![]() Any decent bubbly at $5 represents a great deal, and here they tend to exceed at that. The wine glass pours rotate, but there’s usually something from the south of France, Spain, or another value-for-money region. Meanwhile, the daily happy hour menu carries Pilsner Urquell ($4), which is an excellent transition drink to move from coffee and tea into the OLCC-regulated part of the evening. Their weeknight drinks menu was recently revised to add specials, featuring rotating nightly discounts on vermouth, wine, and beer (such as $2 off all wines on Wednesdays). This European-inspired café-cum-bar ranges in mood from restful hangout to zippy nightspot from Françoise Hardy to ’70s disco. ERIK HENRIKSEN Happy Hour: daily 11 am-6 pm, $4 beer & wine, $5 margherita pizza Boom: in and out, pizza and beer, under $10. Sit at the bar-in sight of the wood-fired pizza oven, and where you can see your pie being assembled with housemade mozzarella-and pair that $5 margherita with a $4 Lompoc Proletariat Red or an Ecliptic Orbiter IPA. Whether you’re rich enough to feel at home in this neighborhood or just passing through like the rest of us schlubs, it’s a good call to hit Life of Pie’s happy hour for lunch, an afternoon snack, or hell, a late breakfast. That’s a goddamn bargain anywhere, but particularly along the aggressively gentrified stretch of N Williams. MARK LORE Happy Hour: Mon-Fri 3-6 pm, $3 beer & wells, $4-5 cocktails, $5 menuĪny happy hour that lasts seven hours is stretching the term pretty liberally-but in a horrifying dystopian hellscape where words have lost all meaning, who am I to complain? Something else I’m not going to complain about: Life of Pie’s very long happy hour, in which you can snag a piping-hot margherita pizza for a mere five bucks. Also worth noting: Old German tall cans are always a measly buck. Johns Sweet Tea (Old Crow, triple sec, orange and lemon juice, and homemade sweet tea) for $5. Pints are just $3, or reach for the summertime goody, the St. It comes either vegan or vegetarian, or you can add pulled pork (highly recommended) for a few bucks more. Of course, one won’t make it long without getting a hankering for the signature Frito Pie ($5), a ramped-up version of the college-diet classic, with a mound of chips topped with chili, Rotel cheese sauce, iceberg lettuce, and tomatoes. An unholy trinity of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Motörhead rained down from the speakers as I ordered a Down ’n’ Out (a shot of Old Crow accompanied by a Hamm’s tall boy for $4). The bar added a live music venue back in August, but the spirit of this joint remains divey, cozy, and unapologetically rock ’n’ roll, as evidenced by the KISS lunchbox and the “Matt Pike for President” sticker adorning the wall. Johns neighborhood in which it’s tucked, the Fixin’ To has undergone some recent changes. ![]()
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