Can’t wait for Summer Restaurant Week? Well, you’ll have to – it doesn’t start for another ten days or so (August 19th-24th and then August 26th-31st, as if you need reminding). You can bide your time on the Insider’s Guide to Restaurant Week – perusing menus, booking tables, flipping through photos from a select group of participating restaurants AND reading the brand spanking new Restaurant Week Blog where we’re curating all the Restaurant Week coverage we can find and offering up some behind the scenes insight (that’s what makes it the Insider’s Guide, after all). We’re warming up for the feeding frenzy by chatting with a few local chefs to hear their thoughts about Restaurant Week.

Blue Inc.’s Jason Santos never eats out for Restaurant Week.

Chef Andrew Yeo of Artisan Bistro talks about the challenge of creating a menu for less than $35.

Jody Adams’ Rialto Restaurant Week Menu is two months in the making.