This Valentine’s Day, Boston businesses are rolling out the red carpet both for couples and those who think the holiday is better celebrated dressed in black. For last-minute sulkers and flower buyers, these events might brighten a blustery February day.

While restaurants are booked for traditional dinner dates, women with a more flexible schedule, and flexibility, a can take the “Valentine’s Day Single and Bitter” dance class, hosted by Gypsy Rose Exotic and Pole Dancing Lessons.

Gypsy Rose owner Wendy Reardon, who organized the class, said it offers women a chance to laugh together and gain some self-confidence.

“The class is a chance for anyone who’s single and bitter to forget this stupid holiday, and learn to feel sexy and have fun while learning to pole dance,” she said.

The class runs until tomorrow and any girl who wants to have a good time should come to the class, where attendees usually swap stories about how they came to be “single and bitter,” she said.

Though Reardon said she is proud to be single, she said she is “over” the bitter part and embraces flying solo, encouraging other women to do the same.

“Single women can have fun and do what they want,” she said. “You can be completely selfish and it’s OK. What better time to do something like that than on Valentine’s Day?”

Those who think the best thing things on Valentine’s Day is the chocolate might enjoy Z Square Restaurant and Bar’s “Chocolate Love” night in Harvard Square. Tonight at 10 p.m., Z Square will throw a lounge party with chocolate featured as everyone’s favorite date. Chocolate lovers can expect two chocolate fountains, chocolate-covered fruits and other desserts and dance music to go along with it, organizers said.

Those looking for more sass than sweet might consider spending the night at the Carnaval D’Amour at T.T the Bear’s Place, a small music club in Central Square Cambridge. Unlike a traditional circus event, the Carnaval D’Amour features the Boston Baby Dolls burlesque troupe and the jazz-influenced circus band Cirkestra.

Cirkestra accordion player Peter Bufano said the event is for people who want to meet up instead of staying in for the holiday.

“The Carnaval is a date scene, and it is something you can laugh at together and engage in,” he said. “It’s not a sit-alone-in-the movie-and-not-talk-to-each-other kind of scene.”

Either in love or still looking, Bostonians can dress to impress at cafe-restaurant-bar The Beehive, which is celebrating its first Valentine’s Day in Boston with the Love Ball, a night advertised as “lascivious fun.” Event coordinator Alex Caruso said singles should make their way to The Beehive for Valentine’s Day because the clientele is not all couples.

“If you don’t have a Valentine yet, just come to the Beehive,” Caruso said. “We always have a lot of hotties here.”