{"id":87692,"date":"2026-01-15T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:36:14","slug":"kickoff-party-held-in-celebration-of-upcoming-erie-restaurant-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/87692\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickoff party held in celebration of upcoming Erie Restaurant Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie Restaurant Week is right around the corner, and on Wednesday night, some involved restaurants came together to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>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>\t<a 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\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tOfficials cut the ribbon on new food bank at UPMC Health Plan Neighborhood Center\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organizers hoped the annual event, which started right after COVID, would continue to support the local restaurant scene.<\/p>\n<p>\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>This year, over 70 area restaurants are participating in the week-long recognition.<\/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":87693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[43657,136,138,137,38030,8236],"class_list":{"0":"post-87692","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","12":"tag-erie-restaurant-week","13":"tag-visiterie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87692","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=87692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}