Best of Austin |
August 7, 2018

Our top picks for Friday drink and happy hour specials in Austin.

Alcomar

3-6:
1/2 price wine bottles;
$5-9 drink specials;
discounts on select dinner items

Apothecary

4-7:  
$1 off wine by the glass;
$3 off bottles

Arro

5-7: 
$10 bar snacks;
$3 off wine by the glass;
$3 Kronenbourg draft;
$4 aperitifs;
$5 Kir Royale

Austin Beer Garden & Brewing Co.

$1 off pints
$2 off pitchers
$6 Slice and a Pint
$27 Pitcher and a Pizza

Aviary

3-7:
$4 house wine;
$4 small plates;
$1 off all beer

Banger’s Sausage House & Beer Garden

4-6:
$1 off Texas pints

Barley Swine

5-6:30:
1/2 priced bottles of wine under $100,
$4 Texas draft beers,
$6 draft cocktails, and
1/2 priced large format beer

Black Sheep Lodge*

all night: 
$2 off Texas Pitchers
$3 White Trash Cans (Lone Star and PBR Tallboys, Schlitz, Pearl, Etc.)

Blue Dahlia Bistro 

3-6:30: 
snacks and tartines $4-10; 
$1 off drafts;
$2 Lonestar;
$3 premium beer;
$5 wine by the glass

The Bonneville

4:30-6:30: 
$3 off cocktails and wine;
$2 off beer;
$6 select appetizers / $7 select pizzas 

Botticelli’s

5-7: 
$2 Lonestar, Miller Lite, Coors Light;
$3 Dos XX, Corona, Negra Modelo, Shiner;
$5 select cocktails, wine, & sangria;
$5-8 Italian dishes

Cenote

3-7: 
$1 off beer & wine (excludes beer already $2)

Clark’s Oyster Bar

3-6:  
50 cents off oysters;
1/2 off burgers;
$5 martinis and drafts

Craftsman

4pm-7pm:
$7 specialty house cocktails;
$5 draft beers;
$5 Prosecco on tap

Crown & Anchor* 

2-7: 
$2.50 domestic pints with $9.25 pitchers;
$3.75 midrange pints with $12.75 pitchers;
$4.50 premium pints with $14.75 pitchers

Dozen Street

5-8: 
$2 Lonestar tallboys;
$3 wells;
$5 cocktails 
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4-6: 
$6 cocktails;
$2 off wine;
$1 off draft;
discounted food

Drinks Lounge

4-8: 
$1 off wells & drafts

The Driskell

4-7: 
$5 margs

Eddie V’s

4-7: 
$6 premium cocktails and wine;
$2 off other drinks;
$1 oysters and other food specials

East Side Showroom

5-7:
$5 cocktails;
$1 off drafts and wine;
$3ish veggie apps;
$10 pork ribs

Eleven Plates

3-6: 
$2 off cocktails and beer;
$3 off glasses of wine and flights;
$11 off bottles of wine;
$3 off apps

El Alma

3-6:
$4 Mexican bottles;
$5 jacked sangria;
$6 classic marg;
$7 chilanga; discounted apps

El Chile

3-7: 
$5 select drinks & apps

El Sapo

3-7:  
1/2 off all appetizers;
$3 cans, $4 bottles;
$5 drafts;
$5 margaritas;
$4 punch

Firehouse Lounge

5-8: 
$6 prohibition style cocktails;
$4 drafts; $6 wines;
$5 Grandad shot & Lonestar

Full Circle 

5pm-2am: 
“FREE SKEE-BALL”

Garage

5-7:
$6 cocktails

Gardner

5:30-7:
$2 off patio snacks, wine by the glass, and draft beer

Gourmands

11-7:
$4 glasses of house wine & margaritas
$1 off all beer (beer over $3.00)
Large appetizers $5.00

Guero’s Taco Bar

3-6: 
$4 house marg;
$2 off signature margs;
$2 beer;
$1 off chile con queso & Guero’s dip

Half Step*

4-7: 
$8 select cocktails;
$2 off all drafts

Handlebar

4-8: 
$1 off everything

Haymaker*

all day:
$2 frozen margs;
$3 beer ritas;
$2 off bombers

Hightower

5-7:
$4-8 cocktails;
$2-4 beer & wine;
$3-7 food

Hillside Farmacy

3-5:
$5 select cocktails

Hole in the Wall

3-8:
$2.25 PBR & Pearl tallboys;
$2.75 Shiner & Lonestar drafts & talls;
$4 Fireman’s 4 draft;
$3.25 wells & Jager;
$3.75 Jim Beam

House Wine

3-5:
$4 sangria;
$2 off wine cocktails;
free apps;

4-7: 
$6 off bottles;
$2 off wine by the glass & beer

Icenhauer’s

4-7:
1/2 off specialty cocktails

Javelina

4-7: 
$3 wells;
$2 off specialty cocktails;
$1 off select drafts;
1/2 price starters

Isla

4-7: 
$6 drinks;
25% off starred menu items

Jeffrey’s 

4:30-6:30: 
$2 off wine, beer, and cocktails; 
1/2 off bar food menu

Josephine House

3-6: 
$2 off wine, beer, and cocktails

King Bee

1/2 off glasses of wine from last night’s bottles (while supplies last)

La Condesa

5-7:
all beer, wine, cocktails & spirits 1/2 off;
discounted menu in the bar

Lavaca Street Bar

3-7: 
$2.50 domestics;
$3 wells

The Liberty 

4-8: 
$1.50 PBR, Pearl & Highlife;
$2.59 wells; $1 off drafts;
$3 16oz Tigers; discounted items at East Side King trailer out back

Licha’s Cantina

4-7: 
$5 cocktail menu;
$5 select food

Little Barrel & Brown

5-7: 
$3 draft and bottled beers;
$5 wine and select classic cocktails;
$5 snacks and salads;
$8 sandwiches and appetizers;
$10 shrimp po’ boy

Lucille

4-7:30:
$5-8 specialty drinks

The Local Pub & Patio*

3-3:15 
$1 drafts;

3-7: 
50 cents off pints & $1 off pitchers;
$2.50 wells & 50 cents of all booze

The Lost Well

4-9: 
$3 wells & most drafts;
$4 call drinks

Lucky Robot

4-6:30: 
$5 sake punch;
$7 sake; $2 beer;
$2-6 rolls and appetizers

Lucy’s Fried Chicken (North& South)

11-7: 
$3 wells

Mettle

4-7: 
$2 off cocktails;
$1 off wine, wells & drafts;
1/2 off select apps

No Va

6-7: 
$2 off beer & house cocktails;
$6 wine by the glass;
discounted cocktail of the day

Odd Duck

2:30-6: 
$5 draft seasonal Moscow Mules;
25% of wine bottles & beer

Olive and June

5-6:30: 
1/2 price beer, liquor, and apps 

Olivia

5-7:  
$1 off wine and beer;
30% off bottles of wine;
select bar snacks $2-$6

Opa!

3-7: 
$3 sangria & $15 pitchers;
$2.75 mimosas; $1 off beer & wells;
1/2 off glasses of wine from previously opened bottles & 20% off bottles

The Peached Tortilla

5-7: 
$5 beers, wines & cocktails;
$3 tacos; $5 snacks;
$7 social burger

Péché

4-7:
$5 cocktails and 1/2 off items with *

Perla’s

3-6: 
$2 off drinks;
50¢ off oysters

Posse East 

2-7: 
$2.50 domestic pints & $9.25 pitchers;
$3.75 import pints & $12.75 pitchers;
$2.25 domestic bottles;
discounted nachos & queso

Quickie Pickie* 

4-6: 
$3 pints;
$2-4 select snacks;
$5 burgers

Russian House

4-7:
$5 small plates;
cheap infusions and vodka samplers;
$1 off beers;
$4 wine;
$4 wells

Salt & Thyme

3-6:
$3 Hops & Grain Zoe;
$2 Twisted X Lager;
$5 wine

Salty Sow

4:30-6:30: 
$2 off signature sips, beer & wine;
$5-6 apps; $4 craft draft;
$5 select wine & cocktails

Scoot Inn

4-8: 
$3 tallboys, domestics & wells

Searsucker

4-6pm:
$4 draft brews,
$5 house wine,
$6 house-made infusions
discounted small bites

Shady Grove*

all day: 
$8 Texas tinis

Shangri-La

4-9: 
$2.50 wells & domestics

Snack Bar

4-7: 
$2 lone star,
$1 off beer and cocktails;
$6 glasses of wine;
$2 off select appetizers

South Congress Cafe

3-6: 
20% off wines by the glass; 
$3 beer, margaritas, and frozen lemonade; 
$5 frozen bellinis and mojitos; 
$3-5 other assorted fruity drinks

Stay Gold

3-8: 
$1 off drafts & craft cocktails;
$3 wells;
$2 PBR, Pearl & Mexicali cans

Stinson’s

4-6: 
$1 off beer;
20% off wine;
$3 wells;
$1.50 off apps

Swift’s Attic

2-6:30: 
$4 cocktail of the day;
$5 house wines;
$2 Miller Light & Mickeys;
$6-8 cocktails;
$4-10 apps

Takoba

3-6: 
$1 off drinks & drafts, half off apps (excluding ceviche)

Twenty Two Eleven 

5-7: 
$1 off house cocktails;
$2 Lone Star and PBR;
$3 wells;
$4 Deep Eddy, Jack Daniels, Espolón

Uchi

5-6:30:
$3 sake;
$7 wine;
$4-7 small plates

Violet Crown Social Club

5-7: 
50 cents of wells & beer;
$2 Lonestar

Volstead 

7-9:
$2 wells & Lonestar tallboys,
$4 drafts, $5 classic cocktails; 
Summer special 7-10:
$3 frozen margs & rotating frozen special 

Weather Up

4-7: 
$7 cocktails;
$2 off plates

Whisler’s

4-7:
$7 cocktails

The White Horse*

3-8: 
$2 PBR, Pearl, Hamms pints & wells;
$3 Jameson;
$3 Z Tequila;
$4 Fireball

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*not confirmed in person, so please let us know if you hear otherwise!