Catching a San Antonio happy hour can feel impossible after long commutes and late workdays, but these six Alamo City bars make keeping a budget easy. With these late-night and reverse daily socials, locals can score discounted drinks and bites without rearranging their schedules — or risking a speeding ticket.
Anaqua Garden Bar
Step into a tropical escape without leaving San Antonio at Anaqua Garden Bar, the signature lounge at the Plaza San Antonio Hotel & Spa. Sip on $6 bubbles, $7 draft beers, and $8 specialty cocktails, including the must-try Margaritas in Mexico, every Monday through Friday from 4-6 pm. Saturday brings $9 champagne cocktail specials from 5-9 pm, while Sundays are all about indulgence with $5 cocktails, select bites, and a full happy hour menu available all day.
Barbaro
There’s a little something for everyone at Barbaro’s daily happy hour from 4-6 pm. Sip on a $6 Negroni or mai tai (depending on your spirit mood), or go for half-off Barbaro’s famous frozen — and boozy — coffee. Pizzas are also half-price, making it easy to pair your drink with a slice or two. With plenty of indoor seating and a breezy patio, Barbaro’s got you covered no matter what the Texas weather’s up to. Didn’t get out of work in time to make it by 6 pm? Barbaro also has a late-night happy hour from 10 pm-midnight, with the same drink specials and a $6 pizza slice deal.
Double Standard
Double Standard? More like high standards for happy hour. Lounge in the stylish, downtown digs while enjoying $1 oysters, $2 beers, $7 cocktails, and $4 double wells, every day from 11:30 am-6 pm. Happy hour never looked or tasted so good, nor given such equal opportunity.
Manhattan are only $8 during Gimme Gimme’s happy hour. Christopher Perez @txtroublemaker
Gimme Gimme
This rock’ n’ roll–inspired staple has quickly earned its spot as the cool older brother of Southtown’s bar scene. Dimly lit with a signature red glow, Gimme Gimme doesn’t care who you are or where you’re headed, they just want to know what you’re drinking. Happy hour runs all night on Mondays and from 5–7 pm on Wednesdays through Fridays. Grab a seat in one of the spacious booths and sip on a $6 pint or an $8 Manhattan. Bar Gimme Gimme also offers $6 wells and shot specials like a $7 pony with Fernet or a $7 pony with Monte. House wine is $8. If you stop by on Wednesday, don’t miss $29 steak night — featuring a juicy ribeye paired with crispy duck fat fries.
Hanzo
The only thing extra about this Japanese gastropub on Broadway is its happy hour lineup. Hanzo serves up happy hour all day on Sunday and Monday, plus a double dose Tuesday through Saturday from 4-7 pm and again from 10 pm-midnight. Sip a discounted Asian Old Fashioned with toasted sesame honey out on the patio, or catch the latest anime inside with a $7 spicy pineapple daiquiri, complete with wasabi and a hint of serrano. The $7 deals extend to the food menu, too, with favorites like sushi rolls, pork gyoza, and crispy egg rolls rounding out the spread.
Pumpers
Chef Stefan Bowers’ gloriously unhinged “adult burger store” doesn’t do anything halfway, including happy hour. Pumpers offers two chances daily for guests craving juicy burgers and a great deal. Order the fan-favorite Charles Jr. or the signature Pumper and enjoy $2 off all cocktails every day (except Monday) from 2–6 pm and again from 9–11 pm. So, what’s with the Monday exception? That’s when Pumpers delivers the ultimate cure for the Sunday scaries, a marathon Monday happy hour running from 11 am (yes, really) to 11 pm.