San Francisco Restaurant Week

San Francisco Restaurant Week is running through April 19, with prix-fixe deals at roughly 200 restaurants across the city. (ggra.org, mercurynews.com) The Golden Gate Restaurant Association lists this spring’s event window as April 10 through April 19. Its home page says participating restaurants are offering special menus during that stretch. (ggra.org, ggra.org) The set menu prices follow fixed tiers that the association has used for recent spring and fall editions: brunch or lunch at $10, $15, $25 or $30, and dinner at $30, $45, $65 or $75. The Mercury News highlighted one example this week: a $25 lunch at Mersea Restaurant & Bar on Treasure Island. (ggra.org, ggra.org, mercurynews.com) Restaurant Week is one of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s recurring promotions for member restaurants. The group says the event is designed to drive traffic directly to participating restaurants and attracts more than 20,000 diners. (ggra.org, ggra.org) San Francisco Restaurant Week now runs twice a year, in spring and fall, according to the association’s membership page. That gives restaurants two citywide discount windows instead of a single annual push. (ggra.org) The promotion is also narrower than a blanket citywide sale: restaurants must be Golden Gate Restaurant Association members to participate at no extra cost, and the official rules require at least two items for lunch menus and three items for dinner menus. (ggra.org, ggra.org) For diners, the practical part is simple: the official Restaurant Week pages list participating restaurants and their menus, and reservations or orders are made with the restaurants themselves. The spring edition closes Sunday, April 19. (ggra.org, ggra.org)