A heads-up for those of you who are looking for a good meal at a cheap(er) price: Baltimore’s Restaurant Week will be extended this summer.

The event, organized by the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association and Downtown Partnership, will now run through two weekends instead of the usual one: July 26 to August 3. Around 80 restaurants in the area usually participate, offering prix fixe three-course dinner menus for $30.08 (or three-course lunch for $20.08).

The restaurants are hoping the extra weekend offsets their reduced demand, as more diners opt to stay home during this nonrecession. The Oceanaire Seafood Room, for example, typically gets around 230 reservations for a weekend night during restaurant week, a 250 percent increase over a normal weekend night.

So far, 34 restaurants are confirmed for the summer, with more to come soon. Keep checking the website and make your reservations early.

I typically find myself traveling during the summer Restaurant Week and never make it — which would have been the case again this year, if not for the extra weekend in August.  Anyone have any recommendations (or words of warning) from past Restaurant Week experiences?

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