Looks like the drumbeat to show off the culinary capades of Greater Lowell has finally reached a feverpitch. Lowell will partake in a restaurant week in August. Dovetailing w/ the established Boston Restaurant Week for the first year, CVB head honcho Deb Belanger hopes to bring Merrimack Valley along on its own shortly thereafter. The restaurants have not been announced yet, but there will be 25 involved in the prix fixe feat. I can tell you right now Ricardos will be one of them as proprietor Dick Rourke birthed the idea. Many of you have given me lists of places you would like to see involved, so it seems the interest is there. It will be something like $30 for a three-course dins and $20 for a similar lunch. There's talk of a canal-side kick off downtown w/ chefs demonstrating by the water on a fri. night. That would be something. Dates being bandied are Aug. 11-17, so don't book that house at the beach!