Wilmington Restaurant Week

Menus have been posted for Wilmington's upcoming City Restaurant Week.

From April 30 to May 5, patrons can order, from special menus, 2-course $15 lunches and 3-course $30 dinners from 11 different restaurants. There's also a special $60 "Dine Around" where you can go to three different restaurants for appetizers, entrees and desserts.

Restaurant Week is a cool way to check out an eatery you may not have thought about before.

New York and Philadelphia usually hold restaurant weeks during the January winter doldrums - basically to benefit both restaurateurs and diners.

Restaurateurs usually see a drop in business after the bustling holiday season and it's nice for them to get a boost of customers in January. It's also good for cash-poor diners, who drained their wallets on holiday presents, to be able to buy discounted lunches and dinners.

I'm not sure why Wilmington has their restaurant week in the spring - and just a week after the whole Meals from the Masters weekend of activities - but hopefully the weather will be nice to get out and about.

I checked out a few places last year and most of the menus were winners - though I did have one major clunker of a lunch that didn't make me eager for a return visit to that eatery.

This year's menus look really interesting. Check 'em out. And make reservations now.