Restaurant Week should be considered more of a sport than a dining occasion. As The Food Monkey has already pointed out, different restaurants handle Restaurant Week in different ways. With some work (and, ok, a little dumb luck), Restaurant Week can be fun and exciting and even cheap... in context. The full list of participants is available on the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau website about a month before Restaurant Week. Some restaurants......

Mike of The Food Monkey has joined Bostonist to share his thoughts about cooking, food history, restaurant trends, and any other Epicurean issues. He promises to discuss what tastes good, but not always what is in good taste. For more on consuming the opponents and other food news, go to The Food Monkey website. To contact Mike, go to the Food Monkey's contact page. It’s that time again. Time to spin the wheel and......

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. You still have to pay for tips, tax, and beverages alcoholic and otherwise, but that's still not a bad deal. You can see a full list of participating restaurants here, and you can make reservations through OpenTable. From there, it's beg, borrow, or steal to get......

Usually when we feature a map we only give it the title of map of the day, even if we don't feature one every day. Today we feature the map of the week. Why? Because this week is Boston's Winter Restaurant Week 2007. The map comes from BostonChefs.com and their "unofficial guide" to Restaurant Week. It appears that the little chef icon on the map indicates the restaurants who have upgraded their listing with......

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......

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. Remember: prices are per person, for a......

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......

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,......

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......

Mark your calendar (and make reservations) for August 22nd through 26th, because it’s restaurant week in Boston! Restaurant week is an August tradition where many of the higher end restaurants in Boston offer a prix fixe menu in order to lure in new customers. To those of you who didn't already book your restaurant, the official site lists the current availability of all the restaurants participating. The unofficial site is arguably better. Those of you......