Howard County Pushes Local in Restaurant Weeks
Restaurants are offering fixed-price menus and special meals for the county's restaurant weeks.
Twenty restaurants between Savage, Columbia, Elkridge, Ellicott City and Woodstock are offering up the best of their locally grown cuisine at lower prices through Jan. 30 for the Howard County Restaurant Weeks.
The Howard County Office of Tourism organizes the two-week event and urges participating eateries to buy from and list as many local farms as possible, within 50 miles of the county.
Rams Head Tavern in Savage Mill is offering a dinner of Greek Isle Kabobs with cubed beef, lamb and chicken for $21.95 or $11.95 for lunch.
Several restaurants are offering entire meals at fixed prices, like the veal, swordfish or scallop lunches for $20.12 at the King's Contrivance in Columbia. Dinner is also being offered with entree choices of New York strip steak, swordfish or pork chop with a choice from three appetizers for $40.12.
The Elkridge Furnace Inn has an entire menu patrons can choose from for $30.12 as does the Diamondback Tavern in Ellicott City, for a fixed price of $20.12.
For a full list of participating restaurants and menus, visit the restaurant weeks website.