Sampling the bounty of Boston's restaurants while keeping a handleon the budget is the beauty of Restaurant Week. The second annualedition of the event will take place from Aug. 19 to 23, with 55restaurants participating. During the week, which is sponsored byAmerican Express, the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau,and the Anthony Spinazzola Foundation, Boston and Cambridgerestaurants will serve either a prix-fixe lunch for $20.02 or a three-course dinner for $30.02, a new feature this year.
Seven of the newest restaurants in town are included - Via Mattain Park Square, Spire in Nine Zero hotel on Tremont, Mantra in theLadder District, blu in the Sports Club/LA and Jer-Ne in the RitzCarlton Millennium, both near the Ladder District, Bonfire in ParkSquare, and Cheers at the Faneuil Hall Marketplace. All participatingrestaurants are taking reservations, which are recommended.
Some of the proceeds will benefit the Spinazzola Foundation. Formore details, call 888-SEE Boston or visit www.BostonUSA.com.
Restaurants serving lunch for $20.02:
Aujourd'hui in the Four Seasons Hotel; Kashmir on Newbury Street;Papa Razzi in Back Bay; Skipjack's in Back Bay; Top of the Hub in thePrudential Tower; blu; Cafe Fleuri in the Meridien Hotel; Mantra;Radius downtown; Union Oyster House near Faneuil Hall; Bricco in theNorth End; Icarus in the South End; Maggiano's Little Italy in ParkSquare; McCormick and Schmick's in Park Square; Via Matta; AquitaineBis in Chestnut Hill; Harvest in Harvard Square; Sandrine's, also inHarvard Square.
Those serving dinner for $30.02:
Bomboa in the South End; 75 Chestnut in Beacon Hill; Sage in theNorth End; Mamma Maria, also in the North End; Mistral in the SouthEnd; Bonfire; Jacob Wirth in the Theater District; and Aspasia, EastCoast Grill, and Sidney's Grille, all in Cambridge.
Those serving both prix fixe lunch and dinner:
The Bay Town Room, downtown; Brasserie Jo in the South End;Davio's Restaurant in the Back Bay; Island Hopper in the Back Bay;Legal Sea Foods at Copley Place; 29 Newbury in the Back Bay; BeaconHill Bistro in Beacon Hill; Cheers (in Beacon Hill and in FaneuilHall); Jer-Ne; Seasons Restaurant near Faneuil Hall; Spire; TheVault, downtown; Durgin Park at Faneuil Hall; Taranta in the NorthEnd; Bob the Chef's in the South End; Aura in the Seaport Hotel;Henrietta's Table in the Charles Hotel in Cambridge; Zephyr on theCharles, also in Cambridge; Charles River Grill at Day's Inn inBoston.
