The Corner Office shouldn’t work. It’s over-active, over-designed, over-achieving. Its menu covers dozens of different cuisines, from Greek htipiti dip to fish tacos. There are disco balls in the bathrooms. But rather than being a vile yuppie wonderland, the Corner Office is interesting and satisfying. Its happy hour, running from…

To a restaurant, happy hour is many things: a way to fill up the slow early afternoon hours, an effort to build a loyal following in the neighborhood, and a means of offloading cheap food and liquor stock. But how do places with a holistic approach to cooking and dining…

The onset of winter sent me scurrying for a dark beer — and I wasn’t alone. Boulder’s FATE Brewing Company was packed to the rafters with everyone from high-fiving bros to families with little kids. Lots and lots of little kids. What secret sauce is FATE squirting to get a…

Just around the corner from lavish CY Steak in the Diamond Cabaret — which to my relief and chagrin, does not offer a happy hour — is Cliff Young and his son Zachary’s other concept, Bar Red. Until recently known as BaRed, the restaurant revamped its menu and changed its…

Back before LoDo was stuffed with happy hours pushing all manner of liquids and solids, McCormick’s Fish House and Bar — an outpost of the McCormick’s and Schmick’s empire that opened in the Oxford Hotel in 1987 — was legendary for its cheap time, when everything was $1.99. And that…

Despite the name, La Biblioteca, the tequila bar next to Zengo and Riverfront Park, is not an ideal place for study. It’s a sexy library of agave-based — rather than paper-based — knowledge, with more than 300 tequilas, mezcals and other liquors. The sort of people who drop hundreds of…

Even If you’ve been annoyed by mediocre happy hours, stingy specials, and bad drinks, take a moment and appreciate your freedom to order that $5 Moscow mule. Restrictive happy-hour laws are on the books in 26 other states, banning such beloved Colorado traditions as drink discounts and two-for-ones. Take that,…

The “24” at the end of the name of Tom’s Urban has been severed from the Larimer Square eatery’s sign and its identity, shortening the hours and rearranging the furniture for a different crowd. The restaurant now closes before the real creatures of the night come out to play, but…

There’s nothing more frustrating to your humble correspondent than a happy hour without food. Yes, liquor discounts are truer to the original spirit of happy hour, when folks would go out for pre-dinner drinks with little more than pretzels to sustain them. Now, most people eat around cocktails and beers,…

I was wandering the Highland neighborhood, hunting for that most rare of beasts: a happy hour that runs until 7 p.m. Once the clock hits six, it’s time for most restaurants to put away the small menus, top off that happy hour sangria and roll out the red carpet for…

What’s best about The Horseshoe Lounge is that it’s competent and comfortable. What’s worst is that it’s competent and comfortable. It’s almost unfair for an out-of-towner to judge this neighborhood bar on the basis of one quick-and-dirty happy hour, but the regulars here must feel something special that I didn’t…

As the bars of your parents and grandparents slowly atrophy, the layers of paint and smoke are peeled off and the floorboards ripped up, no one is quite sure how to replace these one-time classics while maintaining their old-fashioned spirit. But Frank Bonnanno’s Vesper Lounge found a way. The former…