Restaurant Week Starts Sunday

Restaurants around Millburn-Short Hills are putting the final touches on the menus and getting ready for the township's first restaurant week.

Restaurant week, sponsored by the Millburn-Short Hills Business Coalition, is scheduled for Monday through Sunday May 30.

The Dining Room at the Hilton Short Hills will make a three-course dinner available during Restaurant Week at $35 per person. Choices will include vegetable or seafood appetizer, seafood, chicken or beef main course and a dessert favorite.

Benihana will offer prix-fixe lunch and dinner menus at $15 and $30 respectively.  Restaurant Week lunch specials will include selected appetizers, specified two-combination entrees and dessert.  The $30 prix-fixe dinners feature one of two Benihana appetizers, four choices of entrée and dessert.

All menu items will be offered at a 20 percent discount at the newly-opened Short Hills Pizza near the Short Hills Train Station. 

Q.J. Green Garden will create four pre-fixe dinner choices: $29.95 for a vegetarian dinner for two, $39.95 for a chicken or fish dinner for two, $59.95 for a three-person dinner and a dinner for four people for $79.95.  All Q. J. Green Garden dinners will include soup, salad, chicken, fish or beef selections and fried rice, finishing with either ice cream or fruit dessert.  A prix-fixe Korean barbeque lunch will be on the menu May 26 at 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Semolina Restaurant will offer its Restaurant Week prix-fixe menu May 25-28.  All dinners that week will be priced at $22 and will include menu choices of salad, a half-portion pasta dish and diner's choice of any Semolina chicken entrée.  Mini-cannoli, tea or coffee will complete all meals. In addition, Semolina will accept reservations for a one-time May 25 five-course Italian Regional Tasting Menu dinner at 5:30-8 p.m.  Cost per person is $29.95.

Also participating in Restaurant Week are

• Café Luna, prix-fixe lunch at $12.95
• Café Monet, pre-fixe dinner at $32, Tuesday – Thursday
• Jade Lake Gourmet, offering 15 percent off all meals Tuesday and Wednesday
• Martini Bistro & Bar, Happy Hour Tuesday – Thursday
• Peter's,prix-fixe menu Tuesday – Thursday
• Rockn' Joe of Millburn, 15 percent discount after 5 p.m. Monday – Thursday
• Sakura Japanese Restaurant,  pre-fixe dinner Monday – Thursday and special dinner tasting at 5 p.m. May 29
• Sapporo, prix-fixe dinner Thursday and 20 percent discount on all meals Monday – Wednesday
• Trattoria Gian Marco, discount on all meals.

Maplewood's Sona Indian Dining, a member of the Millburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce, has a Grand Gala Buffet on its menu, all you can eat, on May 26 and May 30, at $14.95.  Sona will also feature a 10 percent discount on all dinner checks Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday during Millburn-Short Hills Restaurant Week.

Please call individual restaurants for additional details, events or to make reservations.

For information on Millburn-Short Hills Restaurant Week, contact the Millburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce at 973-379-1198, karolmcnulty@millburnchamber.com or info@millburnchamber.com or Downtown Millburn at 973-379-2341 or hklein@downtownmillburn.org. For a complete list of Restaurant Week events, visit www.downtownmillburn.org.