Providence Restaurant Weeks begin on Sunday and will now cover 14 days (ending on July 19) with more than 60 local restaurants offering three-course, fixed-price lunches for $12.95 and three-course dinners for $29.95.

This gives diners the chance to try a new place, revisit an old favorite, tuck into an expensive steak house or even toss down a pint at a fun pub. Restaurants with cutting edge cuisine are on the list, as are eateries devoted to local food. Participating restaurants will offer menus consisting of an appetizer or salad, an entrée and a dessert. Some casual dining establishments are offering two-for-$12.95 lunches and two-for-$29.95 dinners or two-for-one specials.

All Restaurant Weeks features are offered in addition to the regular menu and do not include beverage, tax or tip.

On the event’s Web site ( www.providencerestaurantweeks.com,) many restaurants have posted menus and many offer several choices for each course. Others have customized in their own way: 3 Steeple Street Bistro & Bar, for example, has three different menus from which to choose.

Pizzico Ristorante offers many choices, beginning with an appetizer or pizza and including a long list of choices. There are 12 choices of entree, from lobster ravioli to risotto. Dessert options include ice cream, gelato or tiramisu. Parties of two or more also get a complimentary bottle of wine.

Other restaurants offer one fixed price menu.

At XO Steakhouse, dinner starts with crispy striped bass and an asiago and sun-dried tomato risotto with herbed sweet pea emulsion. The entree is seared Long Island duck breast with wild mushroom and confit crepes and truffle-honey Glaze. Dessert is espresso-flavored pot de creme and XO truffles.

Most give several choices for each course.

At Providence Prime, the appetizer is a choice of Prime’s lettuce-wedge salad or tomato, basil, and sweet Vidalia onion. The entree choice is tenderloin tips Diane or rigatoni and veal sausage. Dessert is a choice of creme brulee or Prime’s Campfire s’mores.

At Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, the first course choices are French onion soup or classic Caesar salad. There are three choices for a main course: a 12 ounce New York strip steak, a 12-ounce brined pork chop or an 8-ounce tuna mignon, seared rare. Each entrée is served with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and green beans. Dessert is a choice between chocolate mousse cake or crème brulee.

At Pane e Vino, first course is a choice of fried green tomatoes with Fiore di Latte mozzarella, fennel salad with arugula or Prosciutto di Parma with melon. The entree choice is bucatini with carbonara sauce, chicken breast alla Milanese with arugula salad or braised pork shank with orange and olive sauce over risotto. Dessert is a fresh fruit Napoleon or tiramisu.

New to Restaurant Week this year are Aspire (at the Hotel Providence), Bacaro, Chinese Laundry, Farmstead and La Laiterie at Farmstead, Fatty McGee’s Dublin Pub, Fleming’s, Gregg’s (Providence), Legal Sea Foods (Warwick), Murphy’s Deli & Bar (at their new, larger location), Rick’s Roadhouse, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, Siena Cucina (East Greenwich), Two Forty Two Restaurant & Lounge and Walter’s Ristorante d’Italia.

Returning Providence restaurants are: 3 Steeple Street, 10 Prime Steak & Sushi, Blaze East Side, Blue Grotto, Bluefin Grille (at the Marriott), Bravo Brasserie, Caffe Dolce Vita, Camille’s Restaurant, The Capital Grille, CAV, Chez Pascal, Citron Wine Bar & Bistro, Don Jose Tequilas Restaurant, Downcity@50 Weybosset, Geppetto’s, Gracie’s, Hemenways Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar, Local 121, McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant, Mediterraneo, Mills Tavern, Napa Valley Grille, New Rivers, Paragon, Pane e Vino Ristorante, Parkside Rotisserie & Bar, Pearl Restaurant & Lounge, Pizzico, Pot au Feu, Providence Oyster Bar, Providence Prime, Rue de l’Espoir, Shula’s 347 Grill, Siena, Temple Downtown, Trinity Brewhouse, Twist on Angell, Waterman Grille, Waterplace, XO Steakhouse and Zooma Bar Ristorante

Restaurants outside of Providence include Eleven Forty Nine Restaurant (Warwick), The Grille on Main (East Greenwich), Pinelli’s Cucina (North Smithfield), Pinelli’s Cucina Twist (South Kingstown), Pinelli’s Gourmet Deli/Pinelli’s at Night Café (West Warwick), The Post Office Cafe (East Greenwich) and Twist Restaurant (Warwick).

Reservations may be made by calling participating restaurants directly. Reservations may also be made at the providencerestaurant weeks.com site.