




If your birthday is on Feb. 29, you know that this is your year. And even if you’re not a celebrating leapling, here is where you, too, can celebrate the quadrennial occasion.
Chef David Verdo at the Outlook Kitchen and Bar in Boston’s Envoy Hotel will create a special menu of frog legs prepared buffalo style with chili aioli, honeycomb. and Valdeon cheese. www.theenvoyhotel.com
Legal Sea Foods is celebrating the extra day with “An Extra Day, An Extra Lobster’’ deal on Feb. 29. You’ll get two, one-pound steamed lobsters and choice of two sides for $29. www.legalseafoods.com
Chef Brian Poe’s three area restaurants are getting into the game with cocktail and menu specials. Bukowski Tavern in Cambridge is celebrating the 29th with “Hoppy Hour’’ from 5 p.m. to midnight. Each hour, a hoppy beer will be paired with a Leap Year special, such as the Cilantro Szechuan Peppercorn Kangaroo Burger with Thai chile aioli, hop-battered onion rings, and ginger beer pickles. http://bukowskitavern.net/cambridge/
Jalapeno-braised frog legs with saffron aioli on corn tortillas — “Hoppin’ Frog Tostadas’’ — will be served at his Poe’s Kitchen at the Rattlesnake restaurant on Boylston Street. www.poeskitchen.com
And at The Tip Tap Room in Beacon Hill, a bacon-wrapped rabbit loin with yuzu apples, garlic and a pistachio crumble will be served with a pairing suggestion of Jack’s Abby Hoponius Union brew. www.thetiptaproom.com
A Leap Day celebration will take place at the Franklin Park Zoo on Feb. 27 with the zoo’s animals that are particularly fond of leaping and jumping (think kangaroos, frogs, and ring-tailed lemurs). Bonus: An arts and crafts table for take-home mementos. www.franklinparkzoo.com
Leaplings who celebrate their birthdays on the 29th will receive a slice of pizza at Villa Italian Kitchen, Villa Pizza, and Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen on their big day. There are eight locations in New England, including Boston, South Portland, Maine, and Providence. Bring your ID, leap day babes. www.villaitaliankitchen.com/home
If it’s your birthday, you can celebrate with the Ultimate Leap Year Birthday Extravaganza at The Fairmont Copley Plaza. What you’ll get: two nights in a suite on Fairmont Gold (the exclusive club concierge level floor), a champagne toast and a birthday cake reception for 10 people. It’ll cost you $2,900 — but since you only celebrate big every four years, what the heck. The package is available on Feb. 28and 29 only.
Or, for more budget-conscious leapers, book the hotel’s Leap Day Birthday Package for $229 for the night, including accommodations and a personal birthday cake. Note: Leapers must present IDs. www.fairmont.com
In many cultures, ladies propose to their significant other on Leap Day. Several hotels in the Berkshires — Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Porches Inn at MASS MoCa in North Adams, and Hotel on North in Pittsfield — are offering “Leap into Love in the Berkshires’’ romance packages. And, you’ll get proposal suggestions, too, from Bonita Wilson of Main Street’s Proposal Concierge. E-mail romance@mshgmail.com to arrange your proposal. Or, for more information, visit www.mainstreethospitalitygroup.com.
Margaritas Mexican Restaurants in New England will salute Leap Day with 8-ounce margaritas and fried ice cream for $2.29 each — lunch and dinner. www.margs.com
Laurie Wilson can be reached at laurieheather@yahoo.com.