Want to celebrate your Valentine with more than cards and chocolates? Let us help you plan the perfect Valentine’s Day in Charleston. Pro Tip: Buy your tickets and make your reservations ASAP — events sell out, and restaurants fill up quickly.
Eat your heart out
- Wild Common’s Executive Chef Orlando Pagán has created a romantic five-course tasting menu that showcases seasonal and locally sourced ingredients.
- The Restaurant at Zero George is celebrating love with a multi-course tasting menu by Chef Vinson Petrillo. You’ll start with snacks and a glass of bubbles before diving into the tasting menu featuring Regiis Ova caviar, truffles, and Japanese A5 Wagyu.
- Sullivan’s Fish Camp is offering festive Italian specials, including crispy calamari and ricotta gnocchi with crab, alongside its regular menu from Thursday, Feb. 12 to Saturday, Feb. 14.
- Two Bit Club will offer Valentine’s-inspired menu specials throughout the weekend, with each table receiving a chocolate takeaway from Christophe Artisan Chocolatier
- Timber Pizza is inviting the whole family to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a limited-time cookie pie, baked fresh in-house and served warm with ice cream.
- Pelato will be open for both brunch and dinner this year; walk-ins are accepted if you forgot to make a reservation (we’re looking at you, last-minute folks). You can enjoy the holiday specials throughout the weekend. We’re eyeing the “You’re My Lobster” ravioli and the frozen espresso martini.
- Katsubo is offering a special prix fixe menu, featuring spicy charred edamame, surf-and-turf ramen, spicy Mazumen, and strawberry purin.
Things to do
- Join Petit Merci on Friday, Feb. 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a special pop-up featuring Sonny Tom Sisan of Floral Studies. Don’t miss the limited run of Valentine’s Day bouquets; pre-orders are encouraged.
- Get wild this Valentine’s Day and head to Southeastern Wildlife Exposition for an up-close wildlife interaction or a quiet evening admiring fine art.
- Head to the Charleston Museum for STEAM Valentine and Fall in love with science at this hands-on workshop — you’ll create Valentines with invisible ink + make cupid fly.
- Twisted Sugar is hosting a Valentine’s Day Cookie Decorating Class, where you can create a treat you can eat.
Get out of town
- Make a quick drive up to Georgetown for a long weekend at The George Hotel, elevate your stay with the Celebrate Love at The George package, which includes bubbly and house-made chocolate-covered strawberries. Don’t want to stay the night? You can enjoy dinner at The Independent, the hotel’s seafood restaurant and raw bar.
