Plano starts at 3 PM — roughly half of the listed windows open then, an hour earlier than the national default, and a handful of spots run all day. over 90 bars carry happy hours across the city, and the cheap end is genuinely cheap for a Dallas suburb: $3.75 well drinks at Plano Sports Tavern and Lantern St Grill, $2.99 domestic beers at Knockout Sports Bar, $3 beers at bellagreen on Preston, $4.50 well drinks at Austin Avenue on Parker. Margaritas are the other reliable line — $3.99 at El Noa Noa and El Norte, $3.50 at Cruzitos, $4.50 at Salsa Tex Mex, $8 house pours at Alexander's.
This guide covers over 90 bars in Plano, Texas, with over 90 listed happy hour deals. All data is from Happy Hour Map, updated regularly.
Preston Road is the spine and holds more listings than any other street in the city — Hopdoddy, Delucca Gaucho, bellagreen, Andrew's American Pizza, ll Brothers, Dirty Birds, Cibo Cucina, The Dream Tacos. The Shops at Legacy, where Legacy Drive meets Bishop Road, is the walkable cluster: Bottle Rockets Bar, Bulla Gastrobar, Crú Wine Bar, Del Frisco's Grille, Half Shells, Peppersmash, and Sambuca 360 all face the same few blocks. Legacy West sits a few blocks away on Windrose Avenue with Earls Kitchen + Bar, North Italia, Kai, Mesero, Unlawful Assembly, and Dock Local. Downtown Plano, on East 15th Street and K Avenue by the DART station, is the historic end — 32 Degrees, Urban Crust, The Fillmore Pub, Vickery Park, Coco Beach. The Highway 121 frontage picks up BoomerJack's, Eddie V's, Flamant, Union Bear Brewing, and the Suburban Yacht Club's $5 tiki cocktails, and the US-75 corridor along North Central Expressway carries the chain-restaurant tier.
The classic happy hour move. Here are some of the best well drink specials in Plano:
Draft deals are everywhere. Here are standout spots:
Margarita specials are a Plano staple.
The two Legacy developments are the only places in Plano where you can park once and hit three bars on foot — Shops at Legacy around Bishop and Legacy, Legacy West around Windrose — and they're a five-minute drive apart, so pick one per evening. Downtown Plano is the third walkable option and the only one on the DART Red Line, which matters if you're coming up from Dallas. Weekday afternoons carry most of the over 90 listed deals, but Plano runs more all-day and every-day windows than most suburbs: Fogo de Chão lists all day, Lita's La Mexicana goes all day Sunday through Thursday, and Earls adds a second late window from 9 PM to close. Go at 3, not 5 — the early hour is the actual advantage here.
3 PM starts, $3.75-4.50 wells, cheap Tex-Mex margaritas, the Shops at Legacy and Legacy West on foot, and late second windows.
This article covers the highlights, but there are over 90 happy hour spots in Plano 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 Plano happy hours page.
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