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If you're by Columbus Circle today you can get some free food with Hair! The cast of the hit Broadway revival will be performing at 12:45 to launch NYC's summer Restaurant Week at The Shops at Columbus Circle in the Time Warner Center. And if a stirring rendition of the show's popular "Sodomy" ditty isn't enough to pique your interest, be advised that the free event also includes free lunch: Five NYC Restaurant Week eateries—Tribeca Grill, Porter House New York, Spice Market, Bice Ristorante and DB Bistro Moderne—will be offering free tastings from noon to 2 p.m. (Free Coca-Cola, too, people!) Reservations are now being taken for Restaurant Week, which takes place from July 12th through July 31st, excluding Saturdays. (Some restaurants offer the deal on Sundays.) Prices at participating restaurants are $24.07 for three-course prix-fixe lunches and $35 for three-course prix-fixe dinners (excluding beverage, tax and gratuity). Peruse the full list of restaurants here, and head on over to the Time Warner Center (Broadway at 60th Street) now to crack wise about finding hair in your food. (NYC GO has a handy Twitter feed, too.)

Restaurant Week was supposed to end tonight, but it's now been officially extended into next month. Over 150 participating restaurants will continue offering three course prix-fixe lunches for $24.07 and three-course prix-fixe dinners for $35.00 (excluding beverage, tax and gratuity) through February 27th. Some restaurants had already announced their intention to keep the special menus to stay alive as the economy goes up in flames while driving off the edge of a cliff into an erupting volcano. Wined and Dined has an abbreviated roundup of some of the participating restaurants and their individual quirks. Monday nights, for instance, are BYO at Apiary (pictured), with no-corkage fee; the East Village eatery recently hired a new chef, Scott Bryan, formerly of Veritas. And Serafina at Time Hotel is offering two complimentary glasses of wine with each prix-fixe meal. Their desperation is your gain! Peruse the entire roll call of participants at NYC Go.

In case you haven't noticed, Manhattan's winter Restaurant Week is fast approaching, and participating eateries are now accepting reservations for their prix fixe specials (three-course lunches for $24.07 and dinners for $35). The confusingly named "week" is actually 12 days long, running in two intervals from January 18th through the 23rd, then continuing from the 25th through the 30th. But whatever. The key here is to do a little research, because while the Restaurant Week prix fixe at, say, 21 Club isn't much cheaper than their usual $40 pre-theater dinner prix fixe, there are some sweet deals to be had.

There are just a couple more days left to take advantage of New York's first Korean Restaurant Week, with participating restaurants offering a $15 prix fixe for lunch and dinner through Saturday. All the deals revolve around bibimbap, that classic bowl of rice and assorted meats or vegetables, sometimes served hot in a "dolsut" (stone pot)—a perfect, hearty meal for the cooling fall weather. Each restaurant has bibimbap as the main course in the prix fixe, or you can order bibimbap alone for a special price of $7. And on Saturday the deal gets even sweeter during the Korean Day Parade, when free bibimbap will be dished out of a huge pot at 32nd Street and Broadway, starting at 2 p.m. The event will also feature samplings of bibimbap from different regions of Korea, not to mention the opportunity to amuse yourself saying bibimbap over and over again.

Restaurant Week, which was supposed to end after Friday night, has been turned into Restaurant Summer, with 130 restaurants extending their prix-fixe deals on weekdays all the way through Labor Day. The special three course menus – $24.07 for lunch and $35.00 for dinner – have proven extra-popular with recession minded diners this month, according to NYC & Company, which organizes the biannual deal. Restaurants participating in the Labor Day extension include such well-reviewed places as Centro Vinoteca, Mai House, Artisanal, Le Cirque, City Hall, Fig & Olive, Tribeca Grill, Town and Mia Dona. The full list will be on the Restaurant Week website after midnight Friday.

Here we go again with another Restaurant Week, which actually occurs over two weeks (minus weekends): July 21st through the 25th and July 28th through August 1st. Over 200 restaurants around Manhattan – many of them fancy places like Bar Boulud and Anthos – will be offering prix-fixe lunch specials for $24.07 and prix-fixe dinners for $35.00.

The 21 Club opened on New Year’s Eve 1930 at 21 West 52nd Street as a speakeasy and restaurant. Legend has it that when powerful gossip columnist Walter Winchell was banned from the club, he ran an item wondering why the 21 Club had not yet been raided by Prohibition agents. (Winchell, of course, was the inspiration for the character of J.J. Hunsecker in The Sweet Smell of Success, which features several scenes at 21.) The next day 21 was raided and, soon after, the owners installed a secret wine cellar located behind a camouflaged door opening into the neighboring building, 19 West 52nd. The cellar remains behind that 2 ½ ton door to this day, where tasting menus are offered near the booth supposedly favored by Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Get to a phone, frugal foodies – New York’s winter Restaurant Week goes down next month, but reservations are being accepted starting today. And since these places tend to fill up fast, now is not the time to let any fear of commitment hold you back.

Meat-adverse gourmands take note: October isn’t just Family Sexuality Education Month, Healthier Babies Month and Dental Hygiene Month, it’s also National Vegetarian Awareness Month! Yesterday, in fact, was World Vegetarian Day, which came hot on the heels of September 28th’s Hug a Vegetarian Day. (Photos!) Feeling aware yet?

If you've never played petanque, head on down to Smith Street for North America's largest petanque tournament -- the two block stretch betweeen Bergen and Pacific will be shut down and covered with sand just for the occasion. While your'e watching the action, enjoy special cocktails from Ricard and other drink specials ($5-6), nibble on grilled merguez and chicken sandwiches ($5) and groove to Jazz band Blue Orchid will provide the entertainment throughout the day. 11:30am - 8pm, free admission, sponsored by Bar Tabac, Robin des Bois, Ricard and the South Brooklyn Local Development Corporation. 128 Smith Street at Dean Street, 718-923-0918.

June 21-23: NYC Food Film Festival, Part 2

From beastly brisket sandwiches to Bruni-sanctioned shrines to pork, Brooklyn has established itself as a dining destination worthy of a restaurant week all its own. Now in its fourth year, Dine in Brooklyn (Monday, March 19, through Friday, March 30) offers an opportunity to sample nearly 200 of the borough’s best at $21.12 (honoring Brooklyn’s zip code, ‘112’) for three courses.

• The foie gras battle rages on sparked by a sign at Fairway on the Upper West Side.
• Jacques Torres is in a hot chocolate war in DUMBO (his use of exclamation points is also noted).
• Michael Psilakis and Donatella Arpaia find a new home at Anthos, in the former Acqua Pazza space on 52nd Street. Restaurant Girl gets an early peek.
• And with Japanese Restaurant Week starting today, we find Grub Street's guide very handy.
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March 3 - 5: Hop Heaven NYC

If you're contemplating taking up Restaurant Week's offer of $24.07 lunches and $35 meals, but aren't sure if any restaurants are conveniently located for you, you're in luck. Reader Chad has created this map that shows all the restaurants participating. Now, good luck with trying to make a reservation!

It may be cold outside, but it's perfect fondue weather. Riverdale Garden will be serving up classic cheese, hearty herb flavored oil with beef and chicken and, of course, bittersweet chocolate. Complete dinner is $29 including house wine and draft beer, or just drinks and music for $15. Dinner starting at 7PM, music at 8:30PM. Reservations are recommended and can be made on Open Table or by calling 718-884-5232. 4576 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx.

September 21: Sagra del Maiale

July 7 - 11: Fancy Food Show

June 29: At the Table: Celebrating Women Chefs & Restaurateurs

There's plenty going on to celebrate the Lunar New year, but of course we're focused on the food. Explore Chinatown's site has a list of restaurants offering special feasts for the occasion, including Gothamist favorite Fuleen Seafood, and explains the different foods that are traditionally eaten as part of the celebration.

We were scoping out the Open Table lunch reservations to take advantage of next week's Restaurant Week deals, and unsurprisingly, the usual suspects didn't have availability for 2 at 12PM: Think Cafe Boulud or the River Cafe or Union Square Cafe. Even though the lunch prices have risen 20%, from $20.12 last year to this year's $24.07 (NYC & Company explains this number will remind people that NYC is 24/7 - yo!), Gothamist thinks it's still a great deal to try out some fancier places - even though some of the offerings tend to be boring chicken and salmon entrees - because $3.95 is about the price of a speciality coffee drink at Starbucks or a celebrity tabloid magazine you don't want to admit you buy but you know you do. Where the restaurants hope you spend your money is the wine (or coffee), so if you're watching your wallet, beware of the upsell. However, one area we do recommend you splurge a little on - if you can - is the tipping; even an extra dollar is a nice gesture, especially if the service was great.

January 12: Restaurants from the Inside Out

Start making those reservations -- summer restaurant week is right around the corner. From June 20-24 and June 27 - July 1, over 100 of our city's restaurants are offering three-course lunches for $20.12 (yes, that's a nod to our olympic bid) and three-course dinners for $35.00, and some places keep the special going through Labor Day. But slots tend to go quickly -- some restaurants offer reservations online through Open Table, so take advantage of it. What better excuse for a 2 hour lunch?

April 11-20 is Brooklyn's restaurant week -- Dine in Brooklyn. Close to 200 Brooklyn restaurants will offer three-course meals for a mere $19.55, in honor of the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers. The website lists participating restaurants, broken down by neighborhood (how convenient!). Winner of the Time Out New York Eat Out Award for Best New Brooklyn Restaurant, Stone Park Cafe in Park Slope, is on the list and many restaurants are offering lunch specials as well. So, if you're one of those people who treat Brooklyn like a second-class city, get off your borough-phobic ass and go dine in Brooklyn. You won't regret it.

So, did you resolve to save money this year? To eat better? We sure did, and thankfully Restaurant Week 2005 is upon us to help us stick to our resolutions. Well, that's how we're choosing to interpret the situation, anyway. Work with us, people! Many of New York's restaurants will be serving three-course lunches for $20.12 and three-course dinners for $35.00 from January 24-28 and Jan 31 - Feb 4th, which gives us the opportunity to sample places that might ordinarily be beyond our budget. And what better than a midday three course lunch to boost morale at the office (although there might be some adverse impact on productivity during the post-lunch food coma period)? You can make reservations online through Open Table.

This week's food events have a heavy Brooklyn emphasis -- get out there and represent, yo.

We New Yorkers have been through a lot recently. First the Republican National Convention - bringing thousands of slow walking tourists to our city and most recently the UN meetings - can anyone explain why it takes 26 cars to move the President two blocks?

New York Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes from the Dining Capital of the World, by Florence Fabricant (Rizzoli 2003).

Civic boosting is great, but we hope people calling 311 for restaurant information also get themselves a local NY magazine or guidebook, too. Actually, 311 would be a great application for wireless devices, but that's for the nerds to figure out. One new feature of 311 that Gothamist likes that they let you know about street closings and rainouts of performances. We'd like there to be a feature for "What streets to avoid" - if this is really to be useful during the convention.

NYC.gov and NYC TV Channel 74 will have coverage of events in Times Square starting at around 8PM. And we couldn't resist this photo of Mayor Bloomberg trying out some Greek food when announcing that Restaurant Week would be priced at $20.12 as a nod to NY's bid for the Olympics.