Dining

It's time for meals packed with supposed aphrodisiac powers, death by chocolate, and tea lights galore. Love it or hate it, the Hallmark holiday is upon us. Here, a few of our favorite options.

Emily’s Garden pizza at Big Woods Brewing Co. (60 Molly's Lane, Nashville, 812-988-6000), a gooey, crispy thin-crust that uses feta crumbles as a salty foil for the sweetness of squash mixed with tomatoes, red onions, mushrooms, and spinach. Sopes Surtidos from Adobo Grill (110 E. Washingto

In its first month, Eggshell Bistro (51 W. City Center Dr., Carmel, 317-660-1616) has already charmed diners with its inventive brunch menu, French flea market decor, elaborate Rube Goldbergian coffee maker, and exclusive deal with the coveted San Francisco roaster Blue Bottle Coffee. Owner Larry Hanes, an avid collector with a background in graphic design and a passion for food, has a few more tricks up his sleeve. Among them:

For three nights, their every public move lit up the Twittersphere, with sightings at all of the well-trodden downtown haunts and as far north as Geist, where Madonna was spotted jogging.

The tender carnitas in fresh corn tacos, served with a fiery red Diablo sauce at Tacos al Carbon, the kind of food truck that you'll never see roaming Broad Ripple in the wee hours. This spotless restaurant on wheels parks in a rutted lot on East Washington Street, near Post Road. The humble graham crackers from The Measuring Cup (Get them at the Indy Winters Farmers Market.) The gluten- and dairy-free homemade brown sq

With ingredients from The Winter Green Market at Traders Point Creamery (tpforganics.com)

The first thing you notice at Divvy, after you have strolled by packed communal tables in the bar and passed under raw-wood lampshades curved like Mobius strips, are the menus. Long, horizontal, and leather-bound like an old-timey razor strop, they contain sections upon subsections with suggestive monikers such as “Motion in the Ocean” and “Grazers Galore,” spanning more than 20 pages. You could dine here five nights a week, as some have, and never conquer the dozens of “Tidbits,” “Liquid Goods,” and “Mini Morsels” offered by this new foodie oasis in the shadow of Carmel’s Palladium. “The fun part was coming up with the names of the dishes,” says owner Kevin “Woody” Rider, the restaurateur who also brought Woody’s Library Restaurant to northside diners and helped open Bonge’s Tavern in Perkinsville.

The black-and-white cookie, an NYC icon, stacked at the King David Dogs hotdog stand at the corner of Illinois and Washington streets. Both the cookie and the hotdog stand (which King David uses for private parties) are here only for the Super Bowl. KDD ordered them as a sugary tribute to the Giants and their fans. Just don’t eat

Fountain Square's new Venezuelan restaurant American Empanadas (1026 Virginia Ave., 317-644-0509) serves a variety of empanadas and arepas, featuring traditional options as well as items with a creative twist. The empanadas are made with traditional dough that co-owner Angelica Folkerts likens to that of a corndog, only less sweet. Made from white corn powder, the dough offers a nice contrast to slightly salty filings such as barbecued pork and 3-way chili. Dessert empanadas include a popular banana-chocolate version.