The year’s second installment of Long Island Restaurant Week is upon us, with nearly 200 local restaurants participating from across Nassau and Suffolk, each offering several prix fixe deals for both lunch and dinner.
The eight days of foodie fun started Sunday, April 7, and goes through Sunday, April 14.
Click here for Nassau restaurants. Here for Suffolk.
Scroll down for all the details.
“Hints of spring are in the air and spring Long Island Restaurant Week is the perfect way to welcome the season!” said Nicole Castillo of Long Island Restaurant and Hospitality Group, which runs the tri-annual event. “Our winter promotion was one of our most successful events since COVID and we are excited to see a full roster of restaurants back on board for the spring.
“With almost 200 restaurants participating in winter we are expecting spring to be our biggest event yet!”
The details
Again, Spring Long Island Restaurant Week 2024 runs from April 7 through April 14. Restaurants must offer three options per course (appetizer, entrée, dessert) for each prix fixe menu.
And they can offer one or all of these options:
- $29 three-course dinner
- $39 three-course dinner
- $46 three-course dinner
- $24 two-course lunch
Click here to learn more, including pricing, rules and guidelines. Restaurants also have the option to offer other dishes at supplemental charges, so long as they stick to at least three options per course at the above prices.
The Golden Ticket
Wait, there’s more. Long Island Restaurant Week is launching a new promotion called the Golden Ticket Giveaway, with the grand prize amounting to a $250 gift certificate to the winner’s restaurant of choice. But there will also be a first prize ($150) and a second prize ($100) up for grabs this spring.
“Maybe you will chose the favorite restaurant you visited during Long Island Restaurant Week, or a participating restaurant you’ve never visited,” Castillo said.
Click here to enter the sweepstakes online.
About Long Island Restaurant Week
“Long Island Restaurant Week is a win-win for both restaurateurs and diners — increased foot traffic at restaurants and affordable meals at some of Long Island’s top restaurants,” Castillo said. “My best advice for restaurant week?
“Make reservations to guarantee you get into your favorite restaurant!”
An estimated 116,000 meals are served during each promotion at over 140 Long Island locations, which is good for about $4 million in revenues from every Long Island Restaurant Week.
It started as a fall-only promotion in 2006 until the first spring Long Island Restaurant Week was launched in April 2011. Winter was added in January of 2016, due to popular customer and restaurateur demand. Visit the Long Island Restaurant Week website for any more information.
Some restaurant menus are also available on the site.
Top: Dinner at Ruta Oaxaca in Westbury. (courtesy photo)
