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Restaurant deals: The big fat master list

By Mike Sutter | Sunday, February 8, 2009, 01:00 AM

The grandmasters of the deals on this seven-day list are the $2.99 plates at Bill Miller’s Bar-B-Q, which include a side, bread and a big glass of sweet tea. Photo by Mike Sutter.

Rather than making you jump all over the site to find great restaurant deals by day of the week, I’ve gathered all seven days in this one file. At the bottom of this post, there are addresses and phone numbers for each of the places in the list.

I’ll repeat the caveat to double-check these before you go, before you sit down, before you order. Because restaurant fortunes change week to week, and sometimes their specials do, too. Cheers.

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.

MONDAY

• Abuelo’s: (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) The best restaurant at Barton Creek mall does Mexican food in a big way, and when it starts tossing around a $6.99 price tag for plates that usually clock in closer to $10, it’s worth a look. For a limited time, Abuelo’s is offering lunches like a nine-layer Mexican stack, an El Paso burrito and a chimichanga for $6.99.

• Alligator Grill: (3 to 7 p.m.) 20-cent shrimp, 50-cent oysters and wings.

• Athenian Grill: Off and running at its new Congress Avenue spot, this Greek favorite wasted no time offering $5 food and drink specials and $10 bottles of Greek wine Monday-Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. The $5 menu includes a kabob plate, spinach pie, Greek meatballs and a killer chicken salad. $5 drinks include a Mediterranean margarita and something called “Ouzo Greek Lightning.”

• Aussie’s Grill & Beachbar: (11 p.m. to 2 a.m.) Late-night half-price appetizers.

• Austin Land & Cattle: (5 to 7 p.m.) Austin’s family-owned carnivore’s carnival puts samples of some of its best work on sale during happy hour. From the bar menu, a steak sampler of filet, rib-eye and sirloin is $9, Buffalo-style lambchops slim down to $12, and hand-cut burgers (including the Redeye, with crispy fried greens and a sunny-side egg) are half-price, which puts one in your hands for $5 or less. Also, Tito’s martinis are $5.

• Bill Miller Bar-B-Q: (all day) $2.99 plates with a side, roll and tea.

• Brick Oven Restaurant: Buy a large pizza and get a medium pizza of equal or lesser value free.

• 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.) $4.50 will buy crab quesadillas, a basil cheese torta or chicken beignets during happy hour, when they and a host of other appetizers are half-price. Pair them with $3 frozen drinks and house wines.

• Chuy’s: (4 to 7 p.m.) Say it with me: “Nacho car.” Ride along with free chips, queso, salsa, beef and beans in the bar area. Sweet house margaritas are $3.50.

• Corazon at Castle Hill: Appetizers are half-price (which means the savory lamb empanadas are an astonishing $2.50) and drinks are $1 off from 4 to 7 p.m. The empanadas, plus a frozen mango swirl ’rita for $3.50? Twenty minutes of delight for $6.

• Cuba Libre: (4 p.m. to close) This half-price appetizer deal gets its mojo from the bar’s Cubanesque flair. The choices include plantain chips and lump crab tostados, and specialty martinis are $5.

• Cypress Grill: (5 p.m. to close) Half-price wine by the glass or bottle.

• 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: Patios with bright retro patio chairs and solid beer-food get even better on Mondays, with two-for-one burgers and $2.50 pints of Bud.

• Eddie V’s Edgewater Grill: (4:30 p.m. to close) Half-price appetizers, $1 off drinks.

• El Arroyo: Burgers are two-for-one from 5 p.m. to close, and Tecates are $1 all day long.

• Freddie’s Place: South Austin gets its weirdness on with $2 frozen margaritas, well drinks, Jack-and-lemonade slushies and tall boys all day (the rest of the week, it’s only 4 to 7 p.m., so lucky you). Happy-hour customers get free brisket and wings starting at 6 p.m. “until it runs out.”

• Green Mesquite BBQ & More: The dark-horse, mack-daddy deal of them all? All-you-can-eat barbecue for $10.99.

• 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.

• Hang Town Grill: (4 p.m. to close, both locations) Kids eat free at this family-oriented burger, fish tacos and pizza restaurant with the purchase of an adult entree.

• 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: Veggie burgers are two-for-one from 6 to 10 p.m.

• Imperia: (4 p.m. to close) $5 dim sum, small plates and specialty martinis. Two-for-one sushi until 7 p.m.

• Jeffrey’s: (5 to 7 p.m.) Half-price small-plates menu in the bar.

• Kenobi Restaurant & Sushi Bar: $5 appetizers and sushi rolls 4 to 7 p.m.

• La Familia: Lunch plates (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at this tucked-away gem are $4.99 and include rice and beans and iced tea. Choices include flautas and enchilada and taco combos.

• Louie’s 106: During happy hour (4 to 7 p.m.), appetizers from the dinner menu are half-price, landing most of them in the $4.25 to $5 range. Choices include smoked salmon crostini, crispy soft-shell crab, ahi tuna tartare, Prince Edward Island mussels, a jumbo lump crab and avocado salad and an antipasto platter. Cocktails and wines by the glass are 20 percent off.

• Manuel’s: (4 to 6 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $4 house margaritas.

• McCormick & Schmick’s: (Congress Avenue: 4 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.

• Olivia: 30 percent off the bar menu and bottles of sparkling wine. Beer is $1 off.

• Phoenicia Bakery and Deli: This Mediterranean market, besides being stacked high with Middlle Eastern, Greek and Persian specialties, sells a joyous array of sandwiches and pitas for less than $4: falafel, gyros, kaftas, corned beef, even prosciutto.

• 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 close) Deeply discounted Southwestern specialties.

• Rome’s Pizza: Buy a large pizza and get a second large at half-price.

• Ruth’s Chris Steak House: (4:30 to 7 p.m.) It’s only one of the best and most enduring steak places in town. Which makes a deal at Ruth’s Chris worth paying attention to. From 4:30 to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, appetizers from the bar menu are half-price. A sampling, all around $6 at happy hour: stuffed mushrooms with crab, seared ahi tuna, beef tenderloin kabobs. Also, and I had to ask twice to make sure, any martini in the house is $5.

• Sagra: Pizza is half-price and drinks are $2 off from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday. And for lunch, Sagra has rolled out a line of “Recession Lunches” for less than $10 Monday-Friday 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Santa Rita Tex-Mex Cantina: After 3 p.m., fajitas for two are $11.95.

• Serranos: Buy one enchilada dinner, get one free. From 3 to 6:30 p.m., margaritas are $2.50, pints of Bud Light and Shiner Bock are $1.50, and nachos, quesadillas and flaquitos are $1.

• Shoal Creek Saloon: (all day) Chicken-fried steak with two sides, $6.99.

• 219 West: (5 to 9 p.m.) Appetizers are half-off (plus 50 cents). Martinis $5, wine flights $12.

• Z Tejas: Enough with the happy hours, already, right? Just one more, but I promise it’s worth it. From 4 to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, Z Tejas makes half-price appetizers that tweak their Southwestern pedigrees: green chile pulled pork nachos, catfish beignets, shrimp-and-guacamole tostadas. None of the appetizers climbs much above $5 at half-price, and margaritas are $1 off.

TUESDAY

• Abuelo’s: (11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) $6.99 Mexican lunch specials.

• Alligator Grill: (all day) 20-cent shrimp, 50-cent oysters and wings.

• Aquarelle: (5 to 7 p.m.) The wine bar and patio at this upmarket French restaurant offers half-price dishes from the bar menu Tuesday-Saturday. But this is no ordinary wine bar, and these are no ordinary appetizers — mussels, a cheese plate, a croque monsieur sandwich — with none topping $6 after the discount.

• Athenian Grill: (4 to 7 p.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.

• Brick Oven Restaurant: Choose from 10 bottles of wine for $10.

• Burger House: This no-nonsense burger stand does the two-for-one dance on Tuesday. Double the chili double cheeseburger for a modest $4.20.

• Cannoli Joe’s: (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.) It’s easy to dismiss a buffet as a human feedlot, no matter how much it costs. But I’ll vouch for Cannoli Joe’s at lunchtime, when their Italian buffet is only $9.99 ($5.99 for kids 12 and younger, free if they’re 3 or younger). From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday (pricing and hours change for weekends and dinner), highlights at the plaza-style serving area include sausage and peppers, tangy bone-in pieces of chicken cacciatore, creamy rigatoni Bolognese and salads with fresh tomatoes, balsamic vinegar and mozzarella. My kids love the pizzas, the hand-dipped ice creams and the namesake cannoli.

• Central Market: (5 to 9 p.m.) At the north location of this grocery market/culinary safari park, kids eat free with the purchase of an adult entree.

• 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.

• CorazÃ³n 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.

• Cypress Grill: Sure, the Carino’s chain has “Two Can Dine for $19.99,” but for a penny more on Tuesday nights, this local Cajun spot will feed both of you with soup or salad, an entree (crawfish enchiladas, for example) and a dessert to share.

• 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.

• Eddie V’s Edgewater Grill: (4:30 to 7 p.m.) Half-price appetizers, $1 off drinks.

• El Arroyo: From 5 p.m. to close, cheese enchiladas are two-for-one and margaritas are $1 from 2 to 6 p.m., then $2 from 6 to 7 p.m.

• 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.

• Green Mesquite BBQ & More: All-you-can-eat barbecue for $10.99.

• 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.

• Hang Town Grill: (4 p.m. to close, Burnet Road location only) Kids eat free with the purchase of an adult entree.

• 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.

• Imperia: (4 to 7 p.m.) $5 dim sum, small plates and specialty martinis. Two-for-one sushi.

• The Jackalope: Half-price pizza night.

• Jeffrey’s: (5 to 7 p.m.) Half-price small-plates menu in the bar.

• Kenobi Restaurant & Sushi Bar: $5 appetizers and sushi rolls 4 to 7 p.m. $5 martinis.

• 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.

• Patsy’s Cowgirl Cafe: (5 to 10 p.m.) At Patsy’s, the burgers have names: Vince Young, Molly Ivins, Don Walser, Clifford Antone. And on Tuesdays from 5 to 10 p.m., their reflected glory is worth a 50 percent discount, making them all less than $4.

• Phoenicia Bakery and Deli: (all day) Mediterranean sandwiches and pitas for less than $4.

• Quality Seafood: (6 to 9 p.m.) Our favorite fish market and seafood dive puts Tuesdays on the map with $2 seafood tacos and $2 draft beer.

• 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: The Austin branch of this minichain is running an everyday offer to buy a large pizza and get a second large at half-price. Good. Even better, kids 10 and younger eat free with the purchase of adult meal Tuesday and Wednesday 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: Lean times can be fat and happy times, too. Find out how many mussels you can eat for $12 on Tuesdays at this rustic Italian bistro. Also: 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.) $2 tacos and $2 Tecates.

• Serranos: (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: (all day) One-pound pork chop with mashed potatoes and green beans, $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.

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.

THURSDAY

• 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.

• 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.