I recently read that the best thing you could do on St Valen­tines Day is stay inside and cook your loved one a meal. it’s cer­tainly full of roman­tic over­tones, but the main thrust of the arti­cle was how stress­ful it is for a restau­rant to man­age that con­stant influx of din­ers arriv­ing two at a time.

Of course if every­thing went to plan then Ange and I would be in our own house, sit­ting around a table eat­ing some sort of roman­tic can­dlelit din­ner I’d made for her. But, fate being what it is, I’ve had to brace myself and put every­thing in the hands of one of the bet­ter cafe/restaurants north of the city: Coco­Inc. It also helps that their fixed menu is a bar­gain at $40 per head.

We’ve eaten there before, so we know the food is bril­liant. Although every time we’ve been there in the past the place has been mostly empty, with no real pres­sure on the kitchen.

For Valen­tines day the guys at Coco­Inc have imple­mented fixed seat­ing times. So I’m sure they do have some expe­ri­ence in han­dling the demands of a full room, even if they are only a few months old. We’re hit­ting them at the tail end of the night, 8:30 to be exact, so it’ll be inter­est­ing to see how they’ve been coping.

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