I don’t think I’ve done restaurant week since some time before my mother died (2010). I also remember my best restaurant week meals as ones I splurged on: I went to the predecessor of Scarpetta that used to be on Sutton Place (I think it was called either Imperia, L’Impero or something similar) and sprang for their normal $44 lunch prix fixe instead of their $20-something RW meal (my meal included the duck/foie gras ravioli). I went with the same friend to Union Pacific for dinner only a few weeks before they closed, splurged on a $69 wine (a lot that long ago, when a lot of wines were $35 a bottle, I think), and we were served extra little courses because we had a great conversation with the waiter about the food and showed our knowledge and appreciation, I think. We couldn’t figure out why the place got panned and were sad when it closed. Otherwise, I remember a great RW lunch at a fancy-decor New American place on like 21St. St. between 5th and 6th whose name I can’t remember (I feel like it was something musical like Madrigal? I later took my parents and brother there for dinner and wasn’t as happy - it was perfectly good but a bit merely buttery and sort of typically upscale, not as great as lunch, surprisingly), a couple of tasty RW meals at River Park and a couple of good RW meals at The Modern (at least one of which was at the Bar Room). I went to other places but either don’t remember them or found the experience disappointing, like my RW experiences increasingly became, until I just stopped having them.
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