13 Nashville happy hour deals at bars and restaurants worth a cheers

Mary Hance | The Tennessean

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Happy hours are a great way to kick back after work, enjoy good conversation, an affordable drink and snacks before heading home and getting ready for the next day.

With almost every restaurant and bar in town offering some kind of promotional late afternoon deal to lure in patrons, it is not hard to find a good happy hour.

But some are better than others.

As one of my happy hour-loving pals told me, the best happy hours are the ones that let her "experience going out to a nice restaurant" and enjoy the food, drink and atmosphere for a fraction of what a full traditional dinner would cost.

Here are some recommendations, in no particular order, of places that offer attractive drink and food specials.

Cheers!

1. Eastland Cafe

Eastland Cafe, 97 Chapel Ave., has happy hour from 5-6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 5-6 p.m Friday and Saturday, with a full menu of $5 items including potstickers, pizza, fish tacos and smoked wings. They also have $5 glasses of wine and select cocktails and $3 beers.

2. blvd Nashville

blvd, 2013 Belmont Blvd., has happy 4-6 p.m. Monday through Friday, with half-price "bar bites," including lamb meatballs, chicken wings, spinach dip, brisket bites and more. They also have $4 well liquor, house wine and beers and half off bottles of wine.

3. Union Common

Union Common, 1929 Broadway, in Midtown has a 5-7 p.m. happy hour Monday through Friday at the bar with 50 percent off all wines by the glass, signature craft cocktails and classic cocktails, and a featured beer for $4. Most of the shared plate items, salads and side plates are also half off, so almost everything is $5-$9. The most popular items include fried oyster Caesar salad, blackened shrimp with house made mustard creme, beer battered crab cakes, wild boar sausage with house chow chow and Escargot.

4. Henrietta Red

Henrietta Red, 1200 Fourth Ave. N., has happy hour from 5-6:30 p.m. daily, offering $2 oysters and $5 cava. They also offer daily drink specials: Tuesday, discounted house cocktails for $8; Wednesday, glasses of rosé for $5; Thursday, $2 Jell-O shots; Friday, beer special which changes weekly; Saturday, $8 specialty cocktail; and Sunday, half off sommelier pick of red and white wine.

5. Lockeland Table

At Lockeland Table, 1520 Woodland Street, in East Nashville, the "community hour" is more than a happy hour — with specially priced drinks and appetizers, plus a kids menu. A portion of the proceeds go to Lockeland Design Center PTO. The "community hour" is 4-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with an array special appetizers and cocktails priced at $6 and draft beer for $3. The most popular appetizers are Korean beef tacos, the regional goat cheese in a jar plate, and General Hal's chicken wings.

6. Two Ten Jack

Happy hour is 4-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Two Ten Jack, with two-for-one Kirin on draft, $5 house wines and $5 house cold sake. On the snack side, they have $3 edamame with salt and $5 spicy tuna with crispy rice. Two Ten Jack is at 1900 Eastland Ave.

7. Park Cafe

Park Cafe, 4403 Murphy Road, in Sylvan Park, offers bar and (recently renovated) patio dining during happy hour 4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 4:30-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Happy hour includes $6 specialty cocktails, $5 select wines and $3 select draft beers. The $6 bar items include pizzas and mussels, and $5 rosemary Parmesan fries and fried pickles. There are daily specials, like an $8 Tuesday burger and $10 marinated shrimp tacos on Wednesday.

8. Woolworth on 5th

Woolworth on 5th, 221 Fifth Ave. N., has a happy hour 4-8 p.m. Monday through Friday on the mezzanine. Prices are $6 for house wine, $5 for a Fifth Avenue Fizz and $1 off house cocktails and bottled and canned beers.

9. Chuy's

Chuy's has a free "nacho car" from 4-7 p.m. Monday through Friday, which is a nacho bar displayed in the trunk of a car. They call it "fully loaded," and you can find taco meat, refried beans, queso, salsa and chips —- all complementary if you buy any drink, including a tea or soda. And with $1 off domestic beers, house wines and house margaritas, this is a happy hour indeed.

10. Five Points Pizza

Both locations of Five Points Pizza, 1012 Woodland St. and 4100 Charlotte Pike, have a pizza and beer happy hour deal from 2-6 p.m. Monday through Friday. It features a draft beer paired with any slice of pizza for $8, or a PBR tallboy or Miller High Life paired with a slice of cheese or pepperoni pizza for $5.

11. Germantown Cafe

Germantown Cafe,1200 5th Ave. N., has a 3-7 p.m. daily happy hour, with $5.50 drinks and $6 appetizers including chicken wings with blue cheese, fried mac and cheese balls, steamed mussels and veal meatballs.

12. Chauhan Ale and Masala House

Maneet Chauhan's Chauhan Ale & Masala House in the Gulch has happy hour drink specials, including a $6 wine of the moment, and $5 beer of the moment and $6 daiquiris and margaritas. They also have $6 appetizers, including hot chicken pakoras, meatballs makhani and black-eyed pea croquette, from 5-6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

13. Sperry's

Both Sperry's locations, 5109 Harding Pike and 650 Frazier Drive in Franklin, have weekday happy hours: 5-7 p.m. in Belle Meade and 3-6 p.m. at Cool Springs. Drink specials include $7 premium well drinks, $5 house wines and $2 and $3 beers. There are $8 appetizers, including BBQ shrimp and grits, smoked salmon, jumbo shrimp cocktail and prime rib sliders. Sperry's also offers half price wine bottles at happy hour on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

Stay cheap!

P.S. Please let me know of other great local happy hours, and I will do a follow up column.

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