Long Island Restaurant Week: 10 recommendations

This year's budget may not allow for a trip to France. Or India. But at least you can get a taste of a foreign cuisine during Long Island Restaurant Week. Running from Sunday to Nov. 10, it's a chance to sample local menus, three courses at a time, for $27.95 a person.

Your tour begins at the following restaurants, an international cross-section of the more than 175 participants. The deal goes all night except Saturday, when most run only until 7p.m. Reservations recommended. For a full listing, go to longislandrestaurantweek.com.

At this handsome, high-ceilinged Indian spot, your meal might begin with seekh kebab (minced lamb and chicken, rolled, skewered and grilled), followed by a main course of chicken tikka masala and, to conclude, mango ice cream.

A Suffolk standby for Indian fare, Curry Club offers, among appetizer selections, a vegetable samosa, a main course possibility of shrimp tikka masala (served with naan or garlic naan) and, to conclude, gulab jamun (fried milk balls in honey syrup).

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In airy, well-appointed environs, dinner might begin with grilled sausage with broccoli rabe and cherry peppers. Next might be fresh gnocchi with a veal and chicken ragu and, finally, panna cotta with wild berry sauce.

Eric Lo Mando's modern Italian cuisine means a seasonally driven list of appetizers, pastas and entrees. Choose any two of these savory courses -- with options such as semolina-fried chicken, spaghetti carbonara, pork loin with faro -- and finish with whatever dessert the chef dreams up.

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Dinner at these buoyant contemporary Mexican spots could kick off with sopa de tortilla (tortilla soup), followed by a main course of salmon en manchamanteles (roasted salmon with crispy bananas, pineapple pico de gallo and mole) and, for dessert, tres leches cake.

The flavors of Latin America and the Caribbean define a meal that might start with beer-steamed Prince Edward Island mussels, followed by panko-crusted King salmon with mango-papaya salsa and, for dessert, a baked apple-sweet plantain cobbler.

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Options at this atmospheric French bistro include a duck confit tart as an appetizer, a main course of moules et frites (Prince Edward Island mussels with French fries) and, for dessert, crepes Suzette.

Revamped and renovated after a fire, this classic French restaurant offers a meal that might start with ham and cheese crepes, followed by stuffed pork tenderloin and, for dessert, chocolate mousse.

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This sprawling Westbury house of hibachi and sushi offers two ways to go: A hibachi dinner of soup and salad, edamame or a California roll plus a choice of hibachi-style chicken, steak or shrimp. Or opt for a sushi dinner that starts with soup, salad, edamame or shumai dumplings, followed by a choice of two sushi rolls (such as black dragon or spicy tuna). For both options, green tea or vanilla ice cream concludes the meal.

High style and a mix of Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese influences inform the food at this bi-level spot, where dinner might start with duck buns, followed by garlic prawns and, for dessert, fried Oreos with chocolate sauce.

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