Long Island Restaurant Week will celebrate the arrival of spring with prix fixe menus at restaurants from Manhasset to East Hampton. The promotion will run from Sunday through May 3.
Throughout the week, participating restaurants can offer a $24 two-course lunch, and three-course dinner menus priced at $29, $39, and/or $46. Restaurants may offer any combination of the four prix fixes, although most are going with the $46 dinner option.
Each restaurant is required to offer at least three choices per course for dinner -- appetizer, main course, and dessert -- and, for lunch, either appetizer and entree or entree and dessert. Participants must offer the lunch special during lunch hours and the dinner menu all night every night they are open, except for Saturday, when the cutoff can be 7.
A gift card giveaway returns for the spring promotion, and diners have the option to enter to win one of three gift cards to be redeemed at a participating restaurant of their choice. To enter to win, diners must visit the Long Island Restaurant Week website before May 4 at 11:59 p.m. and input their information through the online entry form. Winners will be selected on or around May 8, and will be notified via telephone and/or email.
Participating restaurants east of the canal as of this writing are Frankie's Fabulous Italiano, Nick and Toni's, LDV at the Maidstone, and the Palm in East Hampton, LT Burger and Page in Sag Harbor, the Bridgehampton Inn, Shippy's in Southampton, and Calissa and Bistro Ete in Water Mill.
Farther afield are R.AIRE at the Hampton Maid in Hampton Bays, the Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue, and Fauna and Seven Beach Lane in Westhampton Beach.