Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2015

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2015: Foodies know the drill! Hudson Valley Fall Restaurant Week (HVRW) lasts from Mon, 11/2 to Sun, 11/15. During HVRW you can lunch for just $20.95 or dinner for $29.95 at over 100 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, a dedicated foodie or just itching to get out of town, we carefully screened HVRW’s list and came up with seven players with no blackout dates (or exclusions we can live with) where you will save big and that are worth the trip.

Reconnect with your local faves even if you have to say TGIF on a Tuesday.

Armonk: Beehive, Moderne Barn (Dinner and lunch Sun-Thurs) and Restaurant North (blackout Saturday)

Inn at Pound Ridge photo by Francesco Tonelli

Bedford: The Barn at Bedford Post, Nino’s Restaurant in Bedford Hills.

Brewster: Clock Tower Grill (blackout on Mondays)

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

Katonah: La Fontane (blackout Saturday Dinner)

Mount Kisco: 251 Lex, Cafe of Love, Global Grill @ Myong Gourmet, Hito, The Rose Room, Via Vanti! Restaurant & Gelateria, Village Social Kitchen and Bar

Pleasantville: Iron Horse Restaurant (blackout Friday and Saturday)

Pound Ridge: Inn at Pound Ridge by Jean Georges (Monday to Friday lunch only)

North Salem: 121 Restaurant (excludes Friday and Saturday dinner, Sunday lunch and Monday), Purdy’s Farmer & The Fish

Thornwood: Risotto, The Barley House (blackout Friday and Saturday)

Worth The Trip

Crave Restaurant: Here’s a find – literally. Tucked under the Walkway Over the Hudson, you can tie in a scenic walk over the river on this steel cantilevered bridge built in 1889 (a flat mile and a quarter each way) with a meal at this top rated restaurant in Poughkeepsie – 25 Zagats food points to be exact. Best of all this New American has no HVRW exclusions. (Start texting your friends.) Their HVRW menu is online and looks amazing: We’re having the heirloom carrots with smoked ricotta and pistachio; local squash soup with curry granola, crème fraiche, candied onion and chervil; monkfish bourdetto with mussels, spicy fennel sausage and chickpea and the shrimp with wild hive polenta, broccolini, roasted tomato and marcona almond. For dessert, we’re going with the beignets and pumpkin mousse. (129 Washington St., Poughkeepsie, 845.452.3501; www.craverestaurantandlounge)

Restaurant X & Bully Boy Bar: We love that Peter Kelly plays HVRW with no blackouts but don’t dawdle if you want to get into Restaurant X. Set in a country house in Congers it offers a variety of rooms each with its own distinctive ambience. 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. No excluded days here or at any of the CIA restaurants. (1946 Campus Dr., (Rt. 9) Hyde Park; www.ciarestaurants.com)

Roundhouse – Beacon: We’re going out on a limb here with this hotel restaurant in an old factory building in Beacon. It’s not Zagats rated and we couldn’t find a NY Times review. But check out the photo. The Rockwell Group, (Nobu, W New York Union Square) the famed architecture firm that HVRW_RoundhouseScout_101-1 specializes in boutique hotels and eateries designed The Roundhouse. The project was featured in Architectural Digest when it opened in 2012. Customer reviews on all those awful review sites range from “fantastic” to “never go back” – they always do. But it’s a popular wedding and special occasion spot and if you’re up for an adventure how wrong can you go with this setting and an HVRW menu that includes sautéed octopus, braised short ribs and honey panna cotta with cranberry, orange confit and roasted pear soup for $29.95. Take in an exhibit at The Dia Art Foundation while you are there and you’ll have two posts you can make that will get hundreds of likes on Facebook. (2 E. Main St., Beacon, 845.765.8369; www.roundhousebeacon.com)

Tagine: This casual French Moroccan bistro from Jonathan Pratt and Craig Purdey (Peter Pratt’s Inn in Yorktown Heights) has no blackout dates and received a “Very Good” rating from the New York Times in 2013. They liked the lamb tagine, raclette and the 15-minute fish stew – their “signature interpretation of bouillabaisse. Their HVRW menu includes beet and endive salad, Moroccan lentil soup, escargot, moules frites, cod tagine, braised lamb shank, flour-less chocolate cake and pumpkin bread pudding. Open Tues-Sun. (120 Grand St., Croton-on-Hudson, 914.827.9393; www.taginecroton.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 (Excellent from the NY Times) farm to table eatery with an up to date New-American menu. Their HVRW fare includes butternut and honey crisp apple soup; house made cavatelli with Kabocha squash, brown butter, sage and pumpkin seeds and market fish sashimi with yuzu, shallots and herbs for starters. Entrees include braised short rib with black truffle and parmesan potato puree, Brussels sprouts and veal jus; market vegetable risotto with wild hive-polenta, Crown maple syrup, local mushroom and plum, Milk and cookies for dessert. Just pick up the phone and make a reservation Tues-Sun. And the Hudson Highland views are on us. No blackout days. (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 Zagat’s 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. Excludes Sunday brunch. For a 27 Zagats food rating, we can live with that. (71 Water Grant St., Yonkers; www.xaviers.com)