Friday is undoubtedly the most popular day of the work-week for Chicagoans to go out to eat or drink, and there’s a surprising number of deals and discounts available on this day to start your weekend off right. Here are some of the best Friday food and drink specials in Chicago.
Lakeview, Lincoln Square and Uptown
Paddy Mac’s: $7 fish fry, $2 Bud Lite
Bad Dog Tavern: $6 all menu items, half-price bottles of wine, $5 Absolut drinks
44th Ward: $5 cocktails, $1 traditional grilled cheese after midnight
Brownstone: $3 domestic drafts, $5 appetizers from 4-6pm
Mystic Celt: $5 vodka lemonades, $9.95 all-you-can-eat fish and chips
Fizz: $5 Jameson drinks, half-price appetizers before 8pm
Mullen’s$5 fish and chips, $3 Miller Lite bottles
Wild Goose Bar: all-you-can-eat fish fry for $6.95
SOPO: $5 margaritas and mojitos
Avenue Tavern: $10 Lite pitchers, $12 margarita and Long Island pitchers
Lincoln Park
Halligan: $2.50 all bottles
Bridget McNeil’s: $4 nachos, $2.50 Miller products
The Firkin and Pheasant: $3 domestic bottles, $4 Stoli drinks
Sedgwick’s: Half-price appetizers from 4-7pm, $5 Long Island Ice Teas
Delilah’s: $3 Labatt Blue and Maker’s Mark
Matisse: $5 martinis
Gaslight: $15 Miller Light buckets
Bucktown, Ukranian Village, and Logan Square
Salud Tequila Lounge: $4 frozen margaritas
Mr. Brown’s Lounge: $4 Guinness, Leffe Blonde, or German chocolate cake
Faith and Whiskey: $5 Jim Beam
The Loop
House of Blues: $4 Fat Tire Drafts, $5 Long Islands
Sidebar Grille: Half-price appetizers (after 3pm) and $5 champagne
Paog Mahone’s: $3 Miller Lite pints
Market: $4 domestic bottles
River North and Old Town
Crimson Lounge: $4 Fat Tire pints, $10 Moet champagne
Betty’s Blue Star: $5 bombs
