is a nonprofit organization promoting health and fitness in the community. By running the Cowtown, runners are supporting C.A.L.F. (Children’s Activities for Life & Fitness) Program, which provides training and education to students regarding health and nutrition.  To register online, donate to C.A.L.F., or get additional information, visit cowtownmarathon.org.

Valentine Cruise

Silver Lake Marina  Grapevine, TX
February 9 – 11 &  13 – 17,  6pm – 11pm
Arispop invites you to eat, dance, and laugh in the romantic moonlit atmosphere of beautiful Lake Grapevine on their 6th annual Valentine’s Cruise. Sail aboard the Tejas on this 2 hr Valentine’s cruise which includes a  table for each couple, 3 – course plated dinner, live music, and a comedy performance.  For more information visit www.valentinescruisedfw.com or call (972) 514-4319.


2018 Cliburn Festival: the Music of Russia

February 22–25
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 
Sixty years ago, a 23-year-old Texan went to Moscow at the height of the Cold War and came back an American hero and an international icon. The impact of Van Cliburn’s victory at the First International Tchaikovsky Competition cannot be overstated; he disregarded boundaries and brought the world together through excellent music and his signature warmth. But at the heart of this accomplishment was Van’s deep, abiding love of and connection to the music of Russia.

The festival marks the 60th Anniversary of Van Cliburn’s historic International Tchaikovsky Competition victory and will celebrate Russian music through a series of concerts that will explore the different facets of its character. Performers will include three Cliburn laureates, each of whom hail from Russia—Alexander Kobrin (2005 gold medalist), Yury Favorin (2017 finalist), and Georgy Tchaidze (2017 finalist)—to serve as artists-in-residence and help explore the masterpieces of their homeland. The Rolston String Quartet also joins them in this adventure. For more information, visit www.cliburn.org.