A Toast to Gentrification: H Street Happy Hours

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HAPPY HOURS: First, H St. NE had a theater and a few music venues. Then came the bars and restaurants. And then came the hipsters.

While the increased attention (despite the lack of a Metrorail station) has led to pricier eats, there are still a few places to snap up a cheap drink when you find yourself in that bright enclave of newly minted wine bars and sushi joints.

Sticky Rice, the impossibly delicious and exceptionally fun sushi restaurant in the neighborhood, has half-price sushi Monday night from 10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Even better — though probably more embarrassing in the morning — is Karaoke Night on Tuesdays, accompanied (of course) by $2 Tecate.

The Argonaut, a standby tavern, holds its happy hour Monday-Saturday. Draft beers are $3 or $4, rail drinks are $4, and every day has its own specials. Our favorite is half-priced wine bottles Mondays and Thursdays.

The Red and the Black is better known for its music, but Monday through Friday between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., beers and rail drinks are $3. The best part comes on Mondays, when anyone ordering two drinks can have free red beans and rice.

» Sticky Rice, 1224 H St. NE; 202-397-7655.
» The Argonaut, 1433 H St. NE; 202-397-1416.
» The Red and the Black, 1212 H St. NE; 202-399-3201.

Photo by Dominic Bracco/The Washington Post