Restaurant Roundup: Granite City BOGO, return of Deviled Egg Burger
July 17, 2025
Buy one entree and get a free one through Sunday at Granite City Food & Brewery. The maximum discount is $26 before tax and gratuity, and the offer includes the adult Lawless Brunch. Mention the deal to your server, or use the code DOUBLEUP25 if you order online.
The Deviled Egg Burger now has a permanent spot on the menu at Monks Ale House. The Downtown Burger Battle entry didn’t make the list of top 10 vote-getters in the January competition, but it was the most-sold at 6,200 burgers. It features two certified Angus beef smash patties, New School American cheese, pickles, bacon, kettle chips and deviled egg schmear on a Big Marty’s Roll.
Lucky’s on Louise is featuring hot dog combos for July to celebrate National Hot Dog Month. Pick from five options: Classic Beef, Chicago(ish), Lucky, French Onion and Sonoran. Each comes with tots, kettle chips or fries.
Myrtle’s Fur Vault & Bar has a new special. Thursday through Saturday, get a Catalan-style sangria with a half-order of nachos for $20.
Oh My Cupcakes is hosting a new midsummer celebration, the Sunshine Social, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the south-side location. There will be sunshine-themed sweets and treats from the “cupcake ninjas,” food from Backyard BBQ and drinks from SoDak Soda. Activities include a bookshop-on-wheels, face-painting, balloons, sidewalk chalk art and games. A portion of the day’s proceeds will benefit the Children’s Home Society. RSVP on the Facebook event page.
Sanaa’s 8th Street Gourmet is hosting a fundraiser Sunday to help families affected by the flooding in Texas. A Syrian brunch will be served from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Owner Sanaa Abourezk will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to World Central Kitchen, which is providing hot meals to those in need.
With Brandon native Dale Moss back in the reality TV dating game, Gateway Bar & Grill is hosting watch parties for “Bachelor in Paradise” every Monday night at 7 with food and drink specials. Get a personal pizza or chips basket with salsa and queso for $10 and $4 margaritas, mimosas, wine, champagne, domestic taps and well drinks. Register to win gift cards from local shops and salons.
Texas Roadhouse is inviting teachers and educators to a free back-to-school luncheon at noon Tuesday to share information about its classroom incentives and fundraising opportunities. Click here to sign up for a limited spot.
Crooked Pint Ale House has several flavors of summer on its new featured menu. Offerings include Caprese Grilled Cheese, Strawberry Almond Chicken Salad and Chicken Salad Sandwich.
Billy Frogs Bar & Grill has new $10 Billy Baskets that are available from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. The menu also includes a dozen “Lily Pad Starters” like chislic, fried pickles and jalapeno poppers, and there are pizzas that are served until 1 a.m. See the full menu here.
Lemon Raspberry is back as the featured flavor at Nothing Bundt Cakes. Find it in all sizes through the first week of September.
Cinnabon and Reese’s are teaming up for the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Bon, Chocolate Peanut Butter Candy Bon and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Chillatta.
The latest round of limited-time summer drinks arrives Friday at Coffea Roasterie locations. Downtown is featuring Strawberry Patch, an espresso tonic with strawberry cardamom syrup, and the very limited Peony Cremosa, a caffeine-free drink with peonies transformed into a syrup. Downtown and Dawley Farm are offering Mojito, an espresso tonic infused with mint and lime. Dawley Farm and Louise are serving Mango Sticky Rice Tea Milkshake, a blend of ice cream, sticky rice tea, mango, coconut milk and sesame oil. Only at Louise, try the Twin Suns Tea Latte with butterfly pea flower, honey, vanilla and coconut milk.
New summer cocktails at Highball are Palomino with tequila and flavors of grapefruit and bitters; Short N’ Sweet, with vanilla vodka, Framboise, rose, lemon and sparkling rose; Manta Ray with Batavia-Arrack, Falernum, Ancho Reyes, Branca Menta, cinnamon, lime and mint; and Banana Bee Punch with whiskey, rum and flavors of banana, pineapple, lime, honey and bitters. Nonalcoholic offerings have been expanded to include NA beers and Delta-9 seltzers.
Ranch & Roost has a new summer treat: root beer floats for $5. Find the new restaurant inside the same building as Big Lost Meadery & Brewery at Lake Lorraine.
Sweet Scoops Ice Cream & Bakery in Dell Rapids is celebrating National Ice Cream Day on Sunday. From 6 to 8 p.m., kids 5 and younger will get a free cone or cup of ice cream with any parent purchase. Earlier in the day, starting at 3 p.m. and while supplies last, get a bite-sized brownie hot fudge sundae for every family member with any purchase. That treat recognizes summer assistant Colleen Devaney, whose last day at the shop will be July 29 as she returns to her job as a school cook.
Nominate a community superhero, and they might win free Blizzard treats for a year. Fourteen Foods, which owns most of the Dairy Queens in the Sioux Falls area, is offering the giveaway as part its promotion for the new “Superman” movie and Blizzard treat, which is cake batter-flavored soft serve – dyed blue to match Superman’s suit — with pieces of sugar cookie dough and sprinkles. Nominations are due online by 11 p.m. Saturday.
In addition, Fourteen Foods DQ locations are giving away free small sundaes to anyone wearing a superhero costume through July 31.
Crabfest is back at Red Lobster with new seafood boils, other new dishes like Steak Oscar or Salmon Oscar and returning favorites. Choose the Mariner’s Boil with a Maine lobster tail, dozen shrimp, snow crab legs, corn and red potatoes or the Sailor’s Boil with shrimp, smoked sausage, corn and red potatoes. The fan-favorite Crab Your Way is back with a pound of snow or Bairdi crab legs over crispy potatoes. Crabfest continues through Sept. 14.
Changes in hours, service
- Fernson Coffee now uses coffee beans from local roaster Daylily Coffee.
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