Austin Restaurant Week Fall 2012

The Fall installment of Austin Restaurant Week will return September 23-26 and September 30-October 3, encouraging the Austin community to ‘Dine Out and Do Good.’ The two-week event aims to raise enough funds to provide more than 17,000 meals for the local non-profit organizationMeals on Wheels and More. This season ARW organizers have committed to a “buy a meal, give a meal” structure, with the money raised from every meal ordered resulting in a meal for a MOWAM recipient. Occurring twice a year, ARW allows diners the opportunity to not only give back to the community, but also experience the city’s burgeoning culinary scene by trying new restaurants and dishes at a fraction of the price. 

Once again, Austin Restaurant Week is excited to partner with some of the city’s most popular restaurants to offer mouth-watering menu options for a good cause. More than 60 restaurants are expected to offer ARW special menus, with Parkside,Olive & June, Trace, Trio, Papi Tino’s, Paggi House, Backspace, Roaring Fork Stonelake, Sullivan’s Steakhouse and many others already signed on.

Two and three-course prix-fixe menus will be offered at $17 for lunch and $27 or $37 for dinner. Brunch will also be available at select locations for $17. A variety of exciting special events and tastings will also be held during ARW with tickets available to the public. All events will benefit MOWAM in an effort to meet the fundraising goal of $35,000. 

Providing vital services to the area, Meals on Wheels and More has served the Austin community for 40 years, supplying an average of 967,495 meals in 2011 for homebound older adults, as wells as persons of all ages with disabilities. In addition to preparing meals, MOWAM offers services such as grocery shopping, assistance with food and basic preventative veterinary care for their clients' pets, as well as major and minor home repair to nearly 5,000 local residents in need.  With a steadily growing elderly population in Austin, the importance of funding programs such as MOWAM is crucial. Austin can foodies do their part by dining out during ARW or making a donation to MOWAM through the ARW website.

Online reservation site Open Table will also make an additional donation for every reservation made through the Austin Restaurant Week website or using the Austin Restaurant Week mobile app for iphone and Android devices. Donations made directly to MOWAM can also be done through the ARW website. To make reservations, view menu options for participating restaurants,] or donate now, please visit www.restaurantweekaustin.com.