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The Best Happy Hours in Pittsburgh

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Point Park chapter.

Not much is better than going to happy hour with your girls after a long day of class. Living in the Pittsburgh area, you know there are so many bars and restaurants to choose from. Here is a roundup of some of the best happy hour deals in Pittsburgh:

Downtown

Eleven – 4-6pm – $6 appetizers and drinks – soft pretzels, seafood apps, oysters, select wines by the glass, select cocktails

Easy Street – 4:30-6:30- $1 off all drinks, ½ off all apps such as loaded fries, nachos, pizza, buffalo chicken dip and spinach and artichoke dip.

The Yard – 4-7 on Monday-Thursday and Friday 5-7. $1 off drafts, $3 house wines, $5 drink of the day, ½ off snacks and apps like poutine, sliders, mac ‘n cheese and prosciutto shrimp.

Grit & Grace – select $5 cocktails, $2 Dos Equis and Miller Lite, $5 chicken wings, steam buns, pork Belly and chicken thigh appetizers

Olive or Twist – 4-6 pm ½ off select appetizers, $2.75 Miller Lite and Yuengling drafts, $3.75 microbrews, $4 glasses of Chardonnay and Shiraz

McCormick and Schmick’s – 3:30-6:30pm $3-$9 apps like mussels, calamari, shrimp, tacos and burgers. $3.75 Coors Light Drafts, $6 select wines and cocktails and $7 martinis

Morton’s the Steakhouse – 5-6pm $5 “bar bites,” sliders, tacos, mini crab cake BLTs, and deluxe loaded fries, $8 martinis and cocktails

Southside

The Library – 5-7pm ½ off all drafts and apps, 10pm-12am ½ off all drafts, 9pm -1am ½ off all apps. Appetizers include fried pickles, hummus plate, quesadillas, chicken tenders and cheese-stuffed peppers.Monday $1 tacos and ½ off bottles of wine. Tuesday $2.99 Chili cheese dogs and ½ off bottles of wine. Wednesday 1/2 off small pizzas.

Bar Louie in Station Square and North Shore – $3.25 drafts, $4.25 wines and $5.25 martinis. ½ off select apps and flatbreads. Tuesday $1 burgers from 5 – close.

The Urban Tap – 4:30-6:30 ½ off small plates like tacos, wings, mac n cheese, barbeque fries and nachos. $2 off draft beers and cocktails

North Shore

McFadden’s – 5-7pm –  ½ off drinks and appetizers like pierogis, onion rings, reuben fritters and crab dip.

Rivertowne – 4-6pm – ½ off all drinks and $3 snacks like sliders, pretzels, tortilla chips and dip and  bacon cheddar ranch fries

 

Point Park University Junior Acting major with minors in Frappuccinology and Complaining About Boys. The girl on campus with the sequin beanie and the giant shiny headphones (yep, that girl). I usually wear mostly pink and the gym and have nearly 300 bottles of nail polish. Now that I've given you more than enough reasons to hate me, take a looksie at my DIY articles. Maybe you'll change your mind. Comments and suggestions more than welcome!
Lexie Mikula is senior Mass Communications major at Point Park University from Harrisburg, PA. Lexie held the position of Campus Correspondent and contributing editor-in-chief of HC Point Park from May 2014 - May 2016. In addition to social journalism and media, she enjoys rainy days in the city, dogs with personality, watching The Goonies with her five roommates (and HC teammates!), and coffee... copious amounts of coffee.