Inaugural Taste Tri-Valley Restaurant Week Wraps Up This Weekend

LIVERMORE, CA — As the inaugural Taste Tri-Valley Restaurant Week enters its final days this weekend, local foodies still have the opportunity to take advantage of special culinary creations being offered by local restaurants.

The event, which kicked off Feb. 19, features 35 restaurants across the region which have offered limited time prix fixe lunch and dinner specials across a variety of food styles from Burmese to Thai and everything in between, according to local tourism officials.

Three Livermore restaurants are participating in the event including:

• Caraway Indian Cuisine
• Strizzi's Restaurant
• Zephyr Grill & Bar

The restaurant week has been sponsored by Tourism marketing agency Visit Tri-Valley, which organized the event which encourages East Bay restaurants to order takeout from local restaurants, which have been hit hard by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although indoor dining is currently prohibited due to COVID-19 restrictions, local eateries were eager to jump into the first of its kind celebration of local restaurants across the Tri-Valley.

The event will wrap up Sunday with two price points being offered up for lunch and three price points for dinner menus. The effort was organized to give local restaurateurs a helping hand during what has already been a tough stretch for the better part of a year now.

"Right now, it's desperate," Robin Fahr, Visit Tri-Valley communications and marketing director told Patch last month announcing the event. "That's what we're really trying to do, to answer the call now when people really need it most."

To make ordering easy, the event has set up a mobile-friendly restaurant passport, which provides diners easy access to participating eateries and the menu specials they are offering as the event winds down this weekend.

In addition to the trio of Livermore restaurants that are participating, other local favorites including Dublin's Berevino Italian Pub and Bangkok 101, Pleasanton's Sabio On Main, Danville's Bridges Restaurant and Bar and Danville Harvest.

"If this [lineup] doesn't get people, I don't know what will," Fahr said last month.

Patch editor Courtney Teague contributed to this report.