6. Sunday supper at Dominick's, $15. Wowie-kazowie, can a three-course dinner at a hip restaurant with great food really be $15? Dominick's Sunday Supper can. Although if you try it, you're likely to have to keep pinching yourself. One recent week, the menu was an heirloom tomato bruschetta, tortiglioni pasta with sliced sausages and peppers, and, for dessert, house-made fennel-pollen gelato. Add to that a really decent bottle of red table wine for $10 (or a Moretti beer for $2), and you've got quite the deal there on that lovely patio under the olive trees. Nor do you need to feel like a cheapskate: A server told us that 70% of Sunday diners order it. Dominick's, 8715 Beverly Blvd., West Hollywood; (310) 652-2335; wwwdominicksrestaurant.com. 7. Daily special ice cream bar at Milk, $3. It's hot, it's trafficky, you've been shopping all day along Beverly Boulevard, and the daily ice cream bar from Milk is calling. Give in. Banana butterscotch crunch has banana ice cream dipped into a thick butterscotch coating and studded with toasted almonds, or cookies 'n' cream ice cream dipped in chocolate and covered with chocolate cookie crumbs. The house-made ice cream and hand-dipped coatings are dreamy. At $3, that's little more than the cost of a Häagen-Dazs bar. Milk, 7290 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 939-6455. 9. Happy hour martini at Wilshire Restaurant, $7; bar snacks, $5.50 to $9. The price of martinis in this town has gotten crazy, so it's great news that Wilshire, the Santa Monica restaurant where chef Christopher Blobaum showcases his savvy market-produce-driven cooking, has started a happy hour. Monday through Friday, 5 to 6:30 p.m., you can sit either in the lounge or -- even better -- at the lovely outside bar and have the bartender mix you up a dry one for half price ($7). Pomegranate or apple martinis are $7.50; two decent wines by the glass are only $5. The bar snacks menu during the hour is a happy thing too. A couple of Kobe sliders -- toasted buns filled with braised Wagyu beef and pickled onions -- come with a fine mess of very thin, very crisp house-made potato chips, judiciously seasoned with truffle oil for only $8. Half a dozen iced Pacific oysters on the half-shell go for $9 (good with that martini). "Figs in a blanket," halved black Missions wrapped in La Quercia Prosciutto Americano and drizzled with balsamic vinegar are a sweet deal at $5.50. Wilshire Restaurant, 2454 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica; (310) 586-1707; www.wilshirerestaurant.com. 11. Wednesday bagels, 18 for the price of 12, at Schwartz Bakery, $5.50. If you're looking for bagels, you've come to the right place, the new Fairfax location of Schwartz Bakery. Just make sure you come on the right day -- that's Wednesday -- to get a big bag full of 18 bagels for the price of a dozen. Fat, chewy, delicious bagels (the deal applies to all kinds -- plain, onion, whole wheat, garlic, sesame, poppy seed, everything). Come early because they go pretty fast (by 10:30 or 11 a.m., the pickings may be slim). And if it's not Wednesday, they're a pretty good deal anyway at $5.50 a dozen. Schwartz Bakery, 443 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles; (323)653-1683. 15. Seven-course chef's tasting menu at Tagine, $42. With chef's tasting menus going for close to $100 at many places around town, the seven-course Moroccan extravaganza at Tagine is quite the deal. Chef Abdessamad "Ben" Benameur changes it all the time, shuffling dishes and adding new ones. One thing it always includes is his sumptuous bestila (chicken and almond pie in filo dough) and a bevy of Moroccan salads, a couple of tagines (Moroccan stews), couscous, dessert, and, of course, extravagantly perfumed mint tea. Owned by Benameur and actor Ryan Gosling, Tagine is an oasis for young Hollywood and anybody hankering for Moroccan food in an intimate setting. Tagine, 132 Robertson Blvd., Beverly Hills; (310) 360-7535; www.taginecuisine.com. 16. Sansai soba at Yashima, $8.99. Nothing beats heat and hunger like a good bowl of cold soba. At Yashima in West L.A., the sansai soba, topped with oodles of Japanese mountain vegetables -- all manner of tender shoots and roots and delicate greens -- is uncommonly refreshing and satisfying. Served with a bowl of dipping sauce garnished with oroshi (grated daikon), scallions and wasabi, it's a terrific lunch for $8.99. Especially when you consider that iced mugi cha (barley tea) is on the house. Yashima, 11301 Olympic Blvd., Suite 210, West Los Angeles; (310) 473-5297.