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WINTER RESTAURANT WEEK 2015

Who: More than three hundred restaurants throughout the city
What: Winter Restaurant Week
Where: All five boroughs
When: February 16 – March 6, three-course lunches $25, three-course dinners $38
Why: Reservation lines are now open for Winter Restaurant Week, in which hundreds of New York City eateries offer three-course prix-fixe lunches for $25 and dinners for $38. (Some restaurants do only lunch or dinner, and others offer the deals only on weekdays.) Many of the prix-fixe menus are available online so you know just what you’re in for. Among the many restaurants are such favorites as ‘21 Club,’ Aureole, Bann, Barbetta, Charlie Palmer Steak, City Crab, City Hall, Darbar, DB Bistro Moderne, Delmonico’s, Dévi, Dos Caminos, Esca, Estiatorio Milos, Gotham Bar & Grill, Haru, i Trulli, Il Mulino, Le Cirque, Les Halles, Mercer Kitchen, Monkey Bar, Nice Matin, Nobu, Petrossian, Red Rooster, Rosa Mexicano, the Russian Tea Room, Shun Lee Palace, Tao, Tribeca Grill, Victor’s Cafe, the Water Club, and the Water’s Edge. As a bonus, if you register your American Express card, you will receive $5 back each time you charge at least $25 at a participating restaurant.

SUMMER RESTAURANT WEEK 2014

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

TICKET ALERT: CHOICE EATS 2014

THE VILLAGE VOICE CHOICE EATS SEVENTH ANNUAL TASTING EVENT
Basketball City at Pier 36
299 South St. at Montgomery St.
Tuesday, March 25, $60 general admission, 7:00 – 10:00
21 and over only
www.villagevoice.com/choiceeats

There’s still time to get tickets to the seventh annual Village Voice Choice Eats festival, but you’ll need to move fast to score access to tastings from more than sixty New York City eateries, plus complimentary drinks, backgrounded by DJ DIIV and boasting a special Choice Sweets section upstairs. (Hint: Do not miss the Butter & Scotch table.) Dine and dash from line to line, meeting the chefs, but with access to so many vendors, Choice Eats can feel overwhelming. Make a plan: There are techniques for approaching this near-surfeit of goodness: Do a Manhattan vs. Brooklyn “lobster-off,” testing the rolls of East Seventh St.’s Luke’s Lobster vs. Van Brunt St.’s Red Hook Lobster Pound, or try to stay genre specific, pitting the meats of Mable’s Smokehouse in Brooklyn against Long Island City’s John Brown or Fletcher’s Brooklyn Barbecue. Or take an Asian tour from Larb Ubol’s Isan Thai to the Kati Roll Company to Tabata Noodle. You can also strategically make a trip across four boroughs by adding Staten Island’s Indian Clove to your culinary journey, but, alas, there are no eateries hailing from the Bronx. Every establishment has been featured on the pages of the Voice; among the other participating restaurants are Devi, Fonda, Max, Pete Zaaz, Sheep Station, the Pines, Bear, and Egg. Buy now; all the VIP tickets are already gone, and general admission will also sell out well in advance of the twenty-one-and-over-only March 25 event at Basketball City.

SUMMER RESTAURANT WEEK 2013

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.

TICKET ALERT: HARVEST IN THE SQUARE

Tickets are now on sale for the seventeenth annual Harvest in the Square gourmet celebration in Union Square Park (photo by James Worrell)

Union Square Park West Plaza
14th St. & Union Square West
Thursday, September 20, general admission $125 (7:30), VIP $400 (6:00)
www.harvest.unionsquarenyc.org

Nearly four dozen local restaurants will be taking part in the seventeenth annual Harvest in the Square celebration of fall, a gourmet fundraiser for the Union Square Partnership. Held under tents in the west side of the park, HITS will feature signature dishes from such eateries as Aleo, Alison Eighteen, BLT Fish and BLT Prime, Blue Smoke, Bread & Tulips, Chat ‘n’ Chew, City Crab, Craft, Dévi, Dos Caminos, 5 Napkin Burger, Gramercy Tavern, Hill Country, Junoon, Republic, Rosa Mexicano, SD26, Steak Frites, the Strip House, Tamarind, Tocqueville, Union Square Café, and Wildwood Barbeque. Drinks will be supplied by Bedell Cellars, Casa Larga Vineyards, Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera Wine Cellars, Heartland Brewery, Irving Farm Coffee, Knapp Winery, Paumanok Vineyards, Think Coffee, Wolffer Estate Vineyards, and many others. In addition, there will be booths from City Harvest, Greenmarket Farmers Market, and Whole Foods Market Union Square. This year’s restaurant chair is Brett Reichler of B.R. Guest, and the wine chair is once again Garry Tornberg of Southern Wine & Spirits of New York. The event was founded by Danny Meyer of the Union Square Hospitality Group and Eric Petterson of the Gotham City Restaurant Group in order to raise funds for the beautification of historic Union Square Park. Tickets are on sale now, $125 for general admission at 7:30 and $400 for early VIP entry at 6:00.

SUMMER RESTAURANT WEEK

Multiple locations
July 16 – August 10
Lunch $24.07, dinner $35
www.nycgo.com/restaurantweek

Been wanting to try that hot, much-buzzed-about restaurant but the price is just a little bit out of hand? Now’s your chance, especially with so many New Yorkers off to the Hamptons and other beach areas, as hundreds of eateries are participating in the twenty-first annual Summer Restaurant Week, which is actually creeping toward Summer Restaurant Month. Running July 16 – August 10, the seasonal promotion offers new foodies and longtime gourmands the opportunity to enjoy $24.07 lunches and $35 dinners at old and new favorites. Advance reservations are strongly suggested for the more popular hot spots, which include the ‘21’ Club, Aureole, B. Smith’s, Barbetta, Beacon, the various Boulud restaurants, Capsouto Frères, Circo, Devi, Esca, and Gotham Bar & Grill, and that’s just at 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.