Many Tucson restaurants recognize that the more we drink, the more we eat. And vice versa. So here are happy hours that include some pretty great food deals—some as much as half-off—during whatever magical hours a particular eatery sees fit.
With all these options, we can be happy every day of the week.
The weekday happy hour menu sees select items half-off, like the zucca chips ($2.50 during happy hour), wild mushroom pizza ($6) and a trio of spreads (eggplant, hummus and pesto goat cheese with garlic bread, $4.50). Drink deals include $4 well drinks and $2.50 draft and bottled beers.
The deals at the seasonally inspired Primo include $9 pizzas and bar items, $5 cocktails and glasses of wine and $3 draft beers.
What's happier than a seven-days-a-week happy hour? Harvest is happy daily with $3 draft beers, $2 off bottled beers, half-priced specialty and well cocktails, $5 appetizers from the bar menu, $2 homemade assorted chips and $2.50 fries with garlic aoli.
Appetizer deals, from $4.25 to $6.95, include mini-chimis, chorizo fundido and guacamole, and you can wash it down with $2.99 margaritas and $2 drafts.
With a $4 minimum drink order, you can get appetizers–fried tofu, vegetarian spring rolls, coconut prawns, Thai wings and more—for $3 each.
In addition to drink specials, select appetizers—including Lamont’s cheesey bread and white bean hummus—are offered at a discount.
Zona 78 happy hour
The mid-range Italian bistro becomes a cheap-range place during its happy hour, and the quality of ingredients and service is consistently top-notch.
Weekdays get a bit more festive with the half-off deals including house margaritas, drafts, Stone Cellars wine, well cocktails and all appetizers.
Sit at the bar and snack on half-priced mussels, clams and chilled shrimp, $1 oysters from the Pacific Northwest and $5 crab cake sliders.
Happy Hour at Cup Cafe
The $5 appetizer deals include the popular heartbreaker (a whole-roasted garlic bulb, Brie, sauteed artichoke hearts, apple slices and soft baguette), Thompson automatics (two egg rolls stuffed with Gorgonzola and shredded chicken marinated in Frank's Hot Sauce and served with Asian slaw) and Picacho nachos, and you can wash it all down with $3 you-call-its and $5 specialty cocktails.
Drink specials include $4 drafts (Stella Artois, Guinness, Shock Top), $5 wines and cocktails (cosmos, bloody Mary, more) in the $4-$5 range. You'll also find plenty of discounted appetizers, including the cheese fries with hot pastrami ($6, normally $11), pigs in a blanket ($6, normally $9.50), plus wings ($7), stuffed portabello mushrooms ($8) and more.
Served in the lounge and on the lounge patio, the OPG happy hour feature half-off appetizers and $1 off wine, beer and well drinks.
Items on the bar menu are half-off, but of course this martini bar gives a good discount on the house drink—$5 each. Red and white wines for $5, too.
The happy hour food menu includes $1 beef tacos, $2 Sonoran dogs and $5 pizzas. Drink deals find the house-made beers $2.70, plus $1 off cocktails and wine and $2 for the drink of the day.
Get half-priced glasses and bottles of wine, beer and sides—hand-cut, double-truffle or zucchini fries or sweet potato chips. The plain and simple burger is $2 off, making it $6.
Two bucks off glasses of wine, beer and well drinks. Keep those beverages company with half-off deals on grilled and chilled Gulf shrimp, steamed little-neck clams and steamed mussels. Seasonal oysters are $1 each.
Elle celebrates those two transitional hours from workday to nighttime with half-off the entire bar food menu. That means you get deals on such items at the fried brie with spiced green apple chutney, rock shrimp ceviche with plantain chips and the half-pound burger.
In addition to deals on cocktails and wines, Armitage offers half-priced starters. Choose from an array of bruschettas, warm spinach dip, cheese boards, fries and more.
