Pasadena Chamber of Commerce

Pasadena Restaurant Week is Coming at the end of March

Taste the best Pasadena’s culinary geniuses have to offer. tantalize your tastebuds with the cuisine of some of Pasadena’s best chefs-all at special prices for prix fixe meals. Make your reservations for Pasadena Restaurant Week from Sunday March 25th through Friday, March 30th so you can experience the excellence that is dining in Pasadena.

Come out to eat as Pasadena’s restaurant community opens its doors for the second Pasadena Restaurant Week. You can revisit an old favorite or try that restaurant you’ve always wanted to visit. The public is invited to visit many of Pasadena’s finest, and most unique, dining establishments for special menus and more. A complete list of restaurants and menus is posted at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com.

Pasadena Restaurant Week is a citywide event organized by the Pasadena Chamber to highlight the cuisine of many of Pasadena’s top dining establishments. Participating restaurants will offer at least three fixed price dinner and/or lunch menu items for visitors. Depending on the venue and menu offered, meals will be priced at $15, $20 or $25 for lunch or $26, $35 or $44 for dinner. (Some prices may vary. Alcoholic beverages, gratuity and tax are not included in the price.)

Restaurants offering special menus at extraordinary prices include 1810 (eighteen ten), a/k/a An American Bistro, Bistro 45, Café Bizou, California Pizza Kitchen, Celestino Ristorante, Clearman’s Northwoods Inn and Clearman’s Galley (The Boat), El Cholo, El Portal, Green Street Restaurant, Il Fornaio, Japon Bistro, Kathleen’s Restaurant, Kingston Cafe, Malbec New Argentinean Cuisine, Maria’s Italian Kitchen, Noir Food and Wine, Pie ‘n Burger, Robin’s Woodfire BBQ, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, The Terrace at the Langham and Vertical Wine Bistro. We expect more than 50 of Pasadena’s favorite (and finest) restaurants will take part.

Many of the Pasadena Restaurant Week participants are award winners. Noir Food and

Wine was named best new restaurant in Los Angeles by Zagat. Bistro 45 regularly appears on Wine Spectators Best Of lists. Celestino Ristorante has received the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, as well. Pasadena’s Pie ‘n Burger was recognized by Gourmet magazine’s Epicurious.com on its list of Top 10 Burgers in the US for 2010. One of our participating restaurants even had a Top Chef Texas contestant.

 

 

Here’s the full list of participating restaurants:

1810 (EIGHTEEN-TEN) ARGENTINEAN RESTAURANT

A/K/A AN AMERICAN BISTRO

BISTRO 45

CAFE BIZOU

CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN PASADENA

CELESTINO RISTORANTE

CLEARMAN’S GALLEY

CLEARMAN’S NORTHWOODS INN

EL CHOLO

EL PORTAL

GREEN STREET

HAVEN GASTROPUB + BREWERY

IL FORNAIO PASADENA

JAPON BISTRO

KATHLEEN’S RESTAURANT

KINGS ROW GASTROPUB

 

KINGSTON CAFE

MALBEC NEW ARGENTINIAN CUISINE

MARIA’S ITALIAN KITCHEN

MELTING POT

MIJARES MEXICAN RESTAURANT

NEW YORK DELI

NOIR FOOD AND WINE

PIE ‘N BURGER

All Pasadena restaurants are encouraged to take part and there is still time to sign on. Any restaurant wanting to join Pasadena Restaurant Week for 2012 should download the info letter and registration agreement and return it to the Pasadena Chamber as soon as possible.

• Restaurant info letter and commitment form (due 2-29-12)