Las Vegas Happy Hour Guide: The Windows Worth Planning Around

A Las Vegas happy hour is not a discount, it is a schedule: the same kitchens and bars sell the same food and drink for a fraction of the price inside fixed windows, and the whole game is being in the right seat when the window opens. This guide is the curated visitor cut, 15 deals verified on October 30, 2026 against venue pages, venue menus and the venues' own offer listings, organized by window: early (2 to 6 PM), standard (5 to 7 PM) and reverse (9 PM to close), then by job: pre show, celebrity chef rooms at bar prices, and the under $10 wall. It is the companion to our Las Vegas drink prices guide, which tracks what drinks cost at full price; this page tracks when they are cheap. Deals change without notice and several venues exclude holidays, so confirm the window on the venue's page the day you go.

A Las Vegas cocktail server carrying drinks, the full price pour this guide teaches you to time around

Early windows: 2 PM to 6 PM

  • STK Steakhouse, The Cosmopolitan. 7-7-7 Happy Hour, daily 2:30 to 5:30 PM, bar and bistro only. Seven bites at $7 each (the Lil' Brg slider and the grilled chimi filet lead), a $14 Double Down tier (miso glazed Chilean seabass, beef tartare), a $29 steak feature (4 oz filet), and $12 specialty cocktails. The single best pre show window on the Strip: a steakhouse dinner's worth of food before a 7 PM curtain for bar money.
  • Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill, Caesars Palace. Daily 2 PM to 4 PM. 50 percent off selected items on the official Caesars page, with no bar only rule published. The shortest window in this guide and the easiest celebrity chef discount in the city; be seated by 2 PM.
  • Momofuku, The Cosmopolitan. Social Hour, daily 3 PM to 5 PM. David Chang's room at bar prices: spicy cucumbers $7, shishito peppers $8, pork croquettes and buns $9, oysters and highballs $10, draft beer $8 (current listings; the venue's own site does not publish the menu, so expect small drift).
  • Ocean Prime, 63 CityCenter. Monday to Friday, 3 PM to 6 PM, lounge only. Half off the lounge menu, signature cocktails and select wines by the glass, with lamb lollipops, a wagyu cheeseburger and sushi rolls among the half price items (official site).
  • SUGARCANE Raw Bar Grill, The Venetian. Early session daily, 3 PM to 6 PM. Chef's selection oysters $2.50 each, the same raw bar pricing that returns for its reverse session below.
  • Locale Italian Kitchen, Mountain's Edge (off Strip). Bar happy hour from 11:30 AM daily. The all day window: a well regarded neighborhood Italian whose bar runs happy hour from late morning (to 8:45 PM Sunday to Thursday, 9:45 PM Friday and Saturday per its offer listing; item prices are not published). The locals' entry in this guide.

Standard windows: 5 PM to 7 PM

  • Beauty & Essex, The Cosmopolitan. Social Hour, Sunday to Thursday, 5 PM to 7 PM, bar and Pawn Lounge only. The simplest deal in the city: signature bites, specialty cocktails and wines at $10 each, everything, per the venue's offer listing.
  • Jaleo, The Cosmopolitan. Sangría Hour, Sunday to Thursday 5 PM to 7 PM, Friday and Saturday 4:30 PM to 7 PM, bar and lounge. José Andrés' tapas at bar prices: gazpacho $4, patatas bravas and croquetas $7, specialty cocktails $13, wine $10 (current listings; the official page confirms the program, minor price variance is possible). There is also a Monday reverse Sangría Hour, 9 PM to 11 PM.
  • China Poblano, The Cosmopolitan. Monday to Friday, 4 PM to 6 PM. The second Andrés room in the building runs a weekday happy hour at the bar (hours verified on the venue's offer listing; current item prices are not published, so this is the one entry in the guide priced at the bar when you sit down).
  • Oscar's Steakhouse, Plaza, downtown. Monday to Thursday, 5 PM to 10 PM; Friday to Sunday, 5 PM to 7 PM, bar and lounge only. The longest standard window in the guide runs all evening on weeknights: jumbo shrimp cocktail $3 each, select domestic beer $3, well cocktails $6, house wine $7, a 6 oz skirt steak at $25.
  • Downtown Cocktail Room, downtown. Halfy Hour, Tuesday to Saturday, 5 PM to 7 PM. 50 percent off drinks at the speakeasy that anchors downtown's cocktail scene, per two current guides; the venue does not publish terms on its own site.
  • Scarpetta, The Cosmopolitan. Social Hour, 5 PM to 7 PM. Bar bites $10 and mini martinis $12, from an official Cosmopolitan menu asset. Flagged honestly: that asset is from the resort's seasonal menu program, so confirm it is running before you build a night on it.

Reverse and late windows: 9 PM to close

  • TAO Asian Bistro, The Venetian. Social Hour, Sunday to Wednesday from 9 PM, Thursday to Saturday from 10 PM, to close, bar and lounge only. Ten of the restaurant's most iconic dishes and cocktails at $10 each (venue's offer listing). The headliner reverse deal on the Strip: a full TAO plate at bar price after the show lets out.
  • SUGARCANE, The Venetian. Reverse session Sunday to Thursday from 10 PM, Friday and Saturday from 11 PM, to close. Oysters $2.50 each (six minimum), shrimp cocktail $6, mini salmon poke bowl and spicy tuna roll $9, cocktails and wine $8, beer $7. Start times have moved before at this venue; confirm on the day.
  • Herbs & Rye, W Sahara (off Strip). Monday to Saturday, 5 PM to 3 AM. The locals' legend: steaks and wells at half price in the long published windows (5 PM to 8 PM and midnight to 3 AM; current menu examples run a filet from $64 to $35). One current guide reports the dual pricing now runs all night, and the venue's own site publishes no terms, so call ahead (702-982-8036) and arrive before the 5 PM weekend line forms. No reservations during happy hour.
  • Cleaver, Paradise Rd (off Strip). Daily from 5 PM. Herbs & Rye's sister room runs well drink happy hour pricing until last call (about 11:45 PM), confirmed on the venue's own site; guides also report half price steaks and pork chops 5 PM to 8 PM, printed here as reported, not official.

By job: pre show, chef rooms, and the under $10 wall

Pre show. The Strip's 7 PM curtains pair with the early windows: STK (2:30 to 5:30) before a Cosmopolitan or Bellagio night, Ocean Prime (to 6 PM) before an Aria or Park MGM show, Oscar's all evening window before a downtown night. Eat at the bar, walk to the theater, skip the prix fixe entirely.

Celebrity chef rooms at a fraction of dinner. Gordon Ramsay at 50 percent off (2 to 4 PM), José Andrés twice in one building (Jaleo's $4 to $7 tapas, China Poblano's weekday window), David Chang's Momofuku at $7 to $10 a plate. The pattern is the point of this guide: the famous rooms discount hardest at the bar, in daylight.

The under $10 wall. SUGARCANE oysters $2.50; Oscar's shrimp $3 and beer $3; Jaleo gazpacho $4; STK bites $7; Momofuku cucumbers $7; Oscar's wells $6; TAO's whole menu $10; Beauty & Essex's whole menu $10. A disciplined happy hour crawl eats and drinks across this wall for less than one full price cocktail at a nightclub, which our drink prices guide documents at $22 to $28.

The rules that decide whether the deal is real

  • Bar only is the norm. Most Strip deals apply at the bar or a named lounge, not the dining room; seats are first come and the window's start is the queue's start.
  • Days matter more than hours. The same venue can be daily (STK, Ramsay, Momofuku), weekday only (Ocean Prime, China Poblano), or weeknight long (Oscar's). Every entry above lists its days; misread them and the deal does not exist.
  • Holidays break deals. Several venues exclude holiday periods in their offer terms, and fight weekends and citywide events suspend others. Confirm on the venue's page the day you go.
  • Tip on the real price. The discount is the house's gift, not the bartender's pay cut; our tipping guide has the norms.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best happy hour on the Las Vegas Strip?

For food value, STK's 7-7-7 Happy Hour at The Cosmopolitan (daily 2:30 to 5:30 PM, seven bites at $7, bar and bistro only). For a late night, TAO's Social Hour at The Venetian puts 10 signature dishes and cocktails at $10 each from 9 or 10 PM to close. Both were verified on October 30, 2026.

What is the cheapest happy hour item in Las Vegas?

SUGARCANE's $2.50 oysters (six minimum) in its early and reverse sessions, and Oscar's Steakhouse downtown sells a $3 jumbo shrimp cocktail and $3 domestic beer during its long happy hour. Jaleo's gazpacho is $4. All checked October 30, 2026.

What does bar only mean at a Las Vegas happy hour?

The discounted menu applies only to seats at the bar, and sometimes a named lounge, not to a dining room table. STK (bar and bistro), TAO (bar and lounge), Ocean Prime (lounge) and Oscar's (bar and lounge) all restrict their deals this way. Arrive for the start of the window; bar seats are the capacity limit.

Do Las Vegas happy hours run on weekends?

Some of the best ones do. STK, Gordon Ramsay Pub and Grill and Momofuku run daily windows, and SUGARCANE runs its early session daily. Others are weekday plays: Ocean Prime is Monday to Friday, China Poblano is Monday to Friday, and Oscar's long window is Monday to Thursday. Every deal on this page lists its days.

Are Las Vegas happy hours worth planning a trip around?

Plan evenings around them, not trips. A 2:30 to 5:30 PM window before a 7 PM show replaces a full price dinner with a $7 to $14 bar menu at the same restaurant, and a reverse happy hour replaces the $22 to $28 nightclub drink entirely. Stack one of each and the saving across a three night trip is real money.

Deals last checked: October 30, 2026, against official venue pages and menus (STK, Caesars, Ocean Prime), the venues' own OpenTable offer listings (TAO, Beauty & Essex, China Poblano, Oscar's, Locale), an official Cosmopolitan menu asset (Scarpetta, flagged seasonal), and the current guides named in the research for Jaleo, Momofuku, SUGARCANE, Downtown Cocktail Room, Herbs & Rye and Cleaver, where reported terms are labeled as reported. Happy hour terms change without notice.