The New Year’s first installment of Long Island Restaurant Week is approaching, and the list of participating spots from across Nassau and Suffolk counties is growing by the day — each offering several prix fixe deals for both lunch and dinner.
That includes many first-time participants in Winter Long Island Restaurant Week, including Varney’s in Brookhaven, Mangia E Bevi in Massapequa Park, The Halston in Melville and two Lâu Vietnamese Pho locations in St. James and Bethpage
The eight days of foodie fun in the snow starts Sunday, Jan. 26, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 2
Click here for Nassau restaurants. Here for Suffolk.
Scroll down for all the details. If you’re a restaurant looking to sign up, simply click here.
“What better way to celebrate the cold days of winter than with a delicious affordable warm meal,” said Nicole Castillo of Long Island Restaurant and Hospitality Group, which runs the tri-annual event.”We are expecting over 150 restaurants to participate this winter in offering discount meals for Winter Long Island Restaurant Week. With diners sharing that almost 50 percent of them dine out more than once during restaurant week, it is lining up to be quite a busy week.”
Indeed, in a recent survey sent to diners, over 70 percent said they are very likely to dine out during Restaurant Week again in the future, and more than 45 percent said they dine out twice during the promotion.
The details
Again, Winter Long Island Restaurant Week 2024 runs from Jan. 26 through Feb. 2 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 giveaway
Back by popular demand, Restaurant Week’s great Gift Card Giveaway returns for the winter promotion and diners have the option to enter to win one of three gift cards to redeem at a participating restaurant of their choice.
To enter to win, diners must visit the Long Island Restaurant Week website between Monday, Jan. 20, at midnight and Monday, Feb. 3 at 11:59 p.m. and input their information.
Winners will be selected on or around Friday, Feb. 7, and be notified via telephone and/or email.
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 photo from The Linwood in Bay Shore/Facebook
