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Tom’s Foodie Blog Picks for Orange County Restaurant Week 2014
Orange County Restaurant Week 2014
Orange County Restaurant Week 2014 starts this Sunday! From February 23rd to March 1st you will have the opportunity to experience generous prix fixe menus at a set price of $20, $30, and $40 (lunch meals are even cheaper) . With a list of over 100 participating restaurants, I find it hard to decide which restaurants I want to try.
Suggestions for picking a Restaurant
When picking a restaurant, ask yourself these questions:
- Is this restaurant that I am dying to try?
- Is the cost of dining at this restaurant normally too high for your budget or your personal sensibilities?
- Will you get to try the restaurant’s best dishes or what is easy for them?
- Is the restaurant offering a variety of choices?
- Are they just offering short ribs, chicken, salmon? (yawn!) I made one exception to this rule.
Not all OCRW menus are created equal, as some restaurants are clearly putting their best foot forward.
Tom’s Foodie Blog Picks
Organized by Price Point of Prix Fixe Menus for Orange County Restaurant Week 2014. I have selected this restaurants based on their menu offering, restaurant reputation, and if they performed well in one of my reviews.
$20 Meals (Dinner)
C4 Deli
Restaurant Website
Cha Cha’s Latin Kitchen
Gyu Kaku
SlapFish
Solita
$30 Meals (Dinner)
Anepalcos
Catal
Chapter 1 The Modern Local
Jimmy’s Famous American Tavern
Ways and Means
$40 Meals (Dinner)
The Ranch Restaurant and Saloon
Tom’s Foodie Blog Review (review from last year’s restaurant week)
AnQi by Crustacean
Tom’s Foodie Blog Review (review of last year’s lunch OCRW menu)
Charlie Palmer’s
Five Crowns
Lark Creek
Little Sparrow
Multiple Price Points
HopScotch
See my other blog posts
Review of Lark Creek Newport Beach
BLK Burgrz – The $18 Burger comes to Ladera Ranch
Review of Rubio’s Ancho Shrimp Burrito
Review of Shades Restaurant Huntington Beach
Wow, so many wonderful restaurants to choose from, probably a good thing I don’t live near by, I’d eat out every meal!
Wow you have provided a huge list of restaurants participating in restaurant week. $20 dinners sound amazing, especially if they are at a wonderful place! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, this list provides too many choices, Tom. What are your top THREE picks? Do they still have reservations available at all the restaurants?
My Death Row Meal restaurants (only 3 would be The Ranch, Ways and Means, and Chapter 1
I always seem to read your blog posts around meal time. I am starving and wishing I lived near one of these terrific restaurants right now.
Still looking for a great place to go in San Diego to celebrate my daughter’s birthday.
Meli, I recommend you try Searsucker in downtown or Phil’s BBQ by SeaWorld
I SO wish I was nearer to Orange county!
Woow those restaurants are sure worth it. Thanks for the tips
These are some great choices!:) I look forward to the launch party tomorrow and checking out some new restaurants this week;)
I bet the launch party is going to be out of this world! I like the questions you provide for making a choice of where to go and eat!
Thank you for sharing.
I agree, life is too short to treat yourself cheap.
Great resource for those living in Orange County. A lot of places we’d visit if we lived there.
What a great detailed list of restaurants participating in this great event!
I really enjoy restaurant week because I get to savor restaurants that I normally wouldn’t get to try.