Kobe Club has a few seats still available for Restaurant Week.

Photo: Noah Kalina

Summer Restaurant Week (July 21–25 and July 28–August 1) is fast approaching and eager diners are snapping up reservations for those $24.07 prix fixe lunches and $35 prix fixe dinners. It's no surprise in this economy that Restaurant Week lunches and dinners are completely booked up at Gramercy Tavern. Chanterelle, Eleven Madison Park and Nobu, which all offer the deal only during lunch (like many of the most popular places), are full too.

Still, there are many other participating restaurants with space available – at least for now. Cipriani's Wall Street (212-699-4096), Megu (212-964-7777), Metrazur (212-687-4600), Park Room (212-521-6655), Tribeca Grill (212-941-3900) and Water's Edge (718-482-0033) have reservations left on most days for lunch and dinner; so does Aquavit (212-307-7311), which is also offering the special pricing on the weekend of July 26th–27th.  Lunch-only participants Gotham Bar & Grill (212-620-4020) and Tocqueville (212-647-1515) have space as well.

Meanwhile, Bar Boulud (212-595-0303), Kobe Club (212-644-5623), maze (212-468-8889) and The Modern (212-333-1220) can only satisfy Restaurant Week diners looking for late lunches or late dinners.

Some restaurants have generously decided to keep the deal going past August 1st. Union Square Cafe (212-243-4020) will offer its RW-priced lunches that weekend, August 2nd–3rd. Fleur de Sel (212-460-9100) is extending the special lunch pricing through Labor Day, including weekends. Le Cirque (212-644-0202), whose Restaurant Week dinners (but not lunches) are fully booked through August 1st, is extending the $35 prix fixe dinner in its cafe through the end of August (after which the cafe goes back to being no-reservations).