Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2014

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2014: Foodies of the world unite! Hudson Valley Fall Restaurant Week (HVRW) is here and it lasts from Mon, 11/3 to Sun, 11/16. During HVRW you can lunch for just $20.95 or dinner for $29.95 at 97 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, Mark Charles Steakhouse, Moderne Barn (Blackout Friday/Saturday and Sunday brunch), Opus 465, Restaurant North (blackout Saturday)

Chappaqua: Crabtree’s Kittle House (Saturday table times 5-5:30 & 9:30-10pm; excludes Sunday lunch), Le Jardin du Roi

Mount Kisco: Blackstones Steakhouse, Cafe of Love, Global Grill @ Myong Gourmet, Hito Restaurant, The Rose Room (blackout Saturdays), Via Vanti! Restaurant & Gelateria, Village Social Kitchen and Bar (blackout Fridays and Saturdays)

North Salem: 121 Restaurant, Purdy’s Farmer & The Fish

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 6 appetizers including sirloin kebabs with chipotle and horseradish aioli and octopus with fingerling potatoes and chimichurri sauce. Entrée choices include braised short ribs with sweet potato puree and Brussels sprouts and monk fish with olives, tomato broth, country potato and broccoli rabe or boneless chicken with red wine, figs, carrots, capers and potato puree. You still get the 42nd floor view during HVRW. Closed Sundays.(Ritz Carlton, 1 Renaissance Sq., White Plains; www.42therestaurant.com)

Benjamin Steakhouse: Benjamin Steakhouse’s HVRW participation excludes Saturday but anytime you can get a wedge salad or a lobster bisque and a USDA Prime, Dry-Aged Sirloin steak at Westchester’s top rated steak house for $29.95 … it’s worth the trip. (619 West Hartsdale Rd., White Plains; 914.428.6868; www.benjaminsteakhouse.com)

Harvest On Hudson: Hey, it’s a great room with a great stone fireplace with views of the Hudson and the sun still sets over the Palisades in November. There may be better Italian food in Armonk but it’s still worth the trip for the total environmental package. Excludes Saturdays. (1 River St., Hastings, 914.478.2800; www.harvesthudson.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)

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)

Valley Restaurant, Inn At The Garrison: Don’t you just want a popular HVRW option that doesn’t come with all the fine print about black out dates and exclusions? Forget about the traditional Windsor chairs in their dining room and that it’s located in an Inn at a golf club. Valley is a well rated farm to table eatery with an up to date New-American menu that’s full of pork bellies and Flat Iron steak, yellow fin tuna and Long Island duck tacos, heirloom tomatoes and baby bok choy. Just pick up the phone and make a reservation Thurs-Sun. And the Hudson Highland views are on us. (2015 US 9 at Snake Hill Rd., Garrison, 845. 424. 3604; www.thegarrison.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)