{"id":87673,"date":"2026-01-15T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:12:29","slug":"kickoff-party-held-in-celebration-of-upcoming-erie-restaurant-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87673\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickoff party held in celebration of upcoming Erie Restaurant Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie Restaurant Week is right around the corner, and on Wednesday night, some involved restaurants came together to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A private kickoff party was held featuring several dish samples from local venues that will be offered once the week-long event starts on January 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/officials-cut-the-ribbon-on-new-food-bank-at-upmc-health-plan-neighborhood-center\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Officials cut the ribbon on new food bank at UPMC Health Plan Neighborhood Center;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Officials cut the ribbon on new food bank at UPMC Health Plan Neighborhood Center <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers hoped the annual event, which started right after COVID, would continue to support the local restaurant scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s right after the holidays, but it\u2019s right before Valentine\u2019s Day. January is typically a slow month for the restaurants. This just gives them a little extra boost, and we\u2019re hoping they\u2019ll get some new patrons out of it too,\u201d said Chris Temple, director of communications for VisitErie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year, over 70 area restaurants are participating in the week-long recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie Restaurant Week is right around the corner, and on Wednesday night, some involved restaurants came together to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43657,136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-87673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-chris-temple","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}