Restaurant Summary: Taco Festival, BOGO Breakfast

15 August 2024

Traveling Tacos and Tequila Festival is coming to Sioux Falls on Saturday. In addition to food and drinks, the event will include live performances by hip-hop artists such as Lil Jon, Ginuwine, Chingy, Ying Yang Twins, Petey Pablo, Twista, Mike Jones and DJ Ashton Martin. Other entertainment will include a Chihuahua beauty pageant and lucha libre wrestling. Hours are 2-11 p.m. General admission tickets are $119. Check Facebook for updates.

Photo by: Crooked Pint Ale House offers a BOGO breakfast deal for meals in the restaurant on Saturdays and Sundays. Hours of operation are 7am-2pm.

Oh my cupcakes is celebrating its 15th anniversary on Wednesday with special offers at both locations. Select customers will get their cupcakes for free, some of the original flavors will reappear in displays and samples of new treats will be offered. Two stations will be set up. For $6, customers can decorate their own cupcakes and for $10 they can make a sprinkle mix to take home. The bakery is also offering a dozen mini cupcakes for $15. Each mini dozen includes a random selection of the best flavors. There’s no limit to the number you can order, but you must do so in advance so you can pick up the cupcakes the same day or have them delivered. Call any of the locations or order online at ohmycupcakes.com/packages.

If you didn’t make it to the fair, Boki Gelato and Cafe in the Empire Mall has an expanded menu with Midway favorites like funnel cakes, corn dogs, kettle corn and fried Oreos and cheesecake. Owner Borjan Jaksic also operates Boki concessions with nine food stands and four mini lemonade stands at state and county fairs, so it made sense to bring those menu items to the mall, he said.

On the rocks in Valley Springs is closing on August 23. Owners Robert Pralguske and his son Jonathon have decided not to renew the lease on the bar, casino and supermarket they opened in 2021. Pralguske cited rising costs but noted that they might look for an opportunity in another city. The closing party will feature live music, free Jungle Juice and $2 cans of soda starting at 5 p.m. The impending closure means that Fat Daddys Smokehouse, which operated the bar’s kitchen, only the location in Sioux Falls remains. Owner Randy Ragatz expanded here in May and opened the kitchen in The Gaslight Saloon.

Customers with to-go or call-ahead orders as well as grab-and-go or take-and-bake purchases at Josiah’s Coffeehouse, Café & Bakery can skip the queue when ordering with a new checkout area.

If you’re a food truck fan, Saturday is your chance to visit the new Canton-based Sunny’s Dining Place in Sioux Falls. The trailer will be shown from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for a pickleball tournament at the Huether Family Match Pointe in the Sanford Sports Complex.

Here are the August food and drink specials at Tailgators Grill & Bar in Brandon.

Squealer’s Smokehouse in Tea is hosting its annual parents-only back-to-school party starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday. There will be “games, drinks, and no kids.”

In Harrisburg, B&G Milky Way is celebrating the first day of school on Tuesday by donating 20 percent of sales to the Harrisburg Liberty PTO from 5 p.m. to closing time.

This year’s addition to the Wall of Notability mural in Sioux Falls Sunny’s Pizzeria is WNBA coach Nate Tibbetts. Artist Wyatt Dickson began adding the Phoenix Mercury coach to the mural last weekend during the restaurant’s annual Bazaart market in the parking lot. Tibbets is a graduate of Roosevelt High School and USD and a former coach of the Sioux Falls Skyforce.

Jimmy John’s is offering a new menu deal featuring an 8-inch original sandwich, chips, a drink and dessert for $10.

Milk Queen is offering a limited time $7 meal deal including bacon cheeseburger, fries, drink and ice cream.

KFC has three new sauces for its nuggets: mango habanero, honey garlic and chipotle ranch.

Cheesy Breakfast Melts are back on the menu at Burger King for a limited time. All have egg and cheese, and meat options include ham, bacon or sausage.

Changes in opening hours, service

• MB Coffee & Grill has reopened after a long summer break.

Here are more food and drink headlines from the past week.

Ready meal shop has new owners

Swamp Daddy’s announces the return of a downtown restaurant

New family entertainment center under construction brings games and restaurant to Harrisburg

New candy/soda shop opens at Empire Place

Drink tea, shop local and experience climbing adventures with new offerings in Dell Rapids

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