Besides those must-haves from Target that always “accidentally” end up in your cart, what can 25 bucks buy you these days? Not a whole lot. But don’t despair. Downtown Restaurant Week is back and ready to stretch your dollar quite a long way.
Starting Monday, August 20 and running through August 26, at DRW, you can treat yourself to a three-course prix fixe meal. Don’t worry about coupons or punch cards; simply show up to one of this year’s 20 participating restaurants. We do suggest making a reservation, though, and mentioning “Downtown Restaurant Week” when you do – last year the event attracted around 20,000 diners over the course of the week.
What’s even better than an affordable three-course dinner? Well, yes, a four-course meal, but also a charity tie-in. At DRW, through Operation Food Search, patrons can add a $5 “Extra Helping” donation to their dining bill. Last year, DRW raised almost $10,000 for this cause. For more information, visit downtownrestaurantweek.net.
WHAT: Downtown Restaurant Week
WHEN: Monday, August 20 through Sunday, August 26. Check with each restaurant for individual dinner hours.
WHERE: At participating downtown restaurants (see the whole shebang below).
COST: $25 for a three-course meal, plus tax and tip. (If you add a $5 “extra helping” to your check, you can provide a meal for a hungry family through Operation Food Search.)
WHO’S PARTICIPATING: (Check out the menus here.)
Anthony’s Bar Blondie’s Coffee and Wine Bar Carmine’s Steak House Cielo Restaurant and Bar (Four Seasons Hotel)
Clark Street Grill (Westin Hotel)
Copia Restaurant and Wine Garden The Dubliner Gio’s Ristorante & Bar Harry’s Restaurant and Bar Jim Edmonds 15 Steakhouse Lola Lombardo’s Trattoria (Drury Union Station)
Lucas Park Grille & Market Mango Peruvian Cuisine Mike Shannon’s Steaks & Seafood Mosaic Modern Fusion Rosalita’s Cantina Ruth’s Chris Steak House (Hyatt)
Stadium Sports Bar and Grill (Lumiere Place)
Top of the Riverfront (Millennium Hotel)
This article appears in August 2012.