2013 Kansas City Restaurant Week rolls on!

We started at The Jacobson on Friday followed by Remedy and Louie's Wine Dive Saturday night! And the event is less than 48 hours old ... so what's next? The 2013 edition of KC Restaurant Week is in full swing and judging by the response at local venues combined with the outpouring of commentary on Twitter (#KCRW2013) it’s off to an incredible success!

Take a look at recent reviews from these great 2013 Kansas City Restaurant Week spots:

- The Boot (Westport)

- Gram and Dun (The Plaza)

- The Lounge @ Bluestem (Westport)

Crispy Sesame Crusted Oyster Mushrooms
served with Ponzu sauce and Sriracha aioli
for dipping at The Jacobson

Kansas City Restaurant Week was created by the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association and the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association in an effort to support the local restaurant community spanning both sides of the Missouri and Kansas border. 2010 marked the inaugural year for the 10-day event, designed to spotlight Kansas City as one of the country's premier dining destinations and in partnership with Harvesters – The Community FoodNetwork, to fight hunger in the Kansas City area. 

The event also benefits The Kansas City Regional Destination Development Foundation and The Greater Kansas City RestaurantAssociation Education Foundation, both nonprofit organizations helping to advance culinary education and the restaurant and tourism industries in Kansas City. 

The 2013 Kansas City Restaurant Week highlights a smorgasbord of cuisines with hundreds of menus for lunch and dinner that will be crafted by participating restaurants’ culinary teams. The prix fixe menus will offer various courses for lunch and dinner at $15 and $30, respectively. 

Rockwell Club = Sliced roasted turkey, maple glaze bacon,
baby spinach & provolone cheese on sliced grains galore
bread with cranberry aioli at The Jacobson

Ten percent of each Restaurant Week menu meal ordered will be donated to the three aforementioned organizations. In 2012, the event raised $143,000, a record for Harvesters – the Community Food Network which, in turn, provided more than 700,000 meals to the hungry in Kansas City.

A newly updated mobile App and website are now available allowing diners to access a complete list of participating restaurants and full menus, which are being uploaded as they are received by participating restaurants, that will be offered during the 10-day event. 

Once again, diners will be able to make reservations at participating restaurants directly from the mobile app via OpenTable.com. The enhanced website will offer similar functions as the mobile app and will also feature photography of some of the actual dishes that you will find during Restaurant Week. Kansas City Restaurant Week can be found online at KCRestaurantWeek.com.

Diners can also find regular menu sneak peeks, insider information and can enter to win gift cards at participating Restaurant Week restaurants by “liking” the Kansas City Restaurant Week Facebook page at facebook.com/KansasCityRestaurantWeek. Kansas City Restaurant Week is also on Twitter at @RestaurantWeek.

Prepare your Palates: KC Restaurant Week is almost here!

SAVE the DATES: January 18th through January 27th!

An unparalleled exhibition of Kansas City's finest culinary talents (and award-winning chefs), Kansas City Restaurant Week will offer a variety of mouth-watering foods from top chefs across the metro area, demonstrating why the KC dining scene is among the nation's best - and up until now, one of the best-kept foodie secrets (the Zagat Survey has called Kansas City the No. 1 dining bargain of all the major cities it reviews - I think they are correct!).

The 2013 KC Restaurant Smartphone Application will
guide you through the many culinary options available!

Restaurant Week features an array of restaurant participants so diners can visit old favorites and also try the many new restaurants that have opened recently in the Kansas City metro area. KC Restaurant Week diners order from special prix-fixe menus at participating restaurants. Multi-course lunches are $15 and dinners are $30 - A huge bargain for the level of cuisine beginning offered!

So where to go and what to do? The best way to plan out your week is by downloading the KCRW Smartphone Application for either iPhone or Android!

The new Fan Wall on the
KCRW Application for
Apple & Android phones

The app is very simple to download and use ... I found the Restaurant List easy to navigate and, to be honest, the best part of the app (My favorites by cuisine will be my next few posts followed by reviews of my visits during restaurant week). Menus are clearly posted for each restaurant (lunch and/or dinner) and I was pleased to see so many of my favorite spots in town participating in KCRW! 

One addition I think is great: The Fan Wall! Under the notion of comments not solicited are rarely listened to the marketing gurus have allowed us foodie folk a chance to voice our opinion digitally and engage others in the discussion! Great idea!

All in all I am really excited to be only a week or so away from my favorite food time of the year!

I'd love to know what you think about the application, it's design and ease of use as well as what you are excited to try the week of January 18 to 27 for the 2013 Kansas City Restaurant Week! 

Let us know on Twitter (@eatkc), Facebook (/eatllc) or below this post! Be sure to follow along on Twitter using the hash tag (#) #KCRW2013!

Here's to good eats KC and to preparing your palates for another great Kansas City Restaurant Weeks ... now just a few days away!

Cheers,

Michael

Join us at KC's First Restaurant Week: January 22 - 31, 2010

Foodies unite: 95 restaurants. 10 delicious days. 1 great cause. Eat well & give back to KC!

Mark your calendar — from January 22-31, 2010, Kansas City will hold its first metro-wide restaurant week event. 95 of the best and finest Kansas City metro area restaurants will offer multiple-course lunches and/or dinners at the deliciously low prices of $15 for lunch and $30 for dinner (beverages, taxes and gratuity are not included).

10% of the price of each multi-course meal purchased will go to Harvesters to help fight hunger in the Kansas City community.

What can guests expect when dining out during Kansas City Restaurant Week? Simple: A wide variety of mouth-watering foods on special menus created by the city's top culinarians.

More information and restaurant lists at http://bit.ly/kcrestaurantweek!