Best Food and Drinks Deals
Monday, June 14, 2010
Looking to get out and stay on a budget? We've scouted out the best food and drink deals from across the state. Eat, drink, and save money.
Retro Deal of the Summer
Sardella's (30 Memorial Blvd, Newport, 849-6312), a longtime Newport favorite, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, with the sweetest of deals. Every Thursday the menu features items
from their original menu, at original prices. We're talking entrees like Pasta Aglio e Olio for $5, Osso Buco for $9, and Sole Peperonata for $10. You can't beat that.
Martinis on a Budget
Gracie's (194 Washington St, Providence, 272-7811) sets the bar high with a $5 cocktail of your choosing, including their top-shelf martinis, every night. All you need to do is enjoy it at the bar, which is no hardship.
Aspire (Hotel Providence, 311 Westminster St, Providence, 521-3333) also puts its excellent martinis on for $5 from 4-6pm Monday through Friday, as part of a great Work Day Wind Down daily deal. Scroll down for more specials.
It may be worth a drive to the country for Blackwater Tavern's (273 Nooseneck Hill Rd, Exeter, 385-9191) $5 Margarita Monday, and come back again on Tuesday for the $12.95 special: dinner plus a glass of wine, pint of local beer, or soft drink.
Seafood on the Cheap
Providence Oyster Bar (283 Atwells, Providence, 272-8866) has $1 oysters, littlenecks and cherrystones, plus shrimp cocktail, for a dollar every night from 4-6:30pm. There's also an "Appy Hour" menu with other discounts. Same magic applies at next door sister restaurant Providence Prime.
Across from Trinity Rep, Bravo Brasserie (123 Empire St, Providence, 490-5112) offers jumbo shrimp and oysters for $1, in the lounge. Also: check out their Monday night dinner special: salads, entrees, and a bottle of wine to split for $29.95.
McCormick & Schmick's (11 Dorrance St, Providence, 351-4500) offers Dollar Oyster Tuesdays, with select oysters for $1, in addition to the best Happy Hour menu ever created (see below). Meanwhile, Aspire also puts $1 oysters/stuffies out from 4-6:30pm as part of Work Day Wind Down (see more, below). And Mills Tavern (101 North Main St, Providence, 272-3331) has $1 oysters plus other weekly specials Monday through Friday from 4-8pm.
In Pawtucket, Hose Company No. 6 (636 Central Ave, 722-7220) has a great seafood deal on Wednesdays: four pounds of steamers for $9.95. And every day, don't miss two specialty drinks, the Hose Co. Koolaid and Summer Breeze, are $5 for 16 oz.
Head to Ocean Mist (895 Matunuck Rd, South Kingstown, 782-3740) on Friday nights: when you order fish & chips on Fridays, you get a free bowl of chowder. (If Mexican's more your thing, Ocean Mist offers two-for-one Mexican entrees on Thursdays from 4-11pm.)
Wings for Pennies
There may be cheap wings out there, but the ones at Cuban Revolution (60 Valley St, 632-0649; 50 Aborn St, 331-8829, both in Providence) are top-quality and they're only 20 cents apiece (no minimum order, celery is a buck extra) seven days a week from 5-10pm. Don't miss budget-friendly beers: $3 drafts and imports/craft beers, $2 domestics.
For a late-night wing grab, check out the nightly wing special at Murphy's Deli and Bar (100 Fountain St, Providence, 621-8467), where you can get wings for 25 cents each from 11pm-midnight.
On Mondays, you've got two 25-cent wing specials to choose from: on the Bristol waterfront, Gillary's Tavern (198 Thames St, 253-2012) has wings for a quarter on Mondays, from 7pm-1am. And back in Providence, Cafe Four Twelve (412 Douglas Pike, 270-2233) also has wings for a quarter; come back for $1 nachos on Tuesdays, and $2 quesadillas on Sundays.
It's Not Happy Hour. It's Early Dinner.
If you haven't hit the Happy Hour at McCormick and Schmick's (11 Dorrance St, Providence, 351-4500) you've been missing the best food deal in the state. Every day from 3:30-6pm, and 10pm-midnight, the restaurant's bar that anchors the Biltmore Hotel puts up a fantastic menu of specials with a $3.50 minimum beverage purchase. $1.95 specials include spinach and artichoke dip and hummus plate, but the star
attraction is a $2.95 half-pound cheeseburger with fries. No lie. For $3.95 you can get tempura sushi roll or blackened chicken quesadilla, another dollar gets you pulled pork slider, steamed mussels, or 3 oysters on the half shell.
Aspire (at the Hotel Providence, 311 Westminster St, Providence, 521-3333) continues to innovate and lure with great specials, and the Workday Wind Down is the latest. From 4-6pm Monday-Friday, you can grab $1 oysters and stuffies, and $5 plates including crab cakes pizza, plus Black Angus burgers. On the drink side, there's those $5 martinis, $5 Linderman's wine and $3 Narragansett drafts.
Something's always on special at RiRa Irish Pub (50 Exchange Terrace, Providence, 272-1953). On Mondays hit Yank Night for 1/2 price wings 7-11pm; Tuesdays as part of Pub Quiz there's a $16 apps sampler; Wednesdays burgers are half-price all day; Thursdays fish & chips are $8.95 after 8pm. Drink specials roll all week long.
India (1060 Hope St, Providence, 421-2600) gives away appetizers for a dollar Monday through Thursdays from 3-8pm with the purchase of a $5 drink... not to mention this sweet deal: 50% off all entrees on Tuesday nights, if you dine in.
Nothing Wrong WIth Ladies Night
Sidebar Bistro (127 Dorrance St, Providence, 421-7200) keeps the classic alive with a Monday special: ladies eat free and get a glass of sangria to boot. Guys, don't feel bad: there's a lunch special every day - buy one, get one free, 11am-3pm.
On Thursdays, Chiazza Tratoria (308 Country Rd, Barrington, 247-0303) offers Ladies Night with drink specials and half-price appetizers. For everyone, check out half-priced apps Monday to Thursday from 4-6pm. Closer to Coventry? You can get the same deal at Flare Brick Oven Bistro (57 Tiogue Ave, Coventry, 615-8577) on Thursdays, plus a regular special from 4-6 for everybody: half-priced appetizers in the lounge Tuesday - Friday.
Carb Loading, Italian Style
Tuesday night belongs to Luigi's Restaurant (1357 Hartford Ave, Johnston, 861-3850), for its create-your-own pasta dinner for $10.99. Choose from eight different sauces, eleven different side dishes and six cuts of pasta. Perfect for carb loading or family fun on a Tuesday. (Yup... they are an advertiser.)
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