Bend is a beer town first, and its happy hours read that way — drafts and pints outnumber every other kind of drink deal in the city, and a good share of the listings come from breweries discounting their own taps. over 200 bars keep windows across town, split almost evenly between 3 PM and 4 PM starts, and the standouts are cheap by mountain-town standards: $3.50 drafts at Coyote, $3.75 domestic cans at Northside Bar & Grill, $5 bottled beer at La Rosa in NorthWest Crossing, $5 drafts and wines at Waypoint by Bend Brewing.
This guide covers over 200 bars in Bend, Oregon, with over 90 listed happy hour deals. All data is from Happy Hour Map, updated regularly.
Downtown is the walkable core, and it's small — NW Bond and NW Wall run parallel for six blocks and carry the bulk of it, with Deschutes Brewery's flagship pub, Fireside Bar, O'Kanes, D & D Bar & Grill, Duda's Billiards, Sidelines, and Velvet's $8 cocktails. NW Brooks Street tucks in behind them along Mirror Pond (Bend Brewing Company, The Commons, Pine Tavern), and NW Minnesota and NW Greenwood pick up Bar RBC, Silver Moon Brewing, The Blacksmith's $6 house wine, and M & J Tavern. The Old Mill District, south on SW Powerhouse Drive, is the riverfront cluster — Rapa Nui Tiki, Lady Bird Cultural Society, Anthony's, Greg's Grill — with Monkless Belgian Ales just west on Industrial Way. Century Drive climbs west toward Mt. Bachelor past the Flamingo Room, Prost Bend, Volcanic Theater Pub, and the Outfitter Bar; NW Galveston holds 10 Barrel's west-side pub; and the Highway 97 strip north and south collects the everyday spots like Currents, Moose Sisters, Southside Pub, and Pour House Grill.
The classic happy hour move. Here are some of the best well drink specials in Bend:
Draft deals are everywhere. Here are standout spots:
Margarita specials are a Bend staple.
Go at 3 PM. Bend's windows skew early and short — a large share close by 5 or 6, and a couple of the best ones (Moose Sisters, Fat Tony's) run 2 or 3 PM to 5 PM only, which is over before most cities have started. Roughly a quarter of the over 90 listed deals include a weekend or daily window, so Saturday is workable but thinner than a weekday. And separate the breweries from the bars when you plan: taprooms here mostly knock a dollar off their own house pours, so a brewery crawl downtown and along the river is cheap but repetitive, while the actual price hunting is at the restaurants and lounges mixed in between them.
Early 3 PM windows, brewery taprooms, the Bond-and-Wall downtown walk, Old Mill District riverfront patios, and $3.50-5 drafts.
This article covers the highlights, but there are over 200 happy hour spots in Bend total. Download Happy Hour Map to browse them all on a map with live hours, "happening now" filters, and one-tap directions.
Browse the full list on our Bend happy hours page.
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