Orange County Restaurant Week, the region’s largest culinary event, returns March 2. Last year, more than 200,000 people took advantage of its specially curated and fixed-price menus — an average of three times each.

“O.C. Restaurant Week is a celebration of connection, an invitation to gather and to discover new restaurants,” says event founder Pamela Waitt.

Make that the “newest” restaurants at Irvine Spectrum Center, where participants include four of its most recent additions: Pepper Lunch, Dizzy Bird, Georgia’s and Le Shrimp Noodle Bar.

During Restaurant Week, Japanese DIY teppan experience Pepper Lunch offers any of nine pepper rice dishes — including three versions of its standout kimchi pepper rice — and a beverage for $15.

Dizzy Bird features marinated, spatchcocked, rotisserie chicken. Menus feature grilled wraps — try hot or Silly Bird — with a side dish and drink ($15) and whole chicken with two sides serving 3-4 ($25).

Soul-delicious Georgia’s offers family-bucket meals for four with cornbread, two large sides and half a chocolate-chip bundt cake: chicken tenders ($35), fried chicken ($45) or chicken breast ($47).

At Singapore-based Le Shrimp Noodle Bar, $20 brings unlimited noodles in shrimp or chicken broth, choice of prawns, braised scallion soy chicken, or prawns and chicken and a bok choy side.

Here are all the Irvine Spectrum Center restaurants participating In OC Restaurant Week this year.