For These Dallas Chef Couples, Being in the Kitchen Is Date Night | Eater Dallas

"A few weeks into dating, on the day after Valentine’s Day service, Alex Henderson and Maricsa Trejo drove to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. "It was my first trip with a boy outside of the state," Trejo says. She got sick and spent the evening curled up in pain; the next morning Henderson handed her "an oat milk latte, candy, and tampons." "I didn’t know what to get you, so I bought you all these…I just want you to feel okay," he told her, which floored Trejo and prompted her to ask, "Why are you being so nice to me?" Eight years and a bakery, event venue, and coffee shop later they returned to New Orleans, where Henderson presented a grocery bag: "I got you this: Gatorade and orange juice. And I also got you this. Then he just got down on one knee," Trejo says. They aren’t big on Valentine’s Day itself; instead they are hosting an Anti-Valentine’s Day dinner at a Half-Price Books location on February 14: "A tasting menu — mainly desserts with every course you get a piece of this relationship that like falls apart," says Henderson. Their favorite holiday is "Halloween," Trejo says, smiling." - Didi Paterno