A romantic dinner by a roaring fire is best enjoyed in a restaurant and not around the neighbor's emblazoned wicker man. Retain your amorous appetite with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of upscale American cuisine at The Wild Rose in South Jordan. Today's deal is not valid on Valentine's Day.

The latest culinary concept of Tiburon Fine Dining restaurateur Ken Rose, The Wild Rose's refined menu combines delicate elegance with a la carte convenience. Starters such as the cheese and company ($11) help rev-up cuisine engines with a palate-pleasing pairing of aged gouda, Roaring Forties blue, Creminelli salami, and onion jam. Or start the meat flowing by nibbling on the Kurobuta pork belly ($12), which spends a leisurely five-hour braise dreaming about different ways to wear its ensemble of jalapeño grits. A host of upscale entrees forge new frontiers in American cuisine, pairing a 13-ounce New York strip with Yukon Gold potatoes, brandy cream, and a black-pepper crust ($30). An Australian rack of lamb comes accented with a white-wine reduction and blueberry-mint chutney, tastefully combining the refined with the rough-and-tumble better than Crocodile Dundee: The Opera.

Tucked within walking distance of the District's shopping center and theater, The Wild Rose is perfectly calibrated for an elegant, pre-cinema chowdown. The chic, streamlined restaurant also features an exhaustive wine list, allowing parched patrons to sample glasses of domestic favorites such as the Castle Rock pinot noir 2009 ($7 per glass) or Monkey Bay sauvignon blanc 2009 ($22).

Reviews

Four Yelpers give The Wild Rose a 4.5-star-average rating, and reviewers on OpenTable give it a 4.7-star average:

• Excellent service & wine list. The food was amazing! – An OpenTable reviewer who dined on 1/20/11
• The food was very delicious, the Tenderloin of Beef was so freaking good. – Adam S., Yelp