Head to the Archer Hotel restaurant from Sunday through Thursday, 3 to 6 p.m. for $5 cocktails, wine glasses, and beers, as well as pizzas ranging from $7.50 to $12 and starters from $4.50 to $7. Pro-tip: the truffle pomme frites will only set you back $5.

The Neapolitan pizzeria and wine restaurant offers half-off pizzas from 4 to 5:30 p.m. daily, along with half-off wine bottles under $100.

The Southern-Asian fusion restaurant’s patio-only social hour includes $5 beers, $7 cocktails, $4 tacos (kalua pork or Chinese barbecue pork), and $5 snacks such as blistered shishito peppers and kimchi arancini balls. There’s also the $9 happy hour burger. It’s all available from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

This North Loop nose-to-tail restaurant offers half-off glasses of wine and Austin beers, as well as some snacks, food, and those glorious popovers. Happy hour is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Sneak in an early happy hour at this Italian bistro from 2 to 5 p.m. daily. Beers are $2 to $3, glasses of wine are $5, spritzes are $6, and disco lemonade shots are a measly $2. The $25 wine and cheese plate includes a bottle of wine, a mixture of cheeses, olives, crackers, and almonds.

There are $6 to $8 tacos and small plates on the Cherrywood New American restaurant’s happy hour menu, available daily from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., as well as $2 off draft beer and cocktails, and changing house wines by the glass for $6.

Want to try the fine-dining destination, but not up for dropping the serious serious bucks required? The happy hour menu features 25 percent off bar food and glasses of wine, available only on Monday evenings.

Here’s an easy happy hour to remember for the Central East Austin restaurant: 20 percent off entire orders, but only on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays from 3 to 6 p.m.

The West Fifth Street cafe’s happy hour features excellent $6 cheeseburgers, $3 cans of beer, and $6 glasses of sangria from 3 to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday.

Drink through the cocktail eras with $9 classic drinks during the downtown bar’s happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday. The menu also offers $2 off glasses of wine and large food items and $1 off beer and small food items

The New American restaurant’s Tuesday through Saturday happy hour, from 5 to 6 p.m., is one of downtown’s very finest. The bar menu (think: oyster platters, french fries) is offered at half-price, as are beer and cocktails. Find similar deals at the other Parkside Projects restaurants, too: Backspace and Olive & June.

All cocktails are half-off during the Mexican restaurant’s happy hour, which runs from 4 to 6 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Plus there are marked-down snacks like quesadillas, nachos, and tacos al pastor. It’s available in the bar area of the downtown restaurant. A brunch happy hour is offered Sunday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. with half-off signature cocktails.

Make a meal out of Licha’s cocktails and small plates of Mexican food with the $5 to $8 happy hour menu, available Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Get lucky with this East Side Mexican restaurant’s “lucky hour” Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. House cocktails, draft beers, and wines by the glass are $2 off, while bottles of wine are 25 percent off, and mezcal, tequila, raicilla, destilados, and sotol are 50 percent off (plus this last deal is available all evening on Mondays).

If a languorous gastronomical stroll through Austin’s best sushi restaurant or its sister restaurant isn’t in the cards, the sake social hour at Uchi and Uchiko is a fantastic opportunity to sample the best of the menu at a fraction of the regular cost. From 4 to 6:30 p.m. daily, there are stellar rolls at lower prices, plus classic items and $5 sake.

Happy hour at the South Lamar New Texan restaurant runs 5 to 6 p.m., Sunday through Thursday with a select $8 draft cocktail, 25 percent off bottles of wine, half-off large format beer, and $1 off all canned, bottled, and draft beer. 

Curious about happy hour bites from Aaron Franklin and Tyson Cole, especially when it involves an Asian smokehouse? Loro’s happy hour menu comes loaded with a brisket cheeseburger (yes), chicken karaage, and brisket tostadas, plus discounted frozen drinks, beer, wine, and sake, from 2 to 5 p.m. during the weekdays.