/// DINING OUT
by Kristyn Woll
on Sunday each week. You should try their summer ales: the light Belgian Wit or robust Belgian Amber.
Enjoying food and drinks in a sunny outdoor setting is a must before the summer is over, so here’s a list of just a few hot spots in Mount Pleasant.
COCO JOE’S: Hometown Vacation Destination
Hands down, this pirate ship-themed restau- rant has the most pimped-out and unique patio of them all. It’s a like a party on the beach without the messy sand, complete with a full- scale tiki bar, straw umbrellas, tall grassy plants and palm trees. Yup, real palm trees. This is the closest you can get to a tropical vacation without leaving town, so might as well drink like it, too. It’s even open on Sunday, appro- priately called Sunday Funday, with $2 pints, $2.50 Corona bottles and $5 margaritas. Also new this summer is their Tuesday Boozedays, its LGBT night with a live DJ, $2 specials – shots, wells, domestic and Leinenkugels pints. Wednesday is College Night with $3.75 pitch- ers, and Thursday also features a brand new Wine Night; select bottles are $10 and half
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off the rest or $3 glasses with “2 for 20” each of these nights, including two entrees and an appetizer to share. Friday and Saturday nights feature dueling piano.
MOUNTAIN TOWN STATION: Romance by the River
If you’re looking to wine and dine that special someone, look no further than this patio with the best scenery by far. As the former train station of Mt. Pleasant, it sits directly next to the tracks, overlooks the Chippewa River and Nelson Park, and has plenty of trees nearby. It’s also the only patio with its own microbrews from right inside, with plenty of unique varieties to choose from. Its pasta night on Monday, BBQ on Tuesday, sushi on Wednesday, $2 pints on Thursday, chef specials on Friday and Saturday, and pot roast
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& GRILL: A taste of New Orleans
This patio has an outdoor bar and serves up the zesty tastes of New Orleans. There’s calamari, gumbo, Voodoo Wings and the most popular dish, blackened or southern fried Gator bites, the only alligator dish in town. Happy hour is from 4-7 p.m., with drink specials afterwards. Tuesday and Thursday is $2 wells and craft pints, Wednesday is $1 Pabst Blue Ribbon bottles and $2 wells, Friday is $2 call drinks and pints, Saturday has live music with $2.75 microbrews and all day Sunday its $3 Bloody Marys and $5 pitchers. You can win prizes if you join the Beer Club, with 91 bottled beers and eight draughts options.
THE CABIN: The REAL best pizza in town
The pizza here is one of the best deals and best tasting in town, and large enough to share and still bring home leftovers. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday you can get
a large 2-topping pizza for $5.99, and Sunday if you buy one pizza you can get another half off. The happy hour is also from 4-7 p.m. daily with $3 shots, pints and $2.75 shots with soda. Starting at 8 p.m. are the drink specials; Monday has $2 select pints, $4 mugs and trivia, Tuesday is $1.50 pints, Wednesday is $3 Busch Light or Keystone pitchers, and $3.75 Bud Light, Rolling Rock and Coors with $3 shots, Thursday is $1.50 pints and $3 Long Island Iced Teas with karaoke, Friday is $3 mugs and a DJ. Karaoke is also on Saturday nights — al- ways a popular get-together for friends to join together or go solo.
THE PIXIE: Travel back to the ‘50s
Want to take the family out for an inexpensive dinner? Pixie’s has that covered. They don’t have a “patio,” per se; it’s more like a grassy area with umbrellas over the tables and trees. This place takes home the prize for captur- ing the old-fashioned rockabilly ‘50s drive-in diner – there’s literally a car that protrudes out the front – and James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis are all there, too. Monday through Friday is “Happy Days” when they have specials on Coney dogs, pizza, burgers and grinders, and over the summer try one of their flatbread wraps. n
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