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A One-Week Reprieve For Summer Special Menus.[/title]
August 31 was the last official day of the annual Coolinary promotion. Then the two organizations that coordinate Coolinary take two weeks off for unknown reasons, and come back with a one-week reprise of the Coolinary: called less than brilliantly "We Live To Eat Restaurant Week." That started yesterday and runs through this Sunday, September 30, with eighty restaurants participating.
Despite this overcomplexity, the attraction is easy to understand. All of the restaurants participating have three-course dinners for $39 or less. Most of them also have two-course lunches for $20. None of the food involved is diluted, lowball fare, but the same kind of deliciousness you find in these restaurants every day. Nor are these a bunch of secondary eateries. Three five-star restaurants (the Pelican Club, Commander's Palace, August) and even more four-star places.
The menus for all the restaurants involved are here.
After this week, a few restaurants persist with the summer menus until the end of the month. It continues to be a good idea to call for reservations and ask whether the summer menu is still in force. The program has become one of the most popular in the local restaurant business. And it helps restaurants keep their staffs busy during this slow time of the year.
NOMenu invites restaurants or organizations with upcoming special events to tell us, so we might add the news to this free department. Send to news@nomenu.com.
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