Try something new during OC Restaurant Week

Starting Sunday, March 7, several Orange County eateries will offer special menus at special prices for one week only. For many, OC Restaurant Week is the perfect time to try a new place. Now in its 13th year, the countywide promotion features more than 100 locations (listed at ocrestaurantweek.com), with local options including 320 Main, Heirloom and Old Crow Smokehouse, among others. Here’s what you can look forward to: 320 Main: According to its website, this Seal Beach spot is a “friendly, spirited and quality driven restaurant that specializes in classic American dishes and freshly crafted cocktails with simple but inspired twists.” There are a few special Restaurant Week menus to choose from here, including two $50 dinners, each of which comes with a bottle of red or white wine. Choice A includes an order of Buffalo chicken tenders, short-rib Stroganoff and Crema Bread, while Choice B features a bacon wedge salad, Scottish farmed salmon, and fire-roasted squash and zucchini. A Date Night special costs $60 for two people, and a Family Meal promises to feed four for $70. For Friday, there’s a LUXE Dinner Menu for $65 per person that features pork lettuce wraps, prime rib with horseradish and au jus, a twice-baked potato, and a brownie S’mores for dessert, plus a bottle of red or white wine. The restaurant is open for dinner every day except Monday. (Brunch is available Saturday-Sunday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.) Meals are available for takeout and dine-in, with online ordering available. Find out more at www. 320mainsealbeach. com.

NOVA Kitchen & Bar: This “experiential dining destination” in Garden Grove specializes in Japanese fusion. It’s offering a three-course meal, available for dine-in or takeout, for $50 per person. For the first course, you get a choice of sautéed edamame, chicken ginseng soup or pork belly bao. The second course features teriyaki New York steak, salmon or miso cod. And you’ll finish your meal with either chocolate ganache cake or strawberry panna cotta. Read the delicious descriptions at www.novaoc.com.

The Boardwalk Restaurant:

“Inspired by the coastal flavors of Southern California,” this eatery is located within Hilton’s Waterfront BeachResortinHuntingtonBeach. Its $35-per-person, three-course lunch menu appears to be only for dine-in customers. You’ll start with either a deconstructed beet salad or Brussels sprouts salad, then move on to your choice of a grilled flat iron steak or pan-seared halibut, and finish with a house-made berry cobbler or S’mores brownie. Featured cocktails include the Queen of Hearts, Meet Your Maker and OC Sunshine, all of which are available for an extra $12 apiece. For more information, go to www. waterfrontresort.com/dining/theboardwalk- restaurant.

Eureka!: The Huntington Beach location of the upscale burger chain also offers a few options for Restaurant Week. If you’re dining in, there’s a $20 special for lunch or dinner that includes a starter of crispy glazed Brussels sprouts, truffle cheese fries, or mac-and-cheese balls, plus your choice of a Spicy Chicken Sandwich, Fresno Fig Burger, Cowboy Burger, Veggie Beet Burger or Cobb salad. (All entrées except the Cobb salad include hand-cut fries.) For takeout, you can order the Family Bundle for $60; it includes two appetizers (crispy glazed Brussels sprouts and mac-andcheese balls), four entrées (two American Cheeseburgers with fries, a Cobb Salad and a Spicy Chicken Sandwich), two servings of Bourbon Barrel Cake and one bottle of red or white wine. There’s also a Date Night menu for $40 that offers Crispy Glazed Brussels Sprouts and your choice of two of its gourmet burgers, plus one cocktail (Wild Child, Industry Margarita or Old Fashioned). Check out your burger options at eurekarestaurantgroup. com/ blog/locations/huntington-beach.

Gyu-Kaku: The Huntington Beach location of this Japanese barbecue chain offers extensive lunch and dinner specials for those dining on-site during Restaurant Week, though the dinner menu is also available for takeout and delivery. Both the $20-perperson lunch and $30-per-person dinner come with starters (miso soup; half portion of the Gyu-Kaku salad; white rice, which you can upgrade to garlic rice for an additional $2; and, at dinner, edamame); lunch includes a choice of appetizers (cheese corn butter, fried pork gyoza dumplings, vegetable spring rolls, edamame, fried cheese wontons or Spicy Addicting Cucumber), while dinner features a single S’mores dessert. With lunch, you can choose two barbecue items, and at dinner, three. Discover more about your choices, and find drink specials, at www.gyu-kaku. com/huntington-beach.

Heirloom a Modern Farmhouse: This eatery in Huntington Beach specializes in farm-totable delights. Those dining on-site can opt for the $50 threecourse meal that includes a glass of white or red wine. For the first course, you get the option of Kumamoto oysters, pea-andmint soup, or beet salad. Then you’ll move on to either spicecrusted ahi, flank steak or seared chicken. And you’ll finish with the restaurant’s banana cake with vanilla bean ice cream. Visit www. heirloomhb.com for more details.

Old Crow Smokehouse: The Midwest barbecue restaurant features two deals for takeout. The Date Night package feeds two and includes your choice of three proteins (one-quarter smoked chicken or slab of baby-back ribs, quarter-pound pulled pork or beef brisket, or one Old Crow sausage link), two sides (crunchy coleslaw, mac and cheese, handcut fries, summer pickles, savory sweet potatoes with blue cheese, baked beans, classic cornbread, bacon-cheddar-jalapeño cornbread, country mashed potatoes, vegetable medley, or a baby crow salad) and dessert (apple fritters with vanilla ice cream) for just $25. The more-extensive Family Meal gets you a quarter-pound pulled pork, quarter-pound beef brisket, a full slab of ribs, a beercan chicken and two Old Crow sausage links; a wheel of either the classic cornbread or the baconcheddar- jalapeño cornbread; and three 8-ounce containers of your choice of the sides listed above—all for $70. You can add a bottle of wine for $20 to either meal. For more information, go to www.oldcrowsmokehouse.com.

Los Angeles County’s Restaurant Week started March 1, but ends March 14. You can find more locations to sample at www. discoverlosangeles.com/dinela.

Among this week's local delight's is 320 Main's Buffalo chicken tenders.