That love-it-or-hate-it event is looming ahead… Scroll down if you really hate it. If not, here are the remaining V-Day reservations (as of last night):
-River Café, Grocery and Applewood are all fully reserved.
-Farm on Adderley (3-course prix fixe, $55 per) had limited times left, like 6:30 and 9 and “maybe 7:30 and 8.”
-Dressler’s had a couple tables at 10 and 10:15
-Palo Santo had a deuce at 7 and two spots left at each of their communal tables for their 5-course tasting menu ($60 per).
-Dumont will be opening up their garden, which means they’ll have full availability for their $65 prix fixe (but rsvp soon anyway)
-Moto is not doing a special menu, but it is taking reservations for once!
-iCi has seatings left at 5, 7 and 9 pm for their $65 4-course prix fixe ($105 with wine).
-Last, great resort: oysters and foie gras at Blue Ribbon, which has a no-reservation policy unless you’re 5 or more.

Sweets For Your Sweet
Could cookies be the new cupcakes? They’re at least the new greeting cards says Deann Horack, founder of the online bakeshop Brooklyn Cookie. The cable TV editor, who lives in South Williamsburg and has custom designed cookies like logo “cards” for RCA and “bibs” for baby showers, began her baking career in the seventh grade, painting (with piped-on frosting) New Kids On The Block members on cakes. Now, she bakes and artfully ices her own sugar cookies like these delicious chocolate espresso cookie hearts. (She also makes adorable chocolate espresso engagement ring cookies with gold dragées.) Order here by Feb. 8 if you want a half-pound bag (from $12.50-$14) delivered in time for Valentine’s Day.

Joyce Bakeshop in Prospect Heights has begun baking their traditional, snarky V-day cookies for friends and frenemies. They offer earnest messages too, like “Love” and “Forever” on red-iced hearts. $2 per, joycebakeshop.com

You can also learn how to bake and ice your own cookies tonight at The Brooklyn Kitchen, where Dawn Turner of Eleni’s Bakery will teach you the basics of decorating. 6:30 pm, $35, thebrooklynkitchen.com

Other things we heart this week:

Graceland at BAM
BB was blown away by last week’s Joanna Newsom concert at BAM — What a voice that seductive songbird has! What skills on the harp! — and jazzed to see twenty and thirtysomethings (including Amy Poehler) pouring into an opera house. Next week, expect an even more diverse crowd for Soulive,*** and in April, for the South African and Brazilian musicians, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, David Byrne(!) and Grizzly Bear, who will all be performing with Paul Simon during his residency from April 1-27. Tix (for non-members) go on sale Feb. 11. bam.org

Lit Library
Full Disclosure: we have not yet gone to the Brookyn Public Library’s new Sackler Center, and wish we could tomorrow night, where we would see Gary Shteyngart and Amy Sedaris, along with Ed Park, Anthony Winkler and cartoonist David Rees, who’s hosting this evening of comedic readings. 7 pm, brooklynpubliclibrary.org

Apt. Theater
Instead, we’ll be in a Bushwick loft watching a preview performance of the Foundry Theater’s “Open House,” a series of site-specific plays performed in apartments across NYC, from Feb. 9 to March 16. thefoundrytheatre.org

Great Reads
We’re totally feeling the sentiments expressed in Joel Lovell’s fantastic essay.
And we don’t care what anyone says about nepotism, Nathaniel Rich nailed this piece, too.

***Correction: Earlier we wrote that it would be great to see hip-hop stars like Jay-Z at BAM, and their press dept quickly corrected us: “Bam has had Mos Def last year in two concerts, we had Dead Prez as part of two separate concerts in the past three years, Jay-Z did his two sold-out concerts last Thanksgiving in the Opera House. We also had the Roots a few years back…plus tons of other hip hip artists in the cafe.” Our apologies for the major gaffe.