The Place: Cicero's (6691 Delmar Boulevard; 314-862-0009)
The Hours: Happy hour is offered Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m.
The Deal: Discounted appetizers. $1.25 off of all draft beers, $1 off wine by the glass, $2.25 domestic bottles, $2.50 well drinks.
The Scene: Happy hour at Cicero's is relegated to the far side of the dining room, a lower-level seating area lit mostly by the glow of a projection screen displaying the game. Small groups seem to huddle in corners here while lone barflies grab a seat closest to the refreshments -- a wooden bar with a whopping 55 beers on tap. Non-regulars might have to throw some elbows to get an order in here, whether it's to place an food order or to simply grab a beer.
The Food: Cicero's offers sixteen different food items on its happy-hour menu, ranging from $1.50 to $6.59. Choose from typical fried options including beer-battered onion rings, toasted ravioli and three kinds of chicken -- wings, tenders and bites. Other selections, like spinach-artichoke and buffalo-chicken dips, seem pretty standard, too. We opted to begin with the item that seemed most unique to the restaurant's standard Italian-American menu -- loaded pizza chips.
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