Happy Hours

Where to drink in Dallas right now: Best happy hour deals for March

Catch up on all the discount sips.

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For March, the monthly "Where to drink" list surveys all of the best new happy hours around Dallas. Does a cocktail taste sweeter when it's half price?

Find out by visiting these bars and restaurants offering happy hour deals:

Abacus
Fine-dining restaurant reels 'em in by offering a different happy hour special every day. On Mondays and Fridays, it's half-price on the bar bites menu. Tuesday, it's half-price sushi. Wednesday, you get half price on a buffalo burger. Thursday is half-price flat breads. Beer and wine is also half price, while cocktails are $6. Hours: 5-7:30 pm.

Crickles and Co.
Cedar Springs bakery-restaurant does a customer-friendly "reverse" happy hour during the prime dining zone, with $2 off all drinks and a $20 deal on a bottle of wine or champagne with your choice of four cake truffles. Hours: Tuesdays-Sundays 7-10 pm.

Ferris Wheelers
Barbecue restaurant-amusement park does one of those shifting happy hours where, the earlier you start your happy hour, the cheaper it is. From 4-5 pm, most cocktails are $4. From 5-6 pm, they're $5. From 6-7 pm, they're $6. Canned beers are $3, and craft beers on draft are $4. Hours: Monday-Friday 4-7 pm.

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Deep Ellum bar does discounts not only on drinks but also snacks. Garlic rosemary popcorn is $2, and tots are $3. Toasts topped with chorizo or Brie are $4-$4.50. Pimento cheese fritters are $5, and so are pretzels with queso. Double-cheeseburger with seasoned fries is a steal at $6. Cocktails such as an old fashioned, a margarita, and Southern tea with bourbon are $6-$7. Hours: Sunday-Friday 5-7 pm.

Jalisco Norte
Mexican hot-spot at Turtle Creek Village has a newly-added happy hour menu with margaritas for $6, either on the rocks or frozen; beers for $3, wines by the glass for $8, and a selection of bites — dips, tamales, tacos — priced from $7-$13. Hours: Monday-Friday 3-6 pm.

Mutts Canine Cantina
Famed "yappy hour" at this dog-friendly Uptown hang offers $3 specials on margaritas (frozen or rocks); Franconia Kolsche draft; pomegranate lemonade with vodka; and a peach old-fashioned with bourbon and vodka. Hours: Monday-Friday 4-6pm.

Pazzo Uptown
Newly opened Italian restaurant-lounge in Uptown Dallas has a great happy hour that includes $5 glasses of red and white wine, prosecco, and frozen drinks. There's a $7 rotating cocktail, and beer is priced at $3-$4. There are also a few appetizers and pizzas available. Hours: Monday-Friday 4-7 pm.

3Eleven Kitchen & Cocktails
Newly opened restaurant-bar in downtown Dallas hosts a daily "social hour" with $2 off appetizers, and $1 off wine, beer, and cocktails. Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is $2, and sangrias are $3. On Tuesdays, all Texas-based spirits, beer, and wine are half off. On Wednesdays, ladies get half off any bottle of wine. Hours: Daily 2-6 pm.

Yard House
New Las Colinas location of this sports bar chain offers half-priced appetizers and pizzas. That includes the margherita pizza topped with roasted garlic, only $7; and the onion ring tower sprinkled with parmesan and served with chipotle and buttermilk ranch, for $5. All hail the onion tower. There's also $2 off beer, wine, spirits, and cocktails. Hours: Monday-Friday 3-6 pm.

Zatar
Chic Mediterranean restaurant in Deep Ellum does $5 wine by the glass and $6 cocktails, along with an incredible half-off deal on all cold and hot mezze. That means $3 for hummus, $5 for grape leaves, and lentil croquettes for $4. Hours: Tuesday-Friday 5.30-7 pm.

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Quonset Hut News

Familiar names take over Quonset hut for new Far-Out Dallas bar

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Wriggly Tin is now Far-Out Dallas

There's a new Dallas restaurant and bar coming to everyone's favorite Quonset hut: Called Far-Out, it'll take over the space at 1906 E. Haskell Ave. in East Dallas that was previously home to Wriggly Tin, with a grand opening slated for 2025.

Founders Caroline and James Lee are calling it Far-Out & La Hermana Cerveceria and promise that a culinary adventure awaits.

"After months of creative brainstorming and a bit of furniture rearranging, we are thrilled to announce an exciting new pioneering concept that will open its doors in 2025," the duo says. "Introducing Far-Out & La Hermana Cerveceria, a dynamic new restaurant and brewery born from the collaboration of industry veterans."

The team includes some beloved East Dallas names:

Marc Cassel of The Green Room and 20 Feet Seafood Joint
Christopher Jeffers of Bolsa and Smoke
Stephanie Houston, the trailblazing first Latina Production distillery owner in America

Also joining the team is Bar Director Adam Mercado, whose resume includes stints at Billy Can Can and Brass Ram.

Marcado will crafting a unique beverage program, with support from mixologist Brian McCullough. Together, they will create what the founders call "unforgettable drink experiences to complement our delicious culinary offerings."

Wriggly Tin opened in November 2023 as an ultra-hip pizza and craft beer spot inside a renovated Quonset hut near Dallas' Fair Park — a former Cajun fried turkey place which they gave doting makeover with custom plaster walls and art objects from around the world. They replaced one whole side of the hut with glass for sunsets and created a spacious outdoor patio in front.

They earned two nomination in CultureMap's 2024 Tastemaker Awards, one for Best Bar and another for Best Patio.

Alas, the original founders, who'd previously owned Small Brewpub in Oak Cliff, parted ways shortly after it opened. And the bar closed down in September 2024, for what they called "internal changes."

Now the hut is back: The new Far-Out bar is already up and running a few days a week. In the coming days, they will offer updates and sneak peeks as they gear up for the opening of their kitchen.

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