Restaurants offer reduced price lunches and dinners for 'Restaurant Week'

The Newport County Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced the first annual Newport Restaurant Week to be held Nov. 6 to 12. More than 40 Newport County restaurants will offer a prix fixe, three-course lunch for just $16.39, the price acknowledging the year Newport was founded. The restaurants will offer a prix fixe, three-course dinner for $29.39. Participating restaurants vary from renowned fine dining establishments to popular Irish pubs.

Participating restaurants include: A & O Fish, A Little Cafe, A-1 Pizza, Asterisk, the Bay Voyage, Bouchard Restaurant & Inn, Brick Alley Pub & Restaurant, Buskers Irish Pub, Cafe di Mare, Café Zelda, Canfield House, Cheeky Monkey Café, Fathoms at the Newport Marriott, 15 Point Road, Griswold's Tavern, H2O & The Water Bar Lounge, La Forge Casino Restaurant, Le Bistro, Loca, Lucia Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, Newport Dinner Train, O'Brien's Pub, Ocean Breeze Café, One Bellevue at the Hotel Viking, Pronto, Puerini's, the Rhumbline, Ristorante Mamma Luisa, Salas', Salvation Café, Sardella's Italian Restaurant, the Black Pearl, the Club at Vanderbilt, the Garden Grille, the Glass Onion, the Mooring Seafood Kitchen, the Rhino Bar & Grille, Trattoria

Simpatico, 22 Bowen's Wine Bar & Grille, White Horse Tavern, and Windward Restaurant at the Hyatt Regency Newport.

Newport Restaurant Week is sponsored by American Express, Grey Goose, ABC-6, Rhode Island Monthly magazine, the Newport Daily News and the Restaurant Review www.restreview.com. Diners can access a complete list of participating restaurants, menus, and reservation information by clicking on the Newport Restaurant Week banner at www. GoNewport.com.