* Ordering in to celebrate Valentine's Day just got a lot more romantic. All month, Brûlée Catering by heralded chef Jean-Marie Lacroix (the Four Seasons, the Rittenhouse Hotel's Lacroix) has a four-course dinner menu to deliver chez vous and your sweetie. Meal for two, $125; meal, table settings and a server, $300. Add a personal chef to prepare it in your kitchen and the bill for two is $500. The menu could include beef carpaccio with Montrachet Coeur, tenderloin filet with Madeira glaze and champagne sorbet. Or not. Call to discuss, 215-923-6000. Orders must be placed 72 hours prior.
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* February's generally blustery and gray, which sounds to us like a good reason to celebrate (read: drink) warming bourbon. That's the plan at Jose Garces' JG Domestic (2929 Arch St., 215-222-2363). Order two tasting flights ($10-$20) and a revolving bar snack pairing ($9) all month. At 6 p.m. Feb. 22, the restaurant hosts a Four Roses "Meet the Maker" Dinner with distiller Jim Rutledge, $55 a person.
* Oompa Loompas invade Chestnut Hill tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. when the new Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant (8400 Germantown Ave., 215-948-5600) hosts its first beer event: a release party for Oompa Loompa Stout. Employees dressed as those namesake characters from the classic book and film, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," will hand out free, house-made chocolate truffles to go with tastes of head brewer Paul Rutherford's medium-bodied chocolate stout.
* An ongoing series of Slow Food Seminars lands on bees, with host Trey Flemming of Two Gander Farm, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at The Restaurant School (4100 Walnut St., entrance on 41st Street). Flemming is a regional authority on bees and often works with urban beekeepers; his apiary has more than 70 colonies. $20. Includes a honey tasting and mead. Details at www.slowfoodphilly.org.
E-mail food and restaurant news to Laurie Conrad, conradl@phillynews.com, 215-854-2270.
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