A good food offer has to work for the people, the day and the meal you are planning. A lower price is a start. The useful discovery is an offer you can actually use.
That is the question behind MX Local Value: once the date is in the diary, which nearby offer fits the plan?
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Put the date in first
Imagine you are arranging a family meal. Before comparing a headline discount, choose the day and meal time. A lunch offer cannot solve an evening booking, and a weekday special cannot be assumed to carry over to the weekend.
The live MX Local Value guide lets you start with date, area and meal time. Open the individual offer to see the benefit, conditions and source. That keeps the actual meal you are planning at the centre of the search.
The conditions can decide the choice
Carlos Cantina and Taco Bill Croydon helped launch the guide. Their family-offer listings also show why similar headlines deserve a closer look: the eligible child’s meal, required adult purchase and dine-in conditions can change the result for your table.
Use the current listing and confirm anything it does not settle with the venue. The August launch material preserved further down this page records how the guide began; its prices and offers are historical.
Work out the whole meal
Compare what your group would order, what the offer includes and what remains to be paid. Check minimum numbers, booking requirements and exclusions before choosing. A package can be useful because it makes the cost clearer, even when it is not the largest advertised discount.
The payoff is a meal that fits your plan, with the conditions understood before you arrive. Choose your date in MX Local Value, shortlist an offer, then confirm availability and eligibility directly. Offers can change or be withdrawn.
How the guide began
August launch archive: the original image below is historical. Use the live guide for current offers and conditions.
Carlos Cantina
Carlos Cantina was one of the two venues in the August launch. Its original recurring listings helped establish the guide’s day-by-day format; check the current guide for what is available now.
Its venue-approved wording, conditions and supplied artwork are recorded in the MX offer register.
August launch archive: the original image below is historical. Use the live guide for current offers and conditions.
Taco Bill Croydon
Taco Bill Croydon was also part of the August launch. Its August-only main-meal and happy-hour offers belong to that launch history, not a promise of current availability.
Open the live guide for current family offers and their conditions, then confirm directly with the venue before ordering.
Value does not have to mean a deep discount
A worthwhile offer might be a fixed-price meal, a family night, an off-peak package, a complimentary extra or a recurring special that gives people a good reason to visit. The venue controls the offer, dates, exclusions and conditions.
Standard listings are free. Paying does not determine which businesses are included or how an offer is described.
How MX keeps the guide useful
- Every offer has a source, checked date and status.
- Venue-confirmed and source-verified listings are distinguished internally.
- Offer wording, conditions and approved images are preserved once a venue approves them.
- Expiry and follow-up dates trigger a new check rather than an automatic extension.
- Venues can correct, replace or withdraw an offer.
Help build the next round
Know a venue that should be included?
Visit the guide, then tell MX which local restaurant, cafe, takeaway, bakery, pub or specialty-food business should be invited next.
Email hello@themx.com.au with your suggestion.
Run a local food business?
Submit a Local Value offer for free review. MX will check the details before anything is published, and you remain in control of the wording and conditions.
Updated September 2026. Offers can change; check current dates and conditions with the venue.