Restaurant Week Returns to Downtown Newark

With so many great restaurant options in downtown Newark, it’s hard to make it to all of them (especially when the streets are often overrun by hungry UD students). But luckily, there is a week in January where a number of restaurants offer amazing lunch and dinner specials all while many students are away for winter session!

Food items exclusive to restaurant week at Grain Craft Bar + Kitchen. LEFT: Tex-Mex eggrolls; RIGHT: Mango Salad (front) and veggie pesto crostini (back).// Photos courtesy of Grain Craft Bar + Kitchen

The Downtown Newark Partnership is bringing back the extremely popular downtown Newark Restaurant Week beginning Monday, Jan. 21 and running until Sunday, Jan. 27.

At least a dozen Newark-area eateries are involved in the event, which includes a two-course lunch for $10 or $15 at most participating restaurants and a two-, three- or four-course dinner for $25, $28, $30 or $35, respectively.

FOOD ITEMS EXCLUSIVE TO RESTAURANT WEEK AT GRAIN CRAFT BAR + KITCHEN. LEFT: Smothered Steak served with vegetable medley and Miguel’s potato salad; RIGHT: Kickin’ Chicken Sandwich (center), Broccoli parmesan soup (Left) and tex-mex eggrolls​ (right).// PHOTOS COURTESY OF GRAIN CRAFT BAR + KITCHEN

Participating restaurants include:

• Deer Park Tavern
• Caffe Gelato
• Finn McCool’s Irish Gastropub
• Grain Craft Bar + Kitchen
• Grotto Pizza
• Home Grown Café
• Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant
• Klondike Kate’s Restaurant & Saloon
• Pachamama – Newark
• Santa Fe Mexican Grill Newark
• Stone Balloon Ale House (closed on Mondays)