Happy hour at Grand Cru wine bar in Bellevue is all night long on Mondays. Tuesday through Saturday it runs from 4 to 6pm, luring Eastsiders with half-price wines by the glass and half-price foods from the dinner menu.

The wine bar has added four new dishes to the HH menu: Thai-style Dungeness crab cakes, red curry steamed Penn Cove mussels, a salmon pate, and a Tuscan white bean dip. There are also snackies like feta dip and a crostini trio, prices range from $3 to about $8.

Downtown, Fonte’s happy hour has changed as well. The coffee shop/wine bar used to offer “sommelier’s choice” wines—one red, one white—for $3, now it is charging half price for the entire wine list. This is a great development, in my humble opinion, this chance to try a lot of new wines at a discount. All draft beers are now $3 during HH, and some of the prices on food have changed too: The spicy lamb sliders, always a solid choice at Fonte, are now $5 instead of $3. That was a little too good to last, I suppose.

The HH runs Fridays and Saturdays from 5 to 6:30pm and again from 9 to 10pm, and Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 6:30pm and 8 to 9pm. That’s a little tricky to remember, but you can always get one of those happy hour iPhone/Android apps designed by competing local alt weeklies. The question is: which one?