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NYC on the Cheap iTunes/iPad/iTouch app

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The app version of NYC on the Cheap has just been updated and released on the iTunes Store.  The new 1.3 version contains more NYC cheap eats, more listings about NYC history, neighborhoods and how to get around, and more links to the Twitter and Facebook pages of the restaurants, museums [...]

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Boston Market $7.99 dinner price reduction

Monday Menus — Back by popular demand for a limited time, Boston Market has reduced the price on its Half Chicken Meal to $7.99, plus tax. This meal deal includes a half rotisserie chicken, a choice of two home style sides and sweet, golden cornbread. Also, Boston Market has a new Home Style Combo [...]

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KFC discount for 12-piece meal

Monday menus:  Through March 15th, get $3 any KFC 12-piece meal with a FREE downloadable coupon.  There’s no limit to how many times you can print out the coupon, but you can use just one per visit. KFC used to be called Kentucky Fried [...]

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Monday Menus: Lady Gaga’s family restaurant Joanne Trattoria on UWS

It’s surely too late to get a reservation for a romantic dinner tomorrow, for Valentine’s Day, so call now for Mother’s Day if you want to get into Joanne Trattoria, the new UWS restaurant opened by Lady Gaga’s parents.  That’s what happens when a new restaurant with star power opens.  Joanne Trattoria was opened [...]

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NYC Fashion Week restaurant discounts on UWS

More than one dozen Upper West Side restaurants are celebrating Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center with discount prix fixe lunches and dinners.  These are many of the same restaurants that you probably couldn’t get into for NYC Restaurant Week because ‘insiders’ eat up most of the reservations before they open to the public.  [...]

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Monday menus: Dominican favorites at Mangu in midtown

How’s this for a lunch deal — $8.75 for chicken, beef, or pork stew, plus a side of beans and rice, rice with veggies, or mashed plantain.  And this lunch deal is served up through 6 PM, which makes it a great dinner deal, too.  Where?  At Mangu, a popular Dominican restaurant near Grand [...]

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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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