{"id":5893,"date":"2026-04-14T21:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:13:46","slug":"ali-5-delish-dinner-deals-to-diversify-your-weekdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2026\/04\/14\/ali-5-delish-dinner-deals-to-diversify-your-weekdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali: 5 Delish Dinner Deals to Diversify your Weekdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali Cook<\/p>\n<p>Influencer Jenna Palek said it best, you need to have fun on weekdays. If you wait for the weekends to go out and have fun, you\u2019re wasting 260 days in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Boston restaurants seem to have adopted this mindset, just as much as young Bostonians have themselves, via weekday dinner specials. Marketed as \u201cgirl dinners\u201d or \u201cdate night specials,\u201d here is a weekday\u2019s worth of Boston restaurants with dinner deals for under $32 per person.<\/p>\n<p>1. Ciao Roma<br \/>\n$59 for 2 people<br \/>\nMondays<\/p>\n<p>On Mondays, Ciao Roma serves a \u201cDate Night Special,\u201d including one appetizer, two entrees, and one dessert. Serving two people, this special costs $59 in total.<\/p>\n<p>2. The Bosworth<br \/>\n$20 or $25 per person<br \/>\nMondays and Tuesdays, 5-10pm<\/p>\n<p>The Bosworth\u2019s \u201cGirl Dinner\u201d offers three different options on Monday and Tuesday nights, starting at 5pm. $20 for a martini, truffle fries, and caesar salad; $25 for a martini and ricotta gnocchi; and $25 for a smashed burger with a bottled beer of your choice and whiskey neat.<\/p>\n<p>3. Waverly Kitchen &amp; Bar Charleston<br \/>\n$25 per person<br \/>\nWednesdays, 5-10pm<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesdays from 5-10pm, Waverly offers a \u201cGirl Dinner\u201d for $25 per person. Meals include portions of roasted broccoli caesar salad, cacio e pepe fries, and a choice of pasta (bolognese, mac n cheese, mushroom &amp; spinach cavatelli, or pappardelle with sausage and burrata).<\/p>\n<p>4. Reelhouse<br \/>\n$30 per person<br \/>\nThursdays, 5-9pm<\/p>\n<p>Reelhouse offers Thursday night \u201cPasta on the Pier\u201d from 5-9pm. For $30 per person, you can get 4-courses, including garlic knots, baby kale salad, a choice of pasta, and meyer lemon trifle for dessert. The pasta options include cacio e pepe, rigatoni alla vodka, or the chef\u2019s pasta of the week (for an additional $5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali Cook Influencer Jenna Palek said it best, you need to have fun on weekdays. If you wait for the weekends to go out and have fun, you\u2019re wasting 260 days in the year. Boston restaurants seem to have adopted this mindset, just as much as young Bostonians have themselves, via weekday dinner specials. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2026\/04\/14\/ali-5-delish-dinner-deals-to-diversify-your-weekdays\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ali: 5 Delish Dinner Deals to Diversify your Weekdays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}