Tag: Restaurant
Twitter Chat on Hudson Valley Restaurant Week! Right Now!
Celebrate the restaurants, foods and farms that make Hudson Valley Restaurant Week a culinary treasure! At noon today, we’re talking about Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, where restaurants offer prix-fixe lunches and dinner for less than $ 30 through March 24. We want to know your best meals so far! What restaurants… Read More → The [...]
HVRW: 42 The Restaurant, White Plains
Last week ended on a perfect note—a HVRW dinner at 42 The Restaurant in White Plains. The views are wonderful, even on a totally gray day. There’s just something special about the big, open restaurant surrounded by windows with a great view of White Plains. We ordered straight off the restaurant week menu but did [...]
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Spring 2013: Behind the Kitchen Door at Harvest on Hudson
Patrice Costa here and I’m going to just say it … I’m totally jealous. Everyone has been out enjoying lunches and dinners for Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Spring 2013 (some managing both in the same day!), while I’ve spent most of my week in the kitchen at Harvest on Hudson helping to prep for their [...]
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Scavenger Hunt Reports for Friday, March 15
Things are really starting to rev up with our Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Scavenger Hunt! Our trusty RW enthusiast Bill Rubin went nuts on Instagram and Twitter last night, racking up an impressive 1,250 points with five instagram/Twitter pics and a video from Restaurant North last night. Guy Jones Apple polenta cake. (100) A photo [...]
Lunch at the Bocuse Restaurant at the Culinary Institute of America
One of the best kept secrets of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park is their student run restaurants which are open to the public. You can enjoy meals prepared by a future Iron Chef like Cat Cora, a modern culinarian like Grant Achatz or a food biographer like Anthony Bourdain (all former CIA [...]
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Scavenger Hunt Reports for Thursday, March 14
We have a few more blog posts and Tweets from people having fun on our Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Scavenger Hunt! You can keep up with all the totals on our page here: Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Scavenger Hunt Point Tallies. And here’s a look at our 10 challenges. Get the most points and be [...]
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week 2013 Kick-Off: Let the Dining Begin!
Since 2006, Janet Crawshaw and Jerry Novesky of Valley Table Magazine have been the organizers of Hudson Valley Restaurant Week which has grown to over 170 participating restaurants in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, and neighboring counties. Fellow blogger Margaret Rizzuto and I attended the kick-off event last week at the epicenter of all things culinary in [...]
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Scavenger Hunt! Let’s Dine and Share!
Everyone loves a deal, and Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, March 11-24, offers one of the best: three-course meals for less than $ 30. We’ve always looked forward to Hudson Valley Restaurant Week for more than just the value-priced dinners. After the long trudge through winter, it’s a harbinger of spring. Everyone seems so happy to [...]
Local Links: Restaurant Week, o lar, Sherry B Dessert and the First Vietnamese Restaurant in Westchester
Hi everyone and happy weekend! I have grand plans to make a crazy amount of soup to feed all the sick ones in my house, but I’m not ready to let go of my fantasy to drink coffee and catch up on blogs (uninterrupted). In the hopes that some of you can actually achieve this [...]
The First Vietnamese Restaurant in Westchester: Saigonese in Hartsdale, NY
Saigonese restaurant bills itself as “The very first Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine in Westchester” and, to my knowledge it is the only Vietnamese restaurant in Westchester period. I am constantly amazed at the way Vietnamese food lags behind other Asian cuisines as far as widespread popularity and one visit to Saigonese in Hartsdale served to heighten [...]
