Long Island Restaurant Week is Here!

Cheffe Colette at The Inn Spot

Long Island Restaurant Week is here - finally!!! To the likes of foodies and bargain diners alike, the fourth annual event kicks off Sunday, November 1 through Sunday, November 8. During this eight-day promotion, participating restaurants in Nassau and Suffolk counties will offer a three-course prix fixe dinner for $24.95 all night, except Saturday when it will be offered only until 7 p.m.

Our own East End restaurants that are participating include: Cooperage Inn in Baiting Hollow; Copa Wine and Tapas and Pierre's in Bridgehampton; 1770 Restaurant & Inn, Café Max, Della Femina, Fresno, Laundry, Matto, Michaels Maidstone Bar & Restaurant, Nick & Toni's and Rugosa in East Hampton; Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue; Porto Bello and Scrimshaw in Greenport; 1 North Steakhouse, Inn Spot on the Bay and Oakland's Restaurant & Marina in Hampton Bays; Jamesport Manor Inn and Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport; Villa Michelangelo in Manorville; aMano and A Touch of Venice in Mattituck; Gulf Coast Kitchen at Montauk Yacht Club and Gurney's Sea Grille in Montauk; Legends Restaurant in New Suffolk; The Restaurant at the Inn in Quogue; Jerry and The Mermaid, Stonewalls and Tweed's Restaurant & Buffalo Bar in Riverhead; Blue Sky Mediterranean Lounge, Oasis Waterfront Restaurant and Tutto Il Giorno in Sag Harbor; Vine Street Café in Shelter Island; 75 Main, The Plaza Café and red/bar brasserie in Southampton; Bayview Inn & Restaurant in South Jamesport; Elbow East, North Fork Table & Inn and Seafood Barge in Southold; Amarelle, Blackwells, Desmond's Restaurant & Lounge at East Wind and LaPlage in Wading River; Muse Restaurant & Aquatic Lounge in Water Mill; Casa Basso in Westhampton; and Dee Angelo's, Annona, The Patio at 54 Main in Westhampton.

Each restaurant offers its own unique menu throughout the week. Diners will find pumpkin-lobster bisque, smoked salmon napoleon, lobster and shrimp "Shepherd's pie," soy-acacia honey marinated black cod, pear-almond crisp, and white chocolate cheesecake on the menu at The Plaza Café. Nick & Toni's will offer fennel cured salmon, roasted local butternut squash soup, braised boneless beef short ribs, herb crusted fluke, Arborio rice pudding and chocolate hazelnut torta. While WAVE Restaurant & Lounge at Danfords Hotel & Marina in Port Jefferson will serve baked cherrystone clams, fried calamari, chicken and sweet sausage cavatelli, truffle scented organic chicken, pumpkin creme brulee, and quadruple chocolate mousse cake.

Other up island participants include: Caffe Laguna and Lola's Kitchen & Wine Bar in Long Beach; Rein at The Garden City Hotel and Legal Sea Foods in Garden City; Besito, Bistro Citron and Thyme in Roslyn; Chi Dining Lounge and City Cellar Wine Bar & Grill in Westbury; Fiddleheads and Wild Honey Restaurant in Oyster Bay; The Library Café and Verona Ristorante in Farmingdale; The Bulldog Grille and Vittorio's Restaurant in Amityville; Besito, Honu Kitchen and Cocktails, Jonathan's Ristorante and Porto Vivo in Huntington; Post Office Café and Ristorante Gemelli in Babylon; Ciao Baby and Jackson's Restaurant in Commack; Butera's and Union Station in Smithtown; Mirabelle Restaurant and Mirabelle Tavern in Stony Brook; The Catch and The Fifth Season in Port Jefferson; Blackbirds' Grille and Popeis Clam Bar in Sayville; and Harbor Crab Co. and Lombardi's on the Bay in Patchogue.

DishingonDining.com is holding a contest just for Long Island Restaurant Week fans. One grand prize winner of "The Biggest Long Island Restaurant Week Fan" contest will receive a $200 gift certificate to Long Island's newest four-star restaurant, Mirabelle Restaurant at the Three Village Inn in Stony Brook. Runners up will receive gift certificates to other notable restaurants including Legends Restaurant, Gurney's Sea Grille, Desmond's at East Wind and Porto Bello on the East End as well as Black and Blue Seafood Chophouse in Huntington, Mill House Inn in Yaphank, Nicholas James Bistro in Merrick and City Cellar in Westbury. Entries may be submitted online at by midnight on November 8.

Restaurateurs are also embracing the event. Diane Harkoff of Legends Restaurant says, "It's like having New Year's Eve every night all week long. It's very special. There's an air of joviality among guests; a very festive feeling in the air. They gather with friends to go out and have fun on an otherwise dreary week in November, sometimes 2, 3 or 4 times a week."

For more information and a full list of participants, visit or call (631) 329-0050. Also, mark your calendars for Hamptons Restaurant Week slated for March 21-28.

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