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  • Free Seattle Restaurant Week food today! 10.14.11

    The excitement of the fourth Seattle Restaurant Week is bursting at the seams and it’s about to get even better! Several restaurants participating in the largest and most price-conscious dining promotion in the area are gathering TODAY to hand out FREE BITES to get diners even more excited about the start of the promotion this Sunday.

    Today, at the corner of Westlake & Denny in South Lake Union, ten restaurants will gather to feed you for free! No strings attached and it is not too good to be true! We’ll be there and so will countless other people. No reservations, no tickets required, just show up hungry and ready to mingle with such chefs as Eric Tanaka of Tom Douglas Restaurants, Maria Hines of Tilth and Golden Beetle and John Howie of Seastar. Not enough to convince you to step away from your desk? How about adding on other restaurants including Anthony’s Pier 66, Café Lago, Hard Rock Café and Serafina Osteria e Enoteca? We figured that would help!



    After you snack,     preview the list of over 150 restaurants serving three-course menus for $28 from Oct 16-27 (excluding Friday and Saturday). Lunch-goers can also take part with over 40 restaurants serving three-course menus for $15. Check out the list online and grab your reservations!

    TAGS: Anthony's, Cafe Lago, Eric Tanaka, free food, Golden Beetle, Hard Rock Cafe, John Howie, launch event, Maria Hines, Seastar, Seattle, Seattle Restaurant Week, Serafina, South Lake Union, Tilth, Tom Douglas Restaurants

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  • Restaurant Week Chefs Gather To Fight Hunger 08.31.10

    We’ve been busy ramping up for Seattle Restaurant Week (SRW), coming October 17-28, but we haven’t been so busy that we couldn’t hold an SRW fundraiser for a great cause: Food Lifeline!

    Last Tuesday, August 24, over 70 chefs gathered at the picturesque Olympic Sculpture Park to raise donations for hunger in Western Washington. SRW also gave out $1,000 worth of restaurant gift cards through a raffle supported by donations to Food Lifeline. The chefs posed for pictures, including one that will appear in Pacific Northwest Magazine this October. Keep your eyes peeled, but in the meantime, check out the below photos of some of the best chefs in the area.

    Thanks to all of the chefs that were able to attend!

    Photos by I CANDI Studios.


    Chefs gather for Food Lifeline



    Jason Wilson of Crush + Maria Hines of Tilth



    Chef John Howie (Seastar, SPORT, John Howie Steak) and Camilla Bishop, Food Lifeline director of development



     

    Chefs from Tom Douglas Restaurants



    Thierry Rautureau (Rovers, LUC), lends his hat to John Howie for the raffle.



    Seattle Restaurant Cooperative has a little fun during their Seattle Restaurant board member photo shoot: John Howie, Ethan Stowell, Jason Wilson, Chris Keff, Maria Hines. (Board members not pictured: Pamela Hinckley of Tom Douglas Restaurants and Mark Fuller of Spring Hill)

     

    TAGS: Chris Keff, Ethan Stowell, Food Lifeline, Jason Wilson, John Howie, Maria Hines, Seattle Restaurant Cooperative, Seattle Restaurant Week, Spring Hill, Tom Douglas Restaurants

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  • Seattle Restaurant Week Returns October 17-28! 07.06.10

    SEATTLE RESTAURANT WEEK RETURNS OCTOBER 17-28

     Popular dining promotion continues to offer three-courses for $25

     

    SEATTLE—(July 6, 2010)—Building on the success of the inaugural Seattle Restaurant Week comes the announcement of the second countywide celebration: October 17-28. The second Seattle Restaurant Week will continue to serve up three-course dinners for $25 and optional three-course lunches for $15, Sunday through Thursday only; excluding Friday and Saturday. Restaurants are now confirming their participation.

    As with the inaugural promotion, held April 2010, Seattle Restaurant Week continues to remain open to any King County Restaurant that can provide diners with a menu of value that meets the requirement of three-courses for $25. The inaugural run included 106 restaurants and culminated in the broadest reaching, most price-conscious local dining promotion to date. “With the positive restaurant feedback we received, from increases in revenue to overwhelming supportive feedback from guests, we hope to have even more restaurants participate for the fall celebration,” said Pamela Hinckley, CEO of Tom Douglas Restaurants and Seattle Restaurant Cooperative board member.

    Adhering to its commitment to the restaurant community and diners, Seattle Restaurant Cooperative is proud to keep the price point at $25 for dinner and $15 for lunch. “We spoke to the participating restaurants after the inaugural promotion and learned that the $25 dinner and $15 lunch prices worked well for the restaurants. We are thrilled to continue to translate that to an amazing deal for diners,” said Christine Keff, chef-owner of Flying Fish and board member of the Seattle Restaurant Cooperative.

    All King County restaurants that can fulfill a $25 three course menu are encouraged to participate. Interested restaurants can email seattlerestaurantweek@gmail.com for additional information or to sign up by July 30.

    Diners are also encouraged to express their favorite restaurants for inclusion in Seattle Restaurant Week via Twitter (@SeattleRW) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/SeattleRestaurantWeek). Seattle Restaurant Cooperative will contact each diner-submitted restaurant for participation.

    The Seattle Restaurant Cooperative works in conjunction with seattletimes.com to manage and execute Seattle Restaurant Week. Seattletimes.com lends its expertise as an online source for the local landscape, connecting local consumers and businesses. Seattletimes.com brings over eight years of restaurant promotion experience to Seattle Restaurant Week.

    Seattle Restaurant Week, held twice annually, offers diners a $25 three-course menu and optional $15 three-course lunch, Sunday through Thursday; excluding Friday and Saturday, at participating area restaurants. The promotion is open to any King County restaurant that can offer a value driven menu for $25. Seattle Restaurant Week is operated by the Seattle Restaurant Cooperative, a non-profit association united to represent local area restaurants. Seattle Restaurant Cooperative board members include restaurateurs from Ethan Stowell Restaurants, Flying Fish, John Howie Restaurants, Spring Hill, Tilth and Tom Douglas Restaurants. For more information visit http://www.theseattlerestaurantweek.com/.

    SRW on Twitter @SeattleRW.

    SRW on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SeattleRestaurantWeek

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    TAGS: Ethan Stowell, Flying Fish, John Howie, Seattle Restaurant Week, seattletime.com, Spring Hill, Tilth, Tom Douglas

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