Tuition and books have robbed you – and we know how much that hurts. If you're pinching pennies this school year, try these watering holes and eateries.
This cute little watering hole hugs Northern Kentucky University and welcomes beer pong gaming any night of week. (Just call ahead.) We know you have a budget, so load up on all-you-can-eat wings for $9.99 on Mondays. Billie's has a variety of drink specials, including $2 Bud Light Limes on Wednesdays during karaoke from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m..
If by "An Easy Place to Drink" the bar owners mean "A Cheap Place to Drink," they have it right. Pachinko has generous drink specials every night, one of the coolest being $6 Bud Light or Miller Lite pitchers. DJs fill the air Thursday-Sunday night.
You and the classmates want to talk about that mind-numbing quiz – over drinks. Get to this pub before 8 p.m. to take up the happy hour deal: five domestic beers (served in an ice-cold bucket) for $10. If you went to Highlands High School, expect a reunion of some sort.
This one goes out to the commuters. The college-friendly pub offers free pool Tuesdays and 37-ounce domestic draft beer for $3 and a 22-ounce version for $2 every day from 4 to 7 p.m. Domestic buckets are $9 every day.
Guys 'n' Dolls Restaurant and Nightclub
Serving lunch and dinner, Guys and Dolls has a small menu with small prices. Get half-price appetizers - such as the pretzel loaf and tempura fried shrimp – and $1 off select drinks 4 to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday. This swing music-lovin' restaurant and nightclub opened this summer, so it's still figuring out what its forthcoming College Night will entail.
The cafe offers 99 cents tacos on Thursdays – score! And it has a decent deal on Wednesdays: Pay $5.99 for a burger dressed in all the toppings you want and served with fries, onion rings or a salad.
It forms a triangle with Town and Country Sports Complex and the Great Escape movie theater, and it has all the fixings you can expect at a sports bar – mini corn dogs, jalapeno poppers, chicken wings and wraps. Quell your late-night hunger Wednesdays because domestic beers and burgers are $1.
Happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. gets you $1.50 off the restaurant's appetizers, including its signature one, fried eggplant served with cocktail sauce. Drink specials vary daily, but a staple is $3.99 Long Island Iced Tea on Wednesdays.
About a mile from NKU, Bambooz Bar and Grill understands the student budget. Tuesday is Guys Night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., which means bros have four hours to inhale $2 domestic drafts, 50-cent wings and $10 domestic buckets. Wednesday is College Nite, so bring your student ID to get $1-$1.50 draft beers and $2.50 well drinks. And Thursday is for the ladies, who can enjoy $2 well drinks and $3 mixed shots.
Really, will you ever pay full price for wings here? Traditional wings are 45 cents Tuesdays, and boneless are 65 cents Thursdays. Get your fill then walk to Skyline Tavern.
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paultake from Covington - August 28, 2009 at 8:56 PM
You forgot the best deal in town for students Rick, Roebling Point's Five for Five. Molly's, Keystone, Downunder and Sidebar's Thursday Night spec...
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