Restaurant Week...

It's that time of year again - New York Restaurant Week (stricly speaking Restauraunt 'Week' has actually been going on for well over a month now, and will finish on September 6th, but still).

During Restaurant Week lots of fancy restaurants offer a fixed price menu for lunch and dinner, $25 for lunch and $35 for dinner - it's a fantastic deal as most of the restaurants charge nearly $30 a course normally.

So last night Abi and I went round the corner from work and took advantage of the offer at a place called Steak Frites. We've walked passed it many times and though how nice it looked and how tasty the food sounds on the menu but it's a wee bit pricey, so it was lovely to be able to go in and enjoy it at a fraction of the price.

We had the most delicious food, Abi had mussells in a herby sauce, then a New York Strip Steak, then a chocolate pot mousse and I had a lump crab cake, then a New York Strip Steak and then an amazing apple tarte (it tasted like Sunday evenings at home, warm apple pie with ice-cream, it was very comforting).

The atmosphere in the restaurant was lovely too, it wasn't too busy but wasn't deadly quiet and it felt liek a proper New York Steak place, dark wooden floors, soft lighting, groovy bar, it was great - and so close to work. Perfect.

I'm not sure if we'll be able to go to any other restaurants within the remaining time, but hopefully we'll be here next year to enjoy Restaurant Week 2011. Who knows.