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Less than one week left to savor the flavors of SRW. 04.16.12

Time really does fly when you’re having fun, doesn’t it!?
Seattle Restaurant Week’s spring celebration is coming to an end this Thursday, April 19. With SRW combining spicy, zesty, incredible flavors, odds are your unforgettable meal has you time warped in a food lover’s heaven. Don’t worry; we’re here to wake you back up! Before making your final reservations, take a quick peek at how to source out the best-suited restaurants to fit your style. You only have four days left so get out and dine for a deal!
Dine Local or Broad
With over 150 restaurants, we guarantee there is a local restaurant just miles from your home. Having hopeful sun in the days to come, think of taking this opportunity to discover a new neighborhood gem. Or, why not spice up your life and make reservations at a new exotic location? To the true Downtowners, try venturing over to the Eastside. If you’re caught in the Ballard bubble, try Capitol Hill or Lake Union. SRW makes it easy, mapping out each restaurant by neighborhood. Click here to check it out!
Don’t Forget Lunch
Life gets busy, but with the option of lunch OR dinner, there is definitely time to set aside the pots and pans and dine out (especially when it’s only $15 for three courses!) Scroll through this list to see who’s offering lunch as well as dinner.
Kid-Friendly
The ultimate perk: no babysitter needed. Nothing beats a delicious kids menu with fun coloring activities, except when it’s combined with a complete family dining experience at a perfectly reasonable price. This is also a great opportunity to let your kids join in the contest and hunt for the hidden QR code at participating restaurants; they’ll love it! View kid-friendly restaurants here.
Specialize in Vegetarian Cooking
You don’t have to consider yourself a vegan or vegetarian, just adventurous and daring to try something new. These restaurants will leave you feeling full and energized, minus the food coma! View vegetarian-friendly restaurants here.
SRW didn’t add restaurants to the spring promotion for no reason. Whether you choose to discover the taste of new cuisine or stick with the oldies-but-goodies, delve in now because it’ll be over before you know it!TAGS: $15 lunch, April 19, Ballard, broad, Capitol Hill, contest, diner deals, downtown, downtowners, kid-friendly, Lake Union, local, neighborhood, new cuisine, one week left, QR code, Restaurants, Seattle Restaurant Week, SRW, Vegetarian,
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Foodie-lovers, Seattle Restaurant Week is back! 04.04.12

March brought us the anticipated arrival of top chart movie the Hunger Games and captured the attention of many here in the Pacific Northwest. Now April has arrived and is ready to give last month a run for its money in rolling out a more exciting and satisfying way to enchant diners’ hunger and get those taste buds dancing. That’s right, it’s time for food and wine fanatics to kick off the start of spring with Seattle Restaurant Week here in the Puget Sound.
From April 8-12 and 15-19 (excluding each Friday and Saturday), over 150 of Seattle’s most talked about restaurants will offer a specially prepared three-course dinner for $28 per person, with specific restaurants offering an additional three-course lunch for $15. Each prix-fixe menu will feature an appetizer, entrée and dessert, with at least three options under each course. And yes, to all of you dessert ditchers out there, this leaves you no excuse to pass up the delectable desserts that you’ve secretly been waiting to dive into post dinner!
With over 150 restaurants participating this season, odds are you won’t have to get lucky to discover a new favorite place to dine in Seattle’s sea of culinary expertise. We highly recommend trying a few of our favorites including Cafe Flora (pictured above), Tilth, Golden Beetle, and Crush. Seattle Restaurant Cooperative and the media partner, The Seattle Times, have given this season’s one-of-a-kind celebration a special touch by adding 25 NEW restaurants to partake in the list. Restaurants will now cover more of King County, making it easier to find a restaurant near you.
Invite all your foodie-loving friends, call and make a reservation (not required but highly encouraged) and learn to become your own food critic from an array of delectable dishes in store for you. We’d love to read comments from our readers about the hottest spots you’re finding this year and the best dishes that are making this week a memorable dining celebration!
Be sure to keep up with the action through Facebook and Twitter for upcoming news and some seriously unbeatable giveaways.TAGS: $15 lunches, $28 dinners, 150 restaurants, Cafe Flora, celebration, Crush, dining deals, food, Golden Beetle, prix-fixe meal, Seattle Restaurant Cooperative, Seattle Restaurant Week, SRW, The Seattle Times, three-course meal, Tilth
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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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Do you need MORE reason to dine during Restaurant Week? 10.21.10

Crush adds incentive to the Restaurant Week experience
Four days down. Only six left. If you haven’t made your reservation for Seattle Restaurant Week act soon before the opportunity for a 3 course dinner for $25 at some of the area’s best restaurants passes you by! We didn’t think this deal could get any better, but then a bunch of the 126 participants decided to sweeten the pot even more! We can hardly hold in our excitement – check out these additional Seattle Restaurant Week deals:
GIFT CARD OFFERS
Crush Each SRW diner will receive a Crush VIP gift card for 25% off their next dinner at Crush.
Wild Ginger (Bellevue and Seattle locations) Wild Ginger will offer 10% off gift card purchases during SRW.
EXTENDING SRW TO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Cicchetti Kitchen and Bar
SPECIAL WINE + COCKTAIL OFFERS
13 Coins 10% off all Washington wines on Wednesdays.
Andaluca 15% off Washington wines by the bottle.
ART Wine All You Want Mondays with 50% off all bottles with dinner (Monday’s only, over 160 bottles). Friday Night Flight Night featuring 3 wine flights to choose from at $15-$35.
Barking Frog 20% off bottles of Woodinville wines or 15% off bottles of Washington wines.
Bastille Café & Bar 15% off all Washington wine bottle prices.
Bennetts Pure Food Bistro $5 off any Washington wine bottle for lunch and dinner.
Bin on the Lake 25% off all Washington wines by the glass or by the bottle – over 80 wines by the glass.
BOKA Kitchen + Bar Special pricing on Washington wine glass pours with over 70 wines available by the glass.
Carmelita 2 bottle choices of Northwest wine (1 white, 1 red) for $25.
Chez Shea $5 off a bottle of Washington Wine or 10% off Washington wines by the glass.
Cutters Bayhouse Discounted Wine Flights highlighting Washington wines.
Dahlia Lounge Special Washington wine list created for SRW.
Emmer&rye Wednesday is Half-Priced Bottle Night at emmer&rye.
Etta’s Special pricing on Washington wine list by the glass.
Flying Fish Special Washington winemakers will be pouring and offering featured wine flights each night during SRW.
Fresh Bistro $15 wine flights paired with SRW menu.
Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana Tuesdays and Thursdays 20% off 20 hand-selected Washington Wines by the bottle.
Ivar’s Acres of Clams $5 off any bottle of Washington wine (valid with Washington Wine Commission’s World-Class Value Pass).
Ivar’s Salmon House Enjoy $5 off your purchase of any bottle of Washington wine. To receive discount, please show your World-Class Value Pass.
Juno 25% off all Washington Wine by the bottle as well as selected $6 wines by the glass.
La Dolce Vita Ristorante A variety of Chateau St. Michelle and Columbia Crest wines at $5.00 off the regular price per bottle and glass pours for $5.00.
La Medusa 10% off all Washington wines by the bottle.
Louisa’s Café & Bakery 25% off all Washington State bottles of wine and 10% off glass pours.
LUC LUC’s own Wilridge Winery Red and White wine.
Matt’s in the Market Lunch: Washington wine paired with the BBQ sandwich. Dinner: Premier flight of downtown Seattle wineries.
Maximilien Wine flight featured with SRW menu.
Monsoon East 10% off any Washington wine on Wednesday lunch and dinner. $5 off all WA Wines by the bottle.
Piatti Ristorante & Bar Monday nights beginning at 4 p.m. is 1/2 Price Bottle of Wine Night on all bottles regularly priced $50 or less.
Ponti Seafood Grill 10% off all Washington wine by the bottle.
Preservation Kitchen $5 off each featured Washington wine bottle purchase.
Purple Café and Wine Bar Featuring a unique Washington Wine Flight each night.
Rover’s Restaurant A special Washington Wine Pairing with SRW diners.
Salty’s on Alki $10 off any Washington wine bottle (over 150 bottles)
Seastar (Bellevue and Seattle locations) Washington winery representatives each night and 20-50% off their wines on corresponding nights.
Mon, 10.18: Seattle – Gramercy Cellars (Winery Rep Greg Harrington); Bellevue – Va Piano (Winery Rep Mark Kieras).
Tues, 10.19: Seattle – Mark Ryan (Winery Rep Mark McNeily); Bellevue – Chat Rollat (Winery Rep Bowin Lidgren)
Wed, 10.20: Seattle – Walla Walla Vintners (Winery Rep Gordi Vineri); Bellevue – Rasa (TBD)
Thurs, 10.21: Seattle – Corliss (Winery Rep Lars); Bellevue – Quilceda Creek (TBD)
Mon, 10.25: Seattle – Buty (Winery Rep Nina Buty Foster); Bellevue – A Maurice (Winery Rep Anna Shafer)
Tues, 10.26: Seattle – Tranche (Winery Rep Lars); Bellevue – Leonetti (Winery Rep Heidi Figgins)
Wed, 10.27: Seattle – Betz (Winery Rep Carmen Betz) (tentative); Bellevue – McCrea (Winery Rep Susan and Bob Neal)
Thurs, 10.28: Seattle – L’Ecole (Winery Rep Debbie Frol); Bellevue – Efeste (Winery Rep Brennan Leighton)
Szmania’s $12 Wine flight of Kabinett Reisling paired with SRW German 3-Course Dinner.SRW Honey Bear Cocktail (after dinner drink) featuring Barenjager Honey liqueur; $6 (regularly $9).
Taberna del Alabardero Wine and tapas flight: 3 wines paired with 3 tapas for $19.
Tango Restaurant $5 off each Washington wine bottle.
Ten Mercer $5 per glass on Washington Wines all day, Sunday-Thursday (not to include special features) (valid with Washington Wine Commission’s World Class Value Pass).
The Capital Grille 10% off each Washington wine bottle purchase.
The Pink Door Flight of three wines to complement each course for a discounted price of $18.00.
Tidbit Bistro Featuring a Washington wine flight.
Waterfront Seafood Grill A Double Top Secret Wine List with special pricing on select Washington wines, to include glass pours, bottle deals and a complimentary appetizer.
Wild Ginger (Bellevue and Seattle locations) 20% off of one bottle of Washington wine.
Woodman Lodge Tue-Sun: Discounted bottles of select Washington wine. Different Washington wine by the glass featured each week with discounts. Wed.: 1/2 off all WA wine by the bottle $50 or less. $5 glasses of Washington wine. -
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.

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







