Restaurant Roundup: Half-price pizzas, cupcake design contest, new cookie cakes
Oct. 6, 2022
Boss’ Pizza & Chicken is celebrating its 17th anniversary with its annual Customer Appreciation Days. Monday and Tuesday, get half-off all dine-in and carryout orders at the three Sioux Falls locations and the one in Tea. Seventeen percent of all sales will go to Feeding South Dakota. As an added bonus this year, pinball machines at all locations will be on free play all day.
The owners of Watecha Bowl are celebrating 12 years of marriage this month and offering their two for $12 Indian taco special every day in October instead of just Tuesdays.
Oh My Cupcakes is having a Halloween cupcake design contest, and the winner will see his or her design as part of the bakery’s offerings this season. Contestants don’t have to decorate a cupcake, just design it on paper. In addition to bragging rights, the winner will get a dozen cupcakes with their design. Click here for information.
The crew at Sunny’s Pizzeria voted for their favorite new recipes and came up with three featured options. Honey and the Beaze has honey barbecue, mozzarella, chicken, bacon, pineapple, green pepper and a hot honey drizzle. The Greek Freak has tzatziki sauce, mozzarella, gyro meat, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, black olives and feta crumbles. Sporting Ascots has Alfredo sauce for the base, mozzarella, bacon, broccoli, apple, blue cheese crumbles and a balsamic glaze drizzle.
Chef Omar Thornton is back at Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse with a pop-up kitchen Saturday. Thornton, the former owner of “O” So Good in Garretson who now cooks at an independent living center in Jasper, Minnesota, will be making smoked Cajun-style wings. Get six wings for $8 or 12 for $15. He’ll start serving at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 12, he’ll be serving jambalaya.
A Harrisburg coffee shop has added custom cookie cakes. Lava’s Coffee & Cafe on Willow Street is taking orders for custom designs. The cookie cakes come in 9-, 12- or 16-inch sizes. Flavor choices are chocolate chip or M&M, but owner Laura Klenk said she’s willing to make other varieties too. To place an order, call or text her at 605-261-1568.
Now that Sub Zero Desserts has closed its ice cream stand for the season, other treats are available online or at Chef Ellen’s. The current inventory includes hot chocolate bombs and dipped Oreo cookies with Halloween designs along with the usual rolled ice cream cakes and ice cream push pops, which also come in a vegan version. The business also has added equipment to make custom-ordered treats with logos on them.
Featured menus of the month are back at Tinners Public House, and October includes the usual Oktoberfest specials. The restaurant also has Sam Adams and Schell’s Oktoberfest beers on tap.
Great Shots is celebrating Oktoberfest on Saturday with beer, food, games and music. The event will be from 2 to 10 p.m. in the parking lot. General admission tickets are $20, and beer tasting tickets are $45, which include admission and two samples from each of the nine vendors from 2 to 6 p.m. Great Shots will have a special German food menu, and five food trucks will be selling food: Pa & Sons, Cheezy Noodlez, Breaking Burrito, A Taste of New Orleans and Ol’ MacDonald’s Kettle Corn. College football games will be streaming all day from a flat-screen TV trailer, and there will be a stein-holding contest with a $20 entry fee and prizes.
Severance Brewing Co. is hosting a Give Back Night for the Feisty Fighters on Thursday, Oct. 13. The downtown brewery participated in Kinship Brewing Co.’s national collaborative brew, Scars are Beautiful. Severance and 150 other craft breweries made the West Coast IPA, and $1 of every pint at Severance sold will go to Feisty Fighters, which provides financial support to local cancer patients. The beer goes on tap Friday, but the event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 13 and includes a putting green with prizes. Murph’s Burgers & Fries will be selling food, with $1 of every burger sold going to Feisty Fighters.
The Never-Ending Pasta Bowl special is back for a limited time at Olive Garden. The price starts at $14 and increases with the addition of meatballs, Italian sausage or chicken. It’s expected to be available into mid-November.
Changes in hours, service
- Sunday is the final day of the season for B&G Milkyway in Harrisburg.
- Prairie C Desserts has new hours for fall: 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 1 to 9 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
- First Stop Coffee Shop has changed its hours: 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
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