Riverside, CA. Downtown Riverside Celebrates Restaurant Week is a promotional effort by RDP (Riverside Downtown Partnership) to attract visitors to downtown Riverside restaurants and introduce them to the various dining options available.   The promotion will take place from June 20^th to June 30^th and will include two weekends.   The latter part of June was selected to build customer base for the slower summer months.

Participating restaurants will offer a menu item (lunch and/or dinner) clearly identified as a Restaurant Week special.  The lunch and/or dinner menu item will be either a new menu item created for Restaurant Week or an existing menu item at a special price or combined with another item to create a special offering. All of the specials will be listed on the Facebook page, www.facebook.com/RestaurantWeekDowntownRiverside

Since some restaurants are unable to change their menus due to franchise or other restrictions, two restaurants are doing a fundraising effort to benefit two selected charities, the Riverside Police Foundation and the Riverside Public Library Foundation.  The restaurants are Applebee’s and The Old Spaghetti Factory.

As a further incentive for customers to try restaurants participating in Restaurant Week, RDP is coordinating an ‘Enter to Win’ contest during the promotion.  Each participating restaurant will be provided with a supply of entry forms to provide to each customer ordering a Restaurant Week special or making a contribution to the restaurant’s fundraising effort.  There will be two draws, one on Wednesday, June 26^th and one on Wednesday, July 3^rd, with two entries chosen in each for restaurant gift certificates.   

RDP will be encouraging diners during the promotion to post pictures of their dining experiences on our Instagram page @RestaurantWeekDTRiverside.  At the end of the promotion, the five restaurants with the most pictures posted will be recognized as the 2013 Restaurant Week Top Choices. Restaurant specials will be posted at Facebook.com/RestaurantWeekDowntownRiverside.

Downtown Riverside Celebrates Restaurant Week 2013 list of participants include:

9^th Street Italian                                     Mario’s Place                                         Mission Inn Hotel and Spa:

Antonious Pizza Café                              Mi Tortilla                                               Bella Trattoria

Applebee’s                                              Old Spaghetti Factory                            Duane’s Prime Steaks and Seafood                      

Café Sevilla                                             Phood on Main                                       Las Campanas

Bakery Café (Hyatt Place)                     Pixels                                                      Mission Inn Restaurant         

Dona Timo’s La Cascada                        ProAbition Kitchen and Cocktails                                                            

Gram’s Mission BBQ Palace                  Salted Pig               

Hideaway Café                                      

Lake Alice Trading Co.                           

For more information, please visit: Facebook.com/RestaurantWeekDowntownRiverside or riversidedowntown.org

Share your dining adventure on Instagram @RestaurantWeekDTRiverside