​3rd Annual Restaurant Week: Ten days! 21 Restaurants!

It started in New York City in 1992. For a week or so, restaurants show you what they can do, offering prix fixe menus. In Fargo, in 2016, that’s a lot of restaurants, 21 of them.

Zest, at the Radisson, 201 5th St N, 293-6717. Superb hotel restaurant, deserves however many stars. Prix fixe main dish, bison tenderloin, other equally edible goodies.

Toasted Frog, 305 Broadway N, 478-7888. We like the friendly atmosphere, high ceilings, grilled mahi mahi, but don’t know for sure what will be on the Restaurant Week menu.

Three Lyons Pub, 675 13th Ave E #104, West Fargo, (701) 277-5966. Seriously good bar food. We like the rueben sandwich. That’s spelled wrong on the menu, should be reuben. Never mind, it’s delicious.

The Boiler Room, 210 Broadway N, (701) 478-1990. Delicious comfort food, as in stuff yourself and worry about the consequences later. Lunch, Greek salad, fish taco; dinner, Scotch eggs, country fried chicken, dessert rum chata French toast.

Spicy Pie, 322 Broadway N, (701) 356-7437. Pizzas and grinders. Very popular, always packed, fast delivery service. Excellent value for money.

Sazerac Alley, 220 Broadway N, (701) 526-0149. Exciting new restaurant, authentic New Orleans cuisine, fine dining. Lunch: duck and andouille gumbo, seafood pot pie. Two choices for dinner: Louisiana fried chicken or shrimp creole.

Proof Distillers, 414 4th Ave N, (701) 353-5853. Distillers and purveyors of fine whisky, vodka, and gin. Specials all through Restaurant Week.

Old Broadway, 22 Broadway N, (701) 893-9292. One of the most beautiful spaces in the city. Special lunch, reuben or any kind of burger, soup or salad, sweet potato fries or yukon gold fries; dinner, fried pickles, spaghetti and meatballs or sirloin steak or fish and chips.

Luna Fargo, 1545 University Dr S, (701) 293-8818. Now open just a year, talked about all over the Midwest. Ryan Nitschke, honored with several national awards, invents as he goes, depending on what’s fresh and local. Surly beer dinner June 15.

Labby’sGrill & Bar, 1100 19th Ave N, (701) 478-5227. A great sports bar in a part of the city that needed one. Special lunch, bourbon pork chops with cornbread stuffing or Thai peanut pasta.

India Palace, 5050 13th Ave S #3, (701) 356-6500. Large menu, lots of help navigating it, excellent service, will cook meal to your desired level of spiciness. We more than like the chicken tikka masala and onion bhaji.

HoDo Restaurant & Lounge, 101 Broadway N, (701) 478-8888. Are you hungry? Don’t read this. Lunch: asparagus and gorgonzola soup, Red Lake walleye cake, Tuscan cannelloni bean salad with roasted red pepper aioli and basil olive oil. Lemon ricotta tart, blueberries and candied citrus, $15. Dinner: hearts of romaine salad, grape tomatoes, croutons, bacon, blue cheese, scallion dressing; entree chicken piccata, whipped potatoes, seasonal vegetables; white wine, lemon and caper sauce. chocolate merengue dessert. Whipped cream cheese, fresh berries and pistachio tuile, $30.

Herd & Horns, 1414 12th Ave N, (701) 551-7000. Traditional American bar & grill, across the street from Campus, great place to watch the game. Glazed donut burger with sharp cheddar cheese, candied bacon, white chocolate drizzle, Mama’s macaroni & cheese.

Hennessy’s Irish Pub, 4323 45th St S, (701) 566-8770. Making a name for itself with excellent pizza; beer always arrives at table very cold. 3-course meal: pick pub pretzels or fish & chips; shepherd’s pie or corned beef and cabbage; Irish cream cheesecake or fruit crisp ala mode.

Fargo Billiards & Gastropub, 3234 43rd St S, (701) 282-4168. Best place to play pool and they pour a stiff drink, no skimping on the hard liquor. Restaurant Week special: Shrimp cocktail, prime rib dinner.

Everest Tikka House, 420 Center Ave, Moorhead, (218) 477-1111. Everybody we know likes it and goes there -- an oasis in a part of the city that needs one. Hard to find -- it’s in the right hand corner in the back of the building. Indian cuisine plus Nepali specialties.

Drunken Noodle, 623 NP Ave, (701) 232-3380. The work and energy go into the food, not the decor. An old hat, old shoe place, the kind we like. Recommended: Ba-mee-hang noodles, and next door at Wasabi, the ahi poke marinated tuna.

Social Circle at the Cambria Hotel, 825 Beaton Dr E, West Fargo, (701) 551-0120. Food is very good, but what sets it apart are the spacious rooms in the hotel and especially the responsive service, the best we’ve seen. No special meal planned, but go anyway -- very good value for money.

Basie’s Restaurant and Lounge at the Ramada Plaza, (701) 281-7105. Specializing in steak, free appetizers at the entrance from 4 to 7pm. 3-course special: mixed field green salad with Meyer lemon dressing, vinaigrette, San Francisco cioppino seafood stew, homemade tiramisu.

Barbacoa, 3241 42nd St S, (701) 499-5204. Lunch pasole or deviled egg trio or side caesar salad; main course brisket sandwich, sweet potato veggie wroap or spanish omelet. Dinnner house meet trio smoked, hickory smoked salmon, zesty southwestern pasta. Green chili pork, beff bris bbq chick.