170 Main Street appears on both Restaurant Week rosters. Last October the restaurant there was PraiNam Thai Restaurant & Bar. This October it is listed as Port Washington Thai. PraiNam opened in November 2024, closed at the end of March 2026, and one of its co-owners told Newsday that the concept had been sold to new owners. That one address sums up how this year's lineup changed.
Port Washington Restaurant Week runs from Sunday, October 18, through Sunday, October 25, 2026, with 17 restaurants. Last year there were 15. The bigger list doesn't mean more new restaurants opened in town. Most of this year's additions have been serving in Port Washington for years. Most of the names that dropped off were the town's newest restaurants a year ago.
Two rosters, side by side
The Port Washington Business Improvement District sponsors the event. Its 2026 announcement lists every participant, and Greater Long Island's 2025 listing has last year's. Compare the two and the restaurants fall into three groups.
| Restaurants | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| On both lists | Bosphorus Café Grill, Chada Thai Bistro, Finn MacCool's, Flora's Wine Bar & Café, Gino's of Port Washington, Ikedo Ramen, Sullivan's Quay, The Wild Goose, Toscanini Ristorante Italiano, Yummy Gyro | 10 |
| New to the list in 2026 | AP Ramen, Ayhan's Shish Kebab, Jia Dim Sum, Nino's Beach, Port Washington Thai, Riva Blu, Ruka Asian Fusion | 7 |
| On the 2025 list, not on the 2026 list | Diwan Indian Restaurant, Fly Chick to the Moon, Jade Eatery and Lounge, Palazzo Ristorante, PraiNam Thai Restaurant & Bar | 5 |
Going by the BID's two lists, ten restaurants have taken part both years, which makes them the event's steady core. The other two groups show where the town's restaurants changed over the past year.
Last year's newcomers
When the 2025 event was announced, BID Executive Director Holly Byrne said the organizers were "thrilled to welcome some new eateries alongside our beloved Port Washington classics." Several restaurants on that list had opened within the year before the event:
- PraiNam Thai opened at 170 Main Street in November 2024.
- Jade Eatery and Lounge opened at 1029 Port Washington Boulevard on May 7, 2025.
- Fly Chick to the Moon, a Korean fried-chicken pub at 95 Manorhaven Boulevard, opened in spring 2025.
- Palazzo Ristorante held its grand opening at 286 Main Street on July 3, 2025.
Three of those four have since closed. PraiNam closed at the end of March. According to Newsday, Jade closed in April 2026 because of difficulty staffing the Port Washington location. Newsday also reported on October 2 that Fly Chick to the Moon had closed.
Palazzo isn't on this year's list, but no source we found says it has closed. It may simply have chosen not to take part this time. The same goes for Diwan at 37 Shore Road, the fifth restaurant missing from this year's list. Diwan's own website still lists the Port Washington location and its daily hours.
That same Newsday report says Lim's Kitchen at 87 Main Street appeared to have closed, though the restaurant hadn't made a formal announcement. Lim's opened in spring 2026, after last year's event, so it was never on either list.
This year's additions
Seven restaurants are new to the list this year, and at least three of them have been in Port Washington for about four years:
- Jia Dim Sum at 84 Old Shore Road opened in July 2022. When it opened, it belonged to a group that also ran the Manhattan restaurants Wan Wan, Kimika and Wayla.
- Nino's Beach at 43 Orchard Beach Boulevard opened at Safe Harbor Marina in May 2022. It is owned by brothers Michael and Franco Vendome, the team behind Nino's 46 in Manhattan and Nino's AQ in Astoria, according to Patch.
- AP Ramen at 57 Main Street calls itself "the evolution of MB Ramen." Brothers Eric and Jason Machado opened MB Ramen in Port Washington in May 2022, four years after their original shop in Huntington.
The other four are Ayhan's Shish Kebab at 293 Main Street, Riva Blu at 283 Main Street, Ruka Asian Fusion at 99 Main Street and Port Washington Thai at 170 Main Street. We couldn't find local reporting on when Riva Blu or Ruka opened. Port Washington Thai is the only new name at a new business, and it fills a space that turned over this year.
In practice, the new names on the 2026 list are mostly places that have been around a while and are joining for the first time. Nino's Beach also adds a marina-side table to an event that last year had nothing on the water.
The core that keeps coming back
The ten restaurants that appear both years include some long-running names. Bosphorus Café Grill was reviewed as a new restaurant by Newsday in August 2014. Ikedo Ramen's Port Washington shop opened in 2021 and was the chain's first location. Its Carle Place shop followed in February 2023.
The youngest restaurant in this group is Flora's Wine Bar & Café at 172 Main Street. It opened in April 2024 in the space that had been the Olive Room, and before that Wild Honey. Owners Ervis and Gabriella Xhelaj also run Flora's Pizza Café in Syosset. Flora's opened only seven months before PraiNam, a few doors down, yet it's back on the list for 2026.
The event itself goes back years. A 2018 Long Island Press announcement described that October's Restaurant Week as the fourth.
This summer's openings aren't on the list
This summer's most-watched openings happened in Port Washington North's Soundview Marketplace. According to Long Island Press, Wonder opened in late July at 6 Soundview Market Place as a multi-brand food hall and takeout concept, with menus tied to chefs Bobby Flay, Marcus Samuelsson and Michael Symon. Crust, a new pizzeria in the same shopping center, held a soft opening on July 28.
Neither is taking part this October. Prix fixe menus are dine-in only, which doesn't suit a takeout-heavy model like Wonder's. If both restaurants are still open next October, they could join the list the way Jia Dim Sum and Nino's Beach did this year.
How the week works
The rules are the same across all 17 restaurants and come from the BID's Restaurant Week page:
- Dinner: three courses for $35 or $48, depending on the restaurant.
- Lunch: two courses for $21 at the restaurants that offer it, during their regular lunch hours.
- Choices: each restaurant agrees to offer three appetizers, three entrées and three desserts. Some add extra dishes for an additional charge.
- What's excluded: tax, tip and drinks. The BID calls 20% the standard tip.
- Saturday, October 24: prix fixe menus end at 6 p.m. Every other night they're available for as long as the restaurant is open.
- Reservations: the BID recommends calling each restaurant ahead and checking its hours directly.
Restaurants had to submit their menus by October 6, and the BID is posting them on its page as they come in. Because the early Saturday cutoff makes October 24 a short dinner night, Sunday the 18th, the weeknights and the closing Sunday the 25th are the nights with the full prix fixe window.
Two other food events fall close to Restaurant Week. Port Washington Polish Hall at 5 Pulaski Place hosts a Pierogi Party on Sunday, October 11, at 2 p.m. The farmers market runs on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. through October 31, so it's still open on the morning of the short Saturday.
A town's restaurants say a lot about how Main Street is doing, and the past year in Port Washington's dining scene is part of the local picture we follow every season. If you'd like to talk over what's changing along Main Street and nearby, Beth Catrone is glad to share what she's seeing. Let's Connect.
