It's time for the spring Seattle-area Twenty-Five restaurants with $25 prix fixe dinners: Twenty-Five for $25 Dine Around Seattle March 1-29. Some of the restaurants are also featuring a $15 lunch.

My Sweetie and I dove into the first 25 for 25 that happened after we moved to Redmond. It is a great way to get to know the area restaurants without draining your budget... given that you can resist cocktails and wine and such with your meal.

The Eastside restaurants on the list include:

• Barking Frog right near Willows Lodge. If you like Redhook beer, you can easily walk over to the Redhook pub and have a delicious pint before and/or after.
• Third Floor Fish Cafe in downtown Kirkland (on the water - try to go for the sunset!). Nice place just for happy hour appetizers, too.
• Yarrow Bay Grill & Beach Cafe (on the water, too - ditto on the sunset!)

Make your reservations soon according to the restrictions of when they are serving their prix fixe menu (Sundays through Thursdays). I remember the Barking Frog filling up quickly. When you go, after you're seated they hand you both the regular menu and the prix fixe menu.

The meals typically are a tad bit smaller than the regular menu dinners, but you know, in this day of wild excess, I feel that the meals are actually the right size of what we should be eating. And tend to taste wonderful!