Friday Food Freebies and Deals 11/20/2009

Give Thanks for Wine: On Saturday, November 21, join Jubilation on Lomas and Carlisle for a Thanksgiving wine tasting from 2:00 – 4:00pm. The tasting will be started with Schramsburg Sparkling Rose and end with Antigua dessert wine. Mark your calendar!

Why bake?: Skip a step this Thanksgiving, order a Coldstone Signature Pie instead! For a limited time, get your favorite ice cream pie for only $12.99. Find your nearest Coldstone in the Q!

Bowls, Hair-cut and Food Statement: Now at Jack in the Box, try their new Southwest Chicken Bowl. It’s made with fajita seasoned chicken, veggies and rice, and topped with cheese and a cilantro lime sauce. It’s like a party, in a bowl. Buy the bowl, use the coupon, and get an order of 3 jalapeno poppers for FREE!

Leave the Cookin’ to the Caterers: Instead of cooking all day for that holiday party, get it catered by Boston Market for only $9.99 a person! Just give a 3-hour notice  for delivery, or just 2 hours for pickup! Use this coupon for 15% off if your order is $100 or more!

I Scream for Ice Cream: Thanks to Editor-at-large Ron, here is a sweet (pun intended) coupon for $1.00 off Blue Bunny, Sweet Freedom ice cream.

$5.00 Footlong- Everyone knows about the Subway $5 Footlong deal, but we thought these new footlongs ones were worth a mention! Subway introduced a new chicken cordon bleu melt and chicken marinara melt. Melty ooey-gooeyness, it’s worth $5!

How bout some EVOO?: Nothing screams Rachael Ray like some EVOO! It is always so important in cooking though! Right now at World Market, buy one get one free on select olive oils! Just in time for Thanksgiving, and also, just for general kitchen uses too!

FREE delivery! Just Dine In recently added two new restaurants to its roster, and you’re the one who benefits! Through 11/30/10, use this coupon for free food delivery from Southwest Gift Baskets & Café or Napa Valley Café. That’s a savings of $5! Minimum $20 order. Hot, fresh food to your door. Need we say more?

–Erica Krause

Free Beer Tasting and Hot Dogs

Details are sketchy, but who cares — it’s FREE BEER! On Friday, September 4 (2009), time unknown, head over to Jubilation Wine & Spirits for a beer tasting extravaganza, featuring Breckenridge Brewery beers, free hot dogs, and a live remote by 102.5FM Coyote radio!

Jubilation also is hosting a wine tasting, again with free hot dogs (which kind of wine goes best with Oscar Mayer All Beef ?), on Saturday, September 5. We know even less about this one. Details are to be forthcoming, and we’ll update this post when we get ‘em.

Meanwhile, mark your calendars!

Jubilation Wine & Spirits is located at 3512 Lomas Blvd NE, at the corner of Lomas and Carlisle, Albuquerque.

–Elizabeth Hanes

Friday Food Freebies and Deals for 8/28/09

What would the weekend be without some cheap chow? Here’s the lowdown on how to save money when eating out this weekend!

• Two Dollar Tuesday Bluesday: Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro has rolled out this new promotion. Get Bison Sliders or a mini pint of any beer on draft for just $2 each every Tuesday. Plus, hear live blues from 8:00 – 11:00pm. Nob Hill.
• Highly Rated Wines Under $10: World Market has several fab wines on sale for $8.99. And all of them have won awards or high ratings from Wine Spectator. Expires 8/30/09, so hurry. Two locations in Albuquerque.
• Three Course Meal $11.99: Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza enters the prix fixe dining fray with this offer. Choose one starter, one entrée, and one dessert for just $11.99. Plus, they’re currently running a contest where you can “text to score” from within the restaurant. Win $1 off, $2 off, or win a free meal! North I-25 corridor on The 25 Way.
• Entrées under $10: Some of the places we love aren’t so cheap. Take Romano’s Macaroni Grill, for example. But now they’ve rolled out some new Italian Mediterranean recipes that are all priced under $10 each. Plus, check the Sunday paper for a $5 off coupon. Not available in all markets. Near Winrock Mall.
• Wine Tasting: Jubilation lights up the weekend with an “End of Summer” tasting on Saturday, August 29, from 2:00 – 4:00pm. From Chardonnay to Zinfandel, they’ve got the wine alphabet covered with these eight varieties. Plus, each of these wines will be sale priced during the tasting. Time to stock up! Near UNM.
• Free Chicken Sandwich: We’re giving you advance notice on this one, thanks to Matt and our newly appointed Editor-at-Large, Ron the Freebie King. On Labor Day (that’s September 7 this year), wear your sports team logo to Chick-fil-A between the hours of 10:30am to close and receive a FREE Chick-fil-A Original Chicken sandwich! Plus, be one of the first 250,000 to register at the Chicken Wave site, and you’ll also receive a free chikn sandwich plus be entered to win a $50 gift card.
• Half Price New Mexico Food Products: It’s not too early to stock up on local food gifts to give your out-of-state friends this holiday season. Buy $50 worth of gift certificates to The Chile Casa for just $25! Get chiles, salsas, jams, ristras, and so much more — and get it all for half price! Old Town.

And that’s it for this week! Have a great weekend!

–Elizabeth Hanes

Free: Salsa Fiesta 2009 – Wine Tasting and More

If you’re loco for salsa, here’s your chance to celebrate all things saucy — and it’s almost ALL FREE!

The 2009 Salsa Fiesta takes place Saturday, August 15 (2009), from 2:00 – 9:00pm in Old Town. Here are some of the activities you can enjoy:

• Vote for the best homemade salsa
• Wine tasting
• Salsa tasting
• Live music by “Son Como Son”
• “Children’s Corner”
• Jane Butel and other noted speakers
• Salsa and spicy foods vendors
• There will even be a prize drawing for those who take public transportation to get to the fiesta!

Admission to the event is FREE. Participation in certain activities is cheap; here’s the fee schedule:

• A  salsa contest judge wristband costs $4
• A wine tasting wristband costs $4 (and is only for adults over age 21)
• To obtain wristbands for both of the above events costs $6
• BUT, if you spend $25 or more at any Old Town merchant or restaurant between now and August 15, you can use your receipt(s) to obtain one or both wristbands FREE!

This is a great, family-friendly event. Check out this video produced by the City of Albuquerque:

If you go, send us your pix!

Old Town is bounded by Central Ave, Rio Grande, and Mountain Rd in the heart of Albuquerque, NM.

–Elizabeth Hanes

Friday Food Freebies and Deals for 7/10/09

Got a sweet tooth? A yen for fish? Or simply a yen for “cheap”? We’ve got all three covered!

• Free Baja Fish Taco Day: Well, yo-ho-ho and a baja fish taco! On Tuesday, July 14 (2009), sail on over to Long John Silver’s before 2:30pm to score a free fish taco. No coupon required, no rigamarole. Limit one per customer. Participating locations only. Nine LJS locations in New Mexico to serve you. (Thanks, Barb!)
• $10 off: Buca di Beppo offers this coupon for $10 off a $30 purchase. Simple. The offer looks to be good on carryout, as well as dine in, since the coupon doesn’t limit the offer. Valid through 7/21/09. There’s one Buca in the Q, and it’s over by Coronado Center.
• Free food tasting: Who knew Osuna Nursery did gourmet foods? We didn’t. But they’re hosting a tasting Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, from 11:00am – 3:00pm both days. Sample Jalapeño Candied Jelly from Third Coast Gourmet & Gifts, soup mixes from The Plentiful Pantry, and Artisan Chocolate Fudge Balls from Cocopotamus. Yum! In the North Valley near Osuna and Edith.
• Free pint of Starbucks ice cream (maybe): We added the caveat because this is a giveaway through Facebook. So, first, you have to be able to log in to Facebook (thereby eliminating everyone who doesn’t use the site). Second, they’re only giving away 800 coupons per hour (sounds like a lot, until you figure how many thousands of people are vying for them). Still, if you’re into the thrill of the chase or you just can’t live without Starbucks ice cream, this may be worth a shot! Every day through 7/19/09.
• Free wine tasting: Jubilation Wine & Spirits has been hosting several beer tastings lately, but finally here’s one for wine lovers. Tomorrow, 7/11/09, from 2:00 – 4:00pm, stop by Jubilation to taste “wines that are best to drink in the summer heat.” Varieties will include orvietos, torrontes, pinot noir, malbec, a sparkling wine, and several others. Located near UNM at Lomas & Carlisle.
• BOGO Sub: Check out this coupon for BOGO Quizno’s sub sandwich. Buy one combo meal, get a second sub free! Note it’s good only at the 4411 Montaño Rd location.
• Half off dinner: Here’s one for our amigos en el valle sur. Kathy’s Carryout is legendary! Use this coupon for 50% off second dinner with the purchase of one dinner and two drinks. ¡Qué rico!
• Half off beverages: We know some of our Twitter followers are Bad Ass Coffee Co. devotees, so here’s one for them. Use this coupon for half off hot, iced, or frozen blended drink with purchase of another. Scroll down the page for other Bad Ass Coffee Co. coupons, too! Located up in Bernalillo.

Hopefully that list, along with the separate post about all the breakfast foodaliciousness occuring at Chick-fil-A will hold you until next week!

–Elizabeth Hanes

Wine Tasting plus 25-30% off

We were gonna throw this into the Friday Food Freebies & Deals, but quickly realized it deserved a post all its own. Here’s to you, wine lovers.

Jubilation Wine & Spirits is hosting a Father’s Day wine tasting and sale tomorrow, Saturday, June 20 (2009) from 2:00 – 4:00pm. All of the tasting wines will be available for 25-30% off! And we’re not talking run-of-the-mill wines, people. Take a gander at what you can taste and then treat yourself to:

• Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 2005 Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon
• Tintara Grenache 2005; San Francisco International Wine Competition Double Gold medal
• Tintara Cabernet Sauvignon 2003; Wine Spectator 90 points
• Simi Landslide Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2005; Wine Enthusiast 94 points

…and many others!

And in case someone in the household is more of a hops than a grapes person, Jubilation also will have some fab deals on beer. Try Dos XX Amber or Lager 12 packs for $11.99, Sam Adams (all varieties) six packs for $5.99, or Full Sail six packs for $5.99. A buck a brew? You can’t beat that!

Jubilation Wine & Spirits is located at 3512 Lomas Blvd NE, Albuquerque.

–Elizabeth Hanes

Free Ladies’ Golf Clinic & Social Event

Thanks to our friends at Taos on the Cheap for letting us know about this!

As part of American Express Women’s Golf Month, Sandia Golf Club is hosting a 6-hour extravaganza of an event that includes a golf clinic, club demos, instruction and activities by area female golf professionals, wine and champagne tasting, fashion show, and giveaways. All for FREE!

This fabulous event takes place Saturday, June 20 (2009). Part one, the group clinic, takes place from 9:00am – noon. Then, from noon to 2:00pm is the wine tasting, etc.

We’re giving you advance notice of this event because you have to register (note that you register separately for each component), and we expect it will fill up fast. (Scroll toward the bottom of the page and look for the events listed under “Women.”)

If you enjoy a day on the links, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy this free event. We wonder, though, why every even for women has to include a fashion show.

Sandia Golf Club is located north of Albuquerque at the Sandia Resort & Casino complex. Take I-25 exit 234 (Tramway Rd) and head east. Trust us, you’ll see it.

–Elizabeth Hanes

FREE WINE TASTING, FREE BLUES AND POETRY

Anasazi Fields Winery presents Blues and Poetry at the Winery on Sunday, February 22, from 1:00pm – 4:00pm. Stagefright Slim performs original blues compositions for guitar from his first CD, Half Century Blues. Jim Fish reads poems from his new book, A Sense of Play. Admission is FREE.

During the winter months, Anasazi Fields Winery’s tasting room is open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4:30pm (noon to 5:00pm after Daylight Savings Time starts). So, you’ll be able to sample some fabulous local wines while you enjoy the free entertainment.

WHAT: Blues and Poetry at the Winery
WHEN: Sunday, February 22, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
WHERE: Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas

–Elizabeth Hanes