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14 restaurants to offer ‘Sneak Peek’ to Restaurant Week
More than a dozen Dayton-area restaurants will offer a sneak peek of what they’ll be offering during the upcoming Summer Restaurant Week at a preview party from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, at the White Allen European Auto Group showroom at 648 N. Springboro Pike (Ohio 741).
Among the restaurants that will offer an early look at the dishes they’ll offer the following week (Restaurant Week is July 25-30): Bahn Mai Thai Cafe, Boulevard Haus, Bullwinkle’s, The Caroline, C’est Tout Bistro, Coco’s Bistro, The Dock, El Meson, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse, Hawthorn Grill, Jay’s, McCormick and Schmick’s, Rue Dumaine, and Side Bar.
The “sneak-peek” event will include cooking demonstrations, a silent auction and a raffle.
Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Advance tickets are available online from the Miami Valley Restaurant Association. Tickets include unlimited food samples and two drink tickets. Sponsors of the sneak-peek event include Bath Fitter in Centerville, DayAir Credit Union,White Allen European Auto, Morgan Store, and Heidelberg Distributing.
Summer Restaurant Week allows diners to order from a special menu of a three-course meal for $20.10, with participating restaurants donating $1 for each special dinner sold to two local charities: Four Paws for Ability and the Miami Valley Restaurant Association Scholarship Fund.
Check back to this MVRA web site for participating restaurants and their all-important Restaurant Week menus, although the menus are just starting to trickle in. For more information about the sneak-peek event, call the MVRA at (937) 461-6872.
Which restaurants would you like to see participate that typically don’t?
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By Dayton Diner
July 23, 2010 9:24 AM | Link to this
The MVRA website needs a webmaster.
By David
July 23, 2010 7:31 AM | Link to this
I think Restaurant Week is a great idea. You get to try new foods, help a charity, and all for a great price. I would NOT recommend going to Flemmings though. I went there for the last Restaurant Week. While 3 of my friends ordered off the normal menu, I order off the $20.10 menu. I was treated by the staff like a cheapskate. Poor service, I didn’t find out until AFTER my meal was brought that since I was the only one ordering from the $20.10 menu, I only got one of the sides listed, and the peach cobbler was the size of a silver dollar. With drinks, my total order was not that “cheap”, so why I was treated in that matter is beyond me. Message to Flemmings: If you can’t afford to give people a great menu and service for a charity event…. DON’T PARTICIPATE.
By Scott
July 23, 2010 7:24 AM | Link to this
Even with the so called “specials” restaurants are becoming way too expensive. Even at mid range casual restaurants it cost my famuily of 4 $50-$60. The problem is it is usually not worth it, and since I hate felling ripped off, we don’t go out much any more.
By Miami Co.
July 14, 2010 9:25 AM | Link to this
I forgot to mention Kent’s Steakhouse in Troy. They were in the winter RW. Their steaks are pricey, but great. RW is the perfect time to try them.
By Miami Co.
July 14, 2010 9:22 AM | Link to this
I would love to see more restaurants from my area participate. The Caroline, LaPiazza, and Chin’s are part of RW and they are wonderful restaurants. I urge people from “down South” to try them. I think Harrison’s, Coldwater Cafe, and El Sombrero would be welcome additions.
By Mike
July 13, 2010 9:03 PM | Link to this
wana, there are quite a few people who are enthusiastic about supporting locally prepared cuisine and who want to do everything possible to encourage and help locally owned restaurants. If they want to set aside a month for such a thing then I say, “Hell, let’s go for it!!” In the meantime, you can slink off to your local Applebees, Longhorn or Chili’s and enjoy your cookie cutter food designed and prepared in a far away corporate kitchen to appeal to the “least common denominator” of American palates. One thing is for certain at these places, you will get exactly what you deserve.
By Mike
July 13, 2010 9:01 PM | Link to this
wana, there are quite a few people who are enthusiastic about supporting locally prepared cuisine and who want to do everything possible to encourage and help locally owned restaurants. If they want to set aside a month for such a thing then I say, “Hell, let’s go for it!!” In the meantime, you can slink off to your local Applebees, Longhorn or Chili’s and enjoy your cookie cutter food designed and prepared in a far away corporate kitchen to appeal to the “least common denominator” of American palates. One thing is for certain at these places, you will get exactly what you deserve.
By wana
July 13, 2010 7:33 PM | Link to this
What’s next? A preview of the preview party? Then some will extend Restaurant Week again-Why not call it Restaurant Month