What’s better than a night spent with good friends over a game of pool and intoxicating cocktails? Friends, pool, cocktails, and tasty, doughy treats to satisfy the drinking munchies.

Allston’s Big City has the perfect salty, starchy treat for soaking up the alcohol and sating your appetite. Its Big Baked Beer Pretzel appetizer is actually two baked-beer pretzels, crisp and crunchy on the outside and filled with gooey cheddar cheese. (Be careful when tearing into the pretzel; the hot seeping cheese may scald overeager fingers.)

To add another flavor to the blend, Big City serves the dish with a side of honey Dijon mustard, whose zesty, sweet taste trumps plain old yellow mustard anytime. The potent dip masks some of the cheddar flavor, but allows you to alternate: one bite of cheesy fun, then a bite of tangy goodness.

Available for $5.50 at Big City, 138 Brighton Avenue, in Allston. Call (617) 782-2020.