Things to put down on your day planner, your iPhone calendar, Blackberry, or whatever: January 18-22 is going to be the Third Annual Newport Beach Restaurant Week. This is the time when a selected roster of restaurants will be offering a three-course prix fixe for $15 or $20 for lunch, and $20 or $35 for dinner.
Though I've never been, I had an amazing lunch once at Lucques in L.A. during a similar event a few years ago. A three-course meal for what's usually the price of an entree — that's hard to beat.
Open Table has a list of participating restaurants and which price points they've chosen.
To see the full list, CLICK HERE.
To see the full list, CLICK HERE.
Not to be outdone, the newly-formed Orange County Restaurant Association is also going to do an event encompassing the whole of O.C. on February 22-28.
Their participants will also offer a discounted prix fixe and specialty menus for $20, $30 or $40 per person. Not all of the restaurants have been inked, but those that are already on board seem an impressive bunch.
Check the list HERE.
Check the list HERE.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.