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3 for 3 at La Fogata: $3 Specials During 3-Hour Happy Hour

The first La Fogata, was established 20 years ago, and now the metro area has three of these popular Mexican restaurants. They all do happy hour nightly, 4-7 p.m., featuring 16-ounce house margaritas, domestic and imported beer specials, and happy-hour appetizers for $3. 5670 E. Evans Ave. (east of I-25), Denver, 303-753-9458; 8090 E. Quincy Ave. (at Tamarac Pkwy.), Denver, 720-974-7315; and [...]

Boulder's Bacaro Extends Happy Hour Menu

Bácaro Venetian Taverna has expanded its happy hour offerings, available daily, 4-6:30 p.m. There are now 17 small plates at $2-$5 (including a fairly filling penne pasta dish) and seven types of individual pizza at $5-$6. The kitchen will accommodate gluten-free and other dietary needs. Just ask. Bácaro’s mixologist also assembles interesting cocktails at the happy [...]

Three All-Night Happy Hours in Boulder

Tahona Tequila Bistro has doubled its all-night happy-hour food and drink pricing from one night a week to two until the end of winter. That means$2 tacos and tamales; $3 rellenos, infusions, drafts, wine and sangria, and $4 margaritas both on Sunday and Monday nights.  1035 Pearl St., Boulder; 303-938-9600. Tuesday, The Boulder Draft House has happy [...]

George’s Tuesday Night Food/Wine Special <$11

George’s Food & Drink has a $10.99 Tuesday Night Special: a choice of two housemade lasagnas (vegetarian three-cheese, spinach and mushroom or spicy Italian sausage, goat cheese, ricotta and mushroom), a simple salad of organic greens and a glass of house wine. George’s also has a good happy hour deal every evening from 5-6:30 p.m. Click [...]

Steuben's Specials Every Night of the Week

Steuben’s Food Service, a super-cool, super-popular, super-retro Uptown restaurant, offers two nightly happy hours and a rotating menu of upscale comfort food specials every evening too. The first happy hour, 4-7 p.m. daily, features $1 Miller High Life Ponies and Little Kings, and $1 off select domestic bottles, well drinks and wine. The second happy hour [...]

Free Wine and Dollar-Saving Specials at Circle

Circle, a new restaurant and bar in downtown Boulder, is offering a FREE bottle of house wine at dinner for tables of four or more guests through Jan. 31. Even when that special is offer, the restaurant’s happy hour specials are offered nightly, 4-6:30 p.m., and live music is scheuled on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 5:30-7:30 p.m [...]

Encore Restaurant's Well-Priced Eats

Encore Restaurant in the historic  Lowenstein Theater Building (and a neighbor of the Tattered Cover Book Store) offers daily half-price specials somewhere on the premises. They serve half-price pizza, appetizers and drinks in the bar, Monday through Saturday, 3-6 p.m. and again from 9 p.m. to close. The Sunday Supper Club, 4-8 p.m., features two-for-the-price-of-one entrees. [...]

Full Belly's New Weeknight Specials

Radek Cerney’s Fully Belly Bistro now offers three-course dinners for $24 per person on Tuesdays and half off all bottles of wine on Wednesdays. Full Belly’s happy hour is normally 3:30-6 p.m. for drinks and 3:30-5:30 for food. On Mondays happy hour drink pricing extends until closing. 2779 Iris Ave., Boulder; 720-242-6266.

Prime Steakhouse Happy Hour Deals at the Bar

Prime Steakhouse, its congenial bar and the adjacent French-ish restaurant called La Fondue and/or Le Chateau are under the same ownership and have doorways connecting them. They occupy the corner of Araphoe and 15th Streets in downtown Denver, and two of the three serve happy hour specials at unbeatable prices. The bar has a $4 [...]

Late Night Happy Hour at 1515 Bar & Lounge

While 1515 Restaurant is one of Denver’s top fine dining establishments, its bar caters to a livelier scene. Night owls can grab a drink and listen to some of Colorado’s best bands with a Late Night Happy Hour offering $3 “You call it” drinks (excluding premium liquors) from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. The bar’s [...]

Tahona’s Two Days of Deals — Every Week

Every Monday is designated as all-day happy hour, with value pricing for small plates and drinks at Tahona Tequila Bistro, a hoppin’ spot just west of Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. The kitchen closes at 9 p.m., so the happy hour pricing is only for drinks after that. Monday is followed Tuesday, which means Tahona’s weekly “Meal and a Marg” deal. [...]

Alba Uncorks Half-Price Bottles of Wine & Other Deals

Alba, one of Boulder’s fine Italian restaurants, now celebrates the start of the conventional workweek with “Mezzo Mondays,” featuring half-price bottles of wine. Happy hour (5-6:30 p.m., Monday-Friday) features half-price wines by the glass and cocktails, plus $3 “small bites,” $8 salads and antipasti and $10 individual pizzas. We hesitate to add a post about every Mile High [...]