FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Rachel M. Crumbley | Director of Marketing and Public Relations | Callaway Gardens
Office: 706-663-5187 | Fax: 706-663-5068 | rcrumbley@callawaygardens.com
Mailing Address: PO Box 2000, Pine Mountain, GA 31822-2000
www.callawaygardens.com

Celebrate Your Love at Callaway Gardens

Special Dinners and Packages Make February Fabulous

PINE MOUNTAIN, GA (01/21/14) – This Valentine’s Day, Callaway Gardens® is inviting you to “say it with flowers” as in … an entire garden of them.

Spend the day with your Valentine in floral paradise as you enjoy the world-famous Callaway Gardens and its many acres of rolling woodland terrain.  In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Callaway Gardens has a variety of dinners and packages from which to choose.

Make it a Romantic Getaway
Enjoy an overnight stay at the Mountain Creek® Inn and a wonderful dinner in the Plant Room, which features the famous Friday Night Seafood buffet and an Southern Classic buffet on Saturday night.  Guests can cozy up in front of a fireplace with a Warm Winter Nights package in a Southern Pine® Cottage or Mountain Creek® Villa.  Specially priced during February, this package includes a free bundle of wood, admission to the Gardens each day of stay and day of departure.

Romance Dinners
On Friday, Feb. 14, or Saturday, Feb. 15, a very special prix fixe Gardens’ Restaurant Valentine’s Dinner will be available in this intimate setting.  Build your own romantic four-course dinner from the following:

First Course
Select one:

Oysters Florentine
Baked Apalachicola oysters with spinach and a creamy Mornay sauce topped with herbed breadcrumbs

Bruschetta
With toasted tomatoes and Italian olives topped with shaved Asiago cheese and a balsamic drizzle

Vol-au-vent
Springer Mountain Farms® chicken and oven-roasted wild mushroom volouté in a puff pastry shell

Second Course
Select one:

Gardens Salad
Mixed local greens, spiced Georgia pecans, caramelized shallot vinaigrette, tomatoes and herbed chèvre croutons

She Crab Soup
With blue crab and a Parmesan crisp

Butternut Squash Soup
With Sweet Grass Dairy® chèvre and Callaway Gardens’ famous Country Ham

Main Course
Select one:

Lobster Thermidor
Canadian lobster meat baked in a mustard brandy cream sauce and Gruyère cheese, served with asparagus and basmati rice pilaf

Smoked Prime Rib Au Jus
12 oz. bone-in rib eye with white truffle mashed potatoes and broccolini, served with horseradish sauce and Yorkshire pudding

Grilled Marinated Colorado Lamb Chops
With toasted walnut mint pesto, sautéed Brussels sprouts with pancetta and a saffron risotto cake

Butternut Squash Ravioli
With toasted walnut Asiago cream and broccolini

Pan-Seared Tea-Rubbed Duck Breast
With brandied fig and pear demi-glace, sweet potato hash and rainbow chard

Dessert
Select one:

Bananas Foster à la Mode 
Sautéed bananas, brown sugar, Myers’s rum and vanilla bean ice cream

Chocolate Ganache Terrine
With crème anglaise and pomegranate coulis

Macerated Mixed Berry Compote
With a Marsala sabayon


This delicious meal is $60 per person (tax and gratuity are additional).  To make a reservation, please call 706-663-6734.

For additional information, call 1-800-CALLAWAY (800-225-5292) or visit www.callawaygardens.com.

Callaway Gardens® is in Pine Mountain, Ga., 60 minutes southwest of Atlanta and 30 minutes north of Columbus.

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