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July 11-24 [extended through September 5]
Lunch $24.07, dinner $35
www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek
Summer Restaurant Week begins today, celebrating its twentieth anniversary with $24.07 lunches and $35 dinners at nearly three hundred restaurants. Reservation lines have been open for a few weeks, so act now if you want to get a chance to sample gazpacho, seafood pasta, and milk chocolate caramel torte at ‘21’ Club, pan-seared jumbo scallops, sweet soy wild salmon, and coconut invasion at Asia de Cuba, insalata barbietola, risotto ai asparagi, and panna cotta at Barbuto, terrine Provencale, braised boneless short rib Bordelaise, and chocolate mousse cake at Capsouto Frères, a corned beef or pastrami sandwich, cole slaw, and cheesecake at the Carnegie Deli, rice balls stuffed with meat ragu, grilled flat iron steak, and budino di ricotta at I Trulli, East Coast oysters, steamed branzino, and warm cherry upside down cake at Lure Fishbar, grilled octopus salad, braised rabbit leg au vinaigre, and butterscotch pot au crème at Nice Matin, smoked salmon, tamari and rosemary marinated grilled beef flank steak, and strawberry and rhubarb crumble at Petrossian, and sizzling rice cake soup, Beijing prawns in wine sauce, and ice cream at Shun Lee West, among many others. Most eateries have posted their menus online so you know exactly what treats you are in for.