http://cvilleyum.com Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:39:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Due to the wintery weather, most Restaurant Week participants are extending Restaurant Week through Wednesday, February 3rd in order to reschedule canceled reservations and to add in reservations for those who were not able to get a reservation last week.  Please contact the restaurants directly for details on changing your current ... http://cvilleyum.com/snowy-weather-extends-restweek/ Hook editor and Charlottesville Restaurant Week launcher (the charter restaurants really founded the thing) went on 106.1FM The Corner on Tuesday morning to talk with Brad Savage about some of what's in store for eager diners and how Spencer and his wife discovered Restaurant Week in New York City a ... http://cvilleyum.com/hook-editor-jabbers-about-restweek-on-the-corner/ Fossett's, the upscale restaurant at Keswick Hall, the plush international resort just outside of Charlottesville, reports that except for a few tables on Sunday, it is sold out for the duration of Restaurant Week, which begins Monday, January 25. However, the inn still has some rooms available in case ... http://cvilleyum.com/fossetts-sold-out/ Too busy to go out for dinner during Restaurant Week?  The Boar's Head Inn is offering a special Restaurant Week 3-course  lunch menu at its Old Mill Room restaurant for only $15.50 including tax--- an innovation in Restaurant Week. http://cvilleyum.com/boars-head-offers-a-1550-lunch/ Here's the Carmello's Restaurant Week menu. Enjoy! http://cvilleyum.com/carmellos-makes-an-offer-you-cant-refuse/ Ventana, the high-tech restaurant/lounge on Water Street, is offering seared sweetbreads, braised lamb with sour cream spaetzle, and a chipotle buttered skate wing among its record-setting six entree choices on its menu. This is Ventana's first time participating in Restaurant Week, and it's located virtually next door to charter participants ... http://cvilleyum.com/one-can-skate-into-ventana/ Cassis, the bistro across Water Street from Lewis & Clark Square, will offer a menu with five entrees during Restaurant Week. Offerings include a salmon filet with truffle-whipped potatoes, a pan-roasted chicken breast with potato gratin, and for traditionalists, a wine-braised beef burgundy. Plus two others and appetizers that include ... http://cvilleyum.com/you-can-sample-the-creme-de-cassis/ Charlottesville's only "gastropub" is back for seconds by presenting a menu that includes braised beef & root vegetables slow roasted in Maredsous 8 double brown ale, along with smashed red bliss potatoes. And that's just one entree. There are five in all, including corn meal encrusted catfish with country ... http://cvilleyum.com/the-towns-gastropub-returns-with-many-choices/ Camino, the Mediterranean-inspired restaurant alongside the Vinegar Hill Theatre downtown, has joined Restaurant Week with a menu that emphasizes its new stylings and old world roots-- and an incredible 14 pre-dessert offerings including sea scallops, baby squid, chevre-stuffed piquillo peppers, a choice of four exotic pastas, and main dishes ... http://cvilleyum.com/14-things-before-dessert/ Chef Alex Montiel joins Restaurant Week for the first time this month by offering guests at his Brasserie Montiel a menu that includes thirteen items from which to choose, one of the highest tallies in participating restaurants. There are five entrees including a vegetarian choice as well as five ... http://cvilleyum.com/restaurant-week-heating-up-at-brasserie-montiel/