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SUMMER RESTAURANT WEEK 2014

restaurant week

Multiple locations
July 21 – August 15
Lunch $25, dinner $38
www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek

The theme of the twenty-third annual Summer Restaurant Week is “Eat Up,” and you can do so at more than three hundred spots serving three-course lunches for $25 and/or dinners for $38. You can find just about any kind of cuisine you’re interested in, from pan-Latin, new American, Cuban, Italian, Asian fusion, Australian, Greek, Mexican, Brazilian, Vietnamese, and Spanish to Indian, Mediterranean, steakhouse, Chinese, seafood, barbecue, Japanese, French, soul food, Peruvian, Thai, African, Korean, and continental. Among the myriad participating eateries are such new and returning favorites as Aureole, Bann, Barbetta, B. Smith’s, Chin Chin, City Crab, City Hall, David Burke Fishtail, Gotham Bar & Grill, I Trulli, Il Mulino, Le Périgord, the Marrow, Megu, Molyvos, and Red Rooster Harlem, many of which have posted their special menus on the promotion’s official website. Below is a small sampling of meals you can put together at ten city favorites.

‘21 Club’: Mediterranean grilled calamari with summer vegetable caponata and preserved lemon; braised baby lamb shank with whipped potatoes, English peas, golden raisins, broccoli rabe, and hazelnut gremolata; roasted peach tart with ginger cream and vanilla ice cream

Bar Boulud: Country-style pâté with chicken liver, pork, and herbs; corn-coated Angus beef flank steak with roasted fingerling potatoes and romaine heart; gâteau chocolat-framboise with chocolate chiffon, passionfruit cremaux, and raspberry gelato

Delmonico’s: Acquerella risotto with ruby red shrimp, charred corn, preserved Meyer lemon, and pea shoots; classic chicken à la Keene with pappardelle pasta, pequilo peppers, wild mushrooms, and sweet peas; Valhrona chocolate cake

Devi: Crispy fish pakora tacos with carom-seed-infused fish fritters with avocado and radish slaw; jackfruit biryani and boondi raita with basmati rice, jackfruit, and yogurt with chickpea crisps; gulab jamun crème brûlée with Indian milk dumplings

Kutsher’s Tribeca: Chilled “borscht” gazpacho with summer corn salsa and crème frâiche; house-cured, smoked, and hand-sliced pastrami on soft rye with creamy cole slaw and French fries; classic New York sour cream cheesecake with fresh berries

Les Halles: Slow-cooked shredded duck rilletes; boneless short ribs braised in white wine and ginger with potato galette; Nutella crème brûlée

Petrossian: Smoked salmon with crème frâiche, dill, and toast points; lightly grilled Spanish mackerel with sushi rice, enoki mushrooms, green onions, spinach, carrots, and ginger in a bonito lime broth; peach crumb cake with vanilla ice cream

Rosa Mexicano: Guacamole en molcajete with avocado, jalapeño, tomato, onion, and cilantro with tortilla chips and salsas; pescado à la Veracruzana with pan-roasted mahi mahi in a traditional salsa of roasted tomatoes, bell peppers, poblanos, pickled jalapeños, olives, mint, and cilantro; flan de Rosa with vanilla flan infused with espresso served on a warm, thin ancho chile brownie and topped with Mexican cinnamon whipped cream

SD26: Wild bass carpaccio, lime, fennel pollen baby cucumbers, and spicy tomato vinaigrette; seared diver sea scallops with purple potatoes, sugar snap peas, fagiolini Verdi, and prosciutto crisps; panna cotta in a balsamic vinegar reduction and strawberries

Tribeca Grill: Chilled pea soup; St. Louis-cut ribs with fingerling potato salad; passionfruit semifreddo

SUMMER RESTAURANT WEEK 2013

restaurant week

Multiple locations throughout Manhattan
July 22 – August 16
Lunch $25, dinner $38
www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek

Foodies, start your engines! Reservations lines are now open for the twenty-second annual Summer Restaurant Week, when many of Manhattan’s best eateries offer special three-course menus at relatively affordable prices. From July 22 through August 16, more than three hundred restaurants will be serving $25 lunches and $38 dinners; advance reservations are strongly suggested for the more popular hot spots, which include the ‘21’ Club, Artisanal Fromagerie & Bistro, Aureole, B. Smith’s, Barbetta, Black Duck, the various Boulud restaurants, Chin Chin, Circo, City Hall, Devi, Esca, Frankie & Johnnie’s, Gotham Bar & Grill, HanGawi, Hospoda, I Trulli, Il Mulino, and Indochine, and that’s just the beginning of the alphabet. Many of the places have their special Restaurant Week menus posted online so you’ll know exactly what’s on tap, but you better book fast.

ELECTRONIC DREAMS: GIORGIO MORODER FILM + MUSIC

Disco king Giorgio Moroder is being honored this month at 92YTribeca

92YTribeca
200 Hudson St. at Canal St.
Select nights through April 30, $12 (closing-night screening and after-party $22)
212-415-5500
www.92YTribeca.org

Hansjörg “Giorgio” Moroder turns seventy this month, and 92YTribeca pays tribute to the 1970s/’80s synth-disco master with the booty-shaking series “Electronic Dreams: Giorgio Moroder Film + Music.” Moroder won Oscars for his contributions to Oliver Stone’s Midnight Express (1978), Adrian Lyne’s Flashdance (1983), and Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986), the first two of which are part of the 92YTribeca series; he also composed scores and wrote original songs for Lyne’s Foxes (1980), Joel Schumacher’s D.C. Cab (1983), and Steve Barron’s Electric Dreams (1984), which are part of the fest as well. On April 28, a 35mm print of Moroder’s 1984 version of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent classic, Metropolis, with songs by Billy Squier, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Freddie Mercury, and others, will be shown. The series concludes on April 30 with a screening of American Gigolo (1980) with director Paul Schrader on hand, followed by an after-party curated by Gordon Voidwell and featuring live performances by Emily Warren and the Betters and Chin Chin.