Last fall, I was in Chicago for an event and walking around near the Water Tower trying to find a reasonably-priced place to eat - good luck, right? -- when I walked past a restaurant with a happy hour menu posted in the window.

The place was one McCormick & Schmick's Chicago locations and it offered $1.95 ¼-pound cheeseburgers (with fries), as long as I bought a drink. Done! In fact, I bought two drinks and still got out of there spending little more than $10. In downtown Chicago, a block or so from Michigan Avenue!

Now, McCormick & Schmick's is in Milwaukee, too -- well, Wauwatosa, really, in the outlot at Mayfair -- and it boasts a similar happy hour menu, with burgers, calamari, steamed mussels, oyster shooters and more at rock bottom prices. There's nothing that costs more than $4. And, I believe the drink minimum is $2.50.

Best of all, the menu is available weekdays from 3:30 to 6 p.m. and then again for a few hours starting from 9 p.m. Add in free and copious parking and it just might be the best deal in town.

McCormick & Schmick's also celebrates "Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day," on Thursday, April 24 by offering free lunch to all children dining with a parent from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. So, if you're planning to work with your kid this week, why not treat him or her to a business lunch, too?