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Local Restaurant Week Offers Local Flavor To Western New Yorkers

"Dine Local, Dine Often, Dine Well" is the slogan for this year's Local Restaurant Week in Western New York.  Restaurants all over the greater Buffalo area are offering special deals and discounts from now until Sunday March 14th.  The staff at Localfoodservice.com are the main organizers of the event.

Businesses located as far as Eden, Youngstown and even Rochester are involved.  Most restaurants are even offering a special multi-course meal priced exactly $20.10.  

Food is not all Western New Yorkers can enjoy.  Many prominent wineries and breweries, including Sam Adams and Blue Point, are also taking part in Local Restaurant Week. 

Late winter and early spring are notoriously slow times for restaurants, so this week offers owners a chance to build rapport with consumers for now and the future.  Customers, in turn, get to sample new food and refreshments while supporting the local economy. 

Local Restaurant week is a national event, yet Buffalo is now one of the largest events with more than 150 restaurants taking part.  The majority of the restaurants are located in Buffalo's historic Elmwood district. 

Community response has been so overwhelming that today it was announced on the event's Twitter page that the event site will have to be moved to another server. 

"In the parlance of the industry we are slammed," said Vince McConeghy, community manager at LocalFoodService.com and administrator of the Twitter page. 

Visit the event online for a full list of participating restaurants, or join the conversation on Twitter now.