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Veselka is running a deal for Restaurant Week.
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16 Restaurant Week Deals to Check Out in NYC

Where to find the best lunch and dinner deals around the city

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Veselka is running a deal for Restaurant Week.
| Gary He/Eater NY

New York City’s summer version of Restaurant Week will take place from Monday, July 24 to Sunday, August 20 in 2023, a food-packed span of four weeks. But where to go? The restaurant selection in this semiannual event is notoriously uneven — some restaurants in the lineup are certifiably good, others not so much. More importantly, perhaps, is that the deals offered can be pleasingly cheap, but they can also be disappointingly expensive, as in when you are asked to pay more for a Restaurant Week meal than you normally would for the same food during the rest of the year.

A few ground rules: Saturdays are excluded and Sundays may or may not be. Dinners — Sunday included — will be $30, $45, or $60, with lunches generally $30 or $45. We’ve waded through your 548 choices (the number will likely increase as the event progresses) to find the best deals with the best food, with an emphasis on places that are just plain fun.

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This elegant Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from owner Simon Oren and chef-partner Ari Bokovza, features $30 lunch and $45 dinner with a menu of hummus or Israeli salad, kebabs or spring vegetable tagine, and malabi (rose water) panna cotta, among dishes.

Barbetta

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Located in an 1874 townhouse and founded in 1906, Barbetta is one of the city’s oldest and most elegant Italian restaurants. A three-course, $45 Restaurant Week dinner is a terrific deal. A meal might begin with a cold soup of pureed roast vegetables, then progress to a chicken tonnato, and end with a mousse of orange bittersweet chocolate.

A very ornate rooms with a gilded table and chandeliers.
An ornate room at Barbetta.
Barbetta

Le Rock

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It’s a four-course, $45 lunch menu from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at this Rock Center crowd-pleaser: a choice of breads, appetizer, entrees like duck confit or fluke meuniere, and desserts like profiterole, a fine pick for the terrace when the heat breaks.

A tray of shellfish on ice.
The shellfish platter at Le Rock.
Le Rock

Aperibar

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Charlie Palmer’s Aperibar is a good Times Square option for Italian snacks, pizza, and pastas. While the Restaurant Week menu costs $45 for three courses — with items like arugula salad or mussels for the first course; branzino or cacio e pepe for the main, and gelato or an olive oil torta for dessert — know that there’s a pre-theater option year-round, Monday through Saturday from 5 to 6 p.m: a starter, main course, and dessert is $39.

A selection of prosecco bottles on ice.
A selection of chilled prosecco bottles.
Charlie Palmer restaurants

Spanish Diner at Mercado Little Spain

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This spot occupies a key place in Jose Andres’ Mercado Little Spain, a take on the traditional diner with a sprawling and eye-appealing setting where lots is always going on. What could be a better summer starter than a bowl of cold gazpacho, followed by an entree of pollo guisado spiked with sherry? It’s $30 lunch only.

A counter on the left and raised tables on the right in a well lit space.
Spanish Diner at Mercado Little Spain.
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Les Trois Chevaux

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It’s the first time an Angie Mar restaurant has been a part of Restaurant Week, with a three-course $60 dinner option. This is quite a deal in what had been a tasting menu-only restaurant, having recently introduced a la carte dining and lunch. It’s a small price for a night of opulence.

Salmon fillet on a plate at Les Trois Chevaux.
Truite de Mer aux Genévrier at Les Trois Chevaux
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Rosemary's

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Both the Gramercy and West Village locations of the Italian hot spot Rosemary’s are offering $30 dinners on weekdays and Sundays for the duration of Restaurant Week. Look for a three-course meal with dishes like kale celery Caesar, spaghetti limone, and olive oil cake.

Rosemary’s expansive dining room has a round, wooden table in front.
Inside Rosemary’s West Village.
Daniel Krieger/Eater NY

This East Village mainstay offers wood-oven-driven Italian food of a hearty sort via chef Marco Canora — the guy partly responsible for the recent brodo phenomenon. A $45 dinner features a campo rosso lettuce salad with ricotta salata, meatballs and polenta entree, and choice of novel popsicles for dessert.

A pile of glistening lettuce, beets, and nuts.
A typical salad at Hearth.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Veselka

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This East Village icon with lines down the street is offering a three-course, $30 dinner that includes soup or a potato pancake; a deluxe meat or vegetarian plate; and peach almond cake or a blintz for dessert.

The meat plate, borscht, and a beer at Veselka.
The meat plate at Veselka.
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Filé Gumbo Bar

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This Tribeca newcomer specializes in Cajun style gumbo in several permutations, thickened with sassafras bark rather than okra. There are other New Orleans specialties, too, including a muffuletta that makes perfect lunch fare on a $30, lunch-only Restaurant Week menu.

A bowl of very brown broth with a shrimp on top.
A bowl of Tiny’s gumbo.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Queens Bully

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QB is a Forest Hills gastropub that centers its menu on good smoked barbecue with an international flair. Doubtlessly, the $30 lunch is a better deal than the $60 dinner, both of which share the same menu. Either way, begin with baby back ribs as an app, go next to a lamb burger with smoked pineapple, and end with blueberry cornbread with whipped cream.

A room with big arched windows and two TV monitors.
The barroom of Queens Bully.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Smyth Tavern

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It’s $30 for a two-course lunch or $60 for a three-course dinner, the latter of which includes lobster malfadine or filet mignon. The artichoke dip or heirloom tomatoes are also appealing, a step up from the salad or soup option on many Restaurant Week menus.

The bar at Smyth Tavern.
The bar at Smyth Tavern.
Gary He/Eater NY

As You Are

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New chef at As You Are but known to New Yorkers, Camille Becerra has assembled a two-course, $30 lunch and a three course, $60 dinner with dishes like an oyster starter, the Waldorf salad, grilled pork collar, chicken Milanese, and strawberry pavlova.

A collection of dishes on a table at As You Are.
A spread from Camille Becerra at As You Are.
Liz Clayman/As You Are

Tiny's Cantina

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Just southwest of Barclays Center, two-year-old Tiny’s is a rollicking Mexican gastropub where $30 gets you a three-course meal, which could include chicken empanadas, grilled red snapper, and a churro sundae.

The front of a restaurant open to the street with a bar on the right and pink neon.
The interior of Tiny’s Cantina.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Morgan's Brooklyn Barbecue

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Who doesn’t love long-smoked barbecue, especially in the summer? Morgan’s roadhouse setting feels dark and cool, especially with a cold beer. The $30 deal might begin with chips and queso or a bowl of Texas chili, proceed to a plate of brisket and pulled pork served with potato salad, then end with a slice of peach pie and salted caramel ice cream.

Slices of glistening meat.
Morgan’s brisket.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

This year-old Park Slope restaurant specializes in Indian food with some surprising European twists and the $45 dinner is a terrific deal. The three-course meal might include a dosa that could be a meal in itself, the restaurant’s take on butter chicken, and then a rhubarb-strawberry granita.

A dosa with condiments on a plate.
Dosa from Lore.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Dagon

This elegant Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from owner Simon Oren and chef-partner Ari Bokovza, features $30 lunch and $45 dinner with a menu of hummus or Israeli salad, kebabs or spring vegetable tagine, and malabi (rose water) panna cotta, among dishes.

Barbetta

Located in an 1874 townhouse and founded in 1906, Barbetta is one of the city’s oldest and most elegant Italian restaurants. A three-course, $45 Restaurant Week dinner is a terrific deal. A meal might begin with a cold soup of pureed roast vegetables, then progress to a chicken tonnato, and end with a mousse of orange bittersweet chocolate.

A very ornate rooms with a gilded table and chandeliers.
An ornate room at Barbetta.
Barbetta

Le Rock

It’s a four-course, $45 lunch menu from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at this Rock Center crowd-pleaser: a choice of breads, appetizer, entrees like duck confit or fluke meuniere, and desserts like profiterole, a fine pick for the terrace when the heat breaks.

A tray of shellfish on ice.
The shellfish platter at Le Rock.
Le Rock

Aperibar

Charlie Palmer’s Aperibar is a good Times Square option for Italian snacks, pizza, and pastas. While the Restaurant Week menu costs $45 for three courses — with items like arugula salad or mussels for the first course; branzino or cacio e pepe for the main, and gelato or an olive oil torta for dessert — know that there’s a pre-theater option year-round, Monday through Saturday from 5 to 6 p.m: a starter, main course, and dessert is $39.

A selection of prosecco bottles on ice.
A selection of chilled prosecco bottles.
Charlie Palmer restaurants

Spanish Diner at Mercado Little Spain

This spot occupies a key place in Jose Andres’ Mercado Little Spain, a take on the traditional diner with a sprawling and eye-appealing setting where lots is always going on. What could be a better summer starter than a bowl of cold gazpacho, followed by an entree of pollo guisado spiked with sherry? It’s $30 lunch only.

A counter on the left and raised tables on the right in a well lit space.
Spanish Diner at Mercado Little Spain.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Les Trois Chevaux

It’s the first time an Angie Mar restaurant has been a part of Restaurant Week, with a three-course $60 dinner option. This is quite a deal in what had been a tasting menu-only restaurant, having recently introduced a la carte dining and lunch. It’s a small price for a night of opulence.

Salmon fillet on a plate at Les Trois Chevaux.
Truite de Mer aux Genévrier at Les Trois Chevaux
William Hereford/Les Trois Chevaux

Rosemary's

Both the Gramercy and West Village locations of the Italian hot spot Rosemary’s are offering $30 dinners on weekdays and Sundays for the duration of Restaurant Week. Look for a three-course meal with dishes like kale celery Caesar, spaghetti limone, and olive oil cake.

Rosemary’s expansive dining room has a round, wooden table in front.
Inside Rosemary’s West Village.
Daniel Krieger/Eater NY

Hearth

This East Village mainstay offers wood-oven-driven Italian food of a hearty sort via chef Marco Canora — the guy partly responsible for the recent brodo phenomenon. A $45 dinner features a campo rosso lettuce salad with ricotta salata, meatballs and polenta entree, and choice of novel popsicles for dessert.

A pile of glistening lettuce, beets, and nuts.
A typical salad at Hearth.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Veselka

This East Village icon with lines down the street is offering a three-course, $30 dinner that includes soup or a potato pancake; a deluxe meat or vegetarian plate; and peach almond cake or a blintz for dessert.

The meat plate, borscht, and a beer at Veselka.
The meat plate at Veselka.
Ryan Sutton/Eater NY

Filé Gumbo Bar

This Tribeca newcomer specializes in Cajun style gumbo in several permutations, thickened with sassafras bark rather than okra. There are other New Orleans specialties, too, including a muffuletta that makes perfect lunch fare on a $30, lunch-only Restaurant Week menu.

A bowl of very brown broth with a shrimp on top.
A bowl of Tiny’s gumbo.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Queens Bully

QB is a Forest Hills gastropub that centers its menu on good smoked barbecue with an international flair. Doubtlessly, the $30 lunch is a better deal than the $60 dinner, both of which share the same menu. Either way, begin with baby back ribs as an app, go next to a lamb burger with smoked pineapple, and end with blueberry cornbread with whipped cream.

A room with big arched windows and two TV monitors.
The barroom of Queens Bully.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Smyth Tavern

It’s $30 for a two-course lunch or $60 for a three-course dinner, the latter of which includes lobster malfadine or filet mignon. The artichoke dip or heirloom tomatoes are also appealing, a step up from the salad or soup option on many Restaurant Week menus.

The bar at Smyth Tavern.
The bar at Smyth Tavern.
Gary He/Eater NY

As You Are

New chef at As You Are but known to New Yorkers, Camille Becerra has assembled a two-course, $30 lunch and a three course, $60 dinner with dishes like an oyster starter, the Waldorf salad, grilled pork collar, chicken Milanese, and strawberry pavlova.

A collection of dishes on a table at As You Are.
A spread from Camille Becerra at As You Are.
Liz Clayman/As You Are

Tiny's Cantina

Just southwest of Barclays Center, two-year-old Tiny’s is a rollicking Mexican gastropub where $30 gets you a three-course meal, which could include chicken empanadas, grilled red snapper, and a churro sundae.

The front of a restaurant open to the street with a bar on the right and pink neon.
The interior of Tiny’s Cantina.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Morgan's Brooklyn Barbecue

Who doesn’t love long-smoked barbecue, especially in the summer? Morgan’s roadhouse setting feels dark and cool, especially with a cold beer. The $30 deal might begin with chips and queso or a bowl of Texas chili, proceed to a plate of brisket and pulled pork served with potato salad, then end with a slice of peach pie and salted caramel ice cream.

Slices of glistening meat.
Morgan’s brisket.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

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Lore

This year-old Park Slope restaurant specializes in Indian food with some surprising European twists and the $45 dinner is a terrific deal. The three-course meal might include a dosa that could be a meal in itself, the restaurant’s take on butter chicken, and then a rhubarb-strawberry granita.

A dosa with condiments on a plate.
Dosa from Lore.
Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

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