17 of Denver’s Best Happy Hours

Comfortable hour is virtually an establishment in Denver, particularly on these lovely fall days when the air is cool, the solar is shining, and a patio is begging you to chop out of labor a bit early. Fortunately, the Mile Excessive Metropolis makes it straightforward to indulge on this feeling with an abundance of beneficiant late-afternoon offers on drinks and bites. Right here, 17 of our favourite locations to lift an (inexpensive) glass proper now.

Local Jones

Cherry Creek
Tucked contained in the Halcyon Resort surrounded by Cherry Creek’s upscale boutiques, this all-day bistro is the right pit cease throughout a day of retail remedy within the neighborhood—significantly since glad hour begins at 2 p.m. day by day. The menu sports activities bites by chef Brendalee Vialpando, who provides refined and nostalgic touches to modern American dishes. 249 Columbine St.
The Offers: Native Jones’ signature piquillo-pepper-garnished spicy martini ($10) is our thirst-quencher of selection, however there are additionally offers on sangria ($11 or $30 for a pitcher), a bartender’s selection cocktail ($10), draft beers ($6), and home wines ($9 or $25 for a bottle). Nibble on a rotating choice of recent oysters ($2 every), fried artichokes hearts ($9), and grilled cheese sandwiches ($9).
Comfortable Hour: 2–5 p.m., day by day

The Wild

LoDo
Tucked away in an alley throughout from Union Station lies the Wild, a spot that your downtown coworkers are positive to like. Swing by in your option to the workplace to scope out the morning menu of espresso, tea, pastries, and breakfast burritos—however don’t overlook to cease again in along with your glad hour crew to graze over charcuterie boards adorned with positive cheeses, meats, and seasonal garnishes. For one thing boozy to pair along with your unfold, strive one of many discounted crafted cocktails (quaint, gimlet, margarita, or daiquiri), all of that are even lovelier sipped amid the Wild’s vivid and botanical-inspired ambiance. 1660 Wynkoop St., Suite 100
The Offers: Get pleasure from discounted libations like a bottle of Modelo with a shot of Pueblo Viejo for $10, or a glass of home wine for $7.
Comfortable Hour: four–6 p.m., day by day —Barbara Urzua

Bistro LeRoux

LoDo
Whereas chef Lon Symensma’s chandelier- and leather-banquette-adorned ode to French fare is a first-rate date-night destination, friends may pop in earlier than 5:30 p.m. to make the most of a lineup of hearty snacks and sips priced at $11 or much less. The eatery affords Symensma’s elevated and ingenious spins on all the biggest bistro hits, from seasonal renditions of rooster liver and foie gras mousse (the newest has Champagne gelée and glowing grapes) and wagyu steak tartare with smoked oyster aïoli, confit egg yolk, and cornichon. 1510 16th St.
The Offers: Get the aforementioned tartare ($eight) and mousse ($6) together with a board and bottle, your selection of cheese and charcuterie with all the fixings and a bottle of home wine ($25). Or ask for a half-dozen oysters and a bottle of cava ($22).
Comfortable Hour: Wednesday–Friday, four–5:30 p.m; Saturday–Sunday three–5:30 p.m.

The Cooper Lounge

LoDo
Perched on the second flooring of Union Station, this swanky spot actually seems to be down on the lots consuming, ingesting, and passing by means of the LoDo transit hub. And more often than not, it will possibly really feel like the price of sipping an expertly crafted cocktail (most are $16 to $22) on one among its eggshell-white leather-based or velvet lounge chairs is just too excessive for something however an important day. On weekdays from four to six p.m., nonetheless, even these on a good funds can ascend and revel in a $5 beer or $10 glass of wine or basic combined drink (choices embrace a negroni, daiquiri, and whiskey bitter). The service is simply as gracious and polished as another hour of the day, making you’re feeling like 1,000,000 bucks with out spending greater than about $25. Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St.
The Offers: The discounted cocktails nonetheless get the Cooper Lounge’s signature setup, arriving in lovely etched glassware on a silver tray with a tiny cup of nuts and pretzels for nibbling. For extra substantial fare, ask to see the day’s choice of $three aperitif bites, rolled over to your desk on a cart; we just lately loved cucumber slices topped with smoked salmon, asparagus soup pictures, and piquillo-pepper-garnished arancini.
Comfortable Hour: four–6 p.m., Monday–Friday —Jessica LaRusso

ChoLon

LoDo
Having presided over the nook of 16th Road Mall and Blake Road for greater than a decade, ChoLon has lengthy referred to as to Denver diners craving upscale Asian fusion eats like Thai Brussels sprouts, Indonesian fried rice, and French onion soup dumplings. Even when the eating room is full, although, the tucked-to-the-side bar space is continuously (and blessedly) much less crowded, making it a candy spot for a leisurely glad hour. 1555 Blake St.
The Offers: Draft beers, together with picks from Comrade Brewing and Denver Beer Co., and choose glasses of wine are $6, whereas a pleasant glowing Brut rosé is simply $eight. But when your concept of pre-dinnertime bliss is extra boozy, ChoLon’s seven signature cocktails are $three off MSRP. We’d suggest ordering the bourbon- and Thai-basil-infused Outdated Saigon ($12) and a smattering of snacks, significantly the pork stomach bao buns ($11) and (simply to combine it up from our typical order of the divine French onion selection) the “Basic Cho’s” soup dumplings ($12).
Comfortable Hour: 2–5:30 p.m., day by day —Lindsey B. King

Ultreia

LoDo
This bustling spot inside Union Station from James Beard Award–successful chef Jennifer Jasinski and enterprise companion Beth Gruitch provides Denverites the chance to partake within the Spanish and Portuguese custom of sharing tapas and pintxos (pronounced “peen-chos,” smaller variations of tapas). To increase your tour of the Iberian Coast, complement your glad hour snacks with a choice of  tinned fish or a bigger entrée from the dinner menu.
The Offers: Glasses of home sangria, wines, and cava are $6 to $7—however we love the gin tonic and Fords mini martini ($7). The latter is a pint-size gin sipper that comes with the choice so as to add a rotating tapa for $four. Pintxos choices embrace queso pimenton (house-made potato chips, $four), bacon-wrapped dates ($four), and berenjenas (za’atar-zinged fried eggplant)
Comfortable Hour: three–6 p.m., Monday–Friday

Vesper Lounge

Capitol Hill
This Capitol Hill drink den appeals on many ranges. The classic chandeliers and a well-and-shot particular (the Capitol Hillbilly) are paying homage to a dive. The Mediterranean-inspired restaurant affords divine pitas and dips. And workers greets regulars by identify, making the watering gap a real neighborhood gathering place. A stellar time to soak up the appeal is throughout glad hour, when the bar is much less crowded and a big array of snacks and drinks is accessible for a reduced value.
The Offers: Select a few the 5 dips ($four)—accessible in crimson pepper hummus, pesto, olive, tzatziki, or baba ganoush—and spherical out your unfold with some gyro, burger, sloppy joe, or falafel sliders ($three.5 for one). To drink, you may’t go incorrect with the Vesper, a gin-and-vodka home cocktail generally known as James Bond’s signature drink ($7 on a regular basis), or any of the spirit-forward choices on faucet such because the darkish and stormy or paloma ($6).
Comfortable Hour: Monday, all day; Tuesday–Friday, open–6 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday, open–four p.m.

Jax Fish House and Oyster Bar

LoDo
Denverites line up outdoors of the downtown Jax location properly earlier than it opens at three:30 p.m. to be among the many first to crack into the day by day offers on oysters, peel-and-eat shrimp, mussels, and different seafaring delights. Sit on the bustling, central bar to get the most effective LoDo folks watching, and benefit from the present as shuckers expertly plate and current their briny morsels. 1539 17th St.
The Offers: Choose oysters are $2 every (pair them with $5 hush puppies or fries) or get pleasure from a pan-ocean sampler of a half-pound peel-and-eat shrimp, six Emersum oysters, and a half-pound of snow crab for $55. Cocktails, wine, and bubbles are simply $6 to $eight a glass.
Comfortable Hour: three:30–5 p.m., day by day 

La Bouche

Metropolis Park West
The coziest French cafe in Metropolis Park West has a trés stylish glad hour to match, making for the right excuse to seize a marble-topped bistro desk and rub shoulders with town’s francophiles, who can typically be discovered chatting amicably with French homeowners Alexis and Alexandra Tréton. The wine record consists of grapes rigorously chosen from the Tréton’s two favourite areas—the US and France—and bites corresponding to charcuterie, quiche, and cheese boards are impressed by basic French bistro fare. 1100 E 17th Ave.
The Offers: A two-meat, two-cheese board runs $32 (whereas a one-meat, one-cheese ensemble every is simply $18). All faucet wines are 25 p.c off.
Comfortable Hour: four–6 p.m., Tuesday to Friday

Dew Drop Inn

Uptown
Kiendl Smith, Leigh Jones, and Margaret Moore—the female-led workforce behind Uptown’s Dew Drop Inn—aren’t any strangers to glad hour, having labored in Denver institutions like Horseshoe Lounge and Embassy Tavern. So after they opened their cozy neighborhood watering gap in Could 2021, they gave it a cheerful hour with tooth: almost all home cocktails are simply $eight, and name drinks are $5 every. Considerate, shareable bites are in abundance, just like the $16 Large Bowl of Mussels, ready in your selection of three broths: Parisian-style white wine, lemon, and garlic; Bangkok-style crimson curry; or a creamy Tunis-style with fire-roasted tomatoes and harissa. 1033 E. 17th Ave.
The Offers: Seltzer and home wine are $6; name drinks are $5; and Neighborhood Cocktails (suppose margaritas, palomas, and martinis) are simply $eight.
Comfortable Hour: three–6 p.m., Saturday–Thursday

Toro

Cherry Creek
It’s arduous to search out low cost drinks in ritzy Cherry Creek North, however Toro, the Richard Sandoval–led restaurant within the Resort Clio affords a welcome reprieve for the hoi polloi. With a sprawling indoor-outdoor restaurant and patio and oversize leather-based barstools, it’s straightforward to wile away the 2 hours of offers within the atmosphere of your selection. Pair your $6–eight bebidas with a chunk ready by the charismatic and proficient chef Oscar Padilla, who prepares pan-Latin specialties together with a standout ceviche. 150 Clayton Lane, Ste. B
The Offers: Order $5 beers and $6 home wines alongside $6–$eight cocktails (don’t miss the habanero blood orange margarita). Pair with wealthy and tangy smoked swordfish dip for $7 or a set of two pork stomach avenue tacos for simply $6.
Comfortable Hour: three–5 p.m., day by day

Joy Hill 

Overland
Share a diffusion of wood-fired bites whilst you watch the solar set behind the Rockies on Pleasure Hill’s lined and heated rooftop patio to expertise what appears like one among Denver’s hidden glad hour treasures. The homey South Broadway pizzeria affords day by day offers so you may heat your stomach with a crock of domestically sourced bison meatballs ($7) and a chai quaint ($6), or cut up a bottle of natural home crimson, white, and rosé wine for less than $20. Simply be sure you money in on the $10 cut price for Pleasure Hill’s most beloved pie: a 12-inch margherita pizza that includes its house-made, hand-stretched mozzarella and naturally leavened sourdough crust, made with heirloom wheat flour from Boulder-based artisan mill Dry Storage. 1229 S. Broadway
The Offers: Shareable meals gadgets—pizza, cheese plates, meatballs, and gazpacho—for $10 or much less; choose cocktails and glasses of wine for $6; and $1 off draft beers
Comfortable Hour: four–6 p.m., day by day —Madi Skahill

Olive & Finch Eatery and Bakery

Metropolis Park West and Cherry Creek
The whole lot on glad hour on the daytime restaurant and bakery Olive & Finch appears to be simply $four—pint-glass-sized palomas, mules, and fries amongst them. And even the gadgets not included on the discounted lineup are blissfully inexpensive) such because the lineup of freshly made baked items (strive the strawberry pop tart or the bacon cinnamon roll) or choice of pressed juices, espresso, and tea. Each places have indoor and outside seating and an off-the-cuff, playful vibe that begs you to linger just a bit longer. 1552 E. 17th Ave.; 3390 E. 1st Ave.
The Offers: Get pleasure from $four cocktails and wine, plus reductions on a rotating lineup of small plates and shareables.
Comfortable Hour: three–6 p.m. day by day

Work & Class 

RiNo
At Work & Class, Dana Rodriguez’s important meat-and-three concept situated in a transport container in RiNo, the time period “Early Work Launch Program” is most popular to “glad hour,” however the 60-minute deal window affords indulgences which can be straightforward on the pockets all the identical. Cocktails on faucet—like aviations, mules, and whiskey sours—and home mixers with a choose-your-own liquor coverage are all underneath $10, together with a lineup of 5 artistic plates to share (or not). 2500 Larimer St.
The Offers: Choose a spirit to pair with the likes of cucumber-mint lemonade or a grapefruit-habanero-rosemary mixer for simply $9, or get pleasure from $2 off wine and $5 suds. Shareable plates like tempura broccoli, ratatouille chile rellenos, and inexperienced chile cheese fries are all $eight and underneath.
Comfortable Hour: 5–6 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday

Señor Bear

LoHi
Named after government chef Blake Edmunds, who additionally goes by Whiskey Bear, Señor Bear serves Latin-inspired dishes with a twist. Its glad hour menu is accessible day-after-day from three–5pm and consists of 5 appetizers and a decent-size drink record of cocktails, beer, wine, and tequila pictures (for these excessive glad hour of us). The cocktails run sturdy and the meals arrives sizzling and quick. Parts do run small, corresponding to the one Gordo Crunch, so be certain that to order one every if you do not need to share. 3301 Tejon St.
The Offers: Amongst different cocktails, the favored ardour fruit margarita is simply $7, mini queso with chorizo runs $6, and the Gordo Crunch—a tackle the Taco Bell staple—prices a blessed fiver.
Comfortable Hour: three–5 p.m., day by day —Helen Xu

Postino Wine Cafe

A number of places
Technically, Postino on Broadway doesn’t have a standard glad hour, but it surely has one thing even higher—offers day-after-day from open to five p.m., and late-night glad hour on Mondays and Tuesdays. Should you’re famished at eight p.m., mosey over for a $25 combo of a bottle of wine and one among their delectable boards such because the Chef’s Charcuterie, a platter of thinly sliced meats, cheeses, veggies, and nuts. Whereas all of the Postinos within the space—LoHi, Highlands Ranch, Postino 9 + Co, and soon-to-open in Boulder—have spacious patios and enjoyable decor. The Broadway outpost sports activities a Murano glass chandelier over funky orange sofas, and peeping from the partitions are tons of of live performance posters from the ’60s and ’70s, creating a cool vibe that matches its Baker house. Postino Broadway, 145 N. Broadway 

The Offers: $6 glasses of (really good) wine and $5 pitchers of frothy native draft beer, accessible for a full six hours day-after-day.
Comfortable Hour: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. day by day —Charli Ornett

Goed Zuur

5 Factors
Even followers of bitter brews have been recognized to transform after attempting the bitter picks at 5 Factors’ Goed Zuur. The gathering of 20-some rotating drafts, plus a beneficiant choice of bottles and cans, means there may be at all times simply the fitting drink to completely pair with Goed Zuur’s famend meat and cheese picks. For the adventurous, the chef’s selection mini board is a should: The restaurant’s professionals decide one meat and one cheese (or two cheeses) and masterfully embellish the board with bites like sunflower seeds, recent bread, raspberry jam, and among the most pleasant house-made pickles you’ll ever have. 2801 Welton St.
The Offers: Make the most of choose sours at a reduced fee, in addition to $2 off all wines by the glass and $2 off a choose medley of 10-ounce drafts.
Comfortable Hour: four–6 p.m., day by day —Barbara Urzua