Table for two

Forget roses and stale chocolates. For Valentine?s Day this year, give your sweetie what he or she really wants ? a night out of the kitchen.

While sipping a glass of wine, Patrick Russell, owner of Kooper?s Tavern in Fells Point, prepared his five-course Valentine?s Day menu to include aphrodisiacs such as oysters, chocolate and champagne. An artisan cheese plate accompanied by some bubbly starts off the meal, and the entrees include grilled oysters Rockefeller, twin jumbo lump crab cakes and blackened chicken alfredo over linguini.