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Create Your Own Lunch At Dolce Vita

Mandarin Oriental Singapore has a new Create Your Own Lunch concept at Dolce Vita. Diners can choose two ($38++), three ($46++) or four ($54++) dishes of Italian cuisine by chef de cuisine Marco Manocchio. The lunch set menu also features traditional starters, housemade pastas, hearty mains and desserts. Pick from four varieties of mains, including seared barramundi fillet and Nonna's home-style oven-baked layered eggplant. Dessert choices are panna cotta, tiramisu and piatto di frutta.

WHERE: Level 5 Mandarin Oriental Singapore, 5 Raffles Avenue MRT: Promenade WHEN: Noon - 2.30pm (weekdays) PRICE: $38++ - $54++ (choice of two - four dishes) TEL: 6885-3500 INFO: E-mail mosin-dining@mohg.com

VALENTINE'S DAY

To Sear With Love

A live band will perform as Sear Steakhouse serves its Valentine's Day menu. The meal starts with an amuse bouche of pineapple coconut salsa with maraschino cherry and crispy brioche and a first course of pickled snow pear with baby spinach, chorizo oil, toasted hazelnuts and lemon vinaigrette. Choices for mains are Pira Grilled Iberico Pork Chop, Poached Sea Bream in mushroom consomme and 45 Days Dry Aged Bone-In Rib. Dessert is chocolate mousse.

WHERE: Level 45 Singapore Land Tower, 50 Raffles Place MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: Wed, 6 - 8pm, 8.30 - 10.30pm PRICE: $108++ ($98++ for early-bird pre-paid bookings made by Mon), add $45++ for wine-pairing TEL: 6221-9555 INFO: E-mail hello@50rp.com.sg

Seaside Getaway At Atmosphere Bistro

Atmosphere Bistro at East Coast Park will serve a three-course menu with smoked duck/salmon salad and lobster bisque or wild mushroom soup as appetiser. Next comes a sharing platter with baby back ribs, Cajun chicken, pork bratwurst and ribeye steak, or dill salmon, scallops with caviar, king prawn and whole squid. Dessert is Hazelnut Praline Pyramid or peach tart.

WHERE: 01-25 Parkland Green, 920 East Coast Parkway MRT: Dakota/Eunos WHEN: Wed PRICE: From $98.80++ a person TEL: 6440-9705 INFO: E-mail enquiry@atmosphere-bistro.com.sg

Lovers, Lone Rangers Welcome At Oxwell & Co

In Oxwell & Co's The Dining Room, couples can tuck into a five-course meal of Coffin Bay Oysters, Wild Mushroom Soup, Beet Cured Salmon, Westholme Steak with onion rings and Chocolate Mousse Pot. The restaurant's bar, the Apothecary, will offer the LV 1, made with Hendrick's Gin, charteuse, rosemary, citrus and a dose of vanilla fume essence ($22++); the Tantricida, made with banana-distilled Balvenie, lemon balm, coconut oil and citrus ($24++); and The Desired Effect, made with prosecco, peach elixir and Coffin Bay Oyster ($28++).

WHERE: Oxwell & Co, 5 Ann Siang Road MRT: Telok Ayer WHEN: Wed, noon - midnight PRICE: $68++ a person, add $48++ for cocktail pairing TEL: 6438-7036 INFO: E-mail info@oxwellandco.com

Burlamacco's Valentine's Specials

Chef Gabriele Piegaia of Burlamacco Ristorante has crafted a four-course set menu, which starts with airflown burrata topped with red and black caviar served with momotaro sweet tomato and sea urchin and prawn-filled ravioli. The main course is roasted cod fish with porcini mushrooms or 48-hours slow-cooked beef short ribs. Ending the meal is strawberry and white chocolate mousse with saffron and vanilla sauce.

WHERE: 77 Amoy Street MRT: Telok Ayer WHEN: Wed, 5.30 - 8pm, second seating from 8.30pm PRICE: $108++ a person TEL: 6220-1763 INFO: E-mail info@burlamacco.com.sg

Waterfront Rendezvous At La Brasserie

La Brasserie at Fullerton Bay Hotel presents a three-course set lunch and a four-course degustation dinner. Highlights include Josper-grilled meat specials and thyme and lemon-roasted halibut for lunch; and chilled black truffle on angel hair and lime-marinated Hokkaido scallop with salmon roe for dinner.

WHERE: The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore, 80 Collyer Quay MRT: Raffles Place WHEN: Wed, noon - 2.30pm, 6.30 - 10.30pm PRICE: lunch, $58++ a person; dinner, $400++ a couple (includes a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rose) or $138++ a person TEL: 6597-5288 INFO: fullertonhotels.com

Valentine's Fish At FiSK

The highlight in FiSK Seafoodbar & Market's Valentine's Day seven-course menu is Skrei, a seasonal Norwegian Arctic cod, also affectionately known as Valentine's Fish for its migratory journey across the icy waters of the Barrents Sea to its spawning grounds at Lofoten Islands. The menu also features seafood canapes, Krystale oysters, sashimi moriawase, Hokkaido scallop and dessert.

WHERE: 01-01, 30 Stevens Road MRT: Stevens WHEN: Wed, 11.30am - 4.30pm, 6 - 10pm PRICE: $124++ a person, includes a glass of champagne TEL: 6732-0711 INFO: E-mail rsvp@fisk.com.sg

VLV Special For Couples

VLV's special set menu for couples features chef Martin Foo's signature dishes. Main dishes are Boston lobster dried seafood in tanfu broth, tiger king prawn baked with cheese and bacon and grilled USDA beef short rib with honey char siew sauce. And for dessert, fresh mango, sago coconut and gula melaka sugar.

WHERE: 01-02 Merchants' Court, Clarke Quay, 3A River Valley Road MRT: Fort Canning/Clarke Quay WHEN: Wed, 6 - 11pm PRICE: $108++ TEL: 6661-0197 INFO: E-mail reservation@vlv.life

Four-Course Special At Breton's

Breton Restaurant Bar's four-course Valentine's meal starts with a choice of Grilled Asparagus & Tomato Salpicon in extra virgin olive oil or Baked Buckwheat Galette with forest mushroom. Other dishes include Pan Fried Foie Gras or Lobster, Potato & Buckwheat Gnocchi in lobster veloute; Bouillabaisse Breton Style or Half Pigeon Michel Peignaud and dessert.

WHERE: 544 Serangoon Road MRT: Farrer Park WHEN: Wed, 6 & 8.30pm PRICE: $68++ TEL: 6299-3544 INFO: breton.com.sg

An Evening Affair With TWG Tea

TWG Tea's Valentine's Day dinner starts with a sparkling white wine cocktail infused with Follow Me Tea. The meal is a seafood affair, with pan-seared Boston lobster and Hokkaido scallops served with a sea urchin emulsion, sprinkled with Gyokuro Samurai tea leaves and accompanied by squid ink emperor rice, wasabi glazed leeks and pickled beetroot.

WHERE (MRT): TWG Tea salons at Ion Orchard (Orchard), Marina Bay Sands (Bayfront), Ngee Ann City (Orchard) WHEN/PRICE: Set dinner (Mon - Thu): $50++; Follow Me Tea macaron gift box (till Feb 18): $12+ - $48+ TEL: 6383-1837 INFO: facebook.com/twgteaofficial

Spring Of Love At SPRMRKT

In line with the Vietnamese theme for SPRMRKT's cultural showcase, SPRMRKT Kitchen & Bar will offer a Spring Of Love Valentine's set menu that highlights Vietnamese flavours and ingredients. The four-course meal includes a Stone Hill mini organic Vietnamese chocolate bar and a mini hand bouquet by Fleurapy.

WHERE: 02-01, 41 Robertson Quay MRT: Fort Canning WHEN: Tomorrow, Tue & Wed, 2 - 5pm PRICE: $188++ a couple TEL: 9736-4032 INFO: sprmrkt.com.sg

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Osechi Yusheng At Wakanui

Wakanui Grill Dining's yusheng features ingredients from Osechi, a traditional Japanese new year meal symbolising good health and happiness. The other ingredients, such as scallop and salmon, gravitate towards Chinese cuisine. Besides the Abundant Treasures Yusheng ($118++), there is also the Glorious Prosperity version ($168++), which comes with Hokkaido snow crab.

WHERE: 04-02 Marina One The Heart, 5 Straits View MRT: Downtown WHEN: Mon - Thu, Feb 19 - 28 PRICE: $118++ - 168++ TEL: 6384-2665 INFO: E-mail enquiries@wakanui.sg

Auspicious Blessings At Keyaki

Keyaki has its own rendition of yusheng and three Chinese New Year set menus. The Wafu Yu Sheng ($88++ - $128++) comprises tuna, salmon, yellowtail and tobiko, dusted with auspicious gold and silver flakes. The Premium version ($308++) includes sea urchin and lobster. The three set menus come with dishes such as wagyu beef, deep-fried snow crab and chilled Inaniwa udon.

WHERE: Level 4 Pan Pacific Singapore, 7 Raffles Boulevard MRT: Promenade TEL: 6826-8240 INFO: E-mail celebrate.sin@panpacific.com WHEN/PRICE: Yusheng (till March 2): $88++ - $308++; set menus (Thu - Feb 17): $138++ - $188++ a person

Potato Head's Year Of The Dog Hot Dogs

Potato Head Singapore has created a Year of the Dog menu of hot dogs. Based on and named after the five natural elements in Chinese folklore - fire, metal, water, earth and wood - the hot dogs are available in beef or chicken franks and feature ingredients such as watermelon and red pepper relish, pickled sweet corn and a matcha brioche bun.

WHERE: 36 Keong Saik Road MRT: Outram Park WHEN: Till Feb 20, from 11am (closed on Mon) PRICE: $12 - $13 TEL: 6327-1939 INFO: ptthead.com

Fortune & Prosperity Menus At Crowne Plaza Changi Airport

Both reunion sets at Crowne Plaza Changi Airport come with salmon or yellowtail yusheng and a dessert buffet. The six-course Fortune Menu includes roasted duck, steamed sea bass and mushroom-yam fried rice, while the eight-course Prosperity Menu features braised pork knuckles, deep-fried prawn with chilli crabmeat sauce and fried mantou, steamed soon hock and stewed ee-fu noodles.

WHERE: Chengal Ballroom, Crowne Plaza Changi Airport, 75 Airport Boulevard MRT: Changi Airport WHEN: Thu, 6.30pm (book by today) PRICE: Fortune, $368++ (five people, $70++ for each extra person); Prosperity, $688++ - $808++ (eight - 10 people, $80++ for each extra person) TEL: 6823-5338 INFO: E-mail meetings.cpca@ihg.com

WINE EVENTS

Talamonti Wine Dinner At Baci Baci

The four-course Italian menu by Baci Baci's chef Davide Tanda will feature grilled asparagus wrapped with parma ham burratina, housemade gnocchi pasta with pork sausage, grilled beef tenderloin tagliata and Sicilian cassata cake with mixed berries sauce served with housemade gelato. Featured Talamonti wines include the 2016 Trebi Trebbiano d'Abruzzo DOC, 2014 Tre Saggi Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC and 2011 Kudos Rosso Colline Pescaresi IGT.

WHERE: 27 Lichfield Road MRT: Serangoon WHEN: Feb 27, 7pm PRICE: $108++ ($86.40++ for HSBC cardholders) TEL: 6319-4038 INFO: E-mail gustoitaliano@sph.com.sg

PS.Cafe Wine Brunch

Have brunch favourites with free-flow wine at PS.Cafe Ann Siang Hill on weekends and holidays. The wine selection ranges from Villa Sandi's Valdobbiadene Prosecco to the red, white and rose wines from the iconic Spanish vineyard Marques de Riscal.

WHERE: 02-02, 45 Ann Siang Road MRT: Telok Ayer WHEN: Weekends & public holidays, noon - 3pm PRICE: $70++ a person TEL: 9797-0648 INFO: www.pscafe.com

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 09, 2018, with the headline Happenings - Food. Subscribe