You can add Montenapo (The NY Times Building; 41st b/t 7th and 8th) to the growing list of restaurants offering great happy hour deals w/ complimentary food. Between 4-8pm on Monday-Friday, Montenapo is offering a selection of complimentary hors d’oeuvres and more than 20 Italian wines by the glass starting at $8. Tweet this!

We learned this afternoon that Ancora Ristorante, an old-school Italian in the Financial District, has just started offering complimentary appetizers and grappa with lunch and dinner. You will be offered complimentary bites at the start of your meal, such as crisp zucchini fries with red pepper flakes, platters of soppresatta, chunks of imported parmesan and [...]

Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien is offering a late-ish night burger + beer special this week. After 10PM ’til close, when you order 2 burgers, you get 50% off a pitcher of beer. Just mention the “Twitter Discount” when you order.  Here’s the tweet: Burger Joint about 15 hours ago 7/28/09 thru 8/1/09 After 10PM till [...]

Many of the city’s top-rated restaurants have been offering great specials to make themselves more approachable. A multi-course dinner for 2 with wine at the likes of a La Grenouille (pictured) or Daniel doesn’t have to be $300+ these days. Here’s a list of the best deals being offered by some of the city’s most expensive and highest Zagat-rated establishments [...]

I was a bit confused yesterday after reading this piece on Gael Greene’s Insatiable Critic website about her recent Summer Restaurant Week dinner at Del Posto. A quick glance at the official NYC & Company Restaurant Week website shows that Del Posto is only participating in Summer Restaurant Week for lunch. Was the Insatiable confusing Del Posto’s surreptitious $35 4-course prix fixe [...]

With so much attention on the 250+ Summer Restaurant Week participants, several non-participating RW restaurants are offering fantastic prix-fixe deals to make sure they don’t get overlooked: Smorgas Chef (all 4 locations) — Through August 9, offering a 4-course prix fixe for $35 that includes your choice of aquavit, a glass of wine or Carlsberg [...]

We just got word that Waldy Malouf has decided that everone dining at Beacon tonight (not just the first 100 guests) will get to take advantage of the 3-course prix-fixe dinner for $10 in celebration of Beacon’s 10-year anniversary. There will also be a sommelier-selected $10 bottle of wine option. As of now, they only [...]

Beacon (25 W. 56th St b/t 5th and 6th; 212-332-0500) is celebrating its 10th anniversary tonight in a major way! If you’re one of the first 1oo dinner guests tonight, then you will get a 3-course prix-fixe dinner for just $10! There will also be a special $10 entree available to everyone, as well as [...]

People are loving what Executive Chef Christopher Lee is doing at the new Aureole at One Bryant Park. Check out these industry tweets: @GaelGreene Four fussy foodies all very impressed with Christopher Lee’s cooking at Aureole. Charlie Palmer schmoozing the room. @TheFeedbag Aureole is amazing right now. I’m flabbergasted.  The restaurant’s flashy new digs are staged in three venues: The Bar Room, [...]

You gotta love the name of this wine deal! Every Wednesday through August 26th, The Palm Too (840 2nd Ave) and The Palm Tribeca (West St. b/t Chambers and Warren) are offering their ENTIRE list of wines by the bottle at half off all day and all night long. Makes it a no-brainer for a [...]

Just got word that Vento will be serving up $1 Malpeque and Kumamoto oysters all day long tomorrow from noon-11pm. Tweet this!

Monday is by far the best ‘recession special’ day of the week. It’s especially a great night for wine lovers. Some high-end restaurants let you BYO for free (Apiary, Tribeca Grill, Dylan Prime), several others go 50% off bottles of wine (Academia di Vino, STK, Beppe, Les Halles, ‘Cesca, Parlor Steakhouse and more) and one restaurant will even [...]

Here’s a map of today’s wine and beer tastings, restaurant deals and food events happening around the city: CommunityWalk Map – What’s Happening Today — June 10th Tweet this!

Here are some deals we’re happy to see extended: More Meze Madness at Pera through June 30th — pick any 3 meze from menu of 15 options for just $9; Mon-Fri from 3:30pm to close and Saturday from 5:30pm to close; until 7 pm, add $30 to the $9 madness for a bottle of wine from [...]

First it was Les Halles (Mondays), Elizabeth (Sundays), Clinton Street Baking Co. (Tuesdays), and Allen & Delancey (Sundays). Now, word of yet another half-off all bottles of wine deal just landed in our inbox. Here’s the release: Mondays in Manhattan may mark the start of a long work week, but they just got a little [...]