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Redefine How You Dine and Celebrate Pasadena’s Culinary Excellence During Restaurant Week March 25 to March 30 New interactive website showcases Pasadena's finest and favorite dining establishments offering special prix fixe lunch and dinner menus and other specials for Restaurant Week Pasadena’s restaurant community opens its doors for the second Pasadena Restaurant Week which takes place from Sunday, March 25 through Friday, March 30, 2012. Presented by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Pasadena Restaurant Week is a citywide event featuring the cuisine of many of Pasadena’s top dining establishments and local favorites. Participating restaurants will offer at least three fixed price dinner and/or lunch menu items for visitors. Dinners will be three-course meals while lunches will be two course meals. Depending on the venue and menu offered, meals will be priced at $26, $35 or $44 for dinner or $15, $20 or $25 for lunch. Some restaurants will offer special meal deals or discounts instead of (or in addition to) prix fixe meals. (Some prices may vary, depending on the venue. Alcoholic beverages, gratuity and tax are not included in the price unless specified by the individual restaurants.) This year the Pasadena Restaurant Week website has been completely revamped to include portals to help patrons locate restaurants based on location, cuisine and/or price. In addition, visitors
to the website will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite restaurants in a variety of categories. Visitors to the website can also sign up to be entered in a drawing to win several prizes that include dinners at participating restaurants, discounts, gift certificates and other fun dining-related experiences. The Pasadena Restaurant Week website can be found at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com. Restaurants that are participating for 2012 include some of Pasadena’s finest eating destinations including 1810 (eighteen ten) Argentinian Restaurant, a/k/a An American Bistro, Bistro 45, Celestino Ristorante, El Cholo, The Counter, El Portal, Japon Bistro, Kings Row Gastropub, Malbec New Argentinean Cuisine, Maria’s Italian Kitchen, The Melting Pot, Noir Food and Wine, Pie ‘n Burger, Pita Jungle, POP Champagne and Dessert Bar, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, The Terrace at the Langham, Toro Sushi and Vertical Wine Bistro. New Pasadena restaurants taking part include Haven Gastropub, Roxolana and The StillRoom. It is anticipated that more than 40 local dining establishments will take part in Pasadena Restaurant Week.
“The range of restaurants taking part in Pasadena Restaurant Week represents the best dining experiences our city has to offer. It is very exciting to have so many of Pasadena’s favorites on board for Pasadena Restaurant Week and some of our best new restaurants,” said Paul Little, president and chief executive officer of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce. “We are seeing a lot of enthusiasm from our restaurateurs who are excited to be able to showcase their extraordinary menus for regular and new visitors during Pasadena Restaurant Week at the end of March.” Pasadena Restaurant Week is presented by the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, the event’s Platinum Sponsor. The City of Pasadena and Merrill Lynch / Bank of America are Gold Sponsors. The Pasadena Convention and Visitors Bureau is a silver sponsor. Platinum Media Sponsors are HometownPasadena.com/Prospect Park Books and Pasadena Magazine. Other media sponsors are Outlook Newspapers, Pasadena Independent, Pasadena NOW, Pasadena StarNews/Rose Magazine, Pasadena Weekly and the San Marino Tribune/San Gabriel Valley Edition.
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Continued from page 3 mead Blvd who might wish to travel south on Rosemead Blvd, they would be able to travel north for a short distance to Sereno and then loop around to Sultana and then to Pentland and enter Rosemead Blvd to go south at the traffic signal at Pentland or they could go a little further north and make a u-turn at the traffic signal at Broadway. It would be no different than for those who live along the many miles of wider more heavily traveled roadways that already have medians (including much of Rosemead Blvd, Huntington Drive, Santa Anita Dr., and Baldwin Ave as examples).” I learned two things
from his response. First, it confirms my long held belief that they put hallucinogens in the water at city hall. Second, I now know what classifies as a “minor inconvenience” in the eyes of the current city council. I wonder what they would call it if someone put a barrier in front of their house preventing them from making a left turn in or out of their driveway? Somehow I don’t think the word “minor” would be involved. A few questions popped into my spinning head as I read his email. Who decided that the 17 million dollars available for this project should be spent on this?
Why, just because mistakes were made on Rosemead, Huntington and Baldwin, should we repeat them? And the biggest why of all? Why would anybody think it would be a good idea to begin two major construction projects on the same street at the same time? Isn’t this something that the residents in the city, if not all the surrounding cities, should be deciding on? Or don’t you care what kind of traffic nightmare you would be causing for all of our neighbors? Oh that’s right, I forgot, it would only be a minor inconvenience. Kind of like having bees living in your head.
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