Brooklyn not well-represented in NYC Restaurant Week
This year’s NYC Restaurant Week, which brings special inexpensive menus to almost 400 New York City restaurants, will only be available in 10 Brooklyn restaurants this year. The annual festival will run from July 23 through Aug. 17 and will offer special pre-fixe menus with $25 two-course lunches and $42 three-course dinners, according to Windsor Terrace Patch.
The participating Brooklyn restaurants are the Greenhouse Cafe in Bay Ridge; the Yellow Magnolia Cafe at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Talde in Park Slope; Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens; Benchmark in Crown Heights; Brasserie Seoul and French Louie in Downtown Brooklyn; and Barano, Leuca and Harvey in Williamsburg.
Patch seemed somewhat miffed that Manhattan’s “more prestigious restaurants” made the list, but Brooklyn’s included, among others, “a Holiday Inn restaurant” (Brasserie Seoul) and “a Bay Ridge dining hall” (Greenhouse Cafe). Queens with two restaurants, the Bronx, with one, and Staten Island with one, fared even worse than Brooklyn. NYC & Company, the city’s tourism arm, chooses participants from restaurants that apply throughout the year.
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