Restaurant Roundup: New weekend brunch, free wings, seafood specials
Feb. 22, 2024
Wileys is adding a plated brunch on Saturday and Sunday. The menu will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and features two types of French toast, Mexican-inspired dishes like an asada skillet and chorizo quesadilla, and lighter bites like maple bacon jam biscuits and avocado toast. While the bloody mary bar of years past isn’t returning, there will be pitchers of bloody marys and mimosas.
Because the Super Bowl went into overtime, Buffalo Wild Wings is fulfilling its promise to give out free food. Customers can get a complimentary order of six wings from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday. No purchase is necessary.
If your birthday is on leap day, Feb. 29, Oh My Cupcakes has a treat for you – actually four treats, one for every year you’ve missed. It’s also Rare Disease Day, and the bakeries will have special cupcakes for sale.
Crave has a new happy hour menu with a variety of drink and food specials. Here are a few examples: beer $2 off, house red and white wines for $6, avocado or cucumber rolls for $6, truffle parmesan fries for $8, personal-size flatbread for $10 and firecracker shrimp for $12. The prices are good from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays, only in the bar area.
Invictus Pizza Kitchen has three featured seafood pizza until Easter. Offerings include The Smoked Salmon, The Shrimp Scampi and The Shrimp Cocktail.
Urban Chislic has released its menu for Sunday’s spice challenge, and there are still a few seats left for the free event that starts at 2 p.m. The dishes get progressively hotter on the Scoville scale, starting at 25,000 units with The Matt Beal Special, zhug sauce with serrano pepper on beef chislic, and ending with a mystery dish that might top 2 million units. In between, there’s curry with Thai chiles on naan, garlic chile oil with Thai chile on chicken chislic, a traditional buffalo wing with habanero and UC Way pork with Reaper powder. Email [email protected] if you’re interested in entering.
Kaladi’s Bistro has new Manic Monday specials. Find deals for breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. and for lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Chef Lance’s on Phillips has added new appetizers to the menu. Offerings include Lance & Trevor’s Crab Cakes, Benjamin Potatoes, Tomato & Prosciutto Crostini, Shrimp Cocktail and Meatball Marinara. Turkey wild rice and French onion soups are back on the menu. The restaurant also has switched to gluten-free flour and breadcrumbs. That means favorite items like the Handmade Tots are now gluten-free.
Mac-and-cheese lovers will enjoy limited-time offerings at Famous Dave’s. For the next couple of weeks, the restaurant is featuring Buffalo Chicken and Texan mac-and-cheese dishes, mac-and-cheese bites and the Mac Attack and classic grilled cheese sandwiches.
Ruby Tuesday’s new featured menu has several seafood specials. There’s a new Captain’s Platter, shrimp scampi, scallops dinner, scallops and shrimp combo, Old Bay shrimp and calamari.
Donate a pint of blood Friday at Krav’n or The Barrel House, and get a free appetizer on your next visit. The restaurants are hosting a blood drive for the Community Blood Bank from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sign up for a spot in advance for Krav’n by clicking here or for The Barrel House by clicking here.
Krav’n also is donating 10 percent of all sales on Monday, Hilly Day, to Austin Hilbrands’ recovery. The teenager was injured in a crash in late October.
On this coming Monday and on all last Mondays of the month this year, Chick-fil-A is treating medical staff members to a free original or spicy chicken sandwich. Just show a valid hospital ID.
The Phillips Avenue Diner is celebrating National Pancake Day on Wednesday and raising money for Swamp Daddy’s Cajun Kitchen. Ten percent of proceeds will go to the restaurant that has been closed since Jan. 30 because of a chemical leak in the Jones421 Building.
K Restaurant, which closed in December, is having a sale of its decor, kitchenware, artwork, Reidel glassware, wine, cookbooks and more. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. FYI: There’s an invite-only sale Friday night.
Chili cookoff offerings continue. The Orion Pub is having one from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. The people’s choice award will win an Orion Pub T-shirt and a $50 gift card. There will be happy-hour pricing on drinks during the event. Bowls and spoons will be provided, but it’s BYOL — bring your own ladle. And you don’t have to enter to be a taster and judge. Also on Sunday, Shenanigans is hosting a chili cookoff as a fundraiser for The Table Ministry. Serving is from noon to 2 p.m.
Tecmo Siouxper Bowl VIII, a time of retro video games and adult friendship, will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday in the lower level of Blarney Stone Pub. It’s a free event with donations going to the Family Visitation Center. Tecmo Super Bowl will be the main event, but other classic games from the 1980s and ’90s will be available.
To celebrate South Dakota Craft Beer Week, Buffalo Ridge Brewing in Hartford is teaming up with Cookie Co. on a beer and mini cookie pairing. Flights will include One Horned Hefeweizen and Orange Blossom, Lady Renegade Belgian Blonde and Fruity Pebbles, Scotch Ale and Twisted Rolo, and Cibolero-Mexican Chocolate Stout and Abuela’s Hot Cocoa. The flights will be available Feb. 29 and March 1. Quantities are limited, but you can ensure a pairing by buying tickets in advance online or in the taproom.
In case you were wondering, the sous chef team of Caelan Miles and Esteban Gonzalez at R Wine Bar & Kitchen won the January lasagna battle against its sister restaurant, Maribella Ristorante. In the Hartford Burger Challenge, Hartford Steak Co. Tavern won with its Prime Time Double Dipper. Neither one is still on the menu.
Changes in hours, service
- Today is the last day at 2802 W. 41st St. for Zoup. The restaurant will be closed temporarily while it moves into a new location, which will be announced soon, franchise owner Anna Santos said.
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