Anniversary flowers in Toledo

Toledo anniversary dinners concentrate in four pockets, and knowing which one yours is in decides where the flowers should go. Downtown and the riverfront: Registry Bistro in the old Secor Hotel building on North Superior, Real Seafood Company and Zia's on the east bank at Main Street, Maumee Bay Brewing Company inside the 1859 Oliver House, Ye Olde Durty Bird by the ballpark, the Valentine Theatre for a show, the Peristyle at the Toledo Museum of Art for a Toledo Symphony night, and Promenade Park when the riverfront has music on it. The Old West End and Central Avenue side: Mancy's Steakhouse on Phillips Avenue, open since 1921 and still the default Toledo anniversary room, with Rosie's Italian Grille on Central a few minutes away and the Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion — free to walk into — in between. Sylvania: Element 112 on Main Street, Mancy's Italian Grill, the Monroe Street hotel and restaurant strip, and Centennial Terrace in summer. Maumee and Perrysburg across the river: Mancy's Bluewater Grille in Maumee, Poco Piatti and the Levis Commons restaurants in Perrysburg, historic Louisiana Avenue, Fort Meigs on the bluff, and the Perrysburg river overlooks. For a restaurant anniversary the better play is almost always to send the flowers to the house that afternoon rather than to the restaurant — dining rooms have nowhere to store an arrangement, and a bouquet waiting on the kitchen table when someone gets home to change is a longer moment than one handed over at a table for two.