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Eight New Restaurants Added to Syracuse Dining Weeks Eight New Restaurants Have Been Added to 2020 Syracuse Dining Weeks

The total number of restaurants is now 46 for this year's Syracuse Dining Weeks

By Michael Hegarty

Michael Hegarty: The cold, snow-lined streets of Syracuse aren’t always the biggest attraction for a night out. But that’s the exact point of Syracuse Dining Weeks. To get people to come downtown and
enjoy the city during the winter season.
Alice Maggiore: “We have such a variety of diverse, high quality cuisines available in Downtown.”

Michael Hegarty: Alice Maggiore, the Communications Director at the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, says that the 46 restaurant promotional event brings large crowds to explore downtown
Syracuse.

Alice Maggiore: “Dining weeks attracts usually around 50-thousand people. And they’re coming from
certainly the city of Syracuse, but also from all over Onondaga County and the neighboring
counties.”

Michael Hegarty: As you can see here in Downtown Syracuse, it’s a little bit snowy. But the goal of the two dining weeks, is that the community braves through this winter weather to come enjoy all the restaurants Downtown Syracuse has to offer. Like this one– Margarita’s Mexican
Cantina. And owner Alejandro Gonzalez says he’s really excited to see how the community embraces these restaurants in Downtown Syracuse.

Alejandro Gonzalez: “People have varieties of what they like, but I think my place and what I have to offer, you know the menu, the drinks people will like a lot. And I think we’ll get a lot more business, and people will leave here happy.”

Michael Hegarty: During the event, restaurants will have $10 lunch specials and $30 dinner specials, to make the restaurants more affordable. And Gonzalez says his restaurant will continue to run their own specials on tacos and margaritas.

Syracuse Dining Weeks will take place from February 17th until March 1st.

Reporting from Syracuse, Michael Hegarty NCC News.

By Michael Hegarty Syracuse, N.Y (NCC News) – This year’s Syracuse Dining Weeks event will feature 46 restaurants, with 8 new ones participating in the event. The total is the second highest in the event’s 15 year history, according to Alice Maggiore, the Communications Director for the Downtown Committee of Syracuse.

Syracuse Dining Works is a two-week long event that offers special promotions in hopes to attract people to downtown Syracuse during the normally unfrequented winter season.

Maggiore said that the event brings a lot of people from all over Central New York to try the restaurants involved in the event.

“Dining weeks attracts usually around 50,000 people,” Maggiore said. “And they’re coming from, certainly, the city of Syracuse, but also from all over Onondaga County and the neighboring counties.

Margarita's Mexican Cantina in Syracuse, N.Y.
Margarita’s Mexican Cantina, located in downtown Syracuse, N.Y. opened in September, 2019.
© 2020 (c) 2020 Michael Hegarty

One of the new restaurants involved in Dining Weeks this year is Margarita’s Mexican Cantina, which opened its doors in September of 2019.

Owner Alejandro Gonzalez said that the restaurant has had success in their first five months, but is hopeful that Dining Weeks will increase business for Margarita’s.

“People have varieties in what they like, but I think my place, and what I have to offer, the menu, the drinks, people will like it a lot,” Gonzalez said. “And I think we’ll get a lot of business, and people will leave here happy.”

Syracuse Dining Weeks starts February 17th and lasts until March 1st. A full list of the restaurants menus is available on the Downtown Committee of Syracuse’s website.

 

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