Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2013

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Foodies of the world unite! Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (HVRW) is here and it lasts from Mon, 11/4 to Sun, 11/17. During HVRW you can lunch for just $20.95 or dinner for $29.95 (not including tax, tip and beverages) at 83 restaurants in Westchester County and many more throughout the Hudson Valley. It’s a great excuse to duck your head into some of your favorite local eateries. If you are feeling ambitious or just itching to get away from town, we list seven HVRW participants where you will save big and that are definitely Worth The Trip.

Make a date with these local favorites even if you have to say TGIF on a Tuesday.

Armonk:

Beehive
Marc Charles Steakhouse
Moderne Barn (blackout Fridays and Saturdays)
Opus 465
Restaurant North (blackout Saturdays)
Rice (blackout Saturdays)

Bedford:

Barn at Beford Post Inn (blackout Saturdays)
Le Fontane (Katonah)

Chappaqua:

Crabtree’s Kittle House (blackout Saturday dinners until 9pm)
Le Jardin du Roi

Mount Kisco:

Cafe of Love
Lexington Square Café
Myong Gourmet (blackout Saturdays)
The Rose Room (blackout Saturdays)
Village Social Kitchen and Bar (blackout Fridays and Saturdays)

Worth The Trip:

42 The Restaurant: Check out Chef Anthony Goncalves “vibe dining” in 42’s new dining room, with an all new Iberian/New American menu. The special HVRW menu includes 7 appetizers including a Beet & Pear Salad with Yuzu yogurt, shaved fennel and parsley oil; grilled octopus; and a butternut squash soup. Entrée choices include Portuguese Fried Chicken with cheddar grits, garlicky kale, and tomato honey; Portuguese BBQ Salmon; and Fish and Chips with chick pea fires and grilled lemon. The only thing that is still the same is the magnificent 42^nd floor view. (Ritz Carlton, 1 Renaissance Sq., White Plains; www.42therestaurant.com)

Hudson at Haymount House: The New York Times gave this 2012 newcomer in a 1910 Southern-style Briarcliff mansion a “Don’t Miss”. Executive Chef Bruce Beaty’s (who cut his chops working for Gilbert Le Coze at La Bernardin before becoming Executive Chef at Le Madeleine and Red Hat on the River) fresh and flavorful farm to table menu is the star but the grand dining room and river views are worthy of honorable mention. His HVRM menu (Saturday black out) includes organic Skuna Bay salmon, grilled hanger steak frites, wild mushroom risotto, and roasted free range chicken breast. (25 Studio Hill Rd., Briarcliff; www.haymounthouseny.com)

Purdy’s Farmer and the Fish: The NYTs said, “Don’t Miss” this seafooder in a renovated 17^th century homestead. The veggies are grown behind the restaurant. The fish is from the owner’s wholesale fish business. They are offering a three course lunch menu during HVRW including a curry scented parsnip and lobster soup, a farmer’s salad or a trio of east coast oysters for appetizer; a lobster roll, pasta with house made sage sausage and heirloom tomato sauce or a seared big eye tuna with spicy garden vegetable fried rise for entrees. (100 Titicus Rd., N. Salem; www.farmerandthefish.com)

Restaurant X & Bully Boy Bar: Peter Kelly’s Restaurant X offers a variety of rooms each with its own distinctive ambience in a country house in Congers. Including, the Bully Boy Bar where dinner is served next to a roaring fire. Kelly’s New American cuisine, here, is rated neck and neck with X2O but offers a very different vibe if you prefer a more intimate setting. (117 Rt. 303 N., Congers, www.xaviers.com)

Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici: Caterina de’ Medici’s Tuscan cuisine is a perennial top ten in the entire Hudson Valley. Its sophisticated dining room with crystal chandeliers, overlooking the Hudson River at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, provides a touch of elegance that makes the trip to Hyde Park worth it. Check out the home of FDR and the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, just a mile down the road, for a rendezvous with history while you are there. (1946 Campus Dr., (Rt. 9) Hyde Park; www.ciarestaurants.com)

The Cookery: This Dobb’s Ferry Italian from Chef Dave DiBari is small and tough to get into with its limited reservations policy but it’s a Top 50 Zagats restaurant with no black out dates during HVRW so we have to mention it. But for our money we’d pass up the savings and the “amazing” home made pastas and book a table (4-5 days in advance) for 6 to 8 for one of their pig dinners: Swine dinner $65, Hogs & Hops $75, Swine & Wine $80. (39 Chestnut St., Dobbs Ferry; www.thecookeryrestaurant.com)

X2O Xavier’s on the Hudson: Chef Peter Kelly’s waterfront spectacular in Yonkers was voted the Most Popular Restaurant in Westchester County and the Hudson Valley for two consecutive years in the Zagats Survey. The restaurant sits in the Hudson River on a turn of the century Victorian pier. Its main dining room with 25 foot vaulted ceilings and walls of glass offer river views from the Tappan Zee to the George Washington Bridge. Peter Kelly’s New American menu with Mediterranean and Asian influences regularly scores in the top ten in the Hudson Valley. (71 Water Grant St., Yonkers; www.xaviers.com)