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Daily Deal$: Mardi Gras Edition

By Sun-Times Wire

Every day, we’ll be alerting you to five great food and drink deals around town, courtesy of Centerstage Chicago’s comprehensive database. In this economy, you need all the help you can get, right?

Today, we’ll be plucking five great deals from Centerstage’s guide to Mardi Gras events.

115 Bourbon Street

$3 you-call-it

Dunlays on Clark

$5 Hurricanes, $3 Big Easy shots; $10 Mardi Gras menu specials

$4 Abita beer; $7.95 all-you-can-eat buffet

Jake Melnick’s Corner Tap

$30 all-you-can-eat-and-drink

$5 Hurricanes, $6 “Storm of the Century”

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