• HOURS: 3-5pm Monday-Friday
• PRICES: $5 mini-pizzas, $5 select wines by the glass, $3 select pints.

So I was sitting in Serious Pie sipping on a glass of wine, like you do at 4pm on a Tuesday—oh wait, you don’t. Because you’re at work, or in class, or picking up the kids. Because you are attending to any of those myriad matters that make 99 percent of us too busy, from 3 to 5 on weekdays, to enjoy a happy hour.

Have mercy, Mr. Douglas. I heap praise upon your decision to do something different at happy hour. Your $5 mini pizzas—half-size versions of the regular-menu pies—are adorable and delicious. How fun to bring a few friends and order them all! How delightfully noncommittal to follow a two-bite slice of a zippy red peppers and fennel sausage ‘za with a corner slice from the Penn Cove clam one, complete with satisfying char crunch bubble at the crust’s edge, and then maybe a middle-pie piece of the Yukon potato one. Oh that Yukon potato one—like the bumpy yellow terrain of Eastern Washington, but with woodsy glens of rosemary to break up the starchy topography. It’s my favorite offering at Serious Pie, calling to mind a few days I spent in a Roman pensione where the proprietor brought up a plate piled with square slices of homemade potato pizza each evening around dusk. (This was one of the benefits of traveling in Rome with a pretty blond friend. There are also downsides, but I won’t get into those here.)

If you can’t extend HH to 6pm, Chef, can you at least offer it on weekends? Because I can’t think of anything more lovely, on a late Sunday afternoon, than a $5 glass of Bigi Est Est Est and a few of your righteously wrought baby pies.

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