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Getting Ready To Dine Huntington Second Annual Dine Huntington Restaurant Week booked for Oct. 10-17 with more choices By Dinehuntington.com/foodie@longislandernews.com
Save the dates and save your appetite… the second annual Dine Huntington Restaurant Week, sponsored by Long Islander Newspapers and the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce, will make your mouth water Oct. 10-17, showcasing restaurants from the Dining Capital of Long Island – Huntington. For eight days, restaurants throughout the Town of Huntington will show off their food artistry to introduce their establishments to new diners. Restaurants will serve up a threecourse dining experience for $24.95 per person plus tax and tip (Saturday until 7 p.m. only).
Dine Huntington Restaurant Week is a collaborative venture of Long Islander Newspapers and Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce designed to promote a vital sector of Huntington’s economy – restaurants.
“Huntington is the dining capital of Long Island and Dine Huntington will give restaurant owners an opportunity to showcase their establishments and gain exposure to new customers,” said Michael Schenkler, publisher of Long Islander Newspapers. Some familiar faces from last year’s first Dine Huntington program will bring their culinary mastery to the table again. Prime – An American Kitchen & Bar will draw crowds with Executive Chef Gregg Lauletta’s creations, as will others in the Huntington village area, including Porto Vivo, Jonathan’s, Mac’s, Tutto Pazzo, Osteria da Nino, Café Buenos Aires, Bistro Cassis, La Bottega, Honu, Besito, F.H. Riley’s, Munday’s, Almarco, Dao, Guido’s, Rookies Sports Club, Christopher’s Courtyard Café, 34 New Street and Blond.
Red Restaurant’s menu is calling out to us, in particular the fall-off-the-bone Baby Back Ribs and Risotto special (pan-seared diver sea scallops over champagne and citrus risotto). Everything is a classic at Mac’s, and during Restaurant Week, you have your choice of grilled skirt steak, tilapia, roasted chicken and grilled wild salmon. At Bin 56, we can’t wait to try the Warm Tomato Tart (Roma tomato confit, roasted Spanish onions, Manchego cheese) and Pan-Roasted Atlantic Cod (with corn and cremini mushroom ragout, saffron rice and fig balsamic reduction). Meehan’s has a pork shanks appetizer finished with a Jack Daniels barbecue sauce and sauerbraten (with homemade potato pancakes, red cabbage and apple sauce) we’re dying to try. Crew is enticing us with its gnocchi with shitake mushrooms and black truffle cream sauce, and its pork medallions with tomato fettuccini.
Dine Huntington also welcomes back Clubhouse, Piccola Busola, Wild Ginger, Martoni’s Ristorante Italiano, La Spada, Bistro 44, The Bonwit Inn, the Northport Tasting Room, La Villini and Ruvo. Ruvo’s menu looks hearty: sweet potato and pumpkin bisque, filet mignon and lobster risotto, and a grilled pork porterhouse with sweet potato puree.
With more and more restaurants participating, newcomers to Restaurant Week include: Black & Blue Seafood Chophouse in Huntington, Grasso’s in Cold Spring Harbor, Sweet Mama’s in Northport, and Jeff’s Seafood & Galley in East Northport. From Commack, Nisen