Colorfully eat your way through DC without breaking the bank

Since moving to Washington DC, finding a cheap, decent meal is pretty difficult. It is well known that the city offers many different specials throughout the week but most are during happy hour prime time: 4-7pm and I am LUCKY if I step foot in my apartment by 6:45 leaving my opportunity for a good meal out impossible. I recently took a list of restaurants that offer specific nightly deals on foods and drinks and categorized it by the day the deal is offered. To organize it even further I color coded the genre of food so depending on the day your “Taco Tuesday” can be FREE (on Wednesdays). So as the incredibly bargain hunting foodie I am, I offer you, How to Colorfully eat and drink your way through the city without breaking your bank by Sunday!

 

Color Codes include:

 

• All night Happy Hour
• Pizza
• American/wings/Burgers
• Oysters/ Seafood
• ½ Price wine bottles
• Tacos
• Other

 

Mondays:

 

• Red Derby: ½ off burgers and fries($5-6)

• Ankara: ½ price Wine Bottles on Mondays

• Bar Charley: All night Happy hour on food and drink
  • Burger- $9
  • Drinks- $8

• Cleveland Park Bar and Grill:
  • ½ price burgers and buffalo wings

• Dino’s Grotto(BYOB):
  • Free corkage// all night happy hour beer ($4) wine ($6)

• Granville’s Moores
  • Mussel Mondays Big bowl ($12)

• Open City
  • Burger and Draft Beer combo ($12)

• The Wonderland Ballroom:
  • *Trivia Night*/ Meatless option dinner- Free drink

• El Chucho: 4pm – 2am Happy Hour
  • Tacos- $3
  • Guac- $5
  • Beer- $3-4Margaritas- $4-5

• Flight: 5pm- close *Wine Bar still expensive but good selections

• Tico: All night Happy hour
  • Cocktails- $6
  • Beer and wine: $5
  • Tacos- $4
  • Small plates- $5-8

• Madfox Brewing: 4-10 pm
  • $7 Mules
  • $2 OFF cans and bottles

• Quarry House Tavern
  • Burgers ½ Price

• Capitol Lounge
  • Pizza- $6
  • ½ bottle of wine

• The Pinch
  • Duck bacon Mac n cheese with green beans $10

 

 

Tuesdays:

 

• Red Derby
  • ½ off Tacos ($4-5)

• Ambar: 4pm -10 pm
  • Small Serbian small Plates
  • Beer/wine/ Margs/ mojitos- $4

• H Street Country Club
• $3 beer
• $5 Classic Margaritas

• Shaw’s Tavern
  • Burgers- ½ off

• Gordon Biersch’s
  • $3 Beer

• Liberty Tree
  • ½ Price pizza

• Smoke and Barrel
  • 3 tacos and a side $8

• The Big Hunt : 7-11 pm
  • 6 varieties of wings $0.25

• Dogwood Tavern
  • $4 ½ dozen clams or oysters
  • $4 ½ pound of shrimp
  • $4 sauteed mussels

 

 

Wednesdays:

 

• H Street Country Club
  • 2 Tacos for $3 *2 drink min.

• Breadsoda *game room* 4pm- 2am
  • All Games are free
  • Drinks are $4

• Mad Fox Brewing 4-8pm
  • ½ Price wine bottles
  • 8pm- Begins Trivia Night

• Capitol Lounge 4-8 pm
  • $1 Tacos
  • $5 margaritas and mexican beer

• 1905
  • ½ Price burgers

 

 

Thursdays:

 

• Red Derby– All night Happy hour
  • 9pm- midnight ½ price food

• Madfox Brewing 4-10 pm
  • $6 apps and Seasonal Cocktails

• Duffy’s Irish Pub
  • ½ price wings all night

• The Black Squirrel
  • Customized burgers ½ off

• The Front Page
  • FREE TACOS 6-8 pm
  • $2 beer

• Bayou Bakery
  • ½ price bottles of wines after 5pm

• Society Fair *Alexandria*
  • $45 New York Rib eye/ Filet with sides, salad and a dessert

 

Fridays:

 

• The Bottom Line: 4pm- close
  • $1 Miller lite
  • $2 7-9 pm
  • $4 rail drinks
  • $4 wing or taquito basket

 

 

Saturdays

 

• Penn Commons (4pm -Close)
  • ** LIKE THIS EVERY NIGHT
  • $5 beer/cocktails/ wines

 

Sundays

Its called the day of rest for a reason. Relax. Cook something. Or Enjoy one of the MANY bottomless brunches offered in this beautiful city!