Bargain eats and drinks

By weeklyvolcano on February 11, 2009

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The Weekly Volcano can never resist the urge to shout out cheap eats and drinks. Here are a few around the South Sound.  What’s missing?

Masa (2811 Sixth Ave., Tacoma) late night eats Friday and Saturday after 10 p.m. â€" Tacos $3, quesadillas $3, Masa fires $3, pizza by the slice $3 and taquitos $3.

Tightwad Tuesdays features $2 tacos, $2 beers, and $2 wells at Hell’s Kitchen (3829 Sixth Ave., Tacoma).

The Top of Tacoma Bar & Café’s (3529 McKinley Ave. E., Tacoma) Sunday Funday offers Pabst $1, micros and wells $2.75. Well drink Wednesdays offer $1.50 wells. 2.5.3 Taco Thursday serves 75 cent tacos.

Rainier beer is only a dollar every Wednesday at The Red Hot (2914 Sixth Ave., Tacoma). They also have $3 wine pours the first Wednesday of every month.

Winger’s Grill & Bar (5221 Tacoma Mall Blvd., Tacoma) has a nifty happy hour 3-6 and 9-close with $4 select appetizers and $2 domestics and $3 wells/micros.

Kids eat free with purchase of an adult entrée at the Varsity Grill (1114 Broadway Tacoma). Valid for kids 12 and younger.

Half-price Wine Mondays at Duke’s Chowder House (3327 Ruston Way, Tacoma) Cedarwood Dome (7404 Pacific Hwy. E., Milton) offers $8.50 rib eye steaks and fries and $2 pounders every Wednesday.

Sample two beers for $1 every Wednesday from 4-9 p.m. at 99 Bottles (35002 Pacific Hwy. S., Federal Way).

Primo Grill (601 S. Pine, Tacoma) hosts Half-price Wine Night every Wednesday.

Uncle Sam’s American Grill (16003 Pacific Ave., Spanaway) offers $1 Busch pounders during happy hour every day. They also serve $7 steak dinners.

Go to Metropolitan Market (2420 N. Proctor St., Tacoma) and buy the largest container of the daily Chapino soup. The key is to get as many chunks of fish out as you can.

Rosewood Café (3323 N. 26th St., Tacoma,) offers $5 glasses of wine every Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Kids eat for $1 in February from the 12-and-younger $4.99 Kids Menu with the purchase of each full-priced adult entrée at RAM Restaurant and Brewery locations in the South Sound.

The Sea Grill (1498 Pacific Ave., Tacoma) has introduced a Fab Five Bar Menu featuring fish tacos, rock shrimp cocktail, Sea Grill truffle fries, lobster bisque and a bar Caesar salad each priced at $5 all day, every day.

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide