Nijo in Downtown Seattle

Nijo is another favorite happy hour spot of mine offering both food and drink specials. Their happy hour runs from daily 4pm to 6pm and Thursday through Saturday they have a late night happy hour from 10pm to 12am but please note a drink purchase is required for happy hour menu but soft drinks, tea and juice are ok.

Another great thing about Nijo's happy hour is you don't have to sit in the bar to enjoy happy hour; you can enjoy it from a table in the restaurant part. Another thing is they also take reservations so you could in a sense make reservations for happy hour if you wanted too.

As soon as you sit down Water is poured for you to sip on while checking out their extensive happy hour menu (everything is listed on their website.) One strange thing I love about their water is that they keep fresh orange slices in it which provides for a nice refreshing taste.

I've tried all of their $4.00 happy hour cocktails with the exception of the Caucasian, it's a white Russian and this fat chick is not a fan of the white Russians. The Blueberry morning is blueberry stoli, cranberry and pineapple juice so it's red not blue when it arrives. The Lychee martini was cloudy but good and I think the strongest of their happy hour cocktails. The coconut cosmopolitan was more like a vodka cran with coconut in it, it wasn't very cosmo like but I still drank and enjoyed it.

If you like sushi you can't really go wrong with the food here, I had albacore and eel nigiri along with a spicy tuna roll each were only $3.00 and totally worth their price the spicy tuna roll was a whole roll with eight pieces, the fish is fresh and plentiful.

One word of caution when happy houring at Nijo, they don't have their own restroom so you have to use the one in the lobby of the building. Be sure to ask your server for the number to get into the ladies room and write it down otherwise if you have one too many cocktails you might forget and have an accident.

Over all I'd give Nijo a 4.0 out of 5 cheers for happy hour.