Sushi Roku

Dear Mr. Roku,

Vixen here! I just had happy hour at your Pasadena restaurant and it was awesome! GREAT selection and prices!! I can't wait to visit your Santa Monica location since I'm always on the Westside. And all of your happy hours are daily!? Sweet!! Mr. Roku, you are awesome and I love you. Wanna meet for happy hour??

Sincerely,
Victoria V.


That's the email I just sent to Sushi Roku and I meant every word of it. (No response as of yet.) If you are a sushi person, you gotta go here. All three locations have happy hour daily, but the Pasadena location has the best hours... Wednesday-Saturday it's 5-7pm but on Sunday-Tuesday it goes till 10pm! Whoop whoop!!!

The menu is lengthy so props to Mr. Roku: $3 hand rolls, $5 cut rolls, appetizers starting at $3, and $5 drinks. Check out the menu:

See!? Tons to choose from, right!? And everything was really good! Even the cut rolls were thick and were made with lots of fish. My only recommendation to my future husband (Mr. Roku) would be to put a bit more scallops in the Scallop Roll. Other than that, I was one happy camper!

 Spicy Tuna on Crispy Rice 

$3 - NOT a typo!

Albacore Tataki w/ Ponzu Sauce $3

 Scallop Roll $3

Spicy Tuna Roll $3

A selection of cut rolls - $5 per order

The drink selection is good. Beer, sake, and wine PLUS their Fusion on the Rocks and well drinks. I started with the Fusion on the Rocks. It was tasty but a bit small. It went down pretty fast. Next time I'd get that with some cold sake. The beer they offer (Kirin Draft) is $5. That's a bit much for happy hour unless it gigantic. I'll check that out the next time I go and report back.  Unless YOU'd liked to find out for me and report back. I could you some Happy Hour Helpers!

Fusion on the Rocks and Hot Sake - $5 ea.

Sushi Roku definitely gets two thumbs up by me!! 

Happy Hour

Sushi and Apps $3-5

Drinks $5

Locations:

Santa Monica: M-F 5-6:30pm, Sa-Sun 4-6:30pm - 1401 Ocean Ave 90401 (310) 458-4771
L.A. Mid-City: Daily 5-7pm - 8445 W 3rd St.  90048 (323) 655-6767
Pasadena: W-Sa 5-7pm, Sun-Tu 5-10pm - 33 Miller Alley 91103 (626) 683-3000

sushiroku.com

Canal Club

A couple weeks back, I asked readers on my Facebook Page what their favorite Venice happy hour was and I got a lot of responses that they loved Canal Club. So off to Canal Club we went!! And they were right!  The food selection was great with more than 20 items that are $5 or less, plus there was a good amount of drinks to choose from.  Canal's happy hour is daily, but 4 nights out of the week (Sun-Wed) they have ALL NIGHT happy hour. No wonder it's such a popular place.



 

With such a great selection, it was hard to choose what to get. But our girl, Amber, had been there before so she did the ordering. We went with the Sliders, a couple orders of sushi, and the Chipotle Cheese Fries. Why Cheese Fries at a sushi restaurant??? Well duh.. it's something fried and topped with cheese!
No more explanation needed.  ; )

I was happy with everything we got. Next time though I'll order the Brie and Grape Quesdilla. It's one of Amber's favorites!  But check out the sushi rolls below. No skimpy rolls here!

Chipotle Cheese Fries $3.50

S.T.S.T Roll $4.95

Spicy Tuna Roll $4.50

 Monday's Special 

Grilled Slider $2.50

I know it sounds like a lot for one slider, 

but they are GOOD!!! 

With all this great food, I had a Ginger Martini. (I looove ginger!) It was a decent drink of a sushi restaurant. It comes in a Mini Martini glass, so a beer or wine might be a better value.  Other happy hour drinks are Kirin Beer, House wine, and a couple other cocktails for $5 each.









Along with Canal's happy hour specials, they also have some nightly deals.  We picked Monday to go for their tasty sliders!! See a picture of a slider above.

So if you haven't tried Canal Club, put it on your to-do list. I'm so happy I did!

Happy Hour

Thurs - Sat 5-7pm
Sun - Wed 5pm-close
$3.50-$5 sushi rolls and other eats
$5 Kirin, House Wine, and selected cocktails

Canal Club

2025 Pacific Avenue
Venice, California 90291
310-823-5397

jamesbeach.com/canal

Mediterraneo

As you may have read in my last post, me and the happy hour crew have headed to the Southbay to find all of their wonderful happy hours. We did a mini happy hour crawl to Mediterraneo and Sharkeez, and we loved both! We started with Mediterraneo because it's Love's favorite out of all of Hermosa Beach.

Mediterraneo's happy hour is Monday through Friday from 5-7pm and they offer 1/2 off house wine and all drafts beers, and selected tapas are 2 for 1... and they are great!

For happy hour drinks, House Wine and draft beer is half-off so they'll run you about $3. Their Sangria isn't discounted, but it's Love's favorite and wants me to tell everyone to try it. I tried it and it was really was good.

 Draft Beer is 1/2 off

Now on to the food!!! Here's what we had:

 Caprese $6*

*This is the regular price but remember it's 2-for-1!!

Mozzarella, Tomatoes, Basil, Olive Oil

 Sunchoke Pintxo $4*

Roasted Sunchokes, pesto

 Spanikopita $6*

Spinach, Feta, and pinenuts baked in Phyllo dough

 Polpette - $6*

Italian Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

Tortilla Espanola $6*

Potato omelette with piquillos, mushrooms, 

fontina cheese served with garlic aioli

So my favorite out of all of these was the Tortilla Espanola. It was sinfully good. And I could have eaten that Garlic Aioli with a spoon. Mmm-yum! I liked all the other plates except the Sunchokes. Not that they were bad, they just didn't float my boat. We ordered two of each of the plates above (so 10 plates total) and it only came to $28. We split that four ways so with my $3 glass of wine, I only paid $10 before tax and tip. WOW!!

So check out the rest of the tapas available for happy hour. But if ya see two asterisks (**) next to an item, it's not available for the 2-for-1 discount.

Mediterraneo also has some other cool deals that run ALL NIGHT:
-Sangria Sundays: 1/2 off Sangria
-Draft Beer Mondays: 1/2 off Draft Beer
-Tapas Tuesday: 2 for 1 Tapas

Definitely a great find!!!

Happy Hour

M-F 5-7pm
2 for 1 Tapas and
1/2 off draft beer and house wine
*See above for other specials
(All Night on Tue. for 2-for-1 Tapas)

Mediterraneo

73 Pier Ave.
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
310.318.2666

mediterraneohb.com

Cole's Downtown

I am definitely a fan of Downtown.  One reason is that it has a lot of my favorite bars. But also because it's the one place where you get a true feel of historic Los Angeles. And Cole's on 6th Street truly gives us that.  It has been around since the early 1900's and was L.A.'s first public house.

Cole's has happy hour 3-7pm Monday - Friday and all night on Tuesdays. You can get a Half French Dip and Fries for just $5, $5 wells, $3 Schlitz Beer, and $8 specialty cocktails.

I love their specialty cocktails but especially when they are made by one of my favorite bartenders, D. "Max" Maxey. His cocktails are always perfection!

 Monte Carlo $8

Rye Whiskey, Benedictine, Angostura Bitters

*Love*

 Elton McGregor $8

Scotch, Absinthe, Orgeat, Mint, Laphroaig

*Loved this one, too*

But if you are a beer drinker, you can always get a Schlitz for $3 bucks!

Schlitz $3

Reminds me of "Laverne and Shirley"!

I love their French Dips, but I just wish you got a whole Dip rather than a half. Oh well.

So if you haven't gone to Cole's yet, you are missing out! So go soon... and invite me!!

Happy Hour

M-F 3-7pm and Tues. All Night
Half Dip and Fries $5
Wells $5, Cocktails $8, Schlitz $3

Cole's Downtown

118 East 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014
(213) 622-4090

colesfrenchdip.com

Kitchen 24

I'm not a big fan of diners, but who doesn't love a diner that has a bar, right!? Kitchen 24 is a hip diner in Hollywood that is open 24 hours a day. They also have a happy hour that runs pretty long: Sunday-Thursday 3-11pm and Friday and Saturday 3-8pm, where you can get $6 specialty cocktails, $3 beers, $5 well drinks, and bar appetizers for $5.

Now when I hear the word "diner", bad coffee and greasy food comes to mind. Well, we weren't there for coffee, that's for sure! And what we got certainly was not bad. In fact, the drinks were really good. We were pretty shocked! The drink list was big and we loved the selection to choose from.  We had two drinks that I would recommend getting, but my favorite was the "Up Cahuenga Creek".

"What A Pear" $6

Absolut Pear and champagne with a touch of honey

"Up Cahuenga Creek" $6

Knob Creek Bourbon, Honey Infused Simple Syrup, and Lime Juice

Now the food sounded a bit heavy so we ordered a salad and two appetizers: The Sloppy Joe with Homemade Chips & The Artichoke Dip. Well, we definitely were happy that we got a salad because the food was a heart attack waiting to happen. We loved the Sloppy Joe with chips but felt guilty with every bite. If you aren't watching your waistline or cholesterol level, it's pretty tasty and you should try it. But we each only had a few bites and then had to sadly push it away. But we weren't thrilled with the Artichoke dip. It was pretty greasy.

Homemade Sloppy Joe 

and Old Bay Potato Chips

$5

Spinach and Three Cheese Artichoke Dip

$5

I would definitely go back to Kitchen 24 for the drinks, but I'd probably just order food off the regular menu which is pretty reasonably priced.




Happy Hour
Sun-Thur 3-11pm, F-Sat 3-8pm
$3 beer, $5 wells, $6 cocktails, $5 apps

Kitchen 24
1608 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
323.465.2424

kitchen24.info