Jaunary 17, 2024

There are over 60 Brooklyn options for diners during Restaurant Week.

NYC Restaurant Week kicked off Tuesday with 64 Brooklyn joints participating in the three week food bonanza across the city.

Participating restaurants will offer two-course lunches and three-course dinners at $30, $45 and $60. More than 600 restaurants across the five boroughs are participating in the program, which runs from January 16 to February 4.

Restaurant Week was created in 1992 and was originally intended to be a one-time event to welcome the Democratic National Convention. It is now held semi-annually. Restaurants can choose to participate in one, two or all three weeks. Saturdays are excluded from the program.

Kokomo, a modern Caribbean-fusion restaurant in Williamsburg, is participating in all three weeks. The eatery has opted into every NYC Restaurant Week since opening in the summer of 2020.

“It’s a good way to give people an opportunity to try our food by offering them a special deal,” said Kevol Graham, co-founder of Kokomo. Graham opened the restaurant in the midst of the pandemic with his wife Ria and credits social media strategy for keeping them afloat through what has been a rocky few years for the restaurant industry.

The restaurant is debuting new menu items this week, including a vegan soup with vegetables, Jamaican curry, a cod fish dinner, and a rum raisin bread pudding desert.

“It’s a melting pot,” said Graham of Kokomo’s cuisine. “We try to collaborate with all the different Caribbean islands by infusing and taking different ingredients and pairing different things together that you normally wouldn’t.”