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Restaurant deals: Sunday
At Olivia, lamb sliders at the bar are 30 percent off on Sundays and Mondays. Photo by Ricardo B. Brazziell.
A sampling of above-average food at some of Austin’s signature places for below-average prices. Check back for each of the next six days to find more deals arranged by day of the week. Be aware that specials change with alarming regularity. Call ahead (restaurant directory here) or check with your server before ordering
SUNDAY
• Alligator Grill: (3 to 7 p.m.) This is pure happy-hour business, because the Alligator insists you buy an alcoholic drink or a full-price dish to partake, but it’s worth mentioning. From 3 to 7 p.m. daily (and all day on Tuesday), pay just 20 cents for shrimp and 50 cents for oysters and wings.
• Aussie’s Grill & Beachbar: (11 p.m. to 2 a.m.) The menu is a daily scattershot of lunch and dinner specials, including $5.99 chicken-fried steak and $6.99 fish and chips. But the reason it makes this list is for the daily 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. late-night half-price appetizers (Southwest egg rolls or fried crawfish tails for $4? OK.).
• Bill Miller Bar-B-Q: In what might be the granddaddy of deals in this entire list, Bill Miller Bar-B-Q steps up with $2.99 deals all day, every day, everywhere. That buys a meat, a side, a roll and a glass of tea. The choices: a sliced beef sandwich, two pieces of fried chicken, half a sausage link (two sides) or chicken strips.
• Chon Som Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar: (5 to 7 p.m.) About a dozen kinds of sushi for $1 during happy hour, from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Plus $2 sake bombs.
• The Daily Grill: (4 p.m. to close) The people at the Daily Grill have clearly lost their minds, a dollar at a time. For $1.94, the happy-hour menu includes fried calamari, a hummus plate and Parmesan-crusted chicken sandwiches. At $2.94, take your pick of spinach artichoke dip, ahi sashimi or chicken pot pie. And this is no blink-and-you-miss-it special: 4 to 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to close Monday-Friday and 4 p.m. to close Saturday-Sunday. Further evidence of insanity: a $2 all-day kids’ menu that includes entree, drink and dessert.
• Eddie V’s Edgewater Grill: (4:30 p.m. to close) Another place that works like a street dealer in a ’70s drug movie, offering a taste for half-price (there’s even some jazzy background music). They know you’ll be back for more. Half-price ahi tartare, a Maryland crab cake, Maine lobster-and-shrimp bisque and more during happy hour. Plus $1 off drinks.
• Hayashi Modern Japanese Cuisine: (all day) $5 sushi rolls (crunchy spicy crab, spicy tuna, eel avocado, seven spice), $5 calamari and kobe sliders and $2.50 house wine by the glass.
• Hoover’s Cooking: (4 to 7 p.m.) Comfort food meets happy hour. There should be a special category for that: comfy hour? Seven days a week from 4 to 7 p.m., Hoover’s offers bar drinks and appetizers at half-price. No small thing, considering that price means smoked wings for about $3.50, chipotle chicken quesadillas for about $4.25 and spinach-artichoke dip for about $3.75.
• Imperia: (5:30 p.m. to close) It’s nice to find low-cost entry points in a high-end place. How’s this? Imperia’s $12.95 sea bass skewers are $5 during happy hour. So are specialty martinis, including the Imperia Pearl (Grey Goose and Nigori sake), and small plates like buttery edamame potstickers or a Black Angus rib-eye roll.
• Jeffrey’s: (5 to 7 p.m.) When one of the best restaurants in town says, “Have some foie gras pate for $8.50,” the correct answer is, “OK, when?” or “Really?” From 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday-Friday and 9 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Jeffrey’s offers a half-price happy-hour menu in the bar. Other choices include risotto and duck sausage croquettes ($6), wagyu hanger steak and fries ($14) and a mini bison burger with blue cheese ($3.50).
• Kenobi Restaurant & Sushi Bar: (all day) Appetizers (like Asian short ribs, sesame scallops and dumplings with lobster and shrimp) are $5, and four types of sushi rolls (California, Philadelphia, spicy tuna, shrimp tempura) are $5.
• Louie’s 106: Bottles of wine are 50 percent off.
• Manuel’s: (4 to 6 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $4 house margaritas.
• McCormick & Schmick’s: (Congress Avenue: 5 p.m. to close. Domain: 3 to 5 p.m.) Insane happy-hour menus, with equally head-spinning schedules. The $1.95 menu includes tomato bruschetta and chicken satay. For $2.95, a half-pound cheeseburger with fries joins the fray. At $3.95, add red curry mussels. And for $4.95, choose from a lamb gyro, cheeseburger sliders and Baja fish tacos.
• Momiji Hibachi & Sushi: (5 p.m. to close) Half-price sushi.
• Olivia: The small bar at the entrance serves its own limited menu, including lamb sliders ($9), a bowl of fries ($5) and a cheese and charcuterie platter ($14). The bar menu and bottles of sparkling wine are discounted 30 percent, and beer is $1 off.
• Red House Pizzeria: (5 to 7 p.m.) The best parts of the late Stortini Italian bistro live on at Red House, where pizza is half-price every day from 5 to 7 p.m., making a large sausage with roasted red peppers a mere $8.75.
• Red Robin: “All day every day” is a sentiment I can get behind. At Red Robin, they combine that sentiment with a family restaurant aesthetic, and what you get is a free kids’ meal (12 and younger) with the purchase of an adult entree. The options include spaghetti, a burger and chicken tenders, plus a side (fries, apple slices, carrots with ranch) and a bottomless drink.
• Roaring Fork: (4:30 to close) This Southwestern standout shows off with happy-hour specials that range from green chile pork stew for $6 (regularly $10) to a giant burger for $8 (regularly $13) and a fondue pot with lamb chops for $8 (usually $14).
• Rome’s Pizza: Buy a large pizza and get a second large at half-price.
• Shoal Creek Saloon: (after 4 p.m.) Chicken-fried steak with two sides, $6.99.
• 219 West: During happy hour (6 to 9 p.m. Sundays), appetizers from each of the six themed menus are half-off (plus 50 cents), which puts many of them in the $4 to $6 range. Highlights include chipotle mac and cheese, seafood beignets, calamari steak fingers, beef carpaccio and six kinds of mini burgers. Martinis start at $5, and select wine flights are $12 for five 2-ounce tastes.
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