Nantucket Restaurant News

Nantucket Restaurant Week will run from Sunday, October 14 through Saturday October 20, opening with a Gala on the 14th from 6 to 8 pm at the Whaling Museum, where participating restaurants will serve up some of their best dishes. Veuve Cliquot will provide refreshments. Tickets are $100. The Gala will benefit the newly formed Nantucket Culinary Arts Foundation, which will grant scholarships and help further education and direct hands-on experience for students in the Nantucket High School Culinary program.

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The Wine Spectator 2007 Awards are out. The Nantucket winners are:

• Topper’s At The Wauwinet: Grand Award. Wine Strengths: California, Bordeaux, Burgundy
• 21 Federal: Award of Excellence. Wine Strengths: California, France
• American Seasons: Award of Excellence. Wine Strengths: California
• Cinco: Award of Excellence. Wine Strengths: Spain, California
• DeMarco Restaurant: Award of Excellence. Wine Strengths: Italy, California
• SeaGrille: Award of Excellence. Wine Strengths: California
• Ship’s Inn: Award of Excellence. Wine Strengths: California, France

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Arno’s at 41 Main Street presents 3 course theme dinners for $25 Tuesdays through Thursdays, and 3 courses with wine pairings for $45.

The Brant Point Grill has a new $20 bottle of wine list for their September lunch menu. And traditional New England Clambakes are back for the fall, every Tuesday from 5:30 to 9. Islanders with the Islander card received 15% off the $39 price.

At The Brotherhood, Beef and Brew will return sometime in October. And the Hood welcomes back to the island Johanna Jenkins as a new Front of the House Manager, after being off island for 10 years.

The Chanticleer will be serving lunch and dinner though Columbus Day Weekend.

Cinco fills up on Monday nights with their 5 tapas for $25. Cinco will be hosting “A Night in Seville”, a benefit for the Nantucket Arts Council, on Thursday night, September 20. The evening will pair the tastes and tapas of Spain with the finest Spanish wines from the Jorge Ordonez collection, served by Jorge Ordonez himself. Details here.

Cioppinno’s is open 7 nights for a few more weeks, then closing one night. The bar is open at the ususal 4 pm. Closing October 13th for the season.

The Club Car offers Thursday Wine Tasting Dinners, featuring some of Shannon’s classics. Sunday is Beef Wellington night.

Hot lunches are back at the Downyflake Monday through Friday. Turkey dinner here I come.

Galley Beach has added Fall Prix Fixe menus to the normal lunch and dinner menues on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Dinner is $49, lunch is $20. Galley Beach will host a wine dinner on Friday, September 21st, with a five course menu paired with wines from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars of Napa Valley, California.

Jetties Restaurant will be closing for dinner after Sunday, September 16th.

Oran Mor offers a 4 course Prix Fixe Menu Sunday through Thursday for $48.00. The Menu will change weekly. Open 7 nights through Columbus day, then closed on Mondays.

The Pearl presents a 4 course Island Harvest Tasting Menu weeknights (until closing on 10/7) for $55, using local ingredients harvested from the farms on and waters surrounding Nantucket.

Until October 1, Pi Pizzeria will be serving until 10 pm. After October 1: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (in the deli); 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (deli, dinning room, bar). Pi will close on Monday October 29 and reopen on Friday November 16. During that time, Evan and Maria Costanzo will be travelling to Naples, the Amalfi Coast, Capri, and the San Marzano Valley seeing where the tomatoes Pi serves are grown and produced, and checking out some of the wineries they sell.

The Rose & Crown is offering “Buy one, get one free” entrees Sundays through Thursdays, and kids eat free with one adult entree.

Topper’s at the Wauwinet has bugun their Fall $20 lunch menu, Monday through Saturday from 12 to 2. Reservations are recommended. 228-8768.