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Betsy's at Evelyn's Park
Grab a roomy picnic table under the trees at this cute Bellaire café in Evelyn’s Park. Weekday happy hour proffers $5 wine and craft beer, buckets of beer, and $20 cheese boards with a bottle of house wine. Proprietor Adair Concepts also features outdoor grill nights, movies on the lawn, and pop-up events.
Eight Row Flint
The Salty Dog at Eight Row Flint (photo by Mikah Danae)
Choose either patio — in the Heights, or the new EaDo location — for weekday happy hour with $5-$7 drinks (great cocktails!) and cheap but delicious tacos. Other great deals inclue $6 Sonoro dogs, watermelon salad or homemade chips and salsa.
Eloise Nichols All Day Café
Eloise Nichols' margarita (photo by Alex Montoya)
Come hungry and thirsty for weekday happy hour until 6pm at this freshened-up corner for discounted cocktails, wines, beers, $5 burgers and a variety of appetizers.
Eunice
The tucked-away patio at Eunice surrounded by verdant trees and greenery rivals the charm of its interior space. Stop by during weekday happy hour for an $8 glass of wine (or two) while taking in the natural elements and quelling your late-day hunger with discounted oysters, chef’s choice bar bites and more.
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It happens every year like clockwork. Mixologist maven and author Alba Huerta is rolling out her new spring menu mid-March. Hard to imagine anything finer than the Bee’s Knees or the Aviation, but expect fresh cocktail inventions and surprise bites.
Loch Bar
Whiskey flight at Loch Bar
Catch al fresco social hour under Loch Bar’s breezy canopy landscaped with lush greenery. The classic seafood tavern in the River Oaks District features one of the area’s largest raw bar and seafood menus, along with local craft beer, handcrafted cocktails, and one of Texas’ most expansive whiskey lists. Start with an oyster shooter and move on to moules frites, buttermilk hushpuppies, Cajun cauliflower, deviled eggs or a Loch burger. Steals!
Kirby Ice House
This is the spot to watch a game, hang with friends, or bring along man’s best furry friend for outdoor fun. Look for specials every night of the week including Wednesday Steak Nights with up to $3 off select Texas beers and Texas whiskeys; and Thursday Ladies Night with discounted house glass wines, bottled wines, and frozens.
Marmo
It's officially patio season at Marmo! The restaurant's large, shaded patio lined with a collection of planters is a welcoming spot for happy hour Sunday through Friday, until 6pm. Along with the refreshing libations come East Coast Oysters ($2) with Calabrian chili mignonette, Tuscan fried chicken ($7) with artichokes, lemon, and garlic aioli, and rib-sticking veal Bolognese ($7). Deals galore!
Nobu
Nobu tacos
This sleek and spacious Japanese house in the Galleria is a great stop before dinner — or the rodeo — for daily Tanoshi hour from 5-7pm. Snack on luscious creations like nori caviar tacos, yellowtail jalapeno, black cod butter lettuce, and much more.
Postino
Wine and bruschetta at Postino (photo by Gilbert Photography)
Lined with bright yellow umbrellas and misters for summer heat, Postino has patios in different pockets all around Houston. Pair your alfresco experience with the wine bar’s signature bruschetta boards, “snacky things” like crispy cauliflower, and a glass or a bottle of wine from the easy-to-navigate menu. Happy hour until 5pm daily, inside or out!
The Annie Café & Bar
The Annie terrace (photo by Jenn Duncan)
Happy hour runs Tuesday through Friday with specials on cocktails, bottles of wine, sangria, and bar bites. Tasty treats like Texas pimento cheese, crab dip, The Annie nachos, and chicken flautas await.
Uchiko
Uchiko (photo by Logan Crable)
The sexy little sister to Uchi sports a weekday happy hour that is a must. Running weekdays until 6pm, anticipate discounts on nigiri, hot and cold tastings, makimono, and specialty cocktails. Bubbles are half-off menu price. Cheers to that!
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Ricardo Nuila (photo by Jonas Mohr)
Hart, who is not one to feel sorry for himself, felt humiliated and abandoned — until a social worker in the ER room told him, “Go to Ben Taub.” It’s the largest safety-net hospital in Houston, open to all, including the underinsured, and those with no insurance at all. Hart cringed at the suggestion. He didn’t believe the words “public” and “hospital” belonged in the same sentence, but that would change.
Hart is one of five uninsured, desperately ill patients that physician Ricardo Nuila writes about in his new book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, out today, Mar. 14. For Nuila, Ben Taub Hospital is an example of an institution where healthcare is done right. “It’s bricks and mortar here,” says Nuila of Ben Taub, where he has practiced medicine for more than a decade. “It’s a structure dedicated to this problem.”
Nuila hopes his book will dispel assumptions people have regarding what a public hospital is, who it’s for, and what it does. “It’s not a simple answer as to who lacks health insurance and who needs to visit a public healthcare facility like Ben Taub,” says Nuila. As the dramatic and very real stories of Hart and four other patients unfold, Nuila provides a comprehensive history of the basic foundations of healthcare in the U.S. and explains how despite the quagmire of that “system,” Ben Taub is able to provide its patients “what’s missing in American medicine.”
Born into a family of doctors, Nuila always felt he was destined for a career in medicine. But as a pre-med student, he changed his major from Biology to English and began to seriously explore the world of writing fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. By the end of college, much to his surprise, Nuila was accepted into the Baylor College of Medicine. Believing this was the death knell for a career in writing, Nuila considered giving up his medical school admission until his scriptwriting professor gave him some advice: “You can go to graduate school to learn technique, but where are you going to get your stories? In medicine, you’ll find stories.”
Nuila, now 44, married and the father of two children, now sees his dual vocations as a doctor and a writer, as “one thing.” “When I practice medicine, I feel like I’m helping my writing,” says Nuila, “and when I’m writing, I feel like I’m working on being a better doctor.”
While there is a natural inclination in people to avoid thinking about the life-threatening challenges and preventable tragedies Nuila describes in The People’s Hospital, the stories provide “a way forward” in the face of what can feel like an insurmountable problem. “It’s hard for people who don’t work in the medical field to imagine what it’s like,” says Nuila. “But the more I tell people about what actually happens, if it’s told in a certain way, they become interested and want to know more.” That the reader isn’t left feeling helpless by the end of The People’s Hospital speaks to Nuila’s gifts as a physician and a writer.
“I take a lot of hope from the environment that I work in,” says Nuila, who continues to perform clinical work at Ben Taub while teaching at Baylor College of Medicine. “You can get very fatalistic about healthcare. But there are places, safety-net hospitals in particular, where people are doing really good work. That’s one of the reasons why I wanted to write this book.”
On Mar. 30, the Asia Society Texas hosts a moderated discussion with Nuila, followed by a reception and book signing.