Whether you’re looking to recharge your battery during the workweek grind, planning an off-site business confab, or meeting a blind date, happy hours are the perfect combination of fun and value. And you won’t find a tastier mix of happy hour deals than right here in Downtown Phoenix. Bookmark this list to help plan your next happy hour gathering:
1130 the Restaurant at Arizona Center
$3.95 house wine, $4.95 signature mojitos, ½-priced domestic drafts, $3 off specialty drinks, and 7 appetizers under $6, and all available Monday-Friday 4-7 p.m., plus Wine Down Wednesdays (1/2-priced bottles of wine) and Ladies Night Thursday ($5 flavored martinis and specialty drinks).
The Arrogant Butcher at CityScape
Head over to “The Butch” for well drinks, wine specials, and select cocktails for $4, draft beers starting at $2, plus appetizers priced from $4-$8, available Monday-Friday 3-6 p.m.
Brick Pizzeria & Wine Bar at Arizona Center
Home to some of the best pizzas and appetizers (try the bruschetta or hummus) in all of Downtown, every day at Brick before 6:30 p.m. you can take advantage of $3 drafts and $5 wines.
Pitchers not named Kennedy or Hudson are hard to find in Downtown Phoenix but Café Roma pours $4 baby pitchers and $2 pints, plus bakes up $7.50 two-topping pizzas Monday-Saturday 3-6 p.m.
Not only can you head to C&W for $3 drafts, wine, and well drinks, plus $4 select appetizers Monday-Friday 3-6 p.m., but also take advantage of awesome daily specials like Burger Mondays ($6 burger and fries) and Friday Fish Fry ($10 Fish N’ Chips all day).
Sixty-four beers. On tap. Get $1 beer shots, $3 local brews and $4 crafts Monday-Friday 4-7 p.m.
District American Kitchen & Wine Bar
The uber-classy bar and restaurant inside the Sheraton Downtown serves up $5 sangria and $3 select drafts Monday-Saturday 3-7 p.m.
Friday’s Front Row at Chase Field
Pregame or non-game dates, get $3 select drafts, $4 drinks specials, plus ½-priced select appetizers Monday-Friday 4-7 p.m.
The Hotel San Carlos is the place to sip $2 domestic drafts, $3 import drafts and wells, $5 mixers, and munch on ½-priced appetizers Monday-Friday 3-6 p.m.
$5 martinis all day, every day. ‘Nuff said.
Catch all the games, races and fights and enjoy $2 domestic drafts, $3 wells and house wines Monday-Friday 2-6 p.m., plus stop in Wednesdays for $10.99 all-you-can-eat wings.
Kincaid’s at Collier CenterBig eats and drinks can be had on the cheap at Kincaid’s, which offers $4 specialty drinks, house chardonnay, cabernet or any draft beer, plus ½-off all appetizers every day 4-8 p.m.
Lucky Strike Lanes at CityScape
Get your bowl on while partaking in $domestic drafts, $3 well drinks, $4 house wines, and ½-off select menu items daily 4-7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to close.
Matador Mexican Restaurant
Matador wins over a crowd with its complimentary appetizers and $3.50 margaritas Monday-Friday 4- 7 p.m.
Thunder Dan offers ½-off wells, drafts, wines, and rocks margaritas, plus ½-off select appetizers.
Superior burritos are made even better by $2.50 fresh lime margaritas and 20 oz. domestic drafts, $2.95 Mexican drafts, and $2.50 select appetizers.
My Big Fat Greek Restaurant at Arizona Center
Opa! $3 drinks and $4 menu specials Monday-Friday 3-6 p.m. and all day Sunday. If you don’t order some flaming cheese you’re only cheating yourself.
The Hyatt’s swanky sports bar serves up $3.50 drafts, $4 well drinks, $5 canvas wines, and ½-price appetizers Monday-Friday 3:30-6 p.m.
Did you know Oakville boasts a window-walled wine bar? Well they do, serving 29 wines and 3 draft beers on the cheap daily 3-7 p.m.
The new kids on the dining block don’t disappoint with their happy hours selections, which include $5 margaritas, $3 drafts, $4 house reds and 1/2-priced flatbreads every day 3-6 p.m.
In the bar or on the patio overlooking the grotto, enjoy $3 house wines, select cocktails and drafts, and Coyote and Grand Canyon margaritas, plus appetizers priced from $3.50-$4.50.
Seamus McCaffrey’s Irish Pub & Restaurant
A Downtown institution, Seamus serves house wines, drafts and appetizers starting at $3 Monday-Friday 3-6 p.m.
Where a cold beer never looked so good, get $3 well drinks, $5 Red Bull & Vodka, $3 domestic 14 oz. drafts, $5 Jack Daniels, and $5 select appetizers Monday-Friday 3-6 p.m.
Urban Wine Bar at Phoenix Public Market
Buy local! Take $1 off glasses of Arizona-made wine Tuesday-Friday 5-7 p.m.
Those of you with any interest in Downtown Phoenix may have come across the “Building Phoenix” series on PHX11 public television. The program features stories on development in Phoenix and has produced segments on a number of Downtown projects over the years. The latest installment has hit the web and it features segments on two of the latest additions to the Downtown Phoenix marketplace. The Duce, located at Central & Lincoln, is adaptive re-use at its best and CityScape has managed to deliver despite uncertain economic times. Other Downtown projects featured on past episodes include the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, Hanny’s restaurant and the Phoenix Convention Center.
May’s Spring Fling crawl brought together more than 750 people who had a whopping good time (and hopefully, remembered it the next day). Next Saturday’s event will be even bigger, with a record number of pubs participating. Each location will offer drink/food specials exclusive to Pub Crawlers. See below for a full list, but first, here’s a quick look-see at a few of the locations:
What’s the point to all this you ask? The point is, my dear friends, that excellent Mexican food is heaven on earth and Verde on Garfield and 2nd Street serves up some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had. Possibly the best Mexican food ever served up in this city. Ever.
2010 World Cup Watching
And here are some of the answers we received…
What: Spring Fling Pub Crawl
Hanny’s
11 Things To Do In 2011
Tuesday, January 18th, 20112010 was awesome. I got to ring in the New Year with Joel McHale, listen to the Phoenix Symphony rock out to the Music of Led Zeppelin, cheer for exciting pro athletes like Justin Upton, Steve Nash and Diana Taurasi, watch contestants from Top Chef cook live at Phoenix Public Market, eat amazing food at restaurants like District American Kitchen and Thai Elephant, and sip $5 martinis at Hanny’s.
It was an unbelievable year. But I know I can do more in 2011.
With the arrival of a New Year comes a new surplus of fun and exciting things to do Downtown. Here are 11 things I plan on doing in 2011:
LMAO - Stand Up Live! debuts at CityScape March 3 with comedians Jay Mohr (personal fave), Billy Cardell, Christopher Titus and the Wayans (!!!!) already on the books.
Get Into the Swing – Every Monday is Savoy Night at Ghost Lounge and your chance to learn how to swing dance for the bargain basement price of $8. Ghost Lounge has quickly become one of Downtown’s hottest hangouts and Savoy Night is always hopping. Har.
Showing Some Skin: Gus von Hagens’ Body Worlds and the Brain returns to Arizona Science Center this Friday, Jan. 21, for a limited engagement. I missed this exhibit last year but won’t make that same mistake twice.
Top Shelf at Seamus – Seamus McCaffrey’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, recently named 2010 Best of Downtown Happy Hour, has one of the greatest selections of Irish Whiskey and Scotch in the city and this year I’m vowing to buy couple of fingers of Aberfeldy 21 just to say I drank a glass of Scotch nearly as old as Scottsdale-born actress and Valley Youth Theatre alum Emma Stone.
Get Your Geek On - Dubbed the “signature pop culture event of the Southwest” for good reason, Phoenix Comicon returns to Downtown this Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-29, at Phoenix Convention Center’s North Building. Comicon is the Super Bowl of superheroes and a people-watching event like no other.
Eat at Nobuo – Did you know that Downtown Phoenix is home to two James Beard Award-winning chefs who work less than 50 yards apart? Pizzeria Bianco’s Chris Bianco and Nobuo at Teeter House’s Nobuo Fukuda are wowing diners daily over at Heritage Square and Nobuo was the recent recipient of this gushing five-star review by ace Arizona Republic food critic Howard Seftel. Insert drool here.
Race to the Finish – The Great Urban Race returns to Downtown March 12 and features costumed teams racing against one another to solve 12 clues while experiencing the essence of the Central City.
Star Gaze - Chase Field will host the 2011 MLB All-Star Game July 12, with the fan-favorite Home Run Derby scheduled for July 11 with MLB FanFest invading Downtown all week long.
Pretend That We’re (Un)Dead – In just two years the Downtown Phoenix Ambassadors’ Zombie Walk (photo, left) has grown from 200 brain-eaters to well over 2,000. How many Zombies will walk, er, limp in 2011? Bring your appetite for human flesh down to Heritage Square Oct. 29 and find out for yourself. Victims are also welcome!
These are just a few of the items on my Bucket List. What’s on yours?
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