• HOURS: 4-6pm daily; 11pm-1am Thursday-Sunday
• PRICES: Food specials $2.50-$5, well drinks $4, select wine $3.50-$5, Stella Artois $2.50; specialty cocktails $2.50-$3.

I get a little obsessed with things. Growing up, my sister would occasionally stomp into my bedroom and slam her fist down on the “stop” button of my tape player, after having endured five or six consecutive listenings of, say, Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”

These days, this one-track thinking is generally focused on restaurants and bars, and lately it’s focused on Txori. I think about you, Txori. When I can’t sleep, when inspiration surrounding a weeknight meal proves elusive, when I have a fever and the only medicine is more pintxos. Txori isn’t really expensive to begin with (though, as with any tapas place, order enough small plates and things add up quicker than you might have imagined). More than presenting any significant savings, then, happy hour at Txori is really just an excuse to go to Txori.

But there are a number of food specials: The cerdo bocadillo, a greasy mess of pulled pork served sandwich-style on crusty aioli-smeared bread ($4.50), is four bites of heaven. Roasted cauliflower ($2.50) is also delightful—you may have tried it at Harvest Vine, chef Joseba Jiménez de Jiménez was initially part of the Txori team.

I’m a fan of Basque wines, even if I can’t pronounce their names, but at happy hour I usually skip the same old beer, wine blah blah and opt for one of the idiosyncratically Iberian drinks. There’s the kalimotxo ($3—I wrote about it here), for instance, and the lejilla, a mixture of Stella Artois and lemon soda ($2.50). I draw the line at the pitilin gori, a red wine and orange soda mix, but cada uno su cosa, right? (I don’t know how to say that in Basque, but it probably looks something like txoeusq astxo alkaridi.)

In all likelihood, you’ll move off of the happy hour menu to sample some of the small joys on the regular one. Go for it. Personally, I tend to order Spanish staples for which I’m often nostalgic (chorizo, manchego, tortilla de patata)—but you really can’t go wrong.

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