College life is tough because you need to fend for yourself when it comes to food. On the days when you’re too lazy to cook a crappy meal at your apartment or you’re not feelin’ what the dinning hall is serving up that night, you can always rely on Iowa City restaurants to take good care of you (and your taste buds). Whether you’re in the mood for pizza, wings, tacos, burgers, mac ‘n’ cheese or sushi (the main food groups in college), you can find good food with an even better deal on just about any given day of the week at these favorite downtown Iowa City hot spots.
Pizza
The Airliner
Deal: $1 pizza slices on Sundays
Wings
Brother’s Bar & Grill
Deal: 25 cent wings after 8 p.m. on Wednesdays
DC’s
Deal: $6 all you can eat wings (with a purchase of a beer) on Mondays
Tacos
Cactus
Deal: $1 Taco Tuesdays
El Patron
Deal: $1 Taco Tuesdays and Thursdays
Burgers
Short’s Burgers and Shines
Deal: $7 burger and black bean burgers on Mondays
Mickey’s Irish Pub
Deal: $5 burger basket on Mondays
DC’s
Deal: $3 burger basket on Thursdays
Mac n Cheese
Z’Mariks
Deal: $4 Mac and Cheese bowl on Mondays
Sushi
Formosa
Deal: $3 sushi rolls on Tuesday and Thursdays
Dessert
Molly’s Cupcakes
Deal: Buy one get one half off cupcakes on Wednesdays
It’s not your mama’s cooking, but this food and these deals are almost as good as it gets when you’re miles away from home!