For our glass half full kinda people, food + drink specials in Raleigh are where it’s at. Whether you’re looking to try out a new spot on the cheap or get together to decompress after work, these discounts on beer, wine, cocktails, and food will turn that frown upside down.

Here are 20+ places around town offering the best deals right now. So #DrinkUpRaleigh and be merry.

Keeping spirits up

Boxcar Bar + Arcade | 330 W. Davie St. | Monday, $5 all drafts | Tuesday, $3 16-ounce PBR cans, $5 Jameson shots | Wednesday, $4 cans | Thursday, $4 well liquors | Sunday, $1 mimosas, $2 double mimosas, $10 champagne bottles
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium | 328 W. Morgan St. | Thursday, $2 off all beer cabs
Oak City Meatball Shoppe | 180 E. Davie St. | Wednesday, half priced wine and whiskey | Thursday, $4 drafts and cans
The Anchor Bar | 207 Fayetteville St. | Monday, $6 mules | Tuesday, half off all tequila | Wednesday, half off all whiskey | Thursday, $1 off signature cocktails, $3 all bottles and cans | Friday, $1 off Painkillers, $3 Corona | Saturday, $1 off Tito’s mules | Sunday, $6 Jameson, $3 Truly’s
The Green Monkey | 1217 Hillsborough St. | Tuesday, half off all draft beer | Wednesday, $2.50 Hell or High Watermelon cans | Thursday, $2.50 sparkling Brut by the glass
Village Draft House | 428 Daniels St. | Wednesday, $4.50 pints and 11-ounce high gravity
Woody’s at City Market | 205 Wolfe St. | Thursday at 7 p.m., $5 12 ounce bottles + cans, $6 16-ounce, bottles + cans, $5 Jager Bombs, $6 sloppy Joe sub + a side (after 6 p.m.)

Hungry for meal deals

Bowstring Pizza and Brewyard | 1930 Wake Forest Rd. | Monday, $5 drafts, $3 pizza slices
St. Roch Fine Oysters + Bar | 223 S. Wilmington St. | Every day, $1.50 oysters | Wednesday, half off West Coast oysters
Yard House | 4208 Six Forks Rd. | Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m., half off select appetizers + all pizzas

Off the vine

The Rockford | 320 ½ Glenwood Ave. | Wednesday, half off bottles of wine | Sunday, $3 mimosas
Glenwood Social Club | 510 Glenwood Ave. | Wednesday, half off wine bottles + $15 charcuterie | Thursday + Sunday, $8 appy hour + signature cocktails
The Arbor Bar & Garden at Morgan Street Food Hall | 411 W. Morgan St. | Saturday + Sunday, $15 bottle of Montmartre Brut sparkling wine + orange juice, $27 bottle of Lola Prosecco, fresh fruit + orange juice

Daily specials

Clouds Brewing | 126 N. West St. | Tuesday, $1 off house cocktails | Wednesday, $2 off guest cans | Thursday, half price bottles of wine + $1 off Clouds drafts | Friday, $5 Select Clouds Draft, $7.50 The Boss cocktail, $8 Mangosa cocktails | Saturday, $10 bloody Mary bar with house vodka or tequila, $15 mimosa carafes, $5 select Clouds draft, $15 select Clouds pitchers | Sunday, $10 bloody Mary bar with house vodka or tequila, $15 mimosa carafes, $15 select Clouds pitchers
Lucky B’s | 609 Tucker St. | Monday, $4 Fireball, $3 bottle beer, $4 house liquor, $16 beer buckets | Tuesday, $4 house, $5 Lunazul, $6 Altos, $7 Jose Cuervo, $7 Cazadores, $10 Patron | Wednesday, $2 PBR, $4 Bold Rock, $4 Angry Orchard, $4 Bay Breeze, $4 Tequila Sunrise | Thursday, $2 PBR, $2 Bud Light Seltzer, $3 Corona | Friday, $4 Prohibition, $5 house liquor, $5 Jolly Rancher Shot, $6 Fireball, $6 Rumple Minze, $16 domestic bucket | Saturday, $3 domestics, $4 Prohibition, $5 house liquor, $16 domestic buckets, $25 Truly buckets | Sunday, $2 mimosas, $13 PBR buckets
My Way Tavern | 522 St. Marys St. | Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m., food specials | Monday, $1 off NC Drafts + $1 off MWT signature drinks | Tuesday, $1 off all tequila + $1 off NC brewed cans | Wednesday, $1 off all whiskey, $3 Yuengling draft | Thursday, $1 off any glass of wine, $1 off spiked seltzers + ciders | Friday, $4 Fireball shots, $5 well drinks | Saturday, $5 off any bottle of wine, $2 off any pitcher | Sunday, $1 off Bloody Mary’s, mimosas | Sunday, $1 off craft drafts
TEETS | 425 Glenwood Ave. | Monday, half off domestic buckets + wells, Tuesday, $5 Rumple Minze, $3 Coors Light, $5 wells, $7 Pink Whitney | Wednesday, $5 Fireball, $3 Corona, $8 Titos | Thursday, $3 Cheerwine shot, $7 seltzer + lemon drop shot, $2 domestics, $5 wells | Friday + Saturday, $3 Cheerwine shot, $7 seltzer + lemon drop shot, $28 six seltzer buckets, $24 six domestic buckets | Sunday, $5 Bloody Mary’s, $5 mimosas, $5 margarita, $5 seltzers (except for High Noon, Hornitos, Deep Eddy) $5 Lunazul
The Players Retreat | 105 Oberlin Rd. | Monday, 15% off for Cameron Park + University Park residents, $2.50 R&D Storm Brew 16 ounce cans, $3.50 CPA pints, $3.50 Stella Artois bottles | Tuesday, $4 Guinness draft, $2.50 High Life + Miller Lite, $5.50 Salmon Creek chardonnay + pinot grigio | Wednesday, $2.50 select cans, 20% off all bottles of wine | Thursday, $7 house Martinis + Cosmos, $6.50 Moscow Mules, $5.50 select wines, $3.50 Stella Artois bottles | Saturday, $2.75 Bud, Bud Light, select Bud bottles, $5 Goldschlager, Rumplemintz, Jagermeister, Fireball shots | Sunday, kids eat free from the kids menu
Tin Roof | 300 Glenwood Ave. | Monday-Friday, 4 -6 p.m. + Saturday-Sunday, 2-6 p.m., 50% off appetizers | Monday, $3 mystery beer, $5 lemon drop shots | Tuesday, $5 traditional margaritas + $4 Corona and Tecate | Wednesday, $4 well liquor | Thursday, $5 32 ounce domestic drafts, $5 22 ounce craft drafts, $4 tall boy beers | Friday, $12 fishbowls | Sunday, $3 mimosas, $4 seltzers, $5 specialty shots

Host at home

Shop our favorite happy hour essentials to host friends for a drink at your place:

The Elevated Craft Cocktail Shaker promises no more leaks and has a built-in measuring system.
This set of six colored wine glasses reminds us of Estelle stemware — only more affordable.
Pair your colorful wine glasses with a colorful decanter that’s an Anthropologie best-seller.
Keep wine and champagne cold in a marble wine chiller.
An electric wine opener makes opening bottles smooth and stress-free.
Don’t forget the best drinkware made by small, local businesses — we’re big fans of the Pirani Life tumbler, an eco-friendly version of a Solo Cup, and these Kanga Coolers koozies that keep drinks cold.

This is an evolving list of Raleigh drink specials. Is your favorite missing? Email us and we’ll consider adding it to the list.