“Travel, Food, Live Music, all at off season rates!”
On The Restaurant Week Travel Show™, Ingrid Croce, widow of the late singer-songwriter Jim Croce, tours the cities that have come to define themselves through their culinary treasures and musical styles with a value proposition that’s hard to resist!
Ingrid Croce, owner of the celebrated Croce’s Restaurant and Jazz Bar, credited with revitalizing San Diego’s Dining and Entertainment District and co-creator of the amazingly successful Restaurant Week in San Diego, “Doesn’t Mess Around”. She visits high-end dining establishments for their busiest culinary event of the year, Restaurant Week. And on a week-long culinary safari that seduces locals to tour their own city and join travelers indulging at “off-season rates” she adds the musical flavor of the cities she visits, starting and ending with singer-songwriter’s who perform the music that best define their town.
Viewers meet restaurateurs, chefs and musicians who have transformed their communities, urban districts and cultural landscapes impacting music, art, dance and fashion while exploring the boundaries of accepted dining traditions at fabulously low prices. If Restaurant Week sounds like a recipe for a delicious travel experience, you're right!
In this initial series of 12 shows, Croce escorts diners through “Restaurant Week” cities that have left an indelible mark on the world of travel and invites her guests (the viewers) to enjoy the benefits of “Restaurant Week” bargains. Her celebrity co-hosts will be singer-songwriters, chefs, sommeliers, restaurateurs, food critics, travel experts, Convention and Visitor Bureaus CEO’s, and the guests for whom these dining experiences have become a prerequisite for travel.
The soundtrack for “The Restaurant Week Travel Show™” resonates the character of each new city. In addition, like songs in a set list, each city’s musical genre will be expressed in an original soundtrack and will be sold on-line through web and television promotions at www.restaurantweektravelshow.com ). In addition “The Restaurant Week Travel Store™” will sell CD’s, DVD’s, “The Restaurant Week Travel Show™ Cookbooks”, modeled on Ingrid Croce’s San Diego Restaurant Cookbook, “The Restaurant Week Travel Show™” Merchandise, and more…)
Ultimately, the series will drive viewers to www.restaurantweektravelshow.com where discount travel, restaurant and attraction package deals are purchased year round! If you are a Restaurant Week City, a Convention and Visitor Bureau, or just interested in The Restaurant Week Travel Show™, please email us at info@croces.com.
Our list of Restaurant Week Cities currently on-line who participate in “The Restaurant Week Travel Show™” as well as their local celebrity musicians who add the ambience of the City’s sounds.
Atlanta, Georgia
Babyface, Toni Braxton, Big Fish Ensemble, folk-pop Indigo Girls, Backstreet Boys, Ludacris and T.I.
Boston, Massachusetts
James Taylor, Aerosmith, Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, The Cars, Boston, Arlo Guthrie
Denver, Colorado
Folk and Traditional Music, The Blue Canyon Boys and High Plains Tradition
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bob Dylan, Prince and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who produced Gladys Knight and Janet Jackson
New York, N.Y.,
Norah Jones, Lenny Kravitz, Cyndie Lauper, Christina Aguilera, Pat Benetar, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Alicia Keyes, Mariah Carey
Orlando and Miami, Florida
Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffet, The Cuban Community with Latin Pop and Gloria Estefan and Willie Chirino
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Patti LaBelle, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International Label, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Jamaican music Peter Blacks and The Reggae Vibrations Sound System
San Diego, California
Singer Songwriters A.J. Croce, Jewel, Steve Poltz, Rugburns, Gregory Page, Stephen Bishop, Jason Mraz, Switchfoot
Washington, DC
Joan Jett, Roberta Flack, Toni Braxton, Country stars Roy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dave Grohl (Nirvana and the Foo Fighters), Brian Baker with Bad Religion and his old time guitar
Baltimore and Wilmington Maryland
David Bromberg and Nancy Josephson American Roots music, Pop Punk, Good Charlotte, Jazz saxophonist Gary Thomas and Gary Bartz, and T.K. Blue (Afro-Carribean influence)
Austin, Texas
Willie Nelson, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Lyle Lovett
Las Vegas
In town talent
A half dozen California cities, through their Convention and Visitor Bureaus, are interested in participating in “The Restaurant Week Travel Show™”.(San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Napa/ Sonoma and Sacramento)
New Orleans and other cities that are converting their waterfront districts into thriving communities like Chicago, Milwaukee, Chattanooga, and Providence, Rhode Island would prosper from this promotion.
Outside the U.S.A. for future shows we propose, London, England, Kingston, Jamaica, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Moorea/Tahiti, Sydney, Australia, Montreal, Canada
