WHETHER you're pinching your pennies or just after a cheap and cheerful dinner, there are plenty of options across Newcastle every night of the week.
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Listed below is a selection of specials across the city. Head to theherald.com.au to tell us more.
Check with individual eateries to confirm availability and conditions.
MONDAY
The Brewery, Newcastle: $19 jug and curry.
The Burwood Inn, Merewether: $10 pizzas for members.
La Casita, Hamilton: Kids eat free with one paying adult's meal.
The Duke of Wellington, New Lambton: Chicken schnitzel with your choice of chips, salad and gravy or vegetables, mash and gravy for $15, available lunch and dinner, bookings essential.
The Gates Hotel, Adamstown: Monday to Thursday nights, $10 pasta; $12 schnitzel; $15 grilled snapper fillet with chips and salad; $15 grain-fed rump steak with chips, salad or vegetables, and choice of sauce.
Honeysuckle Hotel, Newcastle: $10 fish and chips from 6pm.
The Junction Hotel, The Junction: $14 steak, $4 schooners.
The Landing Bar & Kitchen, Newcastle: Hospitality workers get 25 per cent off food and drinks.
Mary Ellen Hotel, Merewether: Steak night $11.90, free toppers, $2 gourmet toppers.
The Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow: $15 burger and beer, kids eat free.
Sunnyside Tavern, Broadmeadow: $10 burgers, $10 jugs of beer.
Swansea Hotel, Swansea: $9.90 chicken schnitzels.
TUESDAY
The Brewery, Newcastle: Wing night, chicken wings 80¢ each.
The Burwood, Merewether: $18 spit roast with seasonal salads, or with roast pumpkin, gravy and garden salad (for members).
The Clarendon, Newcastle: $10 pizzas, $10 pastas, $10 cocktails for lunch and dinner.
The Duke of Wellington, New Lambton: Chicken schnitzels with chips, salad and gravy or vegetables, mash and gravy for $15, lunch and dinner, bookings essential.
The Exchange, Hamilton: Tuesday to Thursday kids eat free (from the kids menu, no takeaway) from 5pm to 6.30pm.
Honeysuckle Hotel, Newcastle: Chicken schnitzel and crispy chips $10, from 6pm.
The Junction Hotel, The Junction: Buy any two main meals and choose free bread, free dessert or two free drinks.
La Casita, Hamilton: Taco Loco Tuesdays, $10 for three tacos and a drink (Jarritos not included).
The Landing Bar & Kitchen, Newcastle: Pasta special for $15, changes weekly.
Mary Ellen Hotel, Merewether: $11.90 schnitzels, lunch and dinner.
The Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow: $12 schnitzels, $4 schooners of beer.
Soho on Darby, Cooks Hill: $15 T-bone steak with salad and fries.
Sunnyside Tavern, Broadmeadow: $13 lamb cutlets.
WEDNESDAY
The Brewery, Newcastle: Viva Mexico with Mexican meals from $5, margaritas $4.
The Burwood, Merewether: $15 schnitzels or $17 rump steak with chips and salad for members.
The Clarendon, Newcastle: $15 steak or schnitzel dinner with a schooner of Carlton Draught or VB or glass of Hardys house wine, toppings extra.
Honeysuckle Hotel, Newcastle: Graziers steak with crispy chips, $10 from 6pm. Conditions apply for side dishes and sauce.
The Junction Hotel, The Junction: $14 schnitzels for members.
The Landing Bar & Kitchen, Newcastle: $15 organic chicken parmigiana and hand-cut chips with two-for-one cocktails.
Mary Ellen Hotel, Merewether: $11.90 schnitzels.
The Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow: Touche Hombre Mexican Feast with $3 tacos.
Soho on Darby, Cooks Hill: $15 garlic bread and lamb shanks, basic spirits $3.50.
Sunnyside Tavern, Broadmeadow: $10 chicken schnitzels.
Swansea Hotel, Swansea: $15 rump.
THURSDAY
The Burwood, Merewether: $20 pork spare ribs for members.
The Landing Bar & Kitchen, Newcastle: $18 rump steak (250g) with hand-cut chips.
Mary Ellen Hotel, Merewether: A dozen mixed Sydney rock oysters, two glasses Angoves sauvignon blanc $20; $11.90 gourmet pasta or pie night.
The Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow: $13 steak.
Sunnyside Tavern, Broadmeadow: $13 steak.
Soho on Darby, Cooks Hill: $15 Peroni and chicken schnitzel with salad and fries.
FRIDAY
The Brewery, Newcastle: $24 jug and ribs.
Customs House Hotel, Newcastle: Complimentary antipasto for groups of six or more and drink specials including $5 Peronis, cocktails and house wine from 5pm to 7pm every Friday.
Merewether Surfhouse, Merewether: All-you-can-eat mussel pots in the bar every Friday from 5.30pm, $19.50.
SUNDAY
Bar Petite, Newcastle: Seafood and Sangria Sunday, choice of seafood dish such as grilled Port Stephens swordfish loin, salad nicoise, red wine vinaigrette, fine herbs or paella de negro with local chorizo, fresh squid, garden peas, king prawns, preserved lemon. Dishes are $35 and include a 500-millilitre bottle of Fog City red sangria served on ice.
The Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow: $12 Sunday roast.
Sunnyside Tavern, Broadmeadow: Kids eat free.
The Duke of Wellington, New Lambton: Super Seafood Sundays, $10 dozen oysters plus Super Seafood Specials, available lunch and dinner.
Mary Ellen Hotel, Merewether: $11.90 roast lunch and dinner.
DAILY SPECIALS
Benny's Bistro, Town Hall Hotel, Waratah: $10 lunch specials, $12.50 dinner specials, Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner.
The Grand Hotel, Newcastle: $10 meals such as homemade chicken schnitzel, battered flathead fillets, 200-gram rump steak (gluten-free). Add mash for $2.50. Monday to Saturday.
Honeysuckle Hotel, Newcastle: Fresh Coffin Bay oysters at half price, choice of toppings including Kilpatrick oysters baked with garlic pinenut butter. Every day, 5pm to 6.30pm.
Silo Restaurant and Lounge, Newcastle: $10 handmade thin-crust pizza, drink specials such as $3.50 champagne, $3.50 Coopers and $5 Murrays Angry Man, $8 daily cocktail special from 4pm to 6pm every day (except public holidays).
