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By DineHuntington.com/Foodie@longislandernews.com
MLI RESTAURANT WEEK: Long Island
Restaurant Week, showcasing restaurants from Manhattan to
Montauk, kicks off this Sunday, Nov. 6 with more than 180
restaurants participating. Restaurants offer a three-course
menu for $24.95 per person in the hopes of winning over new
customers who will return again and again. It gets pretty
competitive out there, so there are some great meals to be
had. You have more restaurants (180-plus) than days to do
them in (eight) so choose wisely. Visit longislandrestaurantweek.com
for the full list. Cheers!
EAT, TWEET AND BE PHILANTHROPIC: To help you be more philanthropic
while you’re dining out, LITweetup Helps has teamed up
with Long Island Restaurant Week to spread the word about
Island Harvest and contribute to its food drive. The food
drive will take place during the Sixth Annual Fall Long Island
Restaurant Week from Nov. 6-13. Participating restaurants
will be collecting non-perishable food items, supermarket
gift cards and cash to be donated to Island Harvest. Each
participating restaurant will host a Tweetup, a face-to-face
gathering of people who enjoy social networking and are connected
on Twitter, for one evening during Long Island Restaurant
Week. HONU Kitchen & Cocktails (363 New York Ave., Huntington
631-421-6900 www.honukitchen.com) hosts its Tweetup on Tuesday,
Nov. 8 at 5 p.m., and Grasso’s (134 Main St., Cold Spring
Harbor 631-367-6060 www.grassosrestaurant.com) hosts on Tuesday,
Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. Donations can be dropped off at either
location during regular restaurant hours.
CHEW SLOWLY: If diners at Swallow Restaurant had a longer-than-usual
wait for their food to be served last Friday night, blame
Jason Bonham. The Foodies caught Swallow chef/owner Jimmy
Tchinnis sneaking in for Bonham’s show at The Paramount,
located right next door. Tchinnis said he’s a huge fan
of Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience and was hoping that
Jason, the son of Led Zeppelin’s late drummer John Bonham,
would stop in for a meal. With a few minutes between seatings,
he took in a little bit of the show. If dinner took a few
extra minutes to arrive, forgive him. Jimmy doesn’t take
a lot of time off and can almost always be found making miraculous
dishes appear from his window-front grill.
FROM THE CHEF’S MOUTH: Chef Michael Ross, the man behind
the menus at Bel Posto and Jedediah Hawkins Inn, among others,
will be in the kitchen at Jewel, located in the Rubie Costume
building at Route 110 and the LIE in Melville. Soon to open,
Jewel is among the more ambitious projects of Long Island
celebrity chef Tom Schaudel (Alure, Coolfish, Jedediah Hawkins,
A Mano and many others). Schaudel told the Long-Islander Foodies
that Ross, who recently left Bel Posto, will be in the kitchen
at Jewel. You heard it here first.
WINE WITH DINNER?: Or should we say have some dinner with
your wine? Either way, the place to do it is at Vitae Restaurant
and Wine Bar (54 New St., Huntington 631-385-1919 www.vitaeli.com)
on Tuesday, Nov. 15, starting at 7 p.m. A four-course wine
dinner, at $85 per person, will be paired with wines from
Flora Springs Winery of Napa Valley. Paul Gardner, the Northeast
regional manager for Flora Springs, will pour. For a citrusy
appetizer of chilled oyster escabeche with preserved lemon,
pink grapefruit-red onion mojo, and cilantro chiffonade, he’ll
uncork a Sauvignon Blanc; for a second course of Columbian
spiced duck breast with sweet potato-maple flan, leek-mushroom
and tomato succotash and balsamic-cherry gastrique, he’ll
pour Merlot; the main course, roasted loin of veal with corn
soufflé, grilled asparagus, red onion marmalade, romesco
drizzle and veal jus, gets Flora Springs Trilogy 2007; and
dessert, chocolate brioche bread pudding with raspberry coulis,
a 2002 Port. Reservations are a must. Tell them the Long-Islander
Foodies sent you.
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