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Restaurant deals: Wednesday
At Doc’s Motorworks, Wednesday means it’s dollar taco day. Mexican beers in cans are $2 each. Photo by Mike Sutter.
A sampling of above-average food at some of Austin’s signature places for below-average prices. Check back for each of the next three 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
WEDNESDAY
• Abuelo’s: (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) $6.99 Mexican lunch specials.
• Alligator Grill: (3 to 7 p.m.) 20-cent shrimp, 50-cent oysters and wings. On Wednesdays, bottles of wine are half-price with an an entree.
• Aquarelle: (5 to 7 p.m.) Half-price dishes from the bar menu.
• Athenian Grill: (4 to 7p.m.) $5 food and drink specials and $10 bottles of Greek wine.
• Aussie’s Grill & Beachbar: (11 p.m. to 2 a.m.) Late-night half-price appetizers.
• Austin Land & Cattle: (5 to 7 p.m.) Bar-menu discounts, including half-price, hand-cut burgers.
• Bill Miller Bar-B-Q: (all day) $2.99 plates with a side, roll and tea.
• Cannoli Joe’s: (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.) Quality Italian lunch buffet for $9.99 ($5.99 for kids 12 and younger, free if they’re 3 or younger).
• Chez Zee: (3 to 6 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $3 frozen drinks, wells and wine.
• Chon Som Asian Cuisine and Sushi Bar: (5 to 7 p.m.) $1 sushi. $2 sake bombs.
• Chuy’s: (4 to 7 p.m.) Free chips, queso, salsa, beef and beans in the bar area. $3.50 margaritas.
• Corazon at Castle Hill: (4 to 7 p.m.) Half-price appetizers and $1 off drinks.
• Cuba Libre: (4 to 7 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $5 martinis, $3 draft beer.
• The Daily Grill: (4 to 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to close.) Happy-hour specials from $1.94 to $2.94. $2 all-day kids’ menu.
• Doc’s Motorworks: Pay just a dollar for crispy tacos and $2 for Mexican canned beers.
• Draught House Pub & Brewery: Like you need an excuse to hit a place with this many beers on draft, including six made in-house. But a dude’s gotta eat. And on Wednesday, the pizza’s free.
• Eddie V’s Edgewater Grill: (4:30 to 7 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $1 off drinks.
• Freddie’s Place: (4 to 7 p.m.) $2 frozen margaritas, wells, Jack-and-lemonade slushies and tall boys. Free brisket and wings starting at 6 p.m.
• Haiku Japanese Restaurant: (4 to 6:30 p.m.) Sushi rolls are $2.99, sushi is $1.50 per piece and beer is $2 a bottle.
• Hayashi Modern Japanese Cuisine: $5 sushi rolls, $5 sliders, $2.50 wine 3 to 6 p.m.
• Hoover’s Cooking: (4 to 7 p.m.) Bar drinks and appetizers at half-price.
• Hut’s Hamburgers: Most all the burgers at this mecca of meat on a bun are two-for-one from 6 to 10 p.m. A Ritchie Valens and a Wolfman Jack, please.
• Imperia: (4 to 7 p.m.) $5 dim sum, small plates and specialty martinis. Two-for-one sushi.
• Kenobi Restaurant & Sushi Bar: $5 appetizers and sushi rolls 4 to 7 p.m.
• The Jackalope: Two-for-one burgers on Wednesdays, including the fiery four chile burger and the crimini mushroom burger.
• Jeffrey’s: (5 to 7 p.m.) Half-price small-plates menu in the bar.
• La Familia: Lunch plates (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.), $4.99.
• Louie’s 106: (4 to 7 p.m.) Half-price appetizers and 20 percent off cocktails and wines by the glass.
• Manuel’s: (4 to 6 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $4 house margaritas.
• McCormick & Schmick’s: (Congress Avenue: 4 to 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. to close. Domain: 3 to 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 to 11 p.m.) Happy-hour food deals from $1.95 to $4.95.
• Momiji Hibachi & Sushi: (5 p.m. to close) Half-price sushi.
• Parkside: The high life for half. From 5 p.m. to close, champagne and oysters are half-price at this minimalist wonder-bar and bistro on Sixth Street. The deal puts a half-dozen oysters within reach for six to eight bucks, and champagne by the glass as low as $3.50.
• Phoenicia Bakery and Deli: (all day) Mediterranean sandwiches and pitas for less than $4.
• Red House Pizzeria: (5 to 7 p.m.) Half-price pizza.
• Red Robin: (all day) Free kids’ meal (12 and younger) with purchase of an adult entree.
• Roaring Fork: (4:30 to 7 p.m.) Deeply discounted Southwestern specialties.
• Rome’s Pizza: Buy a large pizza and get a second large at half-price. Kids 10 and younger eat free with the purchase of adult meal from 4 to 8 p.m.
• Ruth’s Chris Steak House: (4:30 to 7 p.m.) Appetizers from the bar menu are half-price. Any martini in the house is $5.
• Sagra: Half-price pizza and $2 off drinks 4 to 7 p.m. “Recession Lunches” less than $10 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Santa Rita Tex-Mex Cantina: (3 to 7 p.m.) Wings are 25 cents, and draft beers are $2.
• Serranos: Free child’s plate with an adult entree. From 3 to 6:30 p.m.: $2.50 margaritas, $1.50 pints of Bud Light and Shiner Bock, $1 nachos, quesadillas and flaquitos.
• Shoal Creek Saloon: (after 4 p.m.) One-pound pork chop with two sides, $9.29.
• 219 West: (5 to 9 p.m.) Appetizers are half-off (plus 50 cents). Martinis $5, wine flights $12.
• Z Tejas: (4 to 7 p.m.) Half-price appetizers. $1 off margaritas.
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