Midtown OKC's '10 Buck Lunch Week' is Feb. 20-24: Visit these 19 restaurants for deals
The Midtown Redevelopment Corp., or Midtown OKC, is looking to draw some attention to the neighborhood during lunch hours from Feb. 20 through 24 with a "10 Buck Lunch Week."
"It's our brand-new event for Midtown. We're just excited; it's something that we're excited to offer for restaurants, but also to offer for customers and downtowners," said Midtown District Manager Jakey Dobbs. "The $10 really feels like a good deal right now."
All lunches include a soft drink or tea, depending on restaurant specifications. Lunch specials are available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, Feb. 20 through 24.
Dobbs said the idea for offering a week focused on lunch for just $10 came from conversations with area business and restaurant owners about the desire to increase lunch time traffic.
"Post-COVID and post-pandemic the lunch crowd had really lessened, and they weren't having much of a rush and they were struggling with the rising cost of goods and things like that, so they were just worried about their lunch crowd," she said.
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Dobbs said she and her team got to work coming up with an idea that would help drive customers to area restaurants during lunch hours. She said they wanted to make sure the week provided an opportunity both for restaurants and patrons.
"It was kind of two-fold, to help the restaurants get back their lunch crowd and have more exposure to new customers, and then also to help the customers because budgets are tight now," Dobbs said. "It allows customers to potentially experience Midtown restaurants that many they felt like were a boundary due to the traditional cost of lunch or dinner at those restaurants."
Dobbs said the week also gives restaurants a chance to try new items to see if they want to permanently add them to their menus and with 19 restaurants taking part in the week, there are plenty of options to choose from. She said there are options that fit a number of dietary needs and encouraged diners to plan ahead and look at the options online.
Getting people through the door during $10 Lunch Week allows them to discover new restaurants they may not have visited before, Dobbs said, hopefully leading them to return in the future for another lunch, happy hour, dinner or something else.
She said both those working from home and those who had returned to an office environment should try to "at least get out one day during the week and try a new restaurant."
Below are the restaurants participating in Midtown's 10 Buck Lunch Week and the lunch specials they are offering.
1. 1492 New World Latin Cuisine, 1207 N Walker Ave.
Opt for the lunch pick two and get any two of a variety of items, including enchiladas, tacos, mini quesadillas and burritos served with rice and beans. Also available is the business lunch fajitas, your choice of beef, chicken or combo fajitas served with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo and tortillas.
Both meals served with a soft drink.
2. Barrios Fine Mexican Dishes, 1000 N Hudson Ave.
Get two chicken tacos served on corn tortillas with a cheese blend, pico de gallo, spinach and a habanero cream sauce with a side of refried beans and fountain drink.
3. Café Cuvée, 1200 N Walker Ave.
A fennel chicken salad croissant with sweet potato chips and choice of coffee or iced tea.
4. Elemental Coffee, 815 N Hudson Ave.
A slice of quiche with a side salad and a cup of drip coffee. Both vegetable and meat options are available in the quiche.
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5. Fassler Hall, 421 NW 10
You can grab any house made sausage with a 1/3 order of duck fat fries and a soda.
6. McNellie's Public House, 1100 Classen Drive
Get the McNellie's BLT, buffalo chicken wrap or fish taco. Each is served with choice of side and a soft drink.
The BLT is hickory bacon, lettuce, grilled tomatoes, with a sweet black pepper mayo on Texas toast. The buffalo chicken wrap combines battered chicken fingers tossed in a spicy buffalo sauce, bleu cheese dressing, lettuce and tomato wrapped in a garlic herb tortilla and the fish taco is battered fried tilapia topped with shredded lettuce, pico de gallo, shredded cheese and an avocado crème.
7. Molly's Tamales, 308 NW 10 (inside The Collective)
Choose from a chicken burrito filled with Mexican yellow rice and Texas style black beans in a flour tortilla with shredded cheddar and Monterrey Jack cheese or two tamales — chicken, pork, jalapeño with cream cheese or vegan black bean. Each meal served with a side of chips and queso and drink.
8. Not Your Average Joe, 1227 N Walker Ave., Suite 300
Get Not Your Average Joe's Famous Midtown Club, Grown Up peanut butter and jelly or hummus sandwich. Each comes with chips and fire roasted salsa and iced tea or cold brew.
The club has roasted turkey, smoked bacon, Italian pine nut and basil pesto, provolone, tomato, spinach, avocado on wheatberry bread. The Grown Up peanut butter and jelly is peanut butter and jelly with bacon, banana and honey on blueberry bread. The hummus sandwich is baby spinach, cucumbers and roasted red peppers served on wheatberry bread.
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9. Pacific Moon, 805 N Hudson Ave.
Pacific Moon will offer guests the choice of beef and broccoli, beef or chicken Lo Mein or Buddha's Delight. Each meal is served with an egg roll, side of white rice and a soft drink.
The beef and broccoli is sautéed beef with steamed broccoli in a house made soy-based sauce. Lo mein is wok stir-fried with onions, garlic, carrots and green onions. Buddha's delight is a vegetarian option of tofu, broccoli, carrots, bell peppers, celery, mushrooms and water chestnuts in a robust vegetable sauce.
10. Phill Me Up Cheesesteaks, 308 NW 10 (inside The Collective)
Get half of an original Philly cheesesteak and a locally crafted OKC Soda Co. canned soda.
The cheesesteak is fresh cooked steak or roasted chicken, caramelized onions and provolone cheese on a toasted hoagie roll served with crispy fries, dipping sauce
11. Plant, 1120 N Walker Ave.
Green lentil curry with carrot, onion and garlic served over brown rice, paired with a fresh mint and local honey tea.
12. Press Waffle Co., 308 NW 10 (inside The Collective)
Grab Press Waffle Co.'s The Cristo, a waffle sandwich stuffed with black forest ham, smoked turkey, melted white American cheese and berry jam inside of a golden Liége waffle. Comes with a fountain drink.
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13. Rev Mex, 916 NW 6
Your choice of two tacos — carne asada, chicken tinga, crispy cauliflower or pork carnitas — and one side — Mexican rice, cilantro rice, borracho beans, black beans or small elotes — with a soft drink.
14. Shaka, 308 NW 10 (inside The Collective)
Shaka will offer guests two marinated Hawaiian chicken tacos with sweet chili sauce, pineapple mango chutney, avocado and cilantro on corn tortillas served with a side of macaroni salad and a fountain drink.
15. Stella Modern Italian Cuisine, 1201 N Walker Ave.
Stella Modern Italian is offering up the winter harvest salad, half of the daily featured pizza and a mixed green salad; or the house roasted turkey wrap.
The salad is a blend of butternut squash, dried cherries, candied pecans, gorgonzola and baby kale with a honey-dijon vinaigrette. The wrap has fontina, arugula, roasted red bell pepper and almond pesto in a sundried tomato and basil wrap and is served with a side of pasta salad. Each lunch is served with iced tea or a soft drink.
16. The Fried Taco, 308 NW 10 (inside The Collective)
Grab any taco with chips and house mango guacamole or chips and queso and a soft drink.
17. The Garage Burgers & Beer, 1117 N Robinson Ave.
The Garage will offer its classic burger, with your choice of beef, turkey or garlic quinoa patty with mustard, pickle, lettuce, tomato and onion, served with a side of fresh cut fries and a soft drink.
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18. The Hall's Pizza Kitchen, 1004 N Hudson Ave., Suite 106
Get two slices of pizza and a soft drink or tea. Diners can choose from four slice options daily, the Saturday Night, the Company, the Matt and plain cheese.
19. Waffle Champion, 1212 N Walker Ave. #100
Grab some chicken and waffles from Waffle Champion with a Maine Root Soda.
The restaurant's crispy buttermilk tenders, crispy leeks and Tabasco honey can be served wrapped in a classic waffle, on their Liege Waffle, or "Debris-style," which is on a bed of waffle fries.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: 19 Midtown OKC restaurants serving up 10 dollar lunches Feb. 20-24
