Cheap Eats?

cbwjm · 2026-01-02T07:00:47+0000

Zardnaar said:
Rare few places do it here or did. On place had small craft beers for $5 5pm to 7pm. Then $6 haven't been for a while though.

There's a place in Auckland called Mr Murdoch's that does a beer of the week for $6. It can be a bit hit or miss since sometimes you'll get a fortune favours but the next week you get lion red.

I know of a couple other places here in Auckland that do a happy hour, but normally it's just a couple $$ off, so 10$ instead of 12$ or 13$. A place I hadn't been to in ages does a 45$ jug of lager and a bowl of fries. About 6 glasses in the jug so I'm assuming around 2 litres which makes it decent value.

MNblockhead · 2026-01-02T07:33:56+0000

If you live in a larger city, see if TooGoodToGo has taken root. It is an app that lists deals from restaurants when they have too much of something, often near closing, but not always. You can get great deals and is a good excuse to try new places. It is still fairly new to the USA and seems to only have good support from large coastal cities, but support is spreading to larger cities in fly-over country. My wife and my son in college use it a lot in the Twin Cities area. Almost no support in Milwaukee yet, unfortunately. Those of you in a large European city will likely find many more restaurants signed up. It started in Copenhagen in 2016 and grew in popularity in Europe before making its way to the US.

Everything is done through an app, but you can read more about it at their website: Save Good Food From Going To Waste | Too Good To Go

Zardnaar · 2026-01-02T07:56:14+0000

cbwjm said:
There's a place in Auckland called Mr Murdoch's that does a beer of the week for $6. It can be a bit hit or miss since sometimes you'll get a fortune favours but the next week you get lion red.

I know of a couple other places here in Auckland that do a happy hour, but normally it's just a couple $$ off, so 10$ instead of 12$ or 13$. A place I hadn't been to in ages does a 45$ jug of lager and a bowl of fries. About 6 glasses in the jug so I'm assuming around 2 litres which makes it decent value.

Damn 2 litre jugs of lager here is $32 at one of our D&D venues

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Nachos $8 ($4.20 usd add beef $4 ($2.20). Nachos weren't half bad.