The Bronx is finally joining its foodie-mad other boroughs in launching the first-ever Bronx Restaurant Week. It is the last of the five boroughs to host a discount-driven restaurant week, showcasing the area’s best food and dining, but don’t they save the best for last? Savor the Bronx, created by BP Ruben Diaz, Jr. and the New York State Restaurant Association, kicked off yesterday, and will last through Sunday, Nov. 13.

Participating restaurants will serve up deal alongside cuisine from around the world, such as the Guyanese restaurant Coconut Palm off the Zerega 6 train, offering a $14.99 dinner special.

Crowned the ‘official brewery’ of Savor the Bronx by BP Diaz, the Bronx Brewery will be partnering up with the Bronx Ale House on Tuesday November 8, beginning at 6 pm, held at the Ale House. The brewery will be hosting a beer tasting as chefs at the Bronx Ale house get creative in the kitchen with pairing food dishes to the brewery’s Pale Ale.

If brew food doesn’t wet your palate, possibly a scenic trip out to City Island’s Portofino, where they are offering customers complimentary dessert and coffee with an entree.

The menus are first rate and the deals are bountiful across the borough this week- don’t miss out on savoring the Bronx!

For a complete list of restaurants and other information on Bronx restaurant week visit savorthebronx.com. And here’s an in-depth preview of the event from NY1, featuring the Bronx Ale House owner James Langstine as well as borough president and apparent Ale House patron Ruben Diaz, Jr., who goes on and on and on some more about the types of food the Bronx has to offer.

If you do take in a meal at any of these restaurants, let us know how it goes.

And finally, a question: what restaurants aren’t on the list that should be on the list?