Galveston Restaurant Week Returns, Makes Island Dining a Bargain Lover’s Delight: $10 Full Meals Available at Some Top Spots
BY Annie Gallay // 01.03.18Gypsy Joynt is known as much for its decor as its food. Galveston Restaurant Week lets you enjoy places like this.
It’s a brand new year. You’ve made your resolutions. You’ve headed back to work. What else is new?
Well, for starters — and entrees, and desserts — Galveston Restaurant Week is taking off this Saturday, January 6.
The name is misleading in the best possible way. You can satisfy your cravings seaside for well past a week, all the way January 21st.
Presented by Gordon Food Services, the seventh annual restaurant week will feature more than 30 restaurants on the island. Two-and three- course dinners will range in cost from $20 to $35, while breakfast, brunch, and lunch will be between $10 and $20.
Galveston Restaurant Week will benefit Access Care of Coastal Texas.
Treat yourself at a trattoria or wolf down some whitefish on the wharf. PaperCity’s highlighting some standouts here — and you’ll find the full list of participating restaurants below.
Pelican Grill at Moody Gardens Golf Course
If you’re looking for dinner and entertainment, Pelican Grill’s offering fits you to a tee. The golf course restaurant is providing grub and golf with its unusual all-inclusive Restaurant Week package.
The Restaurant Week Golf & Dining Package includes one dozen golf balls, one large bucket of range balls, a free replay round (availability permitting), and unlimited food and drinks, excluding alcohol. The fee for the meal — and everything else — are the greens fees for one round of golf with a cart.
Drive on over if you’re ready and hit some drives — and then enjoy the grill’s classic sandwich and burger menu. Fan favorites from the menu include the crispy fried shrimp basket, the buffalo chicken wrap, and the Birdie Panini.
This deal runs $125 on weekends and $100 Mondays through Thursdays the rest of the year — so it’s a significant Restaurant Week bargain.
Gypsy Joynt
Stop by the Gypsy Joynt for eclectic environs and a $12 lunch or $20 dinner. The vibrant restaurant and live music space can be best described as kooky. Head over any day but Mondays.
Gypsy Joynt’s Restaurant Week lunch fare has meatballs as the mainstay. Each day features a different take on the carnivore’s delight: General Tso for Tuesday, Cajun Pork for Friday, to name a few.
The family-style supper choices include your standard salad or soup starter, and, like the meatballs, the entrees depend on the day. Think Southern comfort: meatloaf, chicken potpie, and pot roast.
Olympia Grill at Pier 21
Hit up a hotspot on the harbor. Olympia Grill serves up Greek specialties and seafood for you to enjoy while you look out on the water.
Lunch, for $15, offers up soup or salad as an appetizer, before moving on to entrees like Mediterranean fish and roasted pork shank. Take on a boozy dessert: bread pudding with bourbon sauce, or mojito tarts.
Dinner, for $30, serves the same starters and desserts, but features entrees like crab-stuffed pasta shells and filet Marsala.
Number 13
It may ring of bad luck, but you’ll be lucky to eat this choice chophouse’s dinner. For $35, diners can choose from four appetizers — as simple as a Caesar salad, as complex as Alaskan Red King Crab Dip — and three entrees, including Yellow Edge Grouper Persillade.
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
No Galveston restaurant roundup would be complete without Bubba Gump.
These meals aren’t like a box of chocolates, though. You know exactly what you’ll get.
For $20 lunch, that includes a salad or gumbo, and entrees such as Jenny’s Catch with lobster butter sauce, Mama Blue’s Southern Charmed Fried Shrimp, and the Pear and Berry Salad.
The tourist haven has a $30 dinner, which includes the works from the lunch, with some notable additions. Appetizers involve both a salad and soup. Entrees are expanded to include Scampi and Forrest’s Seafood Feast, featuring Fried shrimp and seafood hush pups.
Sometimes it’s fun to eat like a tourist — especially if it’s January and none of them are actually around.
Here’s the rest of the Galveston Restaurant Week lineup, broken down by cuisine:
SEAFOOD AND STEAK
Shearn’s
Saltwater Grill
Willie G’s
Skybar Steak & Sushi
Saltgrass Steak House
Number 13
Landry’s Seafood House
SEAFOOD
Porch
Nick’s Kitchen and Beach Bar
Little Daddy’s Gumbo Bar
Joe’s Crab Shack
Gaido’s
Fisherman’s Wharf
Fish Tales Seafood Grill
Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.
BLVD. Seafood
Shrimp N Stuff
Gumbo Diner
ITALIAN
Grotto
Trattoria La Vigna
Riondo’s Ristorante
Russo’s Italian Pizzeria
AMERICAN
Yaga’s Café
The Spot
Rainforest Café
Eatcetera
Brickhouse Tavern + Tap
Huli Huli Hut
Blake’s Bistro
MEDITERRANEAN
Olympia Grill Seawall
MEXICAN
Tortuga Mexican Kitchen