When the Democratic National Convention (DNC) came to New York in 1992, the city provided a
celebration of fine dining as a one-off culinary program.
Restaurants across the city created a three-course menu and, with the convention delegates in
mind, charged $19.92 for a top-level exclusive dining experience.
Naturally, residents also took advantage of the offer to eat for a fraction of the usual cost
and 16 years later, NYC Restaurant Week is a welcome and hotly anticipated annual event.
In fact it has extended into two fortnight-long culinary spectaculars with one in the summer
and the other in the winter and has broadened its scope to include pre-fixed price lunch and dinner
menus at $24.07 and $35 respectively.
The reputation of the city and its eating houses has grown in accordance with the number of
restaurants taking part to the extent that more than 235 restaurants participate in a cross-section
of the NYC culinary spectrum.
Restaurants with 'one-to-watch' status join the biggest names in the New York food pantheon
to give visitors and residents the chance to enjoy the quality and diversity that embraces the NYC
dining experience.
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