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March 27th marked the end of 2009's Winter Restaurant Week. Over the course of the past two weeks, this Bostonist visited several restaurants to take advantage of the occasion. A few of them delivered everything that Restaurant Week promises: a great value and delicious food. Unfortunately, several others were more than a bit disappointing. In a year with such a rough economy, you would expect that Restaurant Week would be a time for local eateries to go all out, giving customers a good reason to remember them once the great deals have ended. Instead, several places that we visited offered slow, mediocre service and dull, uninspired menus.
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[210 Hanover Street; 617-720-0052; Dinner only.]
[1166 Washington Street; 617-482-8868; Lunch only.]
[83 Main Street, Charlestown; 617-242-6009; Dinner only.]
[283 Summer Street; 617-695-2257. Lunch and dinner.]
Sure, it’s an overdone publicity stunt, and many a foodie has been burned by the snooty service, tiny portions and unimpressive fare served to those who step out for Restaurant Week in Boston. But there are still a few good reasons to give Restaurant Week a try this August 10-15 and 17-22, and we'll be profiling these worthy restaurants all week long. Snag a lunch or dinner seat at www.opentable.com before it’s too late.
Bostonist realizes that $33 may not seem like cheap eats, especially when this column has been focusing on $10-and-under places. This, again, is where some careful research comes into play. At some restaurants, the price of a Restaurant Week meal ordered a la carte may come out to roughly $33. Avoid the places where a regular meal would be less than $33. In the case of Davio's, a three-course meal would run about $50-$75 dollars, making the $33 Restaurant Week menu - and it's accompanying dose of attentive service - a steal.
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During Restaurant Week, which runs from now to August 17 (skipping Saturday, August 11), you can eat three-course lunches for $20.07 and three-course dinners for $33.07 all over town.
A bit of a misnomer this year, Boston's Summer Restaurant Week spreads itself leisurely over a 14-day span, affording the populace twice as much time to spend money they don't have on food they can't afford. And we at Bostonist couldn't be happier about it! This biannual event (winter and summer only) provides a beacon of light for culinary adventuring, allowing even us poor writers a chance to taste the good life. The difficulty lies in choosing where to eat, because even though cheaper is better, at $30.06 the 3-course prixe fixe still packs a punch to the wallet. Participating restaurants open their reservation books today, so break open your piggy bank and give them a call!
If, like Bostonist, you totally flaked out on Boston Winter Restaurant Week and now can't even get a 10 p.m. reservation at any of the 90 participating establishments since it's Thursday...well, luck be a lady! Some of the restaurants have declared the week so successful that they're extending the $20.06 lunch/$30.06 dinner pricing structure for another week. A complete list of eateries participating in the extension here.
We all gave you the heads up last month when we told you about Boston’s first ever Winter Restaurant Week. So whether or not you made your reservations ahead of time like we told you to, Bostonist did go ahead and make some dinner plans this week. We headed over to Fleming's Steak House on Stuart Street. Yes, we realize that Fleming’s is a national chain and while we are all about supporting the locally-run joint, Bostonist had one amazing meal for a pretty amazing price. For the standard Restaurant Week dinner price of $30.06, we walked away Sunday night in a food induced-coma all ready to watch the Academy Awards.
Restaurant Week, that wonderful time in late summer when Bostonist plans ahead so that we don’t break the bank eating $30 tasting menu dinners all week long. This year the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau has set up another Restaurant Week – Winter Restaurant Week 2006, March 5-10 (this URL was the one reported in multiple places including the press release but appears to be out of comission today) . Prices have gone up, but only for a penny to reflect the year. Lunch will be $20.06, dinner for $30.06. The three-course prix fixe menu is a quite a deal for dining in some spots around the Hub. Watch yourself not to go too reservation crazy, we’ve warned you before that the $12 Croma pizza may be great, but that means you’ve spent $18 on a start and finish to the meal.
Bostonist always forgets about Restaurant Week until the day it begins and by then, we’ve missed out on booking a table. But this year, Bostonist gave you all a reminder a few weeks back to make your reservations ahead of time. (It also helped that Restaurant Week now features over 100 restaurants to choose from, making reservations more plentiful.) We decided to try a place that we’ve always talked about going to (but never actually got there). We decided on The Elephant Walk, a restaurant with both a Cambodian menu and French menu, this past Monday night and had a truly fabulous meal.
You can catch Bostonist at Spire, Anthem and and Oceana, in the Long Wharf Marriott (just behind Tia's). Reviews to come in late August and early September. Restaurant Week is one of the best dining weeks in the Hub, there is one thing that Bostonist thinks might make it better: Tax Free Dining. Anyone think Mitt might let us get away with a Meal Tax Holiday? A fixed-price, tax-free meal would be the closest thing in Boston to a free lunch.
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