LEE — Been thinking about checking out Lee's dining experience? This is your chance.

Restaurant week, which begins Saturday and runs through May 2, will feature special menus, deals or items at 16 establishments across the community.

The main offering for the week are the various prix fixe menus restaurants have created, said Alexandra Heddinger, executive director of the Lee Chamber of Commerce, which organized the week.

The map shows all 16 participating restaurants that have special deals, menu items or prix fixe menus for Lee's restaurant week.

Prix fixe menus typically are set, three-course menus that allow a patron to choose from a short-list of items for each course. Café Triskele, a French Bistro, 51 Park Restaurant and Tavern, which serves American food, and Jalisco Cantina, serving Mexican food, all have dinner prix fixe menus available for less than $40.

Lee's Corner Kitchen has a lunch prix fixe menu for $30. It also has special breakfast menu items throughout the week. Starving Artist Cafe and Creperie will have a new crepe for the week.

Other restaurants are offering discounts on certain items. Salmon Run Fish House Seafood Restaurant is offering a half-priced appetizer with the purchase of an entree. Mint Indian Lakeside Dining is offering free mango lassies with the purchase of an entree.

The Lee Chamber of Commerce is further enticing patrons by having participating restaurants hand out punch cards, Heddinger said. Every time a patron gets a restaurant week special, whether its a full prix fixe menu or a special menu item, the restaurant will punch that card.

"If you get four stamps, you get entered to win a drawing for local items," she said. Although the exact items haven't been determined yet, it will likely be along the lines of gift cards to local stores.

51 Park Restaurant and Tavern in downtown Lee, which is participating in this year's restaurant week promotion.

Other participating restaurants not mentioned so far are: Juju's, Roses Restaurant, The Station Gastropub, Morgan House Restaurant, Locker Room Sports Pub, Burmese Bowl, Agaves and Alpamayo Peruvian Restaurant.

"Lee has one of the most vibrant restaurants scenes, I think, in the Berkshires," Heddinger said. "Everyone will find something that they like here in Lee, and this is a week where they can try everything and find what they want."