Get 'em while you can! Today's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal, is our "last call" for half-off general admission and VIP tickets to the Houston Press BrewFest on May 18, 2013. Houston Press BrewFest will feature almost 30 participating breweries -- like Lone Point, Big Sky, Karbach, Saint Arnold's, Southern Star -- and tons of great food from some food truck favorites like Pi Pizza, Stick It!, and Speers Rolling Bistro. You can grab general admission tickets for just $20 (a $45 value), or VIP passes for $39 ($70 value) with this very limited time offer.

Busy on May 18? Our MytiBurger deal is still on the table, too!

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Great deals on burgers and beers? Oh my yes. Yesterday's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal, saved you a pretty penny ($7 for $14) at MytiBurger and today we're offering half-off general admission and VIP tickets to the Houston Press BrewFest on May 18.

The inaugural Houston Press BrewFest is the first indoor beer sampling event of its size inside the loop, and in addition to beer will feature live music (The Honky Tonk Blood Brothers, Leo Mendoza, and more) as well as some of your favorite food trucks, like Pi Pizza and Speers Rolling Bistro.

There are close to 30 participating breweries: Lone Point, Big Sky, Karbach, Saint Arnold's, Southern Star and more. VIP tickets are $39 ($70 value) while general admission tickets are a steal at $20 ($45 value) with this voucher. All guests must be over 21 years of age, and limited quantities are available so act fast!

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Celebrate Burger Month with help from today's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal, good for half-off ($7 for $14) at MytiBurger. Established in 1967, MytiBurger has the burger down pat(ty), and you'll dig the vintage diner feel as much as the food. Go full-on retro and pair your burger with an order of homemade onion rings and a milkshake. Beef burgers are made with 100 percent real beef -- never frozen! -- but you can also check out veggie, turkey, and buffalo versions as well.

Here's the deal about the deal: Limit one per person, one additional as gift; limit one per transaction, good for dine-in, take-out, and drive-through. Limited quantities are available, and vouchers are valid at the W. 43 Street location only; vouchers expire on 10/9/13.

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Today's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal will score you half-off ($20 for $40) early admission VIP and General Admission tickets to the Houston Food Truck Fest at Stereo Live on Sunday, May 18. If you opt for VIP you can stuff yourself silly from noon to 5 p.m.; general admission ticketholders gain admission at 1 p.m.

In addition to an extra hour of food trucking, a VIP ticket is also good for reserved free non-alcoholic beverages, and access to the VIP section with covered patio seating, restrooms, and bars.

Twelve food trucks will be participating, including Bernie's Burger Bus, Fraiche Mobile, Good Dog Hot Dogs, and The Waffle Bus, among others. This is a family-friendly event, and kids 12 and under are free! Music will be provided by The Elroys, while in the VIP area U of H Cool Radio's DJ Ukemi will be providing additional entertainment.

Limited quantities are available, so snap up your tickets now. Ticket price does not include food from trucks.

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One chicken, three ways -- with a bonus at the end.

"Cheap and cheerful" is a phrase I picked up while traveling in northern England, used to refer to a quick, inexpensive and tasty meal. I immediately pocked the phrase, loving the connotation that cheap meals don't have to be depressingly awful (i.e., most fast food and frozen dinners).

One of my favorite cheap and cheerful methods of cooking at home is to buy a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and stretch it into three meals that can easily feed two people. The roasted birds are typically between $5 and $7 each, depending on your local supermarket, and easily pair up with fresh produce and healthy side items that are equally inexpensive.

Here's how I make one rotisserie chicken feed two people for breakfast, lunch and dinner:

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Today's Houston Press Voice Daily Deal is good for more than half-off (51 percent) a general admission ticket to the Great Tequila Shootout on April 27, 2013 at Hughes Hangar.

Included in the (half) price of admission is a sampling of over 50 tequila spirits and cocktails, plus live music, gun show, Buffalo Wild Wing's 'Blazing Hot Wing Challenge' and Tequila infusion seminar--a $45 value for just $22.

Your tequila samples are included in the ticket price, and you have to be 21 years or older to purchase and attend.

The Great Tequila Shootout will be held rain or shine on April 27, 2013 and a limited number of tickets are available--get yours now!

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Photos by Katharine Shilcutt

Thai red curry on Tuesday nights at Doshi House.

When I'm not eating out on official paper business, I'm on a budget just like most people my age who are still paying student loans on top of car notes, mortgages, ridiculous cell phone bills and more (how do I use so much cell data just browsing Reddit?).

For occasions in which the manfriend and I want a nice evening out without a huge -- or even an average -- outlay of cash, Doshi House is my destination of choice. Every evening at this chic Third Ward cafe, owner Deepak Doshi prepares a single type of dish, and each night's dinner is only $6.95.

On Monday nights, it's Creole red beans and rice. On Saturday nights, it's "not so butter chicken." On Tuesday nights, my preferred night, Doshi makes a Thai red curry that's thick with the deep flavors of cumin, chile peppers, galangal and bright squiggles of Sriracha that bleed into the rust-hued curry.

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Tom Haverford would totally spring for a VIP table. TREAT YO SELF.

Now that all of that is out of my system, seriously: VIP tables at Menu of Menus are awesome.

Today only, you can purchase a VIP table for 10 for $750. This is a discount of 50 percent -- those tables are normally $1,500 each. Get 10 of your friends to pony up $75 each -- this is $10 less than a standard VIP ticket -- and here's what you'll get...

You and nine of your friends will get your own round table smack in front of the stage which will feature our Iron Fork competition starting at 8 p.m. Everyone else will stand -- roped off, away from your pretty table with flowers on it -- but you will have a seat. Other attendees will roam with their plates, but you will have a seat. Other guests may get tired after sampling the wares from 200 restaurants and sit Indian-style on the ground while they finish off their mugs of Stella Artois (ain't no shame in that game), but you will have a seat.

Additionally, you'll gain entrance to Menu of Menus an hour early -- starting at 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. -- which means you'll have fewer and shorter lines to contend with while you graze through the grounds of Silver Street Station. Your table will receive two bottles of wine, so you don't have to wait in line for hooch. You'll even get free valet (until 6:30 p.m., after which it's every man for himself).

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Photo by Joanna O'Leary

Discount groceries at Randalls

Almost every time I enter a clothing store, I head first to the sale rack. Why pay full price when there are bargains to be had? Up until recently, I didn't replicate this pattern of behavior in supermarkets, where the discounts are dispersed throughout the store (or so I thought).

Not so much at Randalls. It offers recurring deals on hundreds of items, but really slashes the prices on a hodgepodge of out-of-season-but-still-fresh, random-yet-remarkable products on two prominently displayed ranks just south of the dairy cases. Similar "extreme" discount sections can be found at other supermarket chains (H-E-B, Kroger, etc.), but the Randalls section is by far the most appealing in terms of both price and diversity.

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Nothing works up an appetite like surviving the Black Friday hordes.

While you're going crazy running from store to store to grab the best deals for Christmas gifts this Black Friday, you're definitely going to be starving for something good to eat. Why not stick with the theme of finding the best deals when it comes to where you'll eat or drink that day?

We've compiled a list of the places in Houston where you'll find discounted food and drinks on Black Friday. Everything tastes better when it's on sale.

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