by Bud Kennedy

Valentine's should not be limited to one night. Some restaurants, such as Ellerbe Fine Foods in Fort Worth, always seem like Valentine's. The Louisiana-influenced restaurant features a short, ever-changing menu of a couple of steaks and seafood, but it shines most at New Orleans-style dishes involving shrimp, seafood or a bread pudding like none other.

At lunch, it's a bright and airy dining room with the feel of a vacation spot, but the most expensive item on the menu this week was $13. Besides that shrimp-and-red-beans dish, the lunch menu also included a chopped chicken salad, a mushroom-Gorgonzola quiche, a fried oyster po-boy, a house-made corned beef sandwich or an Italian sausage burger, all for $12 for less.

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