Restaurant Roundup: Dive bar tour, new Monday night special, frog legs
Feb. 24, 2022
JJ’s Billiards & Darts has organized a dive bar tour and poker run for Saturday. Participating bars include JJ’s, Corner Pub, The Garage Bar, The Gaslight, Hi-Ho Bar, Ken’s Korner and Log Cabin. The event runs from the first opening – Log Cabin at 7 a.m. – until closing time at 2 a.m. Start and end where you like. The seven best poker hands will win prizes. Draw an Ace at any bar, and win a free beer. The event is free, but you can sign up at the Log Cabin for a $35 bus tour. Find more details here.
Safari Bar & Grill in Renner has a new Monday night special featuring baked potatoes for $7. There are five choices: Tex-Mex, Big Pig, Very Veggie, Chili Cheese or Loaded. They’re available for dine-in or carryout.
Brrrrvana, Monks Ale House’s annual winter celebration of craft beer, is Saturday. On Friday, help “Kill the Keg” to clear the tap lines for Saturday’s featured beers — of which there are 80. Get half-price taps from 9 to 11 p.m. On Saturday, Brrrvana runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $45 in advance and $50 at the door. The bar will be closed Sunday for an employee appreciation party.
DaDa Gastropub is serving a rare Sunday brunch. This one will have a Mardi Gras theme – think bananas foster French toast – with special cocktails too. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and reservations are available here.
Mardi Gras-themed food and cocktails are available through Fat Tuesday next week at Blarney Stone Pub. Entrees include Cajun Chicken n’ Shrimp, Shrimp Etouffee and Cajun Cod. For dessert, there are croissant beignets. Drinks include the Hurricane, French 75, Purple Zydeco and Bananas Foster Martini.
Want to do your own cooking for Fat Tuesday? Uncle Ed’s Specialty Meats has jumbo frog legs. They’re $13 a pound.
The bar at JJ’s Wine, Spirits & Cigars has started making a featured cocktail of the week. Beginning today, try JJ’s take on a classic Sazarec: the T. Slazerac — think owner Tom Slattery. It’s the official cocktail of New Orleans, so it’s fitting for Mardi Gras week. Watch it being made here.
Wendy’s has expanded its breakfast menu for the first time since launching it two years ago. The Hot Honey Chicken Biscuit features a crispy chicken filet drizzled with a hot honey sauce that’s infused with habanero. It’s a spicier version of the Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit, one of its most popular breakfast offerings. The new chicken offering also is available as a sandwich for lunch and dinner. That version is served on a toasted bun topped with melted pepper jack cheese, bacon, fried pickle chips and the hot honey sauce. There’s a grilled chicken option and a spicy version with a chicken breast that has been marinated and breaded in a blend of peppers and spices.
Ruby Tuesday has introduced its Perfect 10 menu. There’s a coconut shrimp appetizer and platter, barbecue chicken street nachos, honey-glazed salmon salad, backyard barbecue chicken salad, honey pepper garlic wings, a crispy chicken sandwich, Philly cheesesteak hoagie, chicken parmesan and smothered barbecue sirloin.
IHOP is celebrating National Pancake Day on Tuesday with an annual tradition. Each dine-in guest gets a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free-will donations are collected for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Shriners Children’s.
Changes in service, hours
Watecha Bowl is closing its restaurant in Norfolk, Nebraska, at the end of the month. The Native American restaurant that specializes in Indian tacos opened its second location several months ago in a Norfolk mall.
Kingbird Coffee Shop in Brandon will stay open later in the day starting Tuesday. Hours will be 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Rudy M. Navarrete’s Tex-Mexican Catering’s gig serving tacos and more every at Severance Brewing Co. has been extended through March. Hours are 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The partnership began in December.
Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.
Josiah’s to close temporarily this spring for ‘rearranging’ project
