Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Set To Begin

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The Fall 2019 Hudson Valley Restaurant Week will begin Monday, with 20 first-timers on the list. The participating eateries represent a variety of cuisines in the seven counties of Westchester, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Putnam, Orange and Dutchess.

Restaurant Week is worth traveling for. And it's the perfect time to try someplace new.

Running through Nov. 17, restaurant-goers can visit more than 200 restaurants and indulge in three-course, prix-fixe lunch ($22.95) and dinner ($32.95) menus.

The newcomers include Bernie’s Holiday Restaurant, an American fish and steakhouse in Sullivan; Café Pitti, serving wood-fired dishes alongside Italian classics in Orange; Coppola’s La Fantasia Ristorante and Joe & Joe offering authentic Italian cuisine in Ulster and Rockland, respectively; Le Chambord at Curry Estate’s restaurant providing an American continental menu in Dutchess. And in Westchester, customers can enjoy classic Italian dishes at Sapori and an internationally creative menu at Único.

The complete list of participating restaurants is available online. Browsing is mouthwatering. You can sort by county, community, cuisine — and even filter for features such as:

• Family Friendly
• Fireside Dining
• Hot and New
• Near Metro-North Railroad
• Open Mondays
• Outdoor Seating
• Valley Table Distributor
• Vegetarian Friendly
• Zagat Rated

Reservations are recommended at all Hudson Valley Restaurant Week restaurants.

This is the first of the bi-annual events under new owner Today Media.

“We are incredibly excited for our very first HVRW,” says Mike Martinelli, Today Media’s Hudson Valley Group Publisher. “We plan to continue the goals first set out by founders and previous owners of HVRW and The Valley Table, Jerry Novesky and Janet Crawshaw, which are to cultivate the relationships between Hudson Valley restaurants, farms and purveyors both in the magazine and during HVRW. We look forward to increasing the exposure to these relationships, to The Valley Table and to Hudson Valley Restaurant Week in the years to come.”

During previous restaurant weeks, nearly 250 participating restaurants served about 250,000 patrons and reported an average of 25 percent increase in business, collectively generating an economic impact of $10.2 million in sales revenue, The Valley Table reported.

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is made possible by the support of community sponsors, including Resorts World Casino, WMC Health, MidHudson Regional Hospital, City Winery, Westchester County Tourism, Ulster County Tourism, Dutchess Tourism, The Culinary Institute of America, Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation and NY State Department of Agriculture & Markets, Pamal Broadcasting, Poughkeepsie Media Group and The Journal News.

For more information on HVRW, please click or call (845) 765-3414. Up-to-date news is located on The Valley Table’s Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram @ValleyTable and #HVRW.

About Hudson Valley Restaurant Week

Started in 2006 by The Valley Table magazine, this biannual event promotes the chefs, restaurants, ingredients, farmers, artisanal producers, winemakers and purveyors based in the Hudson Valley region. Among the largest Restaurant Weeks in the country, more than 200 restaurants participate, offering specially-priced lunches and dinners throughout the two-week event. Both Hudson Valley Restaurant Week and The Valley Table were founded by Jerry Novesky and Janet Crawshaw. The Valley Table and its HVRW were sold to Today Media in 2019. The quarterly, colorful magazine continues to celebrate the agricultural heritage and cuisine of the region, fueling further development of the Hudson Valley’s local food movement.