It’s that time of year again–Seattle Restaurant Week is bringing some delicious deals to local restaurants around town for ten days this month, from Sunday, April 10 to Thursday, April 14, and Sunday, April 17 to Thursday, April 31.

Over 150 restaurants citywide will be offering three-course dinners for just $28 (sadly excluding weekends), and many will also be dishing up three-course lunches for $15.

There are 13 Queen Anne restaurants participating in Seattle Restaurant Week:

• Betty Restaurant & Bar
• Boat Street Cafe
• Canlis
• Crow Restaurant & Bar
• emmer&rye
• How to Cook a Wolf
• Paragon Restaurant & Bar
• Peso’s Kitchen and Lounge
• Ponti Seafood Grill
• Portage
• Ten Mercer
• The Melting Pot
• Toulouse Petit Kitchen & Lounge

Search for participating restaurants by neighborhood or meal, or get menu details and reservation information from the Seattle Restaurant Week website.

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

Last week’s Seattle Weekly was filled with the paper’s annual citywide “Best of” piece. And it may not be much of a surprise that more than a couple Queen Anne spots made the list. Check out the Weekly’s bests of Seattle that are located right here in the neighborhood:

• Easy Street Records—Best Selection of Vinyl
• Meadow—Best New Boutique in the ‘Hood
• Nielsen’s Pastries—Best Snitter
• Toulouse Petit—Best Breakfast Deal
• El Diablo Coffee—Best Liquid Trend
• Queen Anne’s Secret Stairways—Best Alternative to the Stairmaster

Congrats Queen Anne!

Notice some Queen Anne items on the list that we missed, or want to recommend your own favorite from the neighborhood? Comment below, or email us at tips@queenanneview.com to share!

Toulouse Petit has just announced its extended happy hour times and menu. After running $5 meals on weekday mornings through January in celebration of its new breakfast service, the New Orleans French Quarter restaurant decided to make what they call the “breakfast happy hour” a permanent fixture, offering almost anything on the menu for $6 between 9 and 11 a.m.

In addition, their two afternoon and evening happy hours, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., have been expanded to include drink specials, over 50 menu items, and the entire dessert menu for $5 or less.

For more info, check out Toulouse Petit’s Facebook page.

Pesos’s next-door sibling, Toulouse Petit, opened last month with French Quarter/New Orleans-inspired dinners and a full bar menu. Last week they opened for breakfast and lunch as well.

The menu has Banana Fosters Pancakes (above) on it and seven different kings of eggs Benedict. And as of today, Monday, December 14, through the end of January their breakfasts are only $5 each, 9 to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday, no matter what you order.

“At $5 we’re just breaking even,” owner Brian Hutmacher said. “That’s really for the local community.”

Breakfast and lunch are served from the time the restaurant opens at 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner is served from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

After months of anticipation, Toulouse Petit Kitchen & Lounge will be opening at 4 p.m. this afternoon for lounge and dinner service.

The new restaurant, located at 601 Queen Anne Ave N in Uptown, is by the same owner of the popular Pesos’s Kitchen & Lounge next door. But don’t be fooled by its parallels in name or location – this eatery offers up entirely new choices for the palette. It’s theme for not only cuisine, but also decor, is the French Quarter and New Orleans.

I swung by this morning to chat with owner Brian Hutmacher and get a sneak peak of the inside. And I must say, for all the Queen Anne residents who, like myself, have walked by hoping to steal a glimpse through the boarded up windows these past few months, it’s beautiful.

Originally slated to open Labor Day weekend, Hutmacher says he’s excited to finally open the doors – the project has been in the works a long time. “We’ve been working on this for over a year now,” he said. Although the opening this afternoon will only be for the restaurant’s lounge and dinner service, Hutmacher says they plan on opening for breakfast in a couple of weeks.

For now, Toulouse Petit will be open seven days a week. The lounge opens at 4 p.m. and dinner service will be offered from 5 p.m. to midnight, when the kitchen closes. “We have a very talented, disciplined, focused staff back there,” Hutmacher said. “It’s very humbling.” And taking a look at the menu, it’s clear that Hutmacher, Chef Eric Donnelly, formerly of Oceanaire, and the staff have worked to create a varying and ambitious amount of daily offerings.

Yesterday’s mock-up, which is still being edited, is ten pages of delectable looking salads, raw and fresh seafood dishes, delicacies (foie gras, tartares and tongue dishes are all on the menu), poultry, steaks and charcuterie, which is described as “the art of curing meats, and especially of curing pork.” And I haven’t even gotten to the specials or the drinks! Like it’s brother next door, Toulouse Petit will have an extensive array of exotic cocktails (just take a look at their bar!), and two large and encompassing happy hours – an early happy hour from opening at 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and a late happy hour from 10 p.m. to midnight.

And now for some parting fast facts from the back of the menu, entitled “The Toulouse Petit by the Numbers.” Panes of glass in the restaurant’s windows and doors – 712. Mosaic tiles in the main floor – about 85,000. Glass tiles on their booth platforms – about 40,000. Pounds of plaster hand applied to the walls – about 5,000.

Not sure exactly where Toulouse Petit is? It’s the green stucco building on the corner of Queen Anne Ave N and Mercer. You honestly can’t miss it! For more information, call (206) 432-9069.