Local food blogger Dean McCord has an interesting post about the upcoming Raleigh Restaurant Week. Restaurant weeks are designed to get folks in the door for a three-course meal at a amazing price. Here the cost ranges from $20 to $30.
But McCord questions which Raleigh restaurants are offering a bargain and which ones aren't.
Andrea Weigl has been the food writer at The News & Observer since the summer of 2007. She has won a handful of awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the Society for Features Journalism. Her profile of chef Ashley Christensen titled "A Force of Nature" will be published in the sixth edition of "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing." She is serving a three-year term on the James Beard Foundation book awards committee. Follow her on Twitter at @andreaweigl.
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Bargain? Not really.
Thu, 08/13/2009 - 11:33 — fbogusA blog post worth reading. McCord addresses some of the concerns I had when going over the featured menus on the TRW website yesterday. This event should be about promoting the best of what we have to offer locally. It should be about bringing new customers into area restaurants. It should be enticing, appealing, and offer, at minimum, reasonable value. This isn't happening.
Many of the propsed menus are downright boring. Some others are offensive rip-offs. I understand that chefs have to watch their food costs very closely now, but money spent on creating new business is money well spent. Showing a new diner exactly how good your food is is a sure way to create repeat business. Boring them silly or taking their money and giving no value in return just isn't smart. So why are chefs with this attitude even taking part?
This promotion has great potential. Why can't members of our restaurant community appreciate that?