Free Food For a Kiss at Qdoba This Valentine's Day

Buy an entree, get another for nothing, as long as you're willing to offer up a kiss! Plus, take the Valentine's Day 'Patch' poll.

Customers at Qdoba restaurants across the country, and here in West County, get free food on Tuesday, if they don't mind a little PDA. Both the Town and Country Qdoba in Town and Country Crossing and the Manchester Qdoba near the Manchester Highlands are participating in the buy one, get one free for a kiss deal. The nationwide chain is bringing back a Valentine's Day promotion that, according to spokeswoman Ashley Cohen, tens of thousands of customers took advantage of in 2011. Anyone who buys an entree can get another for free—once they kiss a fellow customer at the cash register. It doesn't matter (to Qdoba) who it is. No coupon is necessary. The promotion is happening nationwide, though in Wisconsin, inexplicably, the second entree is …

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Plan Your Valentine's Day With Our Pinterest

It's February! Are you ready for Valentine's Day in Town and Country and Manchester? We're building a Pinterest board that could help.

Valentine's Day can be stressful. If you're trying to plan a perfect day with your (new, long-term or on-again) sweetheart, The Town and Country-Manchester Patch is here to help!  We're building a board on Pinterest: Imagine an online bulliten board where we post beautiful pictures of the best restaurants, flowers, crafts and gift ideas—all with Chesterfield in mind! So if you like "pinning" and want to see what we've been working on, check out our board, Town and Country - Mancester, MO Valentine's Day. If you don't have a Pinterest account, don't worry! You can still see the board. If you want to sign up, send Pinterest your info here and you'll wait for them to send you an invitation. And if you know of something we should add, comment …

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Gabrielle Biondo

1:04 am on Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Thanks for the comment Alexandra! Pinterest certainly seems to be growing in popularity!   more ›

Seniors Deliver Valentines to Town and Country Students

Senior citizens from Family Partners Adult Day Services delivered valentines to Covenant Christian School Students in Town and Country.

It was a special Valentine's Day for seniors and students of Town and Country's Covenant Christian School. Monday, Sonja Smith's kindergartners received handmade valentines from participants at Family Partners Adult Day Services in Des Peres. The center provides day care for individuals diagnosed with dementia and other types of mental and physical impairments who benefit from an environment that provides socialization. Family Partners Adult Day Services President and Cofounder Barth Holohan said the seniors began making their valentines last week, then headed over to the school to deliver them Monday morning.  "It's just a great blessing for them to be able to work on a project to give to kids," Holohan said. He said it's a great activity…

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Patch Picks: Most Romantic Restaurants

This week Patch picked out five places in Manchester and Town and Country to have a romantic Valentine's dinner.

Each week, Patch runs a new feature called Patch Picks, highlighting picks of great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off, and more.   You’ll find useful lists to help you, your family, friends, and significant others find the best places for everything from Sunday brunch to New Year’s Eve celebrations, pumpkin patches, date night destinations, florists, girlfriend nights out, kids party places, parks and more.  This week, Town and Country - Manchester Patch tackles Valentine's Day. If you're dining out on Valentine's Day--or the weekend before--you have dozens of  excellent restaurants to choose from in both Town and Country and Manchester. There are over 60 local restaurants listed in the Patch …

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Culinary Corner

Channel Your Inner Aphrodite This Valentine's Day

Create a memorable meal for your loved one this Valentine's Day using these suggestions, recipes and local ingredients.

As Valentine's Day approaches, aphrodisiacs come to mind. The word comes from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. Aphrodisiacs are thought to stimulate and pique your love's interest and arouse them. The most common type of aphrodisiac is ingested: food, alcohol, love potions and medicines. The stores in Town and Country and Manchester have all of the ingredients and components to create a memorable Valentine's Day. Feeding a loved one is instinctual. Food is an efficient method of communication and a great way to express emotions. Food allows you make a loved one feel content, cared for, desired and satiated. Movies have been made relaying this phenomenon: Like Water for Chocolate, Babette's Feast and to a certain extent Eat, Pray, Love…

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