Manhattan Chinatown Restaurants Are Offering Weeklong Specials

People can dine at participating restaurants and collect a varying number of points by scanning QR codes at each place. Reservations are required for prix fixe dinners at sit-down spots including Hop Kee, Phoenix Palace, and Ming Wong. Fast-casual restaurants, such as Taiwan Beer House, Maxi Noodle, and Mee Sum Cafe, will offer either set meals or dish specials. With every three points, people get a raffle ticket eligible for winning a free meal at one of the participating restaurants. Winners will be announced the week of Monday, May 26.

Bicoastal Indian dinner collaboration

Chef Heena Patel of essential San Francisco vegetarian Gujarati restaurant Besharam is coming to New York for a bicoastal South Asian pop-up collaboration this week with chef Akshay Bhardwaj of East Village regional Indian restaurant Jazba. The dinner will feature Besharam’s dishes, including methi gota fenugreek fritters, malai kofta paneer croquettes, and creamy shrikhand for dessert. It takes place on Wednesday, May 21, at the Manhattan restaurant; timed reservations can be booked online from 5 to 10 p.m.

Brooklyn restaurant’s new steak special

The steak specials keep coming: Theater District Korean American steakhouse Gui added a weekday one, and now, Crown Heights restaurant Cafe Mado has one. The Steak Mondays meal consists of three courses for $80. The main is the 14- to 16-ounce dry-aged grilled strip steak that’s dusted with koji and served with roasted shallots, horseradish, and beef-fat drippings, plus either ramp bearnaise or an onion au poivre sauce. Then there’s bread; choice of appetizer, such as the pea leaf salad or the Caesar salad,, and the main; and desserts such as berry baba au rhum or strawberry sorbet.