The words “truffles” and “deal” are rarely uttered in the same sentence. But we got word last week that Upper East Italian resto Sandro’s (306 E. 81st St) is offering 20% off the entire check (including alcohol) 10pm-11:30pm Monday through Saturday. Coinciding with this 20% off special, Sandro’s has just received its first truffles of the season, both black truffles from Umbria and white truffles from Alba. During normal hours, you can get homemade tagliolini pasta with black truffles for $45, with white truffles for $80 (prices subject to market fluctuation). So for you late-night truffle hunters out there, this new late-night special means you can get pasta w/ black truffles for $36 and w/ white truffles for $64 between 10-11:30pm. Jill and I aren’t strangers to late night (drunken) truffle hunting. Our most recent episode was last November when we had several drinks after work in the East Village and thought it would be a good idea to go to Babbo for their White Truffle Tasting Menu w/ wine pairings. Waking up to realize I dropped about half a month’s rent on a meal was not fun. I think we’ll head to Sandro’s next time for our late-night, inebriated truffle fix. Sandro’s has another special, too, for you early birds. At the beginning of this year Sandro’s launched the Dow Jones Pasta Index special and therein began a trend of tying deals to the stock market. Until the Dow hits 11,000, all pastas are priced the same as the Dow Jones closing for that day on Mon-Fri b/t 4:30pm-6:30pm. So, yesterday all pastas would have been $9.89. Just think, back in March they would have been around $6.50.

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