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Where and What to Eat During Restaurant Week

By Maria Villasenor | July 28, 2015 5:13pm | Updated on July 28, 2015 6:54pm
 This Union Square seafood joint has lunch and dinner deals as part of NYC Restaurant Week.
This Union Square seafood joint has lunch and dinner deals as part of NYC Restaurant Week.
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Blue Water Grill Facebook page

UNION SQUARE — NYC Restaurant Week is back to offer deals in some of the city’s fanciest eateries, including several options in Union Square, Gramercy, Murray Hill and Midtown East.

Except on Saturdays, restaurants are offering prix fixe, three-course options, including lunches for $25 and dinners (and sometimes brunch) for $38 through Aug. 14.

More than 360 restaurants across the city are participating, including Barbounia, Riverpark, Blue Water Grill and Bobby Van's Steakhouse.

Check out some of the meals you can grab nearby. Click on the eatery's names to view its Restaurant Week menu:

Union Square

All’onda, 22 E. 13th St.

This eatery specializes in modern Italian cuisine with Japanese influences. One entree offered is a dorade fish with summer squash, tomato and oregano. The $38 deal is available for weekday dinner and Sunday brunch and dinner. 

 Murray Hill restaurant Smorgas Chef serves gravlax in its smorgasbord.
Murray Hill restaurant Smorgas Chef serves gravlax in its smorgasbord.
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Smorgas Chef Facebook page

Blue Water Grill, 31 Union Sq. West

This seafood spot is offering midweek lunch and dinner that include oysters, mussels, and blue crab pasta. 

Rosa Mexicano at Union Square, 9 E. 18th St.

The made-at-your-table guacamole is not an option for lunch or dinner here, but lobster flautas, grilled pork chops with a pasilla barbeque sauce, and filet mignon with a gaujillo sauce will be on the menu for during this limited time. Its sister restaurant with the same name in Midtown East is also offering a Restaurant Week special.

Gramercy

Barbounia, 250 Park Ave. South

This venue specializes in eastern Mediterranean fare. Some of the lunch and dinner menu items are chilled local corn soup with crispy bread and pan-roasted chicken with harissa.

Casa Mono and Bar Jamon, 52 Irving Pl.

This Spanish restaurant and adjoining tapas spot have a lunch deal that offers salted and dried cod croquetas, fried sardines with cucumber salad, and fideos with cockles and chorizo.

City Crab and Seafood Company, 235 Park Ave. South

Lunch and dinner options here include a crab gazpacho, chili-lime shrimp cocktails, crab cakes and crab-stuffed lobster.

Midtown East

Aretsky’s Patroon, 160 E. 46th St.

Midweek dinner deals are available here and offer options like buffalo mozzarella and poached apricot with prosciutto as well as red snapper cooked with shitake mushrooms and lemongrass.

Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, 131 E. 54th St.

The steakhouse offers midweek lunch and dinner with the entree options like lobster ravioli or chicken francaise, and filet mignon, pan-seared salmon or sirloin for an extra $10.

Zengo, 622 Third Ave.

Midweek lunch and dinner here features Asian-Latin American fusion meals that include teriyaki pork belly gorditas and BBQ salmon with baby bok choy.

Murray Hill

Riverpark, 450 E. 29th St.

This restaurant only offers midweek lunch during the event, offering entrees like beet-ricotta ravioli with a dill-hazelnut pesto, fettuccini with rabbit and fava beans, and hanger steak and bone marrow for an additional $10. 

Smorgas Chef, 58 Park Ave.

Midweek lunch and dinner at Smorgas Chef offers farm-to-table Swedish fare including meatballs and lingonberries, as well as a smorgasbord of gravlaks, potato, meatballs, herring, apple beet salad and dill cucumbers.

Zuma, 261 Madison Ave.

Midweek lunches and dinner at this Japanese restaurant include sashimi and sushi options as appetizers, and grilled Chilean seabass with green chili and ginger, barley miso chicken, and spicy beef tenderloin with sesame, red chili and sweet soy as entrees.