It's Restaurant Week in Richmond
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Acacia is one of the nearly 40 restaurants participating in restaurant week. Photo: Karri Peifer/Axios
Karri here, helping you navigate one of the best weeks of the year: Fall Richmond Restaurant Week.
Driving the news: It kicks off Monday, Oct. 23, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 29.
- This year's event features 35 restaurants, each serving a three-course prix fixe menu for $35.23 a person, with $5.23 of each meal donated to the local food pantry, Feed More.
- There are multiple choices for each course. Simply pick your preference, order and enjoy.
- Reservations are strongly recommended, btw.
Why it matters: The twice-annual event is a crucial fundraiser for Feed More, and the fall week hits just ahead of the holidays, their busiest time for folks in need.
- Basically, restaurant-week dinners are the most selfless and delicious you'll eat all year.
You can't go wrong with any of the restaurants participating this week, but here are a few menus and highlights from them that caught my eye:
🦞 Acacia midtown is the restaurant that brought Restaurant Week to Richmond, so they always do it right. A fantastic meal from their fall menu includes fried green tomatoes, a lobster roll entree and key lime cheesecake for dessert.
🐟 Alewife is serving up smoked bluefish dip, a crispy duck leg with kimchi stew and a brandy apple tiramisu.
🍗 Common House lets in nonmembers for dinner during the week. Commoners can feast on sweet potato gnocchi followed by fried chicken and end with a bowl of chocolate. I'm in.
🥯 JewFro is offering a bagel lox and cream cheese soup, Durban-dusted short ribs, ending with a South African milk tart. (Plus you can add some challah to start).
🍫 Revel is new on Lakeside so restaurant week is a perfect time to check it out. I'd do the burrata tartine, veggie Wellington (I'm intrigued!) and pate a choux.
🍐 The Roosevelt's chef Leah Branch brought her A-game with fried broccolini, smoked teres major and poached pears.
Other places to consider because they're newish to the week, but didn't have their menus posted anywhere by press time (🤦🏻♀️ I know.):
21 Spoons in Chesterfield, Nama Indian downtown and Lolita's Mexican in Carytown.
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to remove a line about Acacia midtown's Tuesday half-off wine night. The restaurant is not running the special this fall.