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Best NYC restaurant to avoid Super Bowl XLVI: Spina on LES not showing the Big Game

If you’re looking for restaurant to have dinner on Super Bowl Sunday that won’t be blasting the Big Game on a big screen, head for Spina Restaurant on the Lower East side to avoid the football madness.  Super Bowl Sunday night only, any bowl of the restaurant’s signature handmade pasta, made fresh daily right [...]

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Best NYC bars to drink beer and watch SuperBowl XLVI: Loreley

Loreley Restaurant and Beirgarten is just that — a German restaurant and a traditional German beer garden, serving lots of German beer.  But on SuperBowl Sunday, both locations — on the Lower East Side and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — turn into sports bars.  Watch the game on big screen TVs and drink beer.  Loreley [...]

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Best NYC sports bar for SuperBowl LVXI: Bounce Sporting Club

Bounce Sporting Club claims to be inspired by the 50s and 60s, but the huge plasma TV screens that polka-dot the two huge locations are very state-of-the-art today, and so are the prices for drinks, wings and other menu items.  Bounce Sporting Club is at 55 West 21st, in the Flatiron District.  It’s a [...]

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Free onion rings at Burger King on SuperBowl Sunday

Burger King is giving away free value-size onion rings Saturday, Feb. 4th and also SuperBowl Sunday, Feb. 5th, at participating locations.  There’s no purchase necessary, and a limit of one value-size freebie per visit.  Which means you could help yourself to more than one free serving at different locations on the same day.  Although [...]

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Best NYC bars for SuperBowl XLVI: Ryan Maguire’s

Ryan Maguire’s is usually found on the list of best NYC Irish bars for St. Patrick’s Day.  This weekend, it’s also on the list for best bars for SuperBowl Sunday, to root for the New York Giants to win SuperBowl XLVI.  The restaurant/bar in the Financial District is offering $10 Pitchers, free shots for [...]

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Free Papa Johns pizza if you call the winner of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI coin toss

Papa John’s, the Official Pizza Sponsor of the NFL, is offering the chance to win a free large one-topping pizza and two-liter bottle of Pepsi if you name the winner of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI coin toss.  The chance to win is called the Coin Toss Experience, and the rules are somewhat complicated, but [...]

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SuperBowl XLVI deal: $45 unlimited food, drinks + big screen TVs

Monday menus — Have a super SuperBowl experience with eight big screen TVs with game sounds, get unlimited food through halftime, and unlimited domestic draft beers and well drinks for the entire game, for a package price of $45.  The ultimate rematch football mania deal is at Session 73, 1359 First Ave. at 73rd [...]

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Free pancakes at IHOP supports children’s charity

IHOP’s seventh annual National Pancake Day will be back on Tuesday, February 28, 2012.  All day long, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., IHOP restaurants will serve you a free short stack of the chain’s signature buttermilk pancakes in the hope you will donate what the meal would have cost, or more, to Children’s [...]

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Monday menus: $8.25 three course Asian lunch near Columbia University

Restaurants and luncheonettes around college and university campuses are always great places to find low-priced meals, and the Asian  restaurant called Vine, by Columbia University, is no exception.  Avoid the regular entree and appetizer menu of Japanese and Thai dishes in favor of the Columbia Lunch Box, an $8.25 deal that includes a California [...]

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Monday menus: $2 off Quiznos coupon

Quiznos meal deal:  Through Wednesday, January 25, 2012, you can get $2 off a $10+ purchase at Quiznos with a free downloadable coupon that you can download and print out more than once.   Here’s the link to the $2 off Quiznos coupon.  As always, the coupon is valid at participating locations only, and not [...]

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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

iPhone/iPad/iTouch app

Launched last year as NYC Free and Frugal, the app version of NYC on the Cheap has been renamed NYC on the Cheap.

Download it now from the iTunes store, and get hundreds of places for cheap eats, stores where you’ll never pay retail, museums that are always free, and lots [...]

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Monday Menus: Steak ‘n’ Shake lights up Times Square with $3.99 double cheese steakburger ‘n fries

The popular midwestern chain Steak ‘n Shake finally has opened in New York City, and is drawing crowds for its top quality and low prices.  It’s also one of the first Steak ‘n Shake locations to serve beer and wine.  Steak ‘n Shake’s menu prices are the same across the country — that means [...]

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