• HOURS: 11am-6pm daily
• PRICES: $3 beer, $4 wells
$5 small plates

Earlier this week I posted the news that The Alibi Room had changed its happy hour times and now offers the HH menu from 11am-6pm daily. It’s a creative way to lure people in for lunch and, on the weekends, (or weekdays, no one’s judging) an afternoon drink.

The menu is the same, however, and that’s mostly good news.

The deal is “mini” plates for $5: a cat-dish sized terrine of “spicy mac” and cheese, a little disk of pizza, white-bean hummus with the usual accoutrements: cucumber, pita, tomato. One mini is not quite enough to make a full lunch (I’d say order 3-4 for two people), but it’s a good after work snacky and it’s a very appealing menu—not enough restaurants do the full roasted bulb of garlic on toast points appetizer anymore.

There’s something a little out of style about the Alibi Room. Even the aforementioned garlic bulb app is very late nineties, not to mention the brushetta, balsamic splatterings decorating the plate and all. I really enjoyed that era of appetizers, however. I enjoyed its décor too—I’ve always felt comfortable in the cavey darkness and exposed brick at Alibi.

Nineties Bar Lore Fun Fact: If someone tries to tell you the Alibi Room was once owned by Jason Priestly and Gillian Anderson from X-Files, as once happened to me, tell that person that he or she has confused our Alibi Room with the one in Vancouver.

Draft beers are $3 and they always have good ones, well drinks are $4. Bummer that there is no wine special.