Thankfully, we’ve come a long way since the days of the typical, mundane varieties of salmon, chicken and beef prix-fixe menu options. We’ve taken a look at most of the Summer Restaurant Week menus out there, and here our picks for the 20 most compelling menu offerings for Summer Restaurant Week: 1. Dovetail’s Veal Schnitzel w/butter lettuce, mustard [...]

It’s great to see some restaurants offering budget-friendly booze options to accompany their Summer Restaurant Week menus. Here’s a rundown of the RW booze deals:  Megu Downtown – Offering Trappist Beer Pairings for Restaurant Week! $25 for 3 Trappist beers paired with your RW menu. Megu Midtown — Restaurant Week happy hour: $4 Sapporo Premium, $8 Wine by the glass, [...]

UPDATE: 210+ Restaurants Have Extended Restaurant Week Through Labor Day. For the full list, click here. To see some restaurants that have extended beyond Labor Day, see below. Summer Restaurant Week participants are wasting no time announcing the extension of their Summer Restaurant Week menus through Labor Day (and some through the end of the year). For [...]

I think we may have a new mixology trend on our hands. Within 24 hours, we received two separate submissions in our inbox about upcoming cocktail competitions being hosted by area restaurants. On Tuesday July 21st, SushiSAMBA 7 will play host to a Leblon Cachaca Cocktail Competition in celebration of the countdown to their 10-year [...]

Nobody, and I mean nobody, gives you the amount of options for Restaurant Week that The Bar Room at The Modern does. Just another in the long list of examples of how Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group gets it right. In fact, the entire Bar Room only has the option of ordering off the [...]

 675 Bar: @675Bar  Frequent tweets on drink specials, events, who’s pouring, what’s pouring and more.  Academia di Vino: @academiadivino Starting to get into a daily routine of tweeting specials of the day and special deals like this tweet: Monday Nights we offer our entire 900 bottle list at 50% off! A great time to try something [...]

For whatever reason, the official 2009 Summer Restaurant Week website at NYCGO.com only lists menus for about 115 restaurants. But there are more than 250 participating! Where are the rest? We did some cyber-digging and found some of the missing Restaurant Week menus. Hope this helps: Abboccato Restaurant — lunch/dinner menu Alto — lunch menu [...]

We just got word that Waldy Malouf has decided that everone dining at Beacon tonight (not just the first 100 guests) will get to take advantage of the 3-course prix-fixe dinner for $10 in celebration of Beacon’s 10-year anniversary. There will also be a sommelier-selected $10 bottle of wine option. As of now, they only [...]

Beacon (25 W. 56th St b/t 5th and 6th; 212-332-0500) is celebrating its 10th anniversary tonight in a major way! If you’re one of the first 1oo dinner guests tonight, then you will get a 3-course prix-fixe dinner for just $10! There will also be a special $10 entree available to everyone, as well as [...]

We couldn’t help but notice the emergence of a little trend here in NYC — restaurants offering food-to-go programs. Guess the philosophy is that if fewer people are dining out during the recession, then restaurants would at least like you to be preparing and eating their food at home. First, we heard that Primehouse New [...]

Reminder: There is a great free tasting event today from 12-2:30pm at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Atrium located in the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle:  “Celebrate the official kick-off of NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2009 with the Coca-Cola® Great Tastes of Summer event at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Atrium located in the Time [...]

People are loving what Executive Chef Christopher Lee is doing at the new Aureole at One Bryant Park. Check out these industry tweets: @GaelGreene Four fussy foodies all very impressed with Christopher Lee’s cooking at Aureole. Charlie Palmer schmoozing the room. @TheFeedbag Aureole is amazing right now. I’m flabbergasted.  The restaurant’s flashy new digs are staged in three venues: The Bar Room, [...]

Given that a filet or NY strip in the city typically costs on average anywhere between $35-$50 on its own, steakhouses can provide you with the most Restaurant Week bang for your buck. Problem is many participating Restaurant Week steakhouses only offer one steak on the RW menu and it’s more often than not a [...]

You gotta love the name of this wine deal! Every Wednesday through August 26th, The Palm Too (840 2nd Ave) and The Palm Tribeca (West St. b/t Chambers and Warren) are offering their ENTIRE list of wines by the bottle at half off all day and all night long. Makes it a no-brainer for a [...]

Just got word that Vento will be serving up $1 Malpeque and Kumamoto oysters all day long tomorrow from noon-11pm. Tweet this!