Summer Restaurant Week is finally here! This means that Boston’s best restaurants are serving up their very finest for a very fair price. At participating locations, diners can enjoy prix fixe menus, with 2-course lunches priced at $15.10, 3-course lunches for $20.10, and 3-course dinners costing $33.10.  This amazing event is taking place throughout Boston, Cambridge, the suburbs and beyond. So, be sure to visit that restaurant you’ve always dreamed about or try something new in your neighborhood! Boston’s Summer Restaurant Week is sure to make your stomachs and your wallets smile!

Please click on Boston Restaurant Week for a list of participating restaurants, including our very own Turner Fisheries!

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Photo Credit: Boston Harborwalk

The M Street Beach and Carson beach form a three mile segment of shorelines around South Boston’s Dorchester Bay  known as Castle Island. There is a walking/jogging/rollerblading/biking path that follows the shoreline and is a popular outdoor recreation site. Fort Independence, a granite fort built between 1834 and 1851, stands along the Caste Island path and is open from Memorial Day to Columbus Day. Also, check out Sullivan’s Restaurant for cheap and delicious seafood and grill items.

August is the month for great food and amazing deals as Restaurant Week hits Boston. Now, Turner Fisheries is joining in on the fun with a menu that will get your mouth watering and your wallet smiling. 2-course lunch for only $15.10, 3 course-lunch for only $20.10, and 3-course dinner for only $33.10.

Restaurant Week Lunch Menu

turner’s “hall of fame chowder”
house-made oyster crackers

apple-wood smoked tomato bisque
scamorza crostini

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sea-rainbow trout
meyer lemon, grilled yellow watermellon,
cilantro, tamarind essence

vodka horse-radish spiked chicken
heirloom tomato risotto, worcestershire scotch bonnet dressed micro celery

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summer berry cheesecake
dark chocolate, whipped cream

Restaurant Week Dinner Menu

turner’s “hall of fame chowder”
house-made oyster crackers

apple-wood smoked tomato bisque
scamorza crostini

chilled rope grown mussel salad
over roasted fennel, red peppers, yellow beans, summer beans,
garbanzo beans, frisee

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grilled wild salmon
broiled creamer potatoes
pomegranate orange sangria reduction

sea-rainbow trout
meyer lemon, grilled yellow watermellon,
cilantro, tamarind essence

vodka horse-radish spiked chicken
heirloom tomato risotto, worcestershire scotch bonnet dressed micro celery

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white chocolate terrine
peach soup, spearmint syrup

summer berry cheesecake
dark chocolate, whipped cream

Restaurant Week at Turner Fisheries is from August 15th-20th and August 22nd-27th.

Date: Saturday, May 8th
Location: South End Formaggio
268 Shawmut Ave.
Boston, MA 02118

South End Formaggio will be holding a special event for those of you who love Italian-made wines, cheeses, and honey. In dedication to celebrating spring, this free tasting of original Italian products is something you don’t want to miss. Elleen from Adonna will be presenting pictures and telling us stories of her journeys where she stopped to collect these Italian made products.

For more information, visit: http://www.southendformaggio.com

At Turner Fisheries, an establishment firmly rooted in New England tradition, we pride ourselves on serving dishes that are prepared with only the freshest ingredients. You won’t find any frozen seafood products here.

But we want to hear from other cooks around New England; whether you cook for a living, or just for your family of four. When it comes to seafood, what signifies your best dish? Is it the seasoning? Is it the catch?

Whatever it may be, Turner Fisheries invites you to participate in “The Turner Fisheries Seafood Recipe Challenge.” Think you have a seafood recipe that has what it takes to be prepared and served at a high-end restaurant? Now is your chance to prove it. E-mail your very own recipe to westincopley@westin.com. Even if your recipe is one passed down to you from generations passed, we will post it right here on GatewayToBoston.com. All posts will be placed in the running to participate in a live cook-off event in Turner’s kitchen in front of our esteemed panel of judges for the chance to be crowned winner of the “The Turner Fisheries Seafood Recipe Challenge.”

Prizes
Grand Prize
- Recipe on the menu for a limited time.
- All-Clad Stainless Cookware Set ( Approx. value $600)

2nd Prize
- Professional knife set (value $404)

3rd Prize
- $100 Gift certificate to Turner Fisheries

To improve your chances of winning, encourage your friends to voice their support for your recipe by leaving a comment under your post. Over the course of the contest (closes May 31st), we will choose five finalists from all of the recipes that we receive, including the three posts that accumulate the most comments!

Don’t waste anytime and send your recipes in today – westincopley@westin.com

Must be 18 years of age or older to submit a recipe.  Must be a legal resident of the USA to participate in the Turner Fisheries Seafood Contest.

Yes, you have read correctly.  To celebrate the relaunch of lunch at Turner Fisheries, Boston’s award winning restaurant in the heart of Back Bay, on April 2nd from 11:30am-2pm we will be serving lunch for free ONLY if you are a fan of The Westin Copley Place’s Facebook fan page.

To receive your free lunch on April 2nd:
1. Ensure that you are a fan of The Westin Copley Place on Facebook – facebook.com/westincopleyplace
2. Call Turner Fisheries to make your reservation for April 2nd’s free Facebook lunch – (617) 424-7425.
3. Bring ID with you on April 2nd’s free Facebook fan lunch event.

A free lunch will be available to the first 100 The Westin Copley Place Facebook fans who make a reservation by Wednesday, March 31st.  This special offer does not include alcoholic beverages.

In response to an overwhelming demand from their Back Bay neighbors, Turner Fisheries will open their doors for lunch on April 5^th.

“Our Back Bay neighbors have spoken and we’re going to give them what they want,” said Turner Fisheries Chef Armand Toutaint. “You can eat just so many subs, wraps and slices of pizza every day. People want healthy options for lunch and you can’t get healthier than fresh seafood.”

The new lunch menu will feature many of Turner Fisheries favorites, like their award-winning “Hall of Fame” Clam Chowder, Maine Lobster Roll, Baked Long-Line Scrod, and Wild Alaskan Salmon. The new menu will also feature a Design Your Own Panini option, where diners can choose from four different freshly baked breads and fillings like grilled chicken, smoked turkey, black forest ham, smoked salmon, grilled vegetables, and jonah crab meat, along with a variety of cheeses, toppings and condiments.

The highlight of the lunch menu is a pre-fix three-course Express Lunch for just $19. Options include Clam Chowder, Tomato Bisque, Lobster Sliders, Chicken Caesar Salad, Jonah Crab Cakes, Vegetable Panini, Flourless Chocolate Cake, and Crème Brule.

“Our lunch menu features something for everyone,” Toutaint said. “The common denominator is that everything on the menu is fresh, tasty and healthy.”

Like the dinner menu, the Turner Fisheries lunch menu features sustainable seafood. The restaurant is committed to supporting sustainable fisheries and healthy oceans, purchasing over 95 percent of the seafood they prepare from sources, either fished or farmed, that can exist over the long-term without compromising species’ survival or the health of the surrounding ecosystem.

Beginning on Monday, April 5^th, Turner Fisheries will be open for lunch Monday – Saturday from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.

With each week offering a different fleet of fresh oysters, you will not want to miss this great offer from 5:00 pm – 10:00pm.

Turner Fisheries is conveniently located in Boston’s Back Bay at the Green Line’s Copley stop or the Orange Line’s Back Bay station.