Newark's annual Restaurant Week kicks off Monday

Newark’s fourth annual Restaurant Week kicks off Monday, with 16 restaurants offering lunch and dinner specials. 

“This is a great way to get people out and about to our great restaurants who would not normally come downtown,” said Maureen Feeney Roser, administrator of the Downtown Newark Partnership, which sponsors the event.

Through Sunday, the restaurants will offer one or more of the following: a two-course lunch for $10, a two-course dinner for $19, a three-course dinner for $25 or a four-person family meal for $19.

Restaurant Week started four years ago as an attempt to try to attract new and different people to the downtown Newark restaurants, Feeney Roser said.  Because winter is usually the slowest time of year, the DNP felt that January would be the ideal month to have this special week and help out restaurants in Downtown Newark.

“We priced the meals accordingly so that they would appeal to the new customers as well as our regular customers,” she said. 

Tim Blazejak, the general manager of Deer Park Tavern, said his restaurant is using Restaurant Week to promote its new appetizers.

“This is a great way to really get our name out there,” Blazejak said.

Twenty different retail stores will also participate in Restaurant Week, offering a variety of discounts and giveaways. 

“We want there to be something out there for everybody this week,” Feeney Roser said.

Approximately 2,000 people are expected to attend throughout the week.

Christina Matarese, a manager at Iron Hill Brewery, said the promotion is a good boost to business.

“We find that Restaurant Week is put at a really good time of year and gives people incentive to go out when we are not getting the normal business,” Matarese said. “It is nice to get those new families that do not normally go out.”

There will also be some entertainment throughout Newark this week to encourage people to go out and eat, such as the belly dancers at Ali Baba.

“Restaurant Week is an event to suit any person, any palette,” Feeney Roser said.
 

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