Bella Village Restaurant Week brings neighbors to the table
Bella Village Restaurant Week is an energetic, community-driven dining promotion that spotlights the independent restaurants shaping the flavors of Bella Vista and Queen Village right now, while giving longtime favorites a fresh moment in the spotlight. Powered by a collaboration between the Queen Village Neighbors Association, Bella Vista Neighbors Association, and the South Street Headhouse District, Bella Village Restaurant Week runs from February 20 through March 1, excluding Saturdays, and it’s built around exclusive discounts presented through prix fixe-style menus.
The charm of Bella Village Restaurant Week isn’t just the deal—it’s the invitation to treat your own neighborhood like a destination. It’s the excuse, if you needed one, to finally walk into the place you always pass, to bring a friend to a bar you swear you’ll visit “soon,” or to book a table where the staff already knows the rhythm of the block. The whole program is designed to make discovery easy and repeat visits feel rewarding, with accessible price points that let you hop around the area without turning it into an all-or-nothing splurge.
Bella Village Restaurant Week offers three price tiers and serious range
One of the smartest moves of Bella Village Restaurant Week is the way it stretches across multiple budgets while still feeling curated. The under-$25 tier is perfect for lunch breaks, casual meetups, and those “let’s keep it simple” days that still deserve something great. That lineup includes Bridget Foy’s lunch at 200 South Street, For Pete’s Sake at 900 South Front Street, Brooklyn Dumpling at 308 South Street, Tattooed Mom at 530 South Street, and more. It’s a lineup that presents like a neighborhood crawl—comfort food, global flavors, and the kind of casual rooms you can actually relax in.
Step up to the $40 tier, and Bella Village Restaurant Week starts to feel like a full-on dinner circuit. Casa Nostra and Famous 4th Street Deli are both in the mix, along with Cavanaugh’s Headhouse Brooklyn Dumpling at 421 South 2nd Street, MilkBoy at 401 South Street, and The Twisted Tail at 509 South 2nd Street. Then, if you’re in the mood to go bigger, the $60 tier brings Malbec at 400 South 2nd Street and Southwark at 701 South 4th Street into play, giving the week a couple of premium anchors for diners who like their prix fixe with a little extra swagger.
Bella Village Restaurant Week highlights the icons at $40
Every restaurant week has its headliners, and Bella Village Restaurant Week doesn’t hide the fact that it’s leaning into two neighborhood standbys with serious reputations: Famous 4th Street Delicatessen and The Twisted Tail, each offering curated $40 dinner menus meant to showcase what makes them essential.
Famous 4th Street Delicatessen—Philadelphia’s legendary Jewish deli since 1923—goes big with three curated four-course dining experiences for Bella Village Restaurant Week, each priced at $40 and built to celebrate classic deli tradition alongside the dishes locals crave on repeat. The Classic Experience features a half Famous Reuben served with potato pancakes, a pickle plate, matzoh ball soup, cheese kugel, and Dr. Brown’s, which is basically a love letter to the deli’s greatest hits.
The Philly Experience swaps in a half cheesesteak and pairs it with potato pancakes, a pickle plate, fresh-cut fries, cheesecake, and Dr. Brown’s, hitting that perfect intersection of deli heritage and local appetite. The Famous Experience highlights a lox sampler platter with a pickle plate, potato pancakes served with applesauce and sour cream, a black-and-white cookie, and Dr. Brown’s—clean, iconic, and quietly luxurious in the way only a great deli can be. Walk-ins are welcome for dine-in, which feels like the most Famous 4th Street detail possible.
Then there’s The Twisted Tail, Headhouse Square’s restaurant, bar, and live music venue, presenting a four-course prix fixe menu priced at $40 per person for Bella Village Restaurant Week with a Southern-inspired approach that knows how to flirt with bold flavors. The highlights read like a kitchen showing off without trying too hard: Spanish Octopus with paprika fingerling potatoes and chorizo, Crawfish Mac and Cheese finished with toasted breadcrumbs, and Grilled Hanger Steak served with fingerling potatoes and shishito peppers, finished with tangy balsamic and chimichurri.
Dessert keeps the energy high with options like a Tuxedo Pot de Crème made with white and dark chocolate, Bourbon Pineapple Upside-Down Cake paired with vanilla bean ice cream and strawberry coulis, or two scoops of seasonal ice cream or sorbet. It’s the kind of menu that turns a simple dinner reservation into a full evening—especially when you remember you’re sitting inside a place that’s also wired for live music.
Details on Bella Village Restaurant Week can be found HERE, and if you ask me, the move is to plan at least two stops—one classic, one new—so you feel the full point of the program: Bella Vista and Queen Village showing off together, plate by plate.
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