Get Your Patio On
13 cool places for you to wine and dine al fresco
Ari’s Wine Bistro
Sunday is the best day to go for all-day happy hour: wells are half-price, appetizers are $6, and Shiraz house wine by the glass is just $4. Plus, the people-watching from this second-story perch is primo.
BlackFinn Addison
This is your best bet to beat the Monday blues: check out New School Monday Nights for “insane drink specials," including $2 you-call-its. Thursday is Ladies Night, so all the girls get $3 martinis, wine, and flavored vodka from 7pm till close. Happy hour here is every day, 4-7pm, with half-price drinks and $4.95 flatbread pizza.
Blackfriar Pub
The patio here is always bustling during happy hour (Mon-Fri, 3-7pm) and weekend nights. Take $1 off all drafts, domestics, wells, and calls during HH.
Capitol Pub
You can’t beat this spacious patio on fancified Henderson Avenue during happy hour. Mon-Thu, 4-7pm, and Fri, 3-7pm, get $1 off drafts, domestics, wells, and calls.
Cremona Bistro
We like to hang on Sunday, when mimosas and bellinis are $2.75. From 4:30-7pm, Mon-Sat and all day Sunday, get $3.75 wells, $4 house red wine, $3 domestics, $4 imports. Crafts are half-price on Monday during happy hour.
Cretia’s on McKinney
The McKinney Avenue hotspot has live music Tue-Sat, 10pm-2am, and Sun, 11am-3pm. During happy hour (Mon-Sat, 3-7pm), get $3 house wines, wells, and domestics, plus $4 imports. Great brunch specials, too: $3 Bloody Marys and $10 bottomless mimosas, poinsettias, Texas mimosas, sangrias, and sparkling rose.
