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TASTE NEWTOWN! Seven borough restaurants and eateries whipping up delicious, mouth-watering menus for Restaurant Week

Get ready for a delicious week in Newtown. From Sunday, Nov. 8 to Thursday, Nov. 12, Newtown Borough will be showcasing its thriving restaurant scene during its third annual Restaurant Week.

Folks will have a chance to dine at seven designated downtown restaurants and eateries at a fixed price - $10 for lunch and $25 for dinner, according to event coordinator Chef Francisco Argueta, the owner of Florentino's Italian Restaurant.

"It's a great deal to come and enjoy the food," he said. "It's a good way to taste food in a set price environment and discover what we have here."

The seven participating restaurants include: Becky's Deli (lunch only), The Black Horse Tavern, The Brick Hotel, Café Con Leche, Florentino's Italian Cuisine, the Clubhouse Bar & Grill and the newly-reopened Temperance House, which is under new management and boasting a fresh new menu.

"At Florentino's, we will be giving them two courses for lunch for $10," said Argueta, including a choice of soup du jour or Edward Island Mussels as the first course and a choice of salads, sandwiches and pasta for the second course.

In the evening, they will be serving three courses - antipasto (first course), mixed green salad, Caesar salad or mussels (second course) and choice of chicken, fish or pasta (third course). Florentino's is located at 18 S. State Street.

This is the third time Newtown Borough Restaurant Week has hosted Restaurant Week, according to Argueta. The first two were hugely successful.

"The purpose is to bring more traffic into town, to promote dining and shopping for all the stores," he said. "Patrons can come in every single day and visit all of us."

In addition to his Newtown Borough restaurant, Argueta owns Francisco's on the River in Washington Crossing. Argueta has been a chef for 28 years and has owned Florentino's for 15 years. He started at Three Brothers in Langhorne Borough and Tre Fretelli in Middletown Township.

Meanwhile, over at the Brick Hotel and Restaurant located at 1 Washington Avenue (at the intersection with State Street), the Brick's event coordinator Tammy DiPasquale said they will be offering two-course lunches and three-course dinners.

"We're doing basically traditional home-cooking style," she said. "Our view is: 'Why cook tonight when you can come here?'"

Featured will be a seasonal menu with butternut squash soup. Also on the special menu will be traditional homemade chicken pot pie, Angus beef burger, Amish Airline Chicken, seared salmon, apple crisp with ice cream and much more.

"I stopped at Tanner's and bought apples," DiPasquale said. "We are going to be hot on apple crisp."

Seating will be in the enclosed glass porch where the fall foliage can be enjoyed or in a room with a fireplace. Reservations are required.

Melissa Corea, one of the partners of The Temperance House and Restaurant, said lunch will be a two-course meal while dinner will be three courses. The Temp will be serving classic items with a modern twist. The Temp is located at 5 S. State Street.

"For our three-course dinner, we will have the featured soup of the day and the Temperance House salad," she said. "Course two, we will have a choice of horseradish shrimp, house-made or smoked cheese stuffed meatballs or eggplant rollantini. For the third-course, we will have a choice of root beer ribs, flounder with lobster sauce and shortrib gnocchi.

Lunch includes the featured soup of the day, house-made Caesar salad with blackened shrimp, and a choice of a mushroom or chicken shrimp crepe, a BALT Panini made with bacon, avocado, lettuce and tomato, and a vegetarian pita.

"We also have an array of desserts," Corea said. "Everything in our restaurant is house-made including pickles! The only thing we don't have that is house-made is chicken tenders. We can never win with the batter!"

She said children are accustomed to the basic chicken tenders.

Becky Betz, owner of Becky's Newtown Deli, said she will be offering one of her three popular soups or small tossed salad, a choice of wraps (Greek Wrap, Italian Veggie and Chicken Italian) and a drink for $10. The deli is located at 30 S. State Street.

Betz describes her deli as a friendly place. "I have a lot of regulars," she said. "A lot of them work in town. They keep me afloat. They help me get up every morning! And they mean a lot to me."

As for Restaurant Week, Betz said the event always brings a lot of foot traffic to the street, especially at night. "I support the event. At dinner-time it does really well. Restaurants are very crowded. My husband and go several times.

"They have really nice offerings," she said of the various eateries. "Restaurant Week brings attention to the town. The Temp and the Black Horse Tavern are usually jumping. It's nice to have so many restaurants participating."

Other participating restaurants who were not immediately available for comment for this story are:

- The Black Horse Tavern, located at 101 S. State Street.

- Café con Loche, located in the rear at 16 S. State Street.

- The Clubhouse Bar & Grill, located at 501 S. State Street.

For more information and links to the Restaurant Week menus, visit www.newtownbbc.org