Video:How to Take Advantage of NY Restaurant Week

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Transcript:How to Take Advantage of NY Restaurant Week

Hi this is Stephen Cavaliero here for About.com, and in this segment, we'll teach you how to take advantage of New York restaurant week. Lets take a look.

Facts About NY Restaurant Week

Restaurant week is New York City's biggest dining and culinary celebration. We started in 1992, it was actually a one-time event that started for all the delegates that were coming into the city for the democratic national convention, and it became so popular that we kept it around. It started as summer, a few years later we added winter into that, and here we are 20 years later with one of the most popular dining events, really the entire country not just in New York City.

More Information About NY Restaurant Week

Restaurant week is a really great way for New Yorkers and tourist alike that are visiting the city to experience restaurants that they may have otherwise not tried before. So we have more than 320 restaurants participating across the five boroughs. And every single year we get more and more restaurants who are interested in participating. The price points for restaurant week are $24.07 for lunch and $35 for dinner. It's a really great deal we actually have not changed the price point in maybe about ten years or so, so its actually excellent value.

Instructions for Taking Advantage of NY Restaurant Week

If there's a restaurant you want to try out and you haven't tried before, go online and go to nycgo.com, make a reservation, try it out for lunch, try it out for dinner, it's the best, fastest, easiest way. And when you go to our website, you can get a really good idea of every restaurant, many of them have their menus also on our website, so you can get a little preview before you actually get to the restaurant , so you might know what to order and what is enticing.

New this year, we will actually be giving away restaurant week gift cards via Twitter, so follow us at nycgo.com and you can get the latest on restaurant week, as well as be eligible to win gift cards, so maybe the meal will be on us this time or on your favorite restaurant. In addition for AMEX card holders, we're doing a promotion where if you dine three times at restaurant week restaurants you get $20 back of your next AMEX statement. So there are a lot of great opportunities we've been integrating and some great new ones this year.

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