Sample the City’s Diverse Menu During EP Restaurant Week
Dig into everything from Portuguese fare to sweet morning treats to classic red-sauce Italian delicacies through June 22.
Honeybird’s Blue Plate with Hurricane cocktail. Honeybird, and thirty-eight other eateries, are taking part in East Providence Restaurant Week. Photograph by Angel Tucker.
East Providence’s first Restaurant Week is taking place right now — through Saturday, June 22 — and with nearly forty eateries on the menu, there promises to be something for everyone’s palate.
Craving authentic bibimbap? Hit up Sun & Moon Korean Restaurant and score free dumplings if you spend $50. More of a breakfast gal? Head on over to the Nerdy Baker for a breakfast sandwich and a free small coffee. Seeking something sweet? Get your hands on a limited-edition Jeep sundae with a free cow duckie at Munroe Dairy’s Sacred Cow Ice Cream Shop.
Those are just some of the many specials available during Restaurant Week, which was the brainchild of City Council Vice President Frank Rego, who’s spent more than thirty years in the liquor distribution business and wanted to help small business owners in the wake of the Washington Bridge and COVID crises.
“I know what it’s like, how COVID and restrictions and coming out of COVID and inflation and everything else have affected business owners,” he says. “This is a way for us to promote East Providence, to say we’re open for business and to come on over.”
So far, the response has been good, Rego says, with restaurants already asking for more display signs and raffle entry cards (all diners can enter a raffle for a chance to win a restaurant gift card).
Bibimbap and dumplings from Sun & Moon Korean Restaurant, another EP Restaurant Week participant. Photograph by Angel Tucker.
For his part, Rego’s been trying to visit as many eateries as possible. Monday brought him to Miller’s Roast Beef for lunch and Davenport’s for dinner, and on Tuesday morning he stopped into the Nerdy Baker for breakfast. He’ll also pop into Sax’s this week — “for sure” — and Jeff’s Pizza.
“I’m going to hit as many as I can,” he says.
For more information and a list of participating restaurants and specials, visit epbestinbusiness.com/restaurantweek.
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