NYC Restaurant Week is one of those citywide moments where the conversation usually starts and ends in Manhattan. This summer, Bronx Times made sure The Bronx was part of it, and they came to Arthur Avenue to talk to us.

In "Where to eat in The Bronx for NYC Restaurant Week," reporter Marina Samuel sat down with From The Bronx and The Bronx Beer Hall co-owners Anthony and Paul Ramirez, to learn more about the Beer Hall and what we have on deck.

No Fork NYC's sesame-crusted pizza on The Bronx Beer Hall's Restaurant Week lunch menu. Photo by Kailee Pierce.

What's on the menu

The Beer Hall doesn't have a kitchen of its own, and that's the whole point. Our Restaurant Week menu is built from our neighbors. The $30 lunch is No Fork NYC's thin, sesame-crusted pizza, the Albanian-owned shop on Crescent Avenue that regulars already know. The $45 dinner comes from Braisin' Hell, the barbecue spot one block over in The Bronx Food Co: pick an entrée, two sides, a craft beer or glass of wine, and dessert. Both menus run through September 6.

The Restaurant Week dinner plate from Braisin' Hell at The Bronx Beer Hall. Photo by Kailee Pierce.

A decade at the table

This is roughly our tenth year in Restaurant Week, which makes the Beer Hall one of the longest-running Bronx participants. The article notes that only four Bronx restaurants are on this summer's list of more than 600 citywide. That number is exactly why we keep showing up. As Anthony told The Bronx Times, "The point of Restaurant Week is to get people to try restaurants and venues that they normally wouldn't go to. It encourages folks who normally wouldn't come out to The Bronx to come try us out." And once they're here: "We straight up hope it makes them come back when it's not Restaurant Week. It's an opportunity to show up and hopefully we become someone's new favorite place."

The piece also tells the origin story: a craft beer bar built inside a 1940s public market, surrounded by the butchers, bakers, and cigar rollers of Bronx Little Italy, dreamed up in 2011 while we were running a From The Bronx merch pop-up in that same market, and opened in 2013. It's the kind of place where Restaurant Week doesn't need a gimmick, because the neighborhood is the special.

Eat around the borough

We're in good company. The other three Bronx spots on the list are Flava of The Bronx in Woodstock (Caribbean, $30 lunch and $60 dinner), Code Red Restaurant and Lounge in Laconia (Caribbean-American fusion, $30 lunch and $45 dinner), and Mae Mae Café & Plant Shop in Mott Haven (plant-based, $30 lunch). Hit all four.

We've said it before and we'll keep saying it: The Bronx is one of the great food boroughs in America. Dominican, Puerto Rican, Italian, West African, Albanian, Mexican, Garifuna, Jamaican, Bangladeshi, all within a few subway stops. If Restaurant Week gets even a few more people to ride the train north and find that out for themselves, we're happy to be the first stop.

Thank you to Marina Samuel, Lesley Cosme Torres, and the whole Bronx Times and Schneps Media team for putting the borough on the Restaurant Week map. Read the full story here, then come eat.

From The Bronx to The World!!