Queens Restaurant Week(days)!

Posted by Mickie T on Saturday, October 10th, 2009

This year, there are 2 Kew Gardens, 7 Forest Hills and 4 Rego Park restaurants are participating in the October 5-15, 2009 Queens Restaurant Week!

If you don’t know the drill, participating restaurants are offering a prix-fixe dinner menu of soup/salad, entree and dessert for $25 per person, or lunch menu at $25 for 2 people. (beverage, tax and tip not included.)

Unlike most other neighborhoods, many of the FoHi places are offering the $25 menus over the weekend! In case you’re free tonight and want to stay local, Irish Cottage, La Vigna,  Buenos Aires Tango, Garcia’s and the Family Restaurant are offering it tonight — as well as Simply Fondue in Atlas Park, in case you’re feeling charitable.

Truthfully, we like to broaden our horizons during Restaurant Week and go somewhere out of the nabe. The spouse and I just spent about an hour perusing the menus and calling nearly every place on the list of this October’s Queens Restaurant Week, only to discover that about 90% of them are only offering the specials Mondays thru Thursdays.

I used Google to find the list, which states in the introductory paragraph,  “From October 5 – 15 enjoy Greek in Astoria, French in LIC, Italian in Bayside and Asian in Flushing with restaurants participating from all over the borough.”

When I went to the Discover Queen homepage, I see this text:

“From October 5th – 15th (Monday through Thursday) enjoy Greek in Astoria, French in LIC, Italian in Bayside and Asian in Flushing with restaurants participating from all over the borough.”

In any case, we’re probably going somewhere in Astoria or Bayside tonight. We’ll let you know where we go.

So, dear readers, what are your strategies and hints for going to a Restaurant Week venue? Have you found any great deals? Or is it just a “salad-rubber-chicken-cheesecake” disappointment?

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