Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Spring 2015

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Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Spring 2015: Foodies know the drill! Hudson Valley Fall Restaurant Week (HVRW) lasts from Mon, 3/9 to Sun, 3/22. During HVRW you can lunch for just $20.95 or dinner for $29.95 at 118 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 carefully screened the list and came up with seven HVRW participants that have 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, Mark Charles Steakhouse, Moderne Barn (Dinner only Sun-Thurs), Opus 465, and Restaurant North (blackout Saturday)

Bedford: La Cremaillere (blackout Saturday dinner), The Barn at Bedford Post.

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

Katonah: La Fontane

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

Pleasantville: Iron Horse Restaurant (blackout Friday and Saturday), Trattoria 160, (blackout Saturday), Mediteranneo

Pound Ridge: Inn at Pound Ridge by Jean Georges (Monday to Friday lunch only), DiNardo’s (excludes Friday and Saturday)

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

Thornwood: Risotto

(See what our What To Eat Guide says about all local restaurants participating in HVRW here.)

Worth The Trip

Benjamin Steakhouse: Benjamin Steakhouse’s HVRW participation excludes Saturday but anytime you can get a wedge salad or a lobster bisque, a USDA Prime, Dry-Aged Sirloin steak, creamed spinach and mashed potatoes and carrot cake or chocolate mousse cake at Westchester’s top rated steak house for $29.95 … it’s worth the trip. Excludes Saturday but it’s a short trip to White Plains anytime. Just saying. (619 West Hartsdale Rd., White Plains; 914.428.6868; www.benjaminsteakhouse.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. (1946 Campus Dr., (Rt. 9) Hyde Park; www.ciarestaurants.com)

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)

Ruby’s Oyster Bar & Bistro: If you’re traveling to Rye it’s worth noting that La Panetiére, one of Westchester’s highest rated and pricey French restaurants is an HVRW player. Due to the weekend exclusions, however, we’re going with Ruby’s for their bistro style seafood, city vibe and the classic Taittinger poster in the bar area. (45 Purchase St., Rye, 914.921.4166; www.rubyoysterbar.com)

Tagine: We’re going out on the limb on this new and as yet unrated French Moroccan bistro with a retro vibe in Croton on Hudson. But it’s hard to find HVRW week players with a good pedigree that have no blackout dates. And this one is the product of Jonathan Pratt and Craig Purdy, owners of Peter Pratt’s Inn in Yorktown Heights. That’s promising. And while they don’t list a HVRW menu we like the regular menu that features everything from escargot to Moroccan chicken, steak frites to baba ganoush. Open Thurs-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 Valley Restaurant Garrison 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. 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 X20 Xaviers on Hudson 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 Saturday brunch. We can live with that. (71 Water Grant St., Yonkers; www.xaviers.com)