--- title: "NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026: Dates, Prices & Best Tables" description: "NYC Restaurant Week runs from July 20 to August 16, 2026, with $30, $45, and $60 menus. See the best hard-to-book participants and extensions." canonical: "https://dinnerelite.com/blog/nyc-restaurant-week-summer-2026" last-updated: 2026-08-25 --- # NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026: Dates, Prices & Best Tables _Published 2026-07-25 on DinnerElite (https://dinnerelite.com/blog/nyc-restaurant-week-summer-2026)._ NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026 runs from July 20 through August 16. Two-course lunches and three-course dinners cost $30, $45, or $60. The program skips Saturdays, and each restaurant decides whether to take part on Sundays. Some restaurants extend their menus through August 31 or September 6. With the main program ending soon, your best bet is an early weekday lunch or a verified extension. This guide focuses on the hard-to-book restaurants where the deal gives you a cheaper and more realistic way in. ## When is NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2026? July 20 to August 16, 2026, with optional extensions that carry some restaurants to August 31 and a few all the way to September 6. Saturdays are excluded from the program and Sundays are optional, so plan around a Monday-to-Friday core. Two-course lunches and three-course dinners run $30, $45, or $60 depending on the restaurant, with drinks, tax, and tip on top. Around 423 restaurants had menus filed on opening day, and the list kept growing: it passed 600 by July 17 and reached 646 by late July, when we last rechecked the official listings. Far fewer stay to the end than start, though. 579 restaurants serve week one, 399 serve the last week of August, and only 83 run the final September 1 to 6 window, so check a restaurant's weeks before you plan a late-summer dinner around it. ## Which hard-to-book restaurants are in Restaurant Week 2026? We rechecked the program's own listings in late July: 1. **Crown Shy**. The Michelin-starred room at 70 Pine offers a $45 lunch and $60 dinner through late August. Last winter its signature chicken carried a $20 supplement, per Time Out, so read the menu before you anchor on it. Our [Crown Shy ordering guide](/reservations/10726) covers what the regular menu does best. 2. **Coqodaq**. A $60 lunch only, no dinner, and the official Restaurant Week menu includes the caviar-crowned Golden Nugget. Cote, its Michelin-starred sibling, sits the program out, which makes Coqodaq the Gracious Hospitality door that's actually open. See [what to order at Coqodaq](/reservations/76033). 3. **Manhatta**. Danny Meyer's 60th-floor dining room lists a $60 lunch and Sunday brunch, running all the way through the Labor Day extension. Track its drop times on [DinnerElite's Manhatta page](/reservations/2801). 4. **Naro**. The Korean fine-dining room from the Atomix team files the fullest offer among the hard bookings: $45 lunch, $60 dinner, and both Sunday meals. 5. **Bad Roman**. The maximalist Italian crowd-pleaser at Columbus Circle lists a $60 lunch, weeks one through four only. 6. **The Bar Room at The Modern**. A $45 lunch and $45 Sunday brunch beside MoMA, available into September. 7. **Le Rock, Le Pavillon, and Hawksmoor**. Rockefeller Center's French hit, Daniel Boulud's midtown showpiece, and the British steakhouse all post lunch offers, and lunch is the pattern: the hard-to-book crowd concentrates its Restaurant Week generosity at midday. Also in: the Dining Room at [Gramercy Tavern](/reservations/942), Delmonico's, Lafayette, and [Indochine](/reservations/32470). The truly impossible tier, Carbone, The Polo Bar, Via Carota, 4 Charles, and Le Bernardin among them, still sits the program out as of our late-July recheck, and with the July 28 menu deadline close, that is unlikely to change this summer. For those rooms, an availability alert stays the only realistic way in. One number that puts the week in perspective, from DinnerElite's own matching: of the 607 restaurants on the participant map as of July 17, only 22 appear among the 224 hard-to-book rooms DinnerElite tracks, with Crown Shy, Coqodaq, Manhatta, [Atoboy](/reservations/587), and [Wayan](/reservations/4599) leading that overlap. That is 9.8%. Restaurant Week opens real doors, but mostly not the hardest ones, which is why the alert strategy below still matters in July. We broke down all 607 participants, including where the $30 menus concentrate, in our [Restaurant Week map guide](/blog/nyc-restaurant-week-2026-map). ## How do Restaurant Week reservations work? Book through the restaurant's page on nyctourism.com, which runs on an embedded OpenTable flow, or check the restaurant's usual platform. The menus are published as PDFs on each listing before you book, which is your quality-control tool: you can see exactly what the prix fixe includes before burning a lunch on it. Local booking guides report the desirable slots going within hours of the July 14 opening, and prime Friday dinner effectively does not exist, so book the least popular meal you would enjoy: an early weekday lunch is the highest-probability play. ## Is Restaurant Week actually worth it? The honest answer is: check the PDF first. The New York Post reported restaurants rationing portions to survive the fixed prices, one tavern trimming its burger from 8 ounces to 7, and the Institute of Culinary Education's Rick Camac says dishes get reimagined, staff often treat the week as a "necessary evil," and restaurants should treat it "like it's a marketing expense." That's the machinery behind the deal. The counterweight: some kitchens put real signatures on the prix fixe, like Coqodaq's Golden Nugget, and at Crown Shy a $45 lunch in a Michelin-starred room prices the experience below its everyday à la carte. Good picks make the week excellent, and the published menus mean you never have to guess. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much is NYC Restaurant Week 2026? $30, $45, or $60 depending on the restaurant and meal, for a two-course lunch or three-course dinner. Drinks, tax, and tip are extra, and the tier each restaurant picked shows on its official listing. ### When did Restaurant Week reservations open? July 14, 2026, on the official NYC Tourism site. The best tables at the hardest-to-book participants go fastest, so book now and refine later, since most listings allow standard cancellation. ### Which Michelin-starred restaurants are in Restaurant Week? We rechecked this in late July. Crown Shy is the standout, listed with one Michelin star at a $45 lunch and $60 dinner. Two other starred restaurants join at lunch: the Bar Room at The Modern, the casual front of the Michelin-starred flagship by MoMA, at $45 with a Sunday brunch, and the Dining Room at Gramercy Tavern, a longtime one-star room per the Michelin Guide, at $60. Naro at Rockefeller Center rounds out the group, from the team behind two-star Atomix. The city's three-star temples, Le Bernardin among them, sit the program out. ### What if the restaurant I want isn't participating? That's most of the truly impossible tier, and it's exactly what alerts are for. DinnerElite watches Resy and OpenTable across 224 of NYC's hardest-to-book restaurants and emails you the moment a table opens, Restaurant Week or not. Start with a [free 3-day trial](/premium), or check [when your restaurant releases tables](/reservations). Restaurant Week is the cheap door into a handful of great rooms, and alerts are the door into everything else. Browse [every drop-time guide](/reservations), or see the [full ranking of NYC's hardest reservations](/hardest-restaurant-reservations-nyc) to know what you're up against the other 46 weeks of the year.