Cooper’s Hawk Menu Prices at a Glance

Cooper’s Hawk prices sit above many mainstream casual-dining chains because the menu includes premium seafood, risotto, steak, filet medallions and wine-paired entrées. Appetizers are generally in the mid-to-high teens, burgers around nineteen to twenty-four dollars, chicken in the mid-twenties, seafood around the mid-twenties to low-thirties, and steak or filet dishes can move into the forties. Browse the Menus archive for more restaurant price guides.

The menu is still broad enough to offer lower-cost routes. Lunch-sized entrées start in the high teens, burgers include a side, soup and salad combinations stay around twenty dollars, kids entrées begin near eleven dollars, and happy-hour food uses a separate ten-to-twelve-dollar tier. The Casual Dining menu collection gives useful comparisons.

A typical dinner entrée falls around twenty-five to thirty-five dollars before drinks, appetizer or dessert. That puts a two-person dinner with one shared appetizer into the seventy-dollar range fairly quickly even before wine.

Lunch and happy hour are the two clearest lower-cost windows. Both use dedicated menus rather than simply discounting the entire dinner selection.

Soup and Appetizer Salad Prices

Soup pricing is straightforward. Tortilla Soup is $7.99 for a cup or $9.99 for a bowl, while Crab, Shrimp & Lobster Bisque is $9.99 for a cup or $12.99 for a bowl. Appetizer salads range from a simple Caesar to the Chopped Wedge.

The Plain Ol’ House salad appears on the Life Balance menu at $9.99, Caesar is $11.99 and Chopped Wedge is $14.99. Soup-and-salad combinations move the meal to $19.99.

A cup of soup plus an appetizer salad purchased separately can approach the nineteen-dollar combination price, so the set combination is worth checking when both were already part of the plan.

For another Italian-leaning casual dining comparison with soup and salad, the Olive Garden menu uses a very different value structure.

Steak, Chops and Surf & Turf Prices

Steak and chops are among the highest-priced Cooper’s Hawk entrées. Pretzel-Crusted Pork Chops are $32.99, Red Wine Braised Short Ribs $35.99, Prime Churrasco Grilled Steak $39.99, Trio of Medallions $46.99 and Filet Mignon $46.99.

Surf & Turf combinations start with a selected turf and one surf option. The listed turf bases range from $34.99 for pork chop to $45.99 for Parmesan-crusted filet medallions. Filet Medallions & Garlic Parmesan Lobster Tail reaches $50.99.

For a diner choosing between a thirty-three-dollar pork chop and a forty-seven-dollar filet, the entrée difference alone is about fourteen dollars. Shared starters and wine can widen the total check much more.

The LongHorn Steakhouse menu and Texas Roadhouse menu provide steak-focused comparisons.

Chicken Entrée Prices

Chicken entrées are tightly grouped between $24.99 and $27.99. Tim’s Favorite Chicken Giardiniera is $24.99, Chicken Madeira $25.99, Ellie’s Chicken Piccata $26.99 and Dana’s Parmesan-Crusted Chicken $27.99.

The pricing makes chicken one of the most predictable dinner categories. Choosing the highest-priced chicken over the lowest adds only three dollars.

The Life Balance Parmesan-Crusted Chicken is lower at $22.99 and uses a lighter capellini and tomato-broth preparation. That gives diners a lower-price route without leaving the chicken category.

For lower-priced mainstream chicken entrées, the Chili’s menu and Applebee’s menu provide useful comparisons.

Chopped Salad and Combination Prices

Entrée salads range from $18.99 to $24.99. Cooper’s Hawk Chicken Caesar is $18.99, BBQ Ranch Chicken $19.99, Napa Chicken $20.99 and Blackened Bleu Prime Skirt Steak $24.99.

Two fixed combinations provide another lunch-or-light-dinner route: Soup & Salad is $19.99 and Flatbread & Salad is $20.99.

The combinations are useful because they bundle categories that would cost more when ordered as separate full-size items. A flatbread alone runs $14.99 to $15.99, so adding a salad within the $20.99 combination can be more efficient than buying both independently.

For another broad salad-and-combination menu, the Applebee’s menu is a useful mainstream comparison.

Lunch-Sized Entrée Prices

Lunch-sized entrées are available daily from 11 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. They include smaller portions of several dinner favorites plus pasta, salmon and seasonal options.

The lowest listed lunch entrée among the regular selections is Gnocchi with Roasted Butternut Squash at $16.99. Keaton’s Spaghetti is $17.99, several chicken and gnocchi dishes are $19.99, and Soy Ginger Atlantic Salmon is $22.99.

The lunch savings can be significant. Chicken Giardiniera is $24.99 on the dinner menu and $19.99 at lunch, while Dana’s Parmesan-Crusted Chicken moves from $27.99 to $19.99.

For value-focused weekday dining, lunch is one of the clearest ways to reduce the food bill without switching to a burger or appetizer.

Dessert Prices

Most full-size desserts are $11.99. Reese’s Ice Cream Cookie is $12.99 and house-made truffles are $4.99 each. Wine & Chocolates is $17.99 with wine or $9.99 without.

The separate Small Bites program at participating Arlington Heights and New Lenox locations also offers individual small desserts at $7.99, two for $14.99 or all three for $21.99.

A full dessert shared between two people adds about six dollars per person before tax. The truffle option is the lowest-cost sweet if everyone wants a small individual portion.

Dessert is another place where pairing changes the bill. Adding wine to the chocolate pairing moves the price from $9.99 to $17.99.

Brunch Prices

Brunch adds breakfast-specific food such as French toast, smoked brisket hash, breakfast gnocchi carbonara, eggs, steak and eggs, plus shareables. The regular brunch entrées range from $15.99 to $29.99.

Breakfast Gnocchi Carbonara and Eggs Any Way are $15.99. French Toast, Candied Bacon BLT and Smoked Salmon Toast are $16.99, Smoked Brisket Hash is $18.99 and Cooper’s Hawk Steak & Eggs reaches $29.99.

Brunch is one of the lower-priced full-meal dayparts, especially if you skip premium steak. Most standard entrées sit below the twenty-dollar mark.

Weekend diners comparing brunch with dinner can save ten dollars or more on the entrée before drinks.

Wine Flight Prices

Wine is a defining part of the Cooper’s Hawk concept, and the dine-in menu offers several four-pour flights. Bubbles is $18.99, standard White and Red flights are $19.99, Cooper’s Hawk Lux is $22.99 and Create Your Own is $21.99.

The flight structure can be easier to budget than ordering multiple full glasses because one price covers a set tasting across four wines.

Wine prices are separate from entrée prices, so a twenty-five-dollar dinner plus a twenty-dollar flight pushes the individual food-and-wine total toward forty-five dollars before tax or tip.

Diners focused on the food bill can keep wine separate from meal comparisons rather than treating it as part of the entrée price.

Gluten-Free and Dietary Menu

Cooper’s Hawk publishes a dedicated gluten-free menu rather than relying only on modification notes. Many core appetizers, salads, risottos, chicken dishes, burgers and seafood items appear there with gluten-free preparation available on request.

The restaurant also marks vegetarian items on its regular menu and makes an allergen guide available. Guests with allergies should still tell the server because the company warns that menu items can contain unlisted ingredients.

The gluten-free menu generally mirrors regular pricing instead of adding a visible across-the-board surcharge. Exact substitutions and preparation should still be confirmed before ordering.

The dedicated menu is especially useful for comparing options before arrival rather than trying to modify every dish at the table.

Best Ways to Get More Value

The most reliable value strategies come from choosing the right menu window. Lunch-sized entrées can save several dollars against dinner versions, Wine O’Clock offers ten-to-twelve-dollar food, brunch keeps most standard entrées below twenty dollars, and soup or flatbread combinations create fixed-price lighter meals.

Sharing also matters. One appetizer or dessert split across two to four people can add variety without turning every course into a full individual purchase.

The Olive Garden menu offers a lower-cost Italian comparison, while the Cheesecake Factory menu is closer in breadth and premium dessert positioning.

For steak pricing, the LongHorn Steakhouse menu and Texas Roadhouse menu are useful category references.

Lunch vs Dinner Price Differences

Lunch-sized entrées are not just a separate list; several are smaller versions of dinner dishes. Comparing the same named item across dayparts shows how much the lunch window can save before 3:30 p.m.

Tim’s Favorite Chicken Giardiniera is $24.99 at dinner and $19.99 at lunch, a five-dollar difference. Dana’s Parmesan-Crusted Chicken drops from $27.99 to $19.99, while Chicken Madeira moves from $25.99 to $19.99.

The largest gap in this group is nine dollars on Gnocchi Carbonara, Gnocchi alla Vodka and Soy Ginger Atlantic Salmon. Dana’s Parmesan-Crusted Chicken is eight dollars less at lunch, and Keaton’s Spaghetti is seven dollars less.

A two-person lunch built around two nineteen-dollar entrées can therefore cost sixteen to eighteen dollars less than choosing comparable dinner portions later in the day, before drinks or dessert.

The tradeoff is portion size. Lunch entrées are specifically labeled lunch-sized, so the savings should not be treated as the same quantity of food at a lower price.

Official Information

Use the official Cooper’s Hawk dine-in and carryout menu for the main food menu, then use the site’s separate brunch, dessert, Wine O’Clock, kids, gluten-free and catering menus when those formats apply.

HackTheMenu.us uses Cooper’s Hawk first-party menu pages and published catering materials for the prices in this guide. If a selected restaurant or limited menu differs, use the restaurant’s ordering menu as the final source.