Wood-fired pizza, cocktail bar
Red Rabbit St. Paul
Tuesday through Friday from two to 5:30: seven-dollar taps, eight-dollar wines, nine-dollar cocktails, and nine dollars for most of the food menu including burrata, crispy potatoes, garlic-bread cheese curds, and a four-oyster plate. A sixteen-dollar oysters-and-Muscadet pairing if you want to do it right. The garlic-bread cheese curds are the unexpected winner.
Oyster bar, cocktails
Bar + Cart
Daily happy hour from three to six under the name "That's Crazy Hour": $2.50 oysters, an eight-dollar margarita, a nine-dollar Old Fashioned, a ten-dollar Big Ass Glass of Wine, and an eight-dollar cheeseburger. The daily window and the oyster price are the two things that make this one worth knowing.
Neighborhood bar
Sweeney's Saloon
Dollar seventy-five tacos and five-dollar-twenty-five Summit taps every day from three to six. No notes. One of the cleaner happy hour propositions in St. Paul and the kind of deal that builds a regular crowd.
Bar, cocktails
Iron Ranger
The boilermaker is built into the happy hour menu: ten dollars for a Summit beer and a bump of Keeper's Heart whiskey, which is the whole Iron Range in a glass. The rest of the weekday deal adds three dollars off signature drinks, flatbreads, and apps, plus two dollars off tap beer and wine. A new cocktail bar next door if you are staying out.