Now that (maybe) we’ve sobered up from Beer Week, it’s time to starting focusing on the other best thing about March: basketball! It’s tourney time, sports fans, and you can find us watching the game/hiding from our bookie at Ugly American, Chickie’s & Pete’s or Yello’bar.

For the non-basketball minded, there are plenty of promos going on around town. Philadelphia Style is underway with its second annual Meal Madness competition under new owners Niche Media LLC. Thirty-two area restaurants are competing for glory. Each has crafted a signature dish for less than $10, available Mondays through Wednesdays during the month of March. Check out one (like the braised boar and polenta at Chick’s Café & Wine Bar) or all 32 and be sure to vote here for the dish you want to see advance to the next round.

At City Paper, The Beermaid has swapped basketballs for microbrews, pitting our local suds against each other to see which reign supreme. Gullifty’s Pizza Grille and Bar in Rosemont has divided 64 beers into four conferences (North American, North European, South European and Local). Fill out a bracket on its Web site and make sure you’re there for the Elite 8 Beer Tasting on April 9. Sales in the restaurant and bar determine which beers advance to the next round.

March also has us thinking summer, which incidentally has us thinking seafood. Jersey steamers. Soft-shell crabs. Whole bass on the grill. Mmmm. For now, though, you can get your seafood fix over at the newest location of McCormick & Schmick’s over the bridge in Cherry Hill, N.J. It’s a monster 300-seater with additional room on an outdoor patio, and the seafood-focused menu will change twice daily. Incoming Stephen Starr connection: general manager Tom Brewer was last at Barclay Prime.

Some more openings this month, to be taken with a grain of delay salt: Fishtown gastropub Memphis Taproom, which recently named Jesse Kimball (formerly of Lacroix, pish-posh) as chef; Devil’s Den in South Philly, pouring from 28 taps courtesy of the folks from Manayunk’s Old Eagle Tavern; Cypriot BYOB Kanella; and the 17th and Chestnut outlet of Goodburger, the New York mini-chain giving Five Guys a run for their money.