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Featured Mar 15, 2012
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Take the Challenge and Vote for Your Favorite During Pasadena Restaurant Week
Visit www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com and click on Take the Challenge to vote and sign up to be eligible to wine delicious prizes
The public is invited to “Take the Challenge” and vote for their favorites cheeseburger at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com during Pasadena Restaurant Week. Voting opens on Sunday, January 15th and ends on Monday, January 23rd. Participants who Take the Challenge can vote for their favorite dishes, favorite restaurants and more.
Those who Take the Challenge can also sign up to be eligible to win delicious prizes donated by some of our participating restaurants. Noir Food and Wine, Café Bizou, Vertical Wine Bistro, California Pizza Kitchen, Pie ‘n Burger, Maria’s Italian Kitchen, Haven Gastropub and POP Champagne and Dessert Bar all donated prizes for the free online raffle.
Everyone is invited to celebrate Pasadena’s culinary excellence from Sunday, March 25 to Friday, March 30, 2012. In all, nearly 50 of Pasadena’s best restaurants are offering amazing meals and deals during the 2012 Pasadena Restaurant Week. This year’s participating restaurants are offering fixed price dinner and/or lunch menu items for visitors. Dinners were three-course meals while lunches consist of two-courses. Depending on the venue and menu offered, meals are priced at $15, $20 or $25 for lunch or $26, $35 or $44 for dinner. (Some prices may vary.) Alcoholic beverages, gratuity and tax were not included in the price unless specified by the individual restaurants in advance. Some restaurants are also offering other special deals during Pasadena Restaurant Week.
Pasadena Restaurant Week is an annual citywide event featuring the cuisine of many of Pasadena’s top dining establishments. For individual restaurant menus information and a complete list of participating restaurants visit www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com. Pasadena Restaurant Week promotes Pasadena as a restaurant destination and reminds Southern California and our restaurant patrons that Pasadena offers dining experiences to satisfy all tastes at every price range. Participating restaurants will be preparing special meals at extraordinary introductory prices.
Here are the restaurants taking part (to date):
•1810 (eighteen-ten) Argentinean Restaurant
•a/k/a An American Bistro
•Arroyo Chop House
•Bar Celona
•Bistro 45
•Cafe 140 South
•Cafe Bizou
•California Pizza Kitchen Pasadena
•Celestino Ristorante
•Cheval Blanc Bistro
•Clearman’s Galley
•Clearman’s Northwoods Inn
•El Cholo
•The Counter
•El Portal
•Green Street
•Haven Gastropub + Brewery
•Il Fornaio Pasadena
•Ix-Tapa
•Japon Bistro
•Kathleen’s Restaurant
•Kings Row Gastropub
•Kingston Cafe
•Malbec New Argentinian Cuisine
•Maria’s Italian Kitchen
•The Market on Holly
•Melting Pot
•Mijares Mexican Restaurant
•New York Deli
•Noir Food and Wine
•Parkway Grill
•Pie ‘n Burger
•Pita Jungle
•POP Champagne and Dessert Bar
•Quadrupel Brasserie
•The Raymond Restaurant
•Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ
•Roxolana
•Ruth’s Chris Steak House
•Smitty’s Grill
•StillRoom
•Stonefire Grill
•Sushi Roku
•The Counter
•The Terrace at the Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa
•Toro Sushi
•Vertical Wine Bistro
•Villa Sorriso
Sponsors include Platinum Sponsor The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, Gold Sponsors The City of Pasadena and Merrill Lynch/Bank of America and Silver Sponsor the Pasadena Convention and Visitors Bureau.
We are very grateful to the local newspapers and magazines that are supporting Pasadena Restaurant Week as media sponsors. Platinum Media Sponsors are Hometown-Pasadena.com/Prospect Park Media and Pasadena Magazine. Gold Media Sponsors are Outlook Newspapers, Pasadena Independent, Pasadena Star-News/The Rose Magazine, Pasadena Weekly/Arroyo Monthly, Pasadena NOW and the San Marino Tribune San Gabriel Valley Edition. Open Table and DineLA are also supporting and helping promote Pasadena Restaurant Week.
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association is a professional business organization. Since the earliest days of Pasadena, the Chamber has played a major role in the development of this internationally renowned city. Since 1888, when the organization was founded as the Board of Trade, the Chamber’s primary purpose has been the enhancement of both the business climate and the quality of life in Pasadena. The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce serves more than 1450 members.
