Of the more than 100 restaurants featured in Seattle Restaurant Week, which runs through Thursday, October 28 (excluding Friday and Saturday), 13 can be found right here in Queen Anne.

Seattle Restaurant Week participants offer $25 three-course dinner meals and some offer $15 three-course lunch meals, Sunday through Thursday. Check out the options on the hill:

• Betty Restaurant and Bar
• Boat Street Cafe
• Bricco Della Regina Anna
• Crow Restaurant and Bar
• emmer&rye
• How to Cook a Wolf
• La Dolce Vita Ristorante
• Paragon Restaurant and Bar
• Peso’s Kitchen and Lounge
• Portage
• Sport Restaurant and Bar
• Ten Mercer
• Toulouse Petit

This weekend Queen Anne-ers will have an opportunity to enjoy some of the neighborhood’s best eats, while supporting our own local nonprofit, FOLKpark. The volunteer organization dedicated to revitalizing Lower Kinnear Park has put together Happy Hour on the Hill event/fundraiser this Saturday, August 28 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

A $15 ticket will get you access to a bunch of ‘happy hour’ discounts at local restaurants and sweet shops. All of the proceeds will go toward helping FOLKpark reach it’s Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund requirement. The organization won the $100,000 city grant earlier this month, and needs to raise at least $50,000 to be awarded the funds, which will be used in the upcoming design development phase of the Lower Kinnear Park Enhancement Plan. (The community actively helped develop this plan last spring. See the finalized plan here).

The following Queen Anne locations are participating in Happy Hour on the Hill:

• Betty – $8 drink and appetizer combo
• Paragon – $5 Martinis and $7 Appetizers
• Eat Local – Free farro salad with any purchase and get 2 bottles of Viognier for the price of one at $16.98
• Chocolopolis – $1 Chocolopolis truffles (limit 2) & 50% of a chocolate drink
• Wink – 15% off all cupcakes

Tickets are available at any of the participating locations, or can be purchased at the Uptown Stroll and art walk this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Counterbalance Park (at Queen Anne Ave N and W Roy St).

The fundraiser in being put on in conjunction with the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce. If you can’t make it to Happy Hour on the Hill, but would like to donate to FOLKpark, you can make a donation via PayPal on the organization’s website.

Those interested in volunteering with FOLKpark should contact Phil Prahst at philprahst@gmail.com.

The inaugural Seattle Restaurant Week in April was such a success, another one is planned for October.

Four Queen Anne restaurants were involved in the first week, including Betty, Canlis, Crow, emmer&rye, How to Cook a Wolf, Ponti Seafood Grill, Portage, Ten Mercer, Paragon, and Via Tribunali. This time around, organizers are turning to Seattle residents to find out what restaurants they’d like to see on the list. Offer up suggestions via Twitter (@SeattleRW) or look for them on Facebook. Each restaurant submitted will be contacted to join in the 10-day foodie celebration.

The second Seattle Restaurant Week, from October 17 to 28, will offer the same deals as the first–a $25 three-course dinner menu and optional $15 three-course lunch menu, Sunday through Thursday.

Betty, located at the top of the hill at 1507 Queen Anne Ave N, opened up their brand new outdoor seating deck on Monday, just in time for the mid-summer heat!

The restaurant began construction on the deck on June 1, and has finished just in time to catch the second (and sunnier) half of summer in Seattle. According to PR representative Jamie Hinz, the deck is located through the back of the restaurant (accessible through french doors) and seats 20 people.

Reader and Queen Anne resident Rob Nachbar works right above Betty, and snapped this pic of the deck, which he called “fabulous.”

“Hopefully the weather will cooperate,” he wrote.

The inaugural Seattle Restaurant Week, described by organizers as “the biggest celebration of dining out that our region has ever experienced,” is kicking off this Sunday, April 18 when 106 of the best restaurants across town will offer 3-course dinners for $25 Sunday-Thursday until Thursday, April 29.

Not surprising, nine Queen Anne restaurants are on that list:

1. Betty Restaurant & Bar
2. Canlis
3. Crow Restaurant & Bar
4. emmer&rye
5. How to Cook a Wolf
6. Portage
7. Ten Mercer
8. Paragon
9. Via Tribunali

“Queen Anne is making a huge showing for Seattle Restaurant Week, drawing people from other neighborhoods and definitely keeping their own neighbors happy,” wrote SRW PR representative Heather Jensvold.

Take a look at the full list of participating restaurants, some of which will be offering $15 3-course lunch specials as well, here (.doc).

Seattle Restaurant Week is a project of the Seattle Restaurant Cooperative, a group of Seattle restaurateurs, and is being sponsored by our news partner, The Seattle Times, alongside many others. More information here.

Three more Queen Anne businesses and organizations have stepped up to help those in need in Haiti. The owners of two neighborhood restaurants – Betty and Crow – have decided to donate ALL of tonight’s proceeds to Doctors Without Borders for Haitian relief. They anticipate a lot of community support, so if you’d like to dine out for a good cause tonight, the owners suggest you make a reservation.

Betty is located at 1507 Queen Anne Ave N. Call (206) 352-3773 to make a reservation. Crow is located at 823 5th Ave. N. Call (206) 823-8800 for reservations. You can check out the menus for both here: Betty & Crow.

If you can’t eat out for Haiti tonight, Coe Elementary, John Hay and McClure Middle School will be hosting a Help for Haiti Rummage Sale in the Coe gym from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 7. You can donate gently used goods to be sold at the rummage sale on from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Friday, February 5 at Coe and Hay, and on Saturday, February 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Coe gym, located at 2424 7th Ave W. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the American Red Cross. They also need volunteers and snacks for the bake sale. Details here. Interested parties may contact the following people at each school for more information.

John Hay: Susan Sweeney at susweeney@seattleschools.org and Lynn Baker at lybaker@seattleschools.org:

Coe: Becky Lederman at lederman4@msn.com, Lisa Cole at davidandlisacole@mac.com, and Stacy Lawson at slawson7@gmail.com.

McClure: Margarita Vanegas at mvvanegas@seattleschools.org.

General  Information: Lindsay Foody at honeyfoody@yahoo.com, and Mimi Gan at mimigan@msn.com or (206) 390-2312.

For other restaurants donating proceeds to Haiti around town, click here. And if you have a sweet tooth, specifically for organic, fair trade, local chocolate, then buy one of these two Theo chocolate bars – the local chocolate maker will be donating 100 percent of the sales of their two most popular bars to help bring fresh water to Haiti earthquake victims. Read the full story at sister-site Fremont Universe.