Valentine's Day is next Saturday, and whether you've procrastinated on making a dinner reservation, or if you made one somewhere totally lame with food that tastes like poison, your holiday-of-love could turn around from crappy to "HOLY CRAP, THIS IS GOOD."
We planned ahead and made a reservation for V-Day night at State Bird Provisions. Have you heard of it? Of course you have, James Beard named it the best new restaurant in the country in 2013. Have you been there? Maybe not. It's as incredible as it is difficult to get into, and if you've been, you know that line outside is totally justified. (Della, our four-year-old food critic, agrees, pinky swearing that it tastes "SO GOOD".) But why stop there? We will not only be giving away the reservation, but paying for your dinner (up to $200 plus tip). FANCY!
The reservation is for two at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 14th. To enter, follow us on Instagram (@thebolditalic), post a photo of yourself and who you'd take as your date, hashtag it #IwantStateBird and @thebolditalic in the caption. We'll pick a winner on February 12th by commenting on the photo with instructions on how to get in touch.
Additional rules:
Photos need to be posted between 2/6 and 2/12. (No going back to some old-ass photo from 2010 and trying to sneak a hashtag in, even if your bangs did look really great back then.)
There is no requirement for the date to be romantic, any twosome is welcome to enter. Friends, reconciling enemies; have at it.
We'll comment on the winning photo at 3 p.m. on February 12th. You'll have until midnight to get in touch, and if you snooze & lose, we'll pick a new winner.
Good luck!