Restaurant Roundup: August specials, breakfast pizza pop-up
Aug. 8, 2024
The weekly featured flavors for August at Stensland Family Farms include a new one: Salty Cow Tracks. It’s available beginning Aug. 28 and has light chocolate ice cream with chocolate caramel cups, cookie dough, a caramel swirl and a hint of salt. Seasonal sweet corn hit the dipping case this week.
Next week, Invictus Pizza Kitchen is opening early Thursday, Aug. 15, for breakfast pizzas and caramel rolls. Customize your pizza with one of three sauces, breakfast meats and “endless” fresh veggies. Hours are 7 to 11 a.m.
Check out the featured pizza for August at Invictus Pizza Kitchen. Your choice of crust is topped with alfredo sauce, grilled chicken, meatballs, red onion and green pepper with a drizzle of roasted garlic oil.
Featured menu items for August at Maribella Ristorante include Bucatini di Aragosta with lobster claw meat in a spicy lemon cream sauce, Supremo Piccante pizza with spicy pomodoro sauce, capocollo, eggplant, artichokes, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil, and Tartufi di Cioccolata, which are dark chocolate truffles. The featured drink is Il Primo Caipirinha.
The dinner feature of the month at R Wine Bar & Kitchen is an 8-ounce beef tenderloin topped with honey pepper sauce and roasted broccolini, asparagus and carrots.
Check out the August drink specials at Josiah’s Coffehouse, Cafe & Bakery.
The pancake of the month at IHOP is Lemon Oreo.
The featured Blizzard for August at Dairy Queen is Reese’s Pieces Cookie Dough.
For August, Myrtle’s Fur Vault & Bar is offering half-price on your first Parker’s Martini or Myrtle’s Spritz and half-price on one appetizer. Myrtle’s and the adjacent Parker’s Bistro have a new small plates menu. Check it out here.
As Cherry Rock Farms waits for its replanted flooded fields to be ready for harvest, it continues to be open from noon to 2 p.m. Fridays with limited produce. The producer south of Brandon has added a self-serve option that’s open daily from 10 a.m. to dusk. Cash, check or Venmo payments are accepted.
LaDelle and Fourth Coffeehouse is offering its special take-and-bake cinnamon rolls kit for back to school. Get preformed dough, cream cheese frosting, heart sprinkles, parchment paper and directions. A half-dozen is $14 and a dozen is $25. Half-gallon iced lattes in any flavor are $22, cold brew is $18 and house-made lemonade is $16. Order by Sunday for pickup Wednesday.
Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe is celebrating national days this month with specials. Sunday is National Panini Day with a BOGO offer. Tuesday is National Lemonade Day. Buy an entree and a dessert and get a free flavored lemonade.
Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse is putting out a call to boost its presence on Facebook. The downtown tasting room lost access to its page earlier this year and has created another one. You can find it here to start following it and keep up on news like this new bloody mary flight on Sundays.
The bartending crew at Squealer’s Smoke Shack in Tea has crafted three new drinks: Blueberry-jito, Raspberry Sherbet Mimosa and Peachy Keen.
The creator of Chief’s Bloody Mary Mix has died. Larry “The Chief” Plendl of Hudson died Aug. 1 at the age of 80. He started making bloody marys on Sundays on Waddy’s Bar & Grill in 2001. Waddy’s eventually began to sell the mix in bottles at the bar and later expanded production to a new facility with retail distribution throughout the area. Read his obituary here.
Changes in hours, service
- Gibs Sports Bar & Grill has returned to being open every day of the week. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
- The Bunker Bar in Harrisburg has changed hours. It’s closed on Mondays and opens at 2 p.m. on Saturdays. New happy hour specials run from opening time to 6 p.m. daily: Get $1 off all beers, $2 off mixed drinks and $3 off pizzas.
- Fit Revolution has added evening hours of 5 to 8 p.m. weekdays.
Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.
Empire Place nearly full with new candy/soda shop, Hallmark, mattress store
East-side business features exotic snacks from across the world
Boss’ founder sells Sioux Falls restaurants to focus on franchising
