Unfortunately, $100 is the new $25. Prices keep rising, while our favorite restaurants keep closing, but restaurants across Dallas offer specials where you could dine-out every day of the week and not break the bank (entirely).
We’ve compiled some of our favorite daily specials, where you can eat out on the cheap every night of the week. If you’re looking for a list of happy hour specials, we’ve got that too.
Monday
Bryan Street Tavern
4315 Bryan St., East Dallas
Bryan Street Tavern, your neighborhood watering hole known for its made-from-scratch stone-fired pizzas and craft beers, offers half-price pizzas all day on Mondays (dine-in only), plus $5 Crown and down from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Choose from 9-inch to 19-inch with custom combinations or build your own.
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Cannon’s Corner
1314 West Davis St., Bishop Arts
Buy two drinks and a fish and chips, get the second free at Cannon’s Corner all day Monday. We love this spot along Davis Street and this is an excellent excuse to go.
Peak Inn
132 N. Peak St., East Dallas
This dark (and lovely) dive bar in East Dallas has a burger and fries fro $9.99. Plus happy hour runs from when they open to 10 p.m.daily meaning you can get a $6 shot of Jim Bean and a $4 Lone Star to wash it down.
Pie Tap Pizza Workshop + Bar
Various Locations
All Pie Tap locations have three different weekly specials to take advantage of. Margherita Mondays offer $4 margs and a buy any pie, get one Margherita pie half off deal. Pie day is on Tuesdays where all pies are $15. Wednesdays get you $16 pasta dishes and half-off select bottles of wine.
Stan’s Blue Note
2908 Greenville Ave., Lower Greenville
On Mondays at Stan’s Blue Note on Greenville Avenue, spaghetti and meatballs are $8.99. Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., hot dogs, tacos and Busch Light drafts are $1.99, and wells are $4.
State & Allen Kitchen + Bar
2400 Allen St. (Uptown)
Known for its eclectic American casual cuisine, State & Allen Kitchen + Bar offers half-priced pizzas on Monday nights. Choose from one of their specialty pizzas, like meaty meat or pesto chicken, or you can build your own. Recently, they added a new lunch special where you can get a burger with fries and a soft drink or Michelob Ultra for $12.95.
Thomas Avenue Beverage Company
2901 Thomas Ave., Uptown(ish)
TABC presents as a bar and nieghborhood hang (which it is), but the kitchen here is fire also. Happy hour runs all day Monday when you can get half-priced apps and $10 flatbreads.
Tuesday
Thomas Avenue Beverage Company
2901 Thomas Ave., Uptown(ish)
TABC also has $9 smash burgers and fries on Tuesday. Pair that with happy hour weekdays 4 to 7 p.m. and you’ve got a humdinger of a meal.
Mami Coco
4500 Bryan St., East Dallas
Tuesdays are strictly for tacos. At Mami Coco, you can get five tacos and a can of soda for $10.25 plus tax.
Libertine
2101 Greenville Ave., Lower Greenville
Tuesday is steak night at Libertine. For $20, you can get a steak or burger with a cocktail (an Absolut martini, a TX Old Fashioned or an Altos Paloma).
HALCYON
2900 Greenville Ave. (Lower Greenville)
On Tuesdays from 6 to 10 p.m., Halcyon offers “girl dinner,” a Caesar salad, French fries and an espresso martini combo all for just $20. Plus, a limited selection of “little bonus luxuries” that include a $3 bruschetta and $5 caprese, perfect for a cheaper night out. Lately, the restaurant has been pairing the special with a TV series to binge in increments throughout the month. This summer, Love Island was on the in-house projector. This month, they’re trading villa life for rom-coms like 50 First Dates and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Taqueria Taxco
All Locations
Celebrate Taco Tuesday at Taqueria Taxco with $1.99 tacos (usually $3.00)! Choose from meat options like trompo, carnitas, chicken and barbacoa.
Twisted Root Burger Co.
Carrollton, Plano
Burgers will always be Twisted Root’s specialty, but you can’t go wrong with a plate of their lightly fried chicken tenders and fries, which only runs $10 on Tuesdays. The deal includes a drink, which means three menu items for less than the price of a single burger. That’s one hell of a deal.
Cenzo’s Pizza & Deli
1700 W. Tenth St. (Oak Cliff)
If you’re craving a classic pepperoni or cheese pizza, check out Cenzo’s on Tuesdays for $14 Brighton (mozzarella, parmesan, basil) or Rosemont (cup and char pepperoni) pizzas. That’s a $4.50 to $7.50 savings. You can also get half-off on bottles wine. Dine-in only.
Wednesday
Easy Slider
3905 Eastside Ave., East Dallas
We love a happy hour that slides into dinner time. Easy Slider is also our new crush. Go see why on Wednesdays (and Thursday and Friday!) from 4 to 7 p.m., when you can get a Big Smash burger for $8.
Rodeo Goat
All Locations
Check out Worthy Wednesdays at Rodeo Goat and snack on some cheese fries for half the price, regularly $13.99. It’s the perfect addition to any of their over-the-top burgers, which are enough to share.
El Vecino
718 N. Buckner Blvd., Casa Linda
El Vecino, an upscale and lively spot, offers an enchilada special on Wednesdays. For just $7.99, get two enchiladas with rice and beans. Your choice of cheese, beef or chicken. Dine-in only.
Will Call Bar
2712 Main St., Deep Ellum
The wings from Will Call Bar are unanimously everyone’s favorite thing on this bar’s menu, and every Wednesday from 12 p.m. to close, all wings are $1 when you dine-in. All the wings are pickle brined for 24 hours and then seasoned with their house dredge (that also happens to be gluten-free). If you can’t make it on a Wednesday, they also have All Texas Thursdays where the Tejas are only $10 and Texas pours are $5.
Thursday
Olivella’s Pizza & Wine
Dallas Locations
If you’re craving pasta, head to Olivella’s Pizza and Wine on Thursdays for a BOGO half-off pasta special.
RJ’s Mexican Cuisine
1701 N Market St. #102
RJ’s Mexican Cuisine in West End offers a great deal every day of the week from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., including a build-your-own Mexican bowl on Wednesdays or a fajita plate on Fridays. Our favorite is sandwiched in the middle, where a chimichanga dinner costs $10.99 on Thursdays. It comes with a choice between chicken or beef, covered in queso, with a serving of rice and black beans.
Friday
Perry’s Steakhouse
Uptown, Frisco and Grapevine
A Friday lunch at Perry’s is epic. The famous pork chop with whipped potatoes, homemade apple sauce and an individual loaf of bread is $24. This special, for both dine-in and take-out, is available from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Culpepper Cattle Company
3309 Elm St, Dallas (Deep Ellum)
Every Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Culpepper celebrates Fajita Fridays. For $10, you can get steak or chicken fajitas served with rice, beans and “all the fixin’s.”
The Weekend
Malai Kitchen
Uptown, Preston Center, Southlake and Fort Worth
Malai Kitchen has happy hour food bites during the week from 3 to 6 p.m., and the same deal all day on Sundays (excluding holidays). You can enjoy $8 bites of grilled satay, fried imperial rolls, spicy edamame, Vietnamese meatballs or cucumber salad. Get any two for $15.
Sushi Axiom
3211 Oak Lawn Ave., Oak Lawn
Nothing says “Sunday Funday” better than an all-day sushi happy hour at Sushi Axiom. Choose from several appetizers such as crispy calamari and three-piece beef satay for $8. Original sushi rolls (California, spicy tuna, spicy salmon) are offered for $7. Sushi varieties like yellowtail, tuna and escolar go for $6 and signature rolls for $10.
Buddhist Temple of Dallas
8484 Stults Road
There’s nothing like a Sunday afternoon at the Buddhist Temple’s bustling food market, where beef and pork skewers cost as little as $1, sticky rice is just $2, and you can get a Thai coffee on your way out for $5. Pound for pound, the food and prices at the Sunday market might be the best Dallas has to offer. Come prepared, most vendors are still cash-only, but a quick trip to the ATM will be worth an afternoon of culinary enlightenment.
Everyday
Bistro B
Lake Highlands and Grand Prairie
If anything matches the sensory overload of Bistro B’s interior – colored lights, fake blossoming cherry trees and blinking neon signs – it’s a spread from the menu’s hundreds of items. On weekend nights after you’ve left the nightclub, venture there with your late-night crew for an array of Vietnamese delights, including pho, com tam breakfast platters and crepes. Anytime, day or night, enjoy the “buy two, get one free” banh mi or pho dishes.
Cris and John
5555 Preston Oaks Road, North Dallas
Cris and John’s weekly $30 specials offer enough food to feed an army. When you place your order online, you can see what special is being offered that particular week. An example of one weekly offering is your choice of a phorrito (all of the ingredients in a typical bowl of pho, but wrapped into a burrito tortilla), a bao bun, dumplings, skewers and tacos.
Loro
1812 N. Haskell Ave., East Dallas
Stacking Loro’s happy hour with their daily specials is a solid way to have an abundant night out on a dime. Everyday they have a special bowl deal for $13.95, among a few others, but the best thing to come here for is the two step lunch deal for $15, which gets you a sandwich and your choice of a half side.
Ba Lee Sandwich Shop
1927 E Belt Line Road, Carrollton
This sandwich shop is an economic wonder selling banh mi for only $5 before taxes and tip. The bread, meat and fillings are all processed in-house, a rarity these days, and if you buy five sandwiches, you get one free. It doesn’t make any sense, but we don’t care. Our orders alone could keep the place open.
Kazy’s Gourmet Shop
9256 Markville Drive, Northeast Dallas
Kazy’s Gourmet Shop is Dallas’ first Japanese grocery store that opened over 40 years ago. Over time, they broke into the wholesale market, and supplied many Dallas restaurants with fresh, sushi-grade fish, but you can stop in here to eat the same fish without the valet and exclusivity. You can get the same rolls you’d find at Nobu and other restaurants here for a fraction of the price. All four-piece sushi rolls are under $5 and single pieces of nigiri and sashimi start at $2.50.
The Corner Market
3426 Greenville Ave., Lower Greenville
The Corner Market offers standard lunches on the go for only $12.99 before tax. The whole sandwich deal gets you your choice of sandwich and 8 oz. of you-pick salad, plus a bag of chips and a petite sweet or cookie to seal the deal.
