Artful Spending
Ages ago I read an article in the WSJ on how to save $ while dining. iDine.com, Restaurant.com and DinnerBroker.
I finally remember and check out the membership options.
I've only looked at Restaurant.com and I'm astounded. If you pay up front for a gift certificate you essentially pay half.
So....
- $12.50 at Fiddlesticks will buy you a $25 gift certificate (not that I plan on eating there)
- same deal on the upper west side's Westside Brewing Company
Dinnerbroker allows you to punch in party size and date & wammo, a matrix of restaurants and their discounts show. (There's a fee for booking a table, but not always.) Often 10, 15, 20% comes straight off your bill.
The other really neat thing about the sites is the open information regarding fix-priced dinners. (Or as I prefer to horrify my cosmopolitan friends) early birds:)
And here's the craziest thing: Restaurant.com has many of the 1/2 price gift certificates on eBay! (Right now a $25 gift certificate at O'Fanagans is at a buck - plus the $1 handling fee - but for last minute dining how can you go wrong?) Dude! How could I have been sleeping. There are tons of places to experiment but that you hold off on when the review is questionable, or it the menu is different. But for such a steep discount....come on! Yay!
posted by irene @ 2/24/2003 08:47:00 PM
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