Love Romance flowers in Chinatown

Romance in Chinatown runs on the block, at the table, and up the stairs. The neighborhood is one of the great date-night destinations downtown, so a long-stem rose bouquet timed to a dinner at a Doyers Street institution or a Mott Street banquet room is a classic Chinatown love-and-romance send — delivered to the restaurant ahead of the reservation and held at the host stand, or waiting at the table for the moment they sit. The surprise-at-home send is the other staple: the walk-up tenements along Mott, Mulberry, Bayard, Elizabeth, Pell, and Doyers are mostly doorman-free, so a bouquet for a sweetheart routes to a ground-floor vestibule or, with the apartment number and unit letter noted, straight to the door — timed to when they get home. Workplace sends land at Canal Street shop counters, Mott Street offices, and bakery-cafes with a named recipient. A romance send here needs a florist who can time a restaurant drop and handle a discreet walk-up surprise.