Lovebirds in Hong Kong won’t have the option of eating dinner in a restaurant on Valentine’s Day this year, even assuming they want to, thanks to the recent rise in Covid-19 cases. No restaurant can serve dine-in customers after 6pm under regulations the government brought in to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. If meeting your loved one for lunch on February 14 isn’t feasible or doesn’t appeal, consider getting something to enjoy at home or as a picnic by the harbour. Here are nine places you can pick up a takeaway meal or dessert for Valentine’s Day. Sing Yin Cantonese Dining If you love poon choi (“basin vegetables” traditionally eaten on festive occasions), dig into a two-person Valentine’s Day edition of the dish from Sing Yin Cantonese Dining at the W Hong Kong hotel in Kowloon. Called “Bring the Bling”, the giant pot includes six-head abalone, fish maw, sea cucumber, dried oysters and king prawns. It costs HK$1,188 and is available until February 15 – the last day of the Lunar New Year. 1/F, W Hong Kong, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, tel: 3717 2848 Kinship Pick up a picnic basket, complete with a blanket, cutlery and rose petals, for you and your valentine to share from this restaurant in Central, on Hong Kong Island . Suite love: 8 Valentine’s Day hotel packages in Hong Kong There are grilled courgettes and seared Nordic salmon to start, Okinawa pork loin, mussels and ’nduja sopresinni , a Jaffa cake for dessert and a bottle of bubbly to wash it all down, for HK$1,000. Available from February 11-14. 3/F, 2-4 Shelley Street, Central, tel: 2520 0899 Louise Looking for a gourmet meal for two? Head to Louise, where chef Franckelie Laloum has prepared mouth-watering dishes such as Oscietra caviar, smoked trout, and lobster bisque, roasted Hong Kong yellow chicken with Japanese rice, salad and strawberry cake to take away. The meal costs HK$2,888 for two, and for an additional HK$500 there’s Champagne Billecart-Salmon. Place your order before 3pm on February 14 for pick-up from 6.30pm to 8pm. G/F, JPC, PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, tel: 2866 0300 Date by Tate Diners familiar with the two Michelin-star Tate Dining Room know that chef-owner Vicky Lau offers the Ode to Home gastronomy gourmet box, in which everything is placed in reusable packaging that staff pick up from customers afterwards. The meal includes a sourdough and brioche bread cube with fermented tofu butter; caviar with scallop mousse and lemon jelly; lobster regola and onion fondue; warm chestnut soup; black cod, or lamb ballotine; and a black sesame, strawberry and lemon cake, along with petit fours, for dessert. It costs HK$1,580 plus an additional delivery fee, for a minimum order of two boxes. For orders, email reservation@datebytate.com or WhatsApp 6730 2494 Messina The Australian gelato brand is serving up a Valentine’s Day Bon Bon Box that has pralines arranged in the shape of a heart in three flavours – peanut, macadamia and coffee, and hazelnut. These boxes are HK$350 and available in limited quantities, in-store. 37-43 Pottinger Street, Central (no phone number) Fortnum & Mason Is chocolate the way to your lover’s heart? Get them a decadent chocolate gianduja wafer cake from Fortnum & Mason – the dessert brings together milk chocolate, Piedmont hazelnut gianduja and Tuscan wafers, and is finished with Italian rose petals. The cake costs HK$308. Shop 002& 122, G/F, K11 Musea, Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, tel: 3916 8100 Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have got nothing on Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel’s Valentine special – a cute “You’ve Got Mail” cake that’s shaped like an old-school postbox. The cake, which costs HK$388, is rose- and mixed berries-flavoured, with layers of jelly made from strawberries, cherries and raspberries sandwiched between almond génoise sponge cake and pink rose mousse. You can choose between one of two messages: “To me, you are perfect” or “So I say I love you”, in English and Chinese. Shop 2, G/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Central, tel: 3482 7735 Maison Meiji x La Vina Bakery The two bakeries have joined forces to create a strawberry monogram cake that uses fruit sourced from Japan. The cake features layers of fluffy sponge cake, with fresh cream and a strawberry compote. Only 50 of these cakes will be made between February 12-15 and they cost HK$480. Order from La Vina’s website. Graham Street Food Hall, Shop 3, 23 Graham Street, Central, tel: 9612 0988 Vive Cake Boutique Impress your date with a luscious love-themed dessert from Vive Cake Boutique – “Luv Lu at First Bite” is a layered cake topped with two pink pigs. Customers can choose either a red velvet butter cake with cream cheese; an Earl Grey cake with Earl Grey cream cheese; a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache; a banana cake with chocolate buttercream and crunchies, or; a vanilla sponge cake with mango and yuzu mousse. Each cake costs HK$980. Booking in advance is recommended. Shop 3, 1/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, tel: 9602 2869