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HAPPY HOUR HOPPER: Supper

POSTED: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 9:29 PM

Filed Under: Booze | Dealage | Happy Hour Hopper

Happy Hour is a place to vent daily frustrations and unwind, a time to reconnect with friends and coworkers you dont mind seeing beyond the boundaries of Cubicle Land. Its is also the ideal time to score a deal on your favorite gustatives and gulpables. For this feature, Team Meal Ticket hops to happy hours across the land and files a report every Tuesday. Lets delve into it at Supper. WHERE YOU AT? A block down from the Magic Gardens and in the shadow of Whole Foods, we hop this week to the happy hour at Supper (926 South St), Mitch and Jennifer Prenskys urban farmhouse on South Street. It was sticky out so we opted to skip the sidewalk tables and take a seat at the bar inside.


Photos \| Anthony Sica

WHAT'S THE SCENE? This does not seem like a South Street bar. Quiet, relaxing and downright quaint, the open kitchen to our right distributed wafts of butter and herbs as patrons at the bar sipped wine and ate highly manicured, highly seasonal small and large not-as-small plates. The bar scene was healthy, with a mix of old and young, some in jeans and others in three-piece suits. A group of regulars sat at the end of the bar and were eager to discuss other happy hours around town, plus menu highlights. Jazz played over the speakers, the AC was ice cold and there was ancho-dusted popcorn on the bar. Were we seriously on South Street?

Photo | Anthony Sica

WHAT'S THE DEAL? Suppers HH runs Monday through Friday from 5 to 7 at the bar. Hor doeuvres are half-price, and there are specials on glasses of a select red and white wine, as well as a beer special. Our particular happy hour's choices were a Malbec ($4), a Chardonnay ($4) and Sly Fox Pikeland Pils cans for three bucks. The food is the real star at Supper, though. They're known for chef deviled eggs, and $2.50 gets you an assortment of daily flavors, like sriracha and pastrami-cured. Other standouts included duck-fat fingerlings with truffle mayo ($3), and the Eat This Immediately-worthy smoked chicken wings with birch beer and buttermilk ($3). Two generous crab latkes will set you back $3.50; housemade soft pretzels with green chile and beer fondue go for $2.50. If you happen to stay past the HH and want to explore more of Suppers menu with some frugality, check out the "Daily Harvest" menu, picked daily from Prensky's own Blue Elephant Farms. On our visit, $5 got you kale- and cream cheese-stuffed peppers, or for $8 there was the option of tricolor chard with barley risotto. It's a nice way to turn a happy hour hop into a meal and save some coin along the way.

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Rachel Burgos

Posted 2010-08-04 23:55:26

I LOVE suppers wings, I will most def be heading over for happy hour to enjoy them again.

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