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Week 2026
July 20 to September 6. $30, $45, $60 prix fixe. Here’s where the math works, where it doesn’t, and what to book right now.
Reservations are open now at nyctourism.com — and all eight rooms below are confirmed on the summer list.
- Jul 20–Sept 6 summer run
- prix fixe $30/$45/$60
- reservations Open now
- 8 confirmed for summer
The short version
- The catchThe best deals are lunch — Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, Manhatta and Le Pavillon are all lunch-only this summer.
- The playBook where the gap is real: Gramercy Tavern’s Dining Room is a $175 room at $60 — at lunch.
- Best lunchManhatta — the $78 three-course lunch is $60 this summer, 60 floors up.
- The wildcardKru in Williamsburg is back on the list, but its summer menu isn’t published yet — call before you plan around it.
- The trapA $60 dinner at a place with $28 entrées. Do the math before you book — that’s the whole game.
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 runs July 20 to September 6, with prix-fixe menus at $30, $45, and $60 — typically two courses at lunch, three at dinner — across hundreds of restaurants in all five boroughs. Reservations and the full participant list are open now at nyctourism.com; weekdays are the core program, Saturdays are out, Sundays are each restaurant’s call, and some stretch the deal to Labor Day. Winter’s edition drew 580+ restaurants, and the eight below are confirmed participants on the summer list — led by Gramercy Tavern’s Dining Room, Manhatta, and Kru. Below: where the discount is real, where it’s theater, and how to book before the good tables vanish.
At a glance
Winter-2026 menus confirmed against the official list on July 18. Saturdays are excluded; Sundays vary by restaurant.
| Restaurant | The deal | Days | Meals | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gramercy Tavern (Dining Room) | $60 lunch in the $175-a-head Dining Room | Confirm weeks | Lunch | $$$ |
| The Bar Room at The Modern | $45 lunch at a Michelin-starred room | Thru Sept 6 | Lunch + dinner | $$$ |
| Manhatta | $60 lunch with the 60th-floor view | Thru Sept 6 | Lunch + Sun brunch | $$$ |
| Le Pavillon | $60 lunch at Boulud’s Michelin room | Thru Sept 6 | Lunch | $$$ |
| Delmonico’s | $60 at the city’s first restaurant | Thru Sept 6 | Lunch + dinner | $$$ |
| Crown Shy | $45 lunch / $60 dinner | Thru Aug 31 | Lunch + dinner | $$$ |
| Four Twenty Five | $60 lunch & dinner, rotating menus | Thru Aug 31 | Lunch + dinner | $$$ |
| Kru | $30 Sunday lunch — the cheapest great seat | Confirm direct | Lunch + dinner | $$$ |
Map: where these 8 spots are
FiDi and Midtown carry the value plays; Brooklyn brings the cheapest great lunch. Numbers match the table.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the deal and directions.
The best Restaurant Week deals right now
Four rooms where the arithmetic actually works, each one checked this week against that restaurant’s own everyday menu and its official participating weeks. Every saving below is the Restaurant Week price against what the same number of courses costs off-program.
Junoon
The best-value seat in the program, and it is not close. Junoon’s own three-course Prestige Dinner is $105. The Restaurant Week version is $60 for three courses out of the same kitchen, with the shrimp moilee and the chicken gassi — the dishes people actually come for — on the menu and no supplement attached. That is $45 back for ordering off a different piece of paper. The Local Move: book dinner, not lunch. The $45 two-course Restaurant Week lunch costs two dollars more than Junoon’s own $43 two-course lunch, which is the clearest example on this page of why you check the everyday menu first.
junoonnyc.com · See our NoMad happy hour guide
Victor’s Café
Fifty years on 52nd Street and still the best thing you can eat before a curtain. Ceviche de salmón, camarones enchilados, flan — about $65 if you order it the normal way, $45 on the Restaurant Week menu. Dinner only on the program, plus a $30 Sunday brunch that is the quietest bargain in the Theater District. The Honest Caveat: the ropa vieja, which is the dish this room is actually famous for, carries a $5 supplement. Budget for it, because ordering around it rather defeats the point of coming here.
victorscafe.com · See our pre-theater dinner guide
French Louie
The outer-borough pick, and the only $30 Restaurant Week lunch on this page worth crossing a bridge for. Atlantic Avenue, French-American, a room that does not behave like it is doing you a favour for showing up. The Honest Caveat: the steak frites carries a $15 supplement at lunch and at dinner — on a $30 lunch that is a fifty percent markup, so order around it unless steak was the entire point of the trip. Parties of eight or more get an automatic twenty percent gratuity.
frenchlouienyc.com · See our Downtown Brooklyn guide
Wallsé
A Michelin-starred Austrian dining room on West 11th for sixty dollars is the thing Restaurant Week exists to do. Kurt Gutenbrunner has run this room since 2000 and it has never once chased a trend. The Honest Caveat: we could not verify Wallsé’s regular à la carte prices against the Restaurant Week menu this week, so we are not claiming a dollar figure — we are telling you a Michelin-starred three-course dinner costs $60 and letting you do the arithmetic yourself. Dinner only; there is no lunch service on the program.
wallse.com · See our West Village happy hour guide
Where the math actually works
The rooms where the gap between the normal bill and the prix fixe is real money — $175 dinners, $78 lunches, Michelin stars at brasserie prices. Pair the savings with a proper drink after: see our best cocktail bars in NYC.
Gramercy Tavern (Dining Room)
The single best piece of Restaurant Week math in the city. Gramercy Tavern splits in two: the walk-in tavern up front, and the Dining Room in back where dinner runs $175 a head. Winter’s Restaurant Week put a $60 lunch in the back room — same kitchen, same service, a third of the price. The Verdict: confirmed for summer — this is the first reservation you book. The Honest Caveat: it’s lunch only — there is no dinner version of this deal.
gramercytavern.com · See our Gramercy happy hours
The Bar Room at The Modern
As close as Restaurant Week gets to fine dining without the fine-dining bill. This is the Modern’s front room — Michelin-starred, attached to MoMA, the kind of place where the hot dog comes with caviar and costs $39 on a normal Tuesday. Winter’s menu ran $45 at lunch. The Local Move from winter: the supplement game is strong here — the truffle tagliatelle upgrade was worth the extra $20, which is not something we say about most RW add-ons. Confirmed for summer at $45 — lunch only, and it goes fast.
Manhatta
The view does half the work and the kitchen does the rest. Manhatta sits on the 60th floor of 28 Liberty, and its three-course lunch normally prices at $78 — winter’s Restaurant Week cut it to $60, which made it the rare RW deal where the discount is real and the room is the event. The Why: the dry-aged burger with koji onions is the order, and eating it while looking down at the harbor is the point. Worth It — confirmed for summer at $60, lunch only. Make it a full FiDi day: happy hour downstairs in the neighborhood after.
manhattarestaurant.com · See our FiDi happy hours
Le Pavillon
Daniel Boulud’s glass-box oasis next to Grand Central, olive trees indoors and a Michelin star on the door. Winter’s Restaurant Week menu was a $60 lunch, and the smart order started with the lobster torchietti — pasta as a first course at a French restaurant is the kind of move RW exists for. The Verdict: a $60 sit-down here is roughly what two cocktails cost in the building upstairs, so the math clears easily. The Honest Caveat: midday Midtown East is commuter-loud; book a later lunch slot if you want to hear your table.
The stalwarts worth the book
Steakhouse history, FiDi landmarks, and the best $30 in Brooklyn — the repeat performers we would book again. Downtown diners: the pre-dinner move is a real happy hour, and FiDi has the longest ones.
Delmonico’s
New York’s first restaurant, the room that invented baked Alaska and eggs Benedict, and a Restaurant Week regular — winter ran $60 across lunch and dinner. The Honest Caveat, and it matters here: the signature Delmonico ribeye was a $33 supplement on the winter menu, which turns your $60 into $93 fast. Most RW supplements aren’t worth it; this one is at least the actual dish the place is named for, so decide before you sit down. Two blocks from Beaver Street’s after-work bars, so the pre-dinner drink plan writes itself.
Crown Shy
The FiDi room that made downtown dinner a destination, in the landmark Art Deco base of 70 Pine. Winter’s Restaurant Week ran $45 lunches and $60 dinners, and the kitchen under Jassimran Singh doesn’t phone in the prix fixe. The Local Move: whatever you order, end on the satsuma ice cream with toasted marshmallow — it’s the dessert that launched a Brooklyn bakery, and it’s still on the menu here. A ten-minute walk from Stone Street when you want to keep the night going.
crownshy.nyc · See our FiDi happy hours
Four Twenty Five
Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Park Avenue statement room — sweeping staircase, double-height ceilings, Jonathan Benno running the kitchen. What set it apart in winter: the team rotated two different Restaurant Week menus instead of coasting on one, which is the opposite of the usual RW autopilot. The black angus beef chuck and the milk-braised pork ravioli were the orders. The Verdict: this is the Midtown business-lunch flex that doesn’t require expensing anything. Watch for its return on the 14th.
425parkrestaurant.com · See our Midtown happy hours
Kru
The cheapest seat at the serious table. Kru — Time Out’s best Thai restaurant in NYC for 2025 — ran winter Restaurant Week at $45 dinners and a $30 Sunday lunch that got you a bite, an appetizer, and a main of hundred-year-old Thai recipes that pull zero punches on spice. The Why: $30 is two cocktails in Manhattan; here it’s a three-part lunch from one of the city’s best kitchens. The Honest Caveat: Kru is on the summer list, but its menu isn’t published — the official listing is erroring and Kru’s own site shows dinner service only, so the $30 Sunday lunch may not return. Confirm before you plan around it. The Local Move from winter: start with the crabmeat satay. On the Williamsburg-Greenpoint line, so the after-lunch drink options are deep.
krubrooklyn.com · See our Williamsburg happy hours
The deals that aren’t deals
Restaurant Week is not automatically cheap. At three restaurants on the official list, you would pay less by ignoring the program entirely. We checked each Restaurant Week price against the same restaurant’s own everyday menu.
| Restaurant | Restaurant Week | Their own everyday menu | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jade Eatery, Forest Hills | $30, two courses | $18 lunch special, four courses | $12 more for half the food |
| Gallaghers Steakhouse | $30, two courses | $34 three-course lunch, daily 12–4pm | $4 buys a whole extra course |
| Junoon — lunch only | $45, two courses | $43 two-course Prestige lunch | Restaurant Week costs $2 more |
Then there are the supplements, which is where the famous dish usually lives. At Delmonico’s the Restaurant Week menu runs to salmon and risotto; the Delmonico ribeye the room is named after is a $35 add-on, the Baked Alaska they claim to have invented is $10, the wagyu strip is $40. Victor’s puts $5 on the ropa vieja. French Louie puts $15 on the steak frites. None of that is a scam — the numbers have to work for the restaurant too — but it does mean the menu you are picturing and the menu you are buying are frequently two different menus. Read the prix fixe before you book, not after you sit down.
One more rule people miss: a Restaurant Week price is sold per person. The program’s own terms say an offer “cannot be split among multiple people,” so two of you sharing one three-course menu is not a plan. Beverages, tax and tip are extra unless a restaurant says otherwise, and a few build a mandatory gratuity into a slightly higher headline price.
The pre-dinner happy hour, by neighborhood
Restaurant Week is food only — drinks, tax, and tip are extra, which is exactly where a real happy hour earns its keep. One verified pick near each cluster: get the deal, then walk to your table. More in our oyster happy hour guide.
Continental Sports Lounge
Booking Manhatta, Delmonico’s, or Crown Shy? The pre-dinner move is right here. A beer and a shot for about $16 and a seat in front of the game, a couple of minutes from Stone Street — then walk to your Restaurant Week table downtown.
Continental profile · See our FiDi happy hours
Valerie
The play before a Midtown Restaurant Week table — The Modern, Le Pavillon, and Four Twenty Five are all a short walk. Dollar oysters and a real martini from 4pm. Start with a dozen and you’ve already won the math before the prix fixe lands.
See our Midtown happy hours
The Fleur Room
For a NoMad or Flatiron reservation, take the elevator up first. Nine-dollar mini martinis 35 floors up, skyline through the glass, the flight of three at $23. Go at 5 for the view, then drop back down to your table before the room turns into a scene.
The Fleur Room profile · See our NoMad happy hours
Due West
The West Village pre-dinner stop: $1.50 oysters (six-piece minimum) and draft cocktails from 5pm. Knock out a half-dozen and a drink for less than the cost of one Restaurant Week supplement, then walk to dinner in the Village.
Due West profile · See our West Village happy hours
NYC Restaurant Week 2026: FAQ
When is NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026?
July 20 through September 6, 2026, with some restaurants extending the deal through Labor Day weekend. Reservations and the full participant list are open now at nyctourism.com.
How much does NYC Restaurant Week cost?
Three set price points: $30, $45, or $60 — typically two courses at lunch and three at dinner, excluding drinks, tax, and tip. Each restaurant picks its tier and meal periods. Weekday participation is standard, Saturdays are excluded, and Sundays are optional per restaurant.
How do Restaurant Week reservations work?
The full list is live now at nyctourism.com, searchable by borough and cuisine, and you book directly through each restaurant’s usual channel (Resy, OpenTable, or SevenRooms). The marquee rooms — think Gramercy Tavern’s Dining Room or The Bar Room at The Modern — book out fast, so reserve the morning the list drops.
Is NYC Restaurant Week actually worth it?
Where the gap is real, yes: Gramercy Tavern’s Dining Room normally runs $175 at dinner, Manhatta’s lunch is $78 on a normal day, and The Bar Room at The Modern carries a Michelin star. Where a $60 prix fixe sits next to a regular menu with $28 entrées, you’re paying for the sticker, not the savings. Do the math per restaurant — and watch supplements, which can add $20–$33 fast.
Which restaurants are participating in Summer 2026?
The confirmed list is live now at nyctourism.com. Winter 2026 drew more than 580 restaurants; the eight profiled here — including Gramercy Tavern, Manhatta, Delmonico’s, Crown Shy, Le Pavillon, and Kru — are all confirmed on the summer list. Confirm before you plan around any of them.
Is NYC Restaurant Week still going on?
Yes. Summer 2026 was originally scheduled for July 20 to August 16 and has been extended to September 6. The catch is that the extra weeks are opt-in, so each restaurant picked its own participating weeks. Tavern on the Green, for example, signed up for weeks one to four only and stopped serving Restaurant Week menus on August 16. Crown Shy and Four Twenty Five run through August 31. Junoon, Delmonico’s, Manhatta, Le Pavillon, Kru, Wallsé, Victor’s Café, French Louie and The Bar Room at The Modern are all signed up for the full seven weeks. Check the restaurant’s own page on nyctourism.com before you book.
What are the best Restaurant Week deals in NYC right now?
Junoon in Flatiron is the biggest verified saving in the program: $60 for the same three courses its own menu sells as a $105 Prestige Dinner, a $45 difference with no supplement attached. Delmonico’s saves roughly $36 on a comparable three courses and Victor’s Café about $20. French Louie in Boerum Hill is the best value outside Manhattan at $30 for a two-course lunch. Skip the Restaurant Week lunch at Junoon and at Gallaghers — both cost more than those restaurants’ own everyday lunch menus.
Last updated: August 2026. Program details and menus change – confirm with the restaurant and nyctourism.com before you book. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
