Nutrition
Vital Dishes: Hearty Meal
We enlisted an expert to pick the (sweet)heart-healthiest choices on three Valentine's menus.
Prix Fixe: Valentine's Day
Your choice of this heavy, delicious thing...that scrumptious, buttery dish...
Wish a nutritionist could join you for Valentine's Day dinner? Your wish is our command. Ashley Koff, R.D., chose these for their nutrition, calorie content and taste. Who loves ya, Baby?
Starter: Beach salad with baby organic mixed lettuce, hearts of palm, mango, cucumber and orange-grapefruit juice vinegar dressing
Main: Grilled New York steak with fresh herbs, roasted potatoes and grilled portobello mushrooms
Dessert: Assorted Valentine sweets
$75 per person, 22878 Pacific Coast Hwy., Malibu, 310-456-6444, MAP
Amuse Bouche: Spiced ahi tuna tartar
Salad: Hearts of palm salad with marinated artichokes and black truffle vinaigrette
Starter: New Zealand Thai snapper with toasted pearl pasta and vadouvan curry gratinée
Main: Poached Jidori chicken with confit of leg croustillant and pistachio-blood orange emulsion
Dessert to share
$85 per person, 225 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, 310-395-3200, MAP
Salad: Dungeness crab salad with roasted beets, avocado and green goddess dressing
Starter: Ricotta gnocchi carbonara with sugar snaps, pea shoots, smoked bacon and green garlic
Main: Grilled wild striped bass with blood orange, tangerine, charmoula and Aleppo pepper yogurt
Dessert: Milk chocolate tart with passion fruit sorbet and ginger Anglaise
$95 per person, 8474 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 655-6277, MAP
Any one you pick is a sweetheart deal.

