If you’ve never tried a waffle burger or Shipwreck eggs, here’s your chance.
It’s the start of the 15th annual Stockton Restaurant Week, in which the city’s best restaurants will showcase some of their most delightful and interesting dishes. In many cases, they are multicourse affairs at an appetizing fixed price.
Through Jan. 26, the eateries will indulge in what Visit Stockton, the city’s tourism promotion arm, calls “a delicious adventure” and a chance to “savor the best of Stockton’s food scene.”
Visit Stockton breaks down the offerings from participating restaurants by breakfast, lunch and dinner on its website. For lunch alone, it lists 24 dining places taking part. They range from Smoke + Meat BBQ to ShoMi Japanese Cuisine.
A run-through of the listings of participating restaurants shows prices generally running from about $15 to $25.
The week promises to take diners on some divergent and delectable culinary journeys. Like, say, to a waffle burger.
As the name implies, it’s basically a hamburger using a pair of Belgian waffles as the bun. It’s no simple affair. Besides beef patties and the waffles, the American Waffle Diner on March Lane serves it with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, sautéed mushrooms, crispy bacon and melted cheese. After a drizzle of a secret-recipe homemade sauce, it’s served with a side of french fries.
Then there’s Shipwreck eggs, a Sunday brunch offering from Bud’s Seafood Grille in Lincoln Center. The dish includes eggs scrambled with ham, fresh spinach leaves, scallions and herbed potatoes. Then it’s topped with cheese, sour cream and diced tomatoes.
Altogether, the wide variety of dining options will let Stocktonians chomp their way around the world without leaving town. Participating Restaurant Week cuisines include American, Italian, French, German, Mexican, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Mediterranean.
There’s only one rule for the 10-day extravaganza: Come hungry.