If you’ve seen a television in the past week you must know by now that Subway has a $5 footlong special. Now Quiznos is upping the ante with a $4 footlong.  The Subway deal is $5 for any regular footlong sandwich. Link to deal.  The Quiznos deal is $4 for their footlong Torpedo sandwich.  Link to deal.  Who will win? Actually, either way, we feel like we are the winner on this fight.

Pizza Hut is offering a medium one-topping pizza for one cent when you buy one large.  Link to deal.

Enter a new contest at Teds Montana Grill and get a free burger.   (Also a chance to win a new Toyota Prius, but we never win anything like that, so we will settle for the free food.)  Here is the link.

Sizzler has a Steak and Lobster Tail dinner special for $14.99.  This is a 6 oz sirloin and lobster tail in the shell.   Link

Flemings steak house has just introduced their Spring Prix Fixe Menu. For $35.95 you get appetizer, entree, side dish and dessert.  Entrees include hangar-style steak (not the finest cut obviously), roast chicken or broiled salmon.  Link to deal.

That’s the deal on this new coupon from TGI Fridays.  An appetizer for one penny when you buy a drink at the bar, or an entree for $1 when you buy another entree of equal or higher value.  This coupon went out to all members of the Fridays Red Stripe Club.   You can click the image below and print it since there seems no limit on the number of times it can be used.  The coupon states it is good till April 30.

Note: This post originated March 14 and was updated April 4, 2009.  On April 14 these deals were verified as still active.

Earlier this week we wrote about the specials popping up at high end steak houses like Mortons and Ruths Chris.   We can’t all afford those places even at the special prices we found, so  here is our roundup of deals at the lower end places.

To start off here is a new deal we found on March 14.  Black Angus is serving prime rib dinners for $13.99 with the coupon below.  The coupon is not on their website though so you’ll have to print this one. 

Lone Star Deal

• Applebees

has a two for $20 deal featuring an appetizer to share and two entrees such as their house 7oz sirloin.  Link to deal.

• Lone Star Steak House has $9.99 Steak Night on Mondays at many locations (see the image at right). Link to deal (click on Six Shooter Values on the web page)   There are other deals as well, including all-you-can-eat Soup and Salat for $6.99 Mon-Thurs, 11 am-6pm, Kids eat free Tuesdays, all you can eat ribs for $18.99 on Wednesdays, and burger, fries and drink for $5.99, 11 am-4 pm Saturdays.
• Lone Star also has a three-course steak dinner for $12.99 (see their Legends menu).  Link to Deal.
• Outback has steaks starting at $9.95, and 15 dinner selections
  for less than $15. Link to deal.
• Texas Steak House has a 7 oz sirloin for $7.99 all day every day. Link to deal.
• TGI Fridays has a $9.99 menu that includes flat iron steaks and petite sirloins.  Link to deal.

Costco has a good deal on restaurant gift cards.  Buy two $50 gift cards for $79.99.  Costco has these deals for Baja Fresh, Delmonicos, McCormick and Schmick, Rosemary’s, San Diego restaurants (good at more than 100 places), Trader Vic, and Wolfgang Puck.  Link to deal.

The Entertainment Guides that contain hundreds of coupons are now being sold for half off.  These books contain lots of valuable coupons such as buy one meal, get one free.  Link to offer.

Updated April 4, 2009.  Boston Market has a coupon on their website for $2 off a $10 purchase.  Link to coupon.

Note: These deals were checked again and verified on April 14, 2009. -
Editor

• Mortons has a three-course steak or seafood dinner for two for $99 ($109 in some locations).  Link to deal.
• Ruths Chris has a three-course steak and seafood Classics fixed price menu for $39. Link to deal.
• Sullivans has a $29 steak or salmon three course meal till 6 p.m.  Link to deal.

If you’ve tried any of these we would like to hear from you.

Our San Diego google map of specials

So what is this EatDrinkDeals web site and who is behind it?  The creators of EatDrinkDeals are three guys who live in different parts of the country. One of us is in Raleigh, NC, another on the West Coast, and another in Nashville, TN.

For each of us, our hobbies include web-related stuff, and eating out a lot. We love great food and wine and other drinks. But we’re cheapskates.

A few years ago we started keeping track of who had deals on what nights. We each kept a little calendar book with the deal information. Our goal was to have options for inexpensive food and drink every night of the week. Nothing pleased us more than to find two-for-one appetizers at an upscale restaurant, $25 off coupons, half-priced wine, or, the Holy Grail, free beer and free food.

Our friends started asking us for the deal lists, and so we decided to try it out on the web.  Since going out is location-centric, a map seemed like the right interface, and so a Google Map is where we started.   We started with Raleigh, NC, and now cover about 20 cities.  The cities we cover are listed on the right.  Click on one and it will take you to the map.

Alongside the map is the list of restaurants and bars we cover for the city you’ve selected. To get details on a place, including its specials, click on the name in the list, or click on the place in the map. Every place on the map is in the list, and vice versa.

To see a different location, click on “Select City”. To see only the specials for a certain day, click on “Specials”.

You can also see all the specials at a glance by switching to Table View.

We hope to have all the main bars and restaurants on our map. We’re combing the web and local publications for specials. When we find one we put it in the map marker.

We’d like to hear from you. Either send an email to us at owner@eatdrinkdeals.com or register and post your comments here.

Sincerely,

GM Arnold (covering the East Coast), MW Arnold (West Coast), and RE Arnold (Southern U.S.).

Welcome to the new Eat Drink Deals web site.  Our new home page features stories on nationwide deals, like the comprehensive listing of Restaurant Week specials across the USA.  

This page (where you are now) is now on a Wordpress platform.  This brings us a host of new Web 2.0 features including the ability for you log in and comment on our stories. Of course we are continuing to provide local specials in Google map and table form.  We currently cover about 20 cities (see links at right), with more to come soon.