Sexy Valentine’s dishes to get you in the mood
We warn you which dishes to avoid too
If you are looking to bring sexy back into your relationship, a romantic dinner for two goes a long way to reignite the passion. Whether it’s your first date or your 50th year together, ordering the wrong dish just might spoil the mood. To make sure that doesn’t happen, we asked some people who work magic – in the kitchen – about the sexiest food to order and what definitely should not be on the menu, on your romantic night out.
The sexiest dishes to get you in the mood …
“Red prawns Carpaccio with raspberry dressing,” says Gaia Group director and manager Pino Piano. “The different shades of red are reminiscent of a heart full of passion, love and desire. This dish is, I think, the sexiest on Gaia Valentine’s menu.” He adds, “The dish that I will order on a romantic date is Caviar for two.”
Italians may know a thing or two about passion, but the French go more for the romance of sharing. “Love is when two people share an emotion so for me a romantic dinner is a sharing time, ” says executive chef Stephane Gortina at Rech by Alain Ducasse. I have made sharing dishes for Valentine’s Day, such as Brittany lobster which is a big lobster with cold cuts in the middle so the guests will share this dish – its gallant for the gentleman to serve the lady. And for another romantic touch, our cheese is in the shape of a heart.
Chef Arron Rhodes at Gough’s on Gough says it’s all about taste. He’s made a Chocolate M&M dessert.”… the smell of the dish as it arrives to the table will make your mouth excited, then eating the dish with all the different textures of chocolate will make you smile inside and out,” says Rhodes.
“A sexy dish to me [is] one of two things, either it is simple and elegant, because then it’s a showcase of beautiful and often hard to find items – perhaps oysters with a mignonette or truffles grated over eggs,” says executive chef Chris Whitmore at Aberdeen Street Social which serves modern British cuisine. “Alternatively, a sexy dish is one that [if you are cooking at home] takes time and contains tremendous process because when you prepare that dish – Beef Wellington perhaps? You’re putting aside your time and energy to focus on creating something for another. That’s endearing and sexy.