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Looking for inexpensive or free things to do in Denver/Boulder? Want to sample local stores, restaurants, attractions, and more without breaking the bank? Your guides Claire Walter and Laura Daily. show you how to get the best for less. Know about a great deal or freebie? Email us at info@milehighonthecheap.com
Yellow Pages for Denver, CO


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$5 PBR 'Relief Pitchers' at the Wazee Supper Club

Bring a Rockies ticket or stub before or after any home game this season and get $5 pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon all day at the Wazee Supper Club, This classic LoDo hangout also does happy hour Monday-Friday, 4-6 p.m. for a wider choice of values. 1600 15th St (15th & Wazee), Denver; 303-623-5919.  The [...]

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$12 All-You-Can Eat Fish Fry

In the Midwest, Friday is traditional fish fry night. At the Interstate Kitchen & Bar, Denver’s retro eatery, it’s Wednesday, when this roadhouse-inspired restaurant with automotive decorative elements serves all-you-can eat beer-battered fish, cole slaw and French fries for $12. Wash it down with $2 Schlitz brewskis, and you’ll feel transported to a different time [...]

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New Abo's Pizza on Pearl Street Has Great Happy Hour Values

After a 10-year absence during which it grew to 17 Front Range locations, Abo’s Pizza had returned to Boulder’s Pearl Street, one block west of the Mall. This take-out, delivery and eat-in operation includes a bar  and boasts excellent happy hour values daily 4-7 p.m. A 10-inch cheese pizza is $4 (regularly $7); house, Greek or Caesar [...]

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3 for 3 at La Fogata: $3 Specials During 3-Hour Happy Hour

The first La Fogata, was established 20 years ago, and now the metro area has three of these popular Mexican restaurants. They all do happy hour nightly, 4-7 p.m., featuring 16-ounce house margaritas, domestic and imported beer specials, and happy-hour appetizers for $3. 5670 E. Evans Ave. (east of I-25), Denver, 303-753-9458; 8090 E. Quincy Ave. (at Tamarac Pkwy.), Denver, 720-974-7315; [...]

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Boulder's Bacaro Extends Happy Hour Menu

Bácaro Venetian Taverna has expanded its happy hour offerings, available daily, 4-6:30 p.m. There are now 17 small plates at $2-$5 (including a fairly filling penne pasta dish) and seven types of individual pizza at $5-$6. The kitchen will accommodate gluten-free and other dietary needs. Just ask. Bácaro’s mixologist also assembles interesting cocktails at the [...]

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Three All-Night Happy Hours in Boulder

Tahona Tequila Bistro has doubled its all-night happy-hour food and drink pricing from one night a week to two until the end of winter. That means$2 tacos and tamales; $3 rellenos, infusions, drafts, wine and sangria, and $4 margaritas both on Sunday and Monday nights.  1035 Pearl St., Boulder; 303-938-9600. Tuesday, The Boulder Draft House has [...]

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George’s Tuesday Night Food/Wine Special <$11

George’s Food & Drink has a $10.99 Tuesday Night Special: a choice of two housemade lasagnas (vegetarian three-cheese, spinach and mushroom or spicy Italian sausage, goat cheese, ricotta and mushroom), a simple salad of organic greens and a glass of house wine. George’s also has a good happy hour deal every evening from 5-6:30 p.m. [...]

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Steuben's Specials Every Night of the Week

Steuben’s Food Service, a super-cool, super-popular, super-retro Uptown restaurant, offers two nightly happy hours and a rotating menu of upscale comfort food specials every evening too. The first happy hour, 4-7 p.m. daily, features $1 Miller High Life Ponies and Little Kings, and $1 off select domestic bottles, well drinks and wine. The second happy [...]

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Encore Restaurant's Well-Priced Eats

Encore Restaurant in the historic  Lowenstein Theater Building (and a neighbor of the Tattered Cover Book Store) offers daily half-price specials somewhere on the premises. They serve half-price pizza, appetizers and drinks in the bar, Monday through Saturday, 3-6 p.m. and again from 9 p.m. to close. The Sunday Supper Club, 4-8 p.m., features two-for-the-price-of-one [...]

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Full Belly's New Weeknight Specials

Radek Cerney’s Fully Belly Bistro now offers three-course dinners for $24 per person on Tuesdays and half off all bottles of wine on Wednesdays. Full Belly’s happy hour is normally 3:30-6 p.m. for drinks and 3:30-5:30 for food. On Mondays happy hour drink pricing extends until closing. 2779 Iris Ave., Boulder; [...]

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Prime Steakhouse Happy Hour Deals at the Bar

Prime Steakhouse, its congenial bar and the adjacent French-ish restaurant called La Fondue and/or Le Chateau are under the same ownership and have doorways connecting them. They occupy the corner of Araphoe and 15th Streets in downtown Denver, and two of the three serve happy hour specials at unbeatable prices. The bar has a [...]

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Tahona’s Two Days of Deals — Every Week

Every Monday is designated as all-day happy hour, with value pricing for small plates and drinks at Tahona Tequila Bistro, a hoppin’ spot just west of Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. The kitchen closes at 9 p.m., so the happy hour pricing is only for drinks after that. Monday is followed Tuesday, which means Tahona’s weekly “Meal and a Marg” [...]

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