Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week is back for it’s 15thyear, beginning June 2 and running through June 11. The annual gastronomic event showcasing the deserts best restaurants offers 10 days of discounted lunch and dinner dining experiences.
More than 80 restaurants will participate in this year’s event, offering lunch with 2 or more courses priced at $15, $25 or $35 and dinner menus offering 3 or more courses at $39, $49, $59 or $99. This year, there is also a breakfast and brunch category.
Visitors to the desert can stay at the beautiful Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa Rancho Mirage and enjoy Café One Eleven’s Restaurant Week dishes including their Café One Eleven Salad with strawberries candied pecans, Goat Cheese with a house vinaigrette, kebabs with Bourisn mashed potatoes, vegetables and Hatch chili chimichurri; Halibut Veracruz with cilantro rice; chicken enchiladas in creamy poblano sauce and coconut flan or vanilla cheesecake for dessert.
In downtown Palm Springs, LuLu California Bistro is offering international menus featuring strawberry lemonade spritzer with strawberry popping boba, a tropical caprese salad, watermelon gazpacho, tomato bisque, bao tacos with Thai chicken, grilled cheese and tomato bisque, a gaucho steak sandwich with truffle fries, pear salad, polenta cake, key lime pie, an ice cream cookie sandwich and espresso crème brulee for lunch, $25. Their dinner menu also includes additions of a bay shrimp salad, pork belly with tomatillo sauce, sauteed scallops, filet mignon and cod in banana leaf with jasmine rice for $49.
The ultimate desert steakhouse, Rancho Mirage’s Shame On The Moon, is offering their famous house salad and soup and a choice of vegetarian penne, turkey Bolognese, chicken and wild mushroom and grilled flank steak and a brownie for desert for $39.
Located in a quiet strip mall, French Rotisserie Café serves delicious French food and is offering great deals for lunch and dinner. Lunch menu includes a mixed salad or their desert Caesar salad; rotisserie chicken, salmon with soy ginger glaze, chicken with mushrooms in pastry, burrata and prosciutto sandwich, or duck confit and chocolate mousse or crème brulee for dessert for just $15 - $35. Dinner menu includes French Onion soup or Caesar salad; mussels, duck, rotisserie chicken and chocolate mousse or crème brulee for $39 and asparagus soup, escargots, or salad; seabass, lobster and seafood puff pastry, lamb tagine or beef Bourguignon with profiteroles or Meyer lemon crème brulee for dessert for $59. Inside is cozy and pretty and the food is very French and very delicious.
The full list of participating restaurants is available at dinegps.com. Diners can also use the website to book a reservation. For every reservation booked via the DineGPS website, $1 will be donated to FIND Food Bank.
Greater Palm Springs Restaurant Week will be followed by the launch of the Summers Eats Pass, a free mobile pass that features even more ways for food lovers to savor summer, with weekly prize drawings. The Summer Eats Pass will be available June 12-September 4.
