Happy Hour - McCormick and Schmick’s
We are really fortunate in Portland to have a LOT of happy hours, whether just for drinks or with food as well. But the day of the super cheap happy hour is coming to an end, I think. It used to be that almost all places had food for $2-3 and drinks were $3. Not anymore. But one place that still packs a punch is any of the McCormick and Schmick’s happy hours. We’re talking Jake’s Grill, Jake’s Famous Crawfish, The Pilsner Room, McCormick and Schmick’s, the M&S Grill, or McCormick’s Fish House. Last night we enjoyed McCormick’s Fish House with some friends.
It’s on the westside (shock and Horror!) but well worth the drive (especially since it’s right off Hwy 26.) Each McCormick and Schmick has a slightly different happy hour menu, and I like this one the best. (My least favorite? It’s a tie between McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood and the Pilsner Room. Which is sad, because the Pilsner room is such a cool place to go!) We all ended up ordering the same thing, except for me. That was 6 half-pound cheeseburgers with french fries, thank you very much. Oh yeah, and they put bacon on it too. For….. only $1.95. Crazy Talk! And this burger is big, with all the trimmings, as big as any Red Robin burger out there, for two bucks. And a lot of places happy hour (Newport Grill, Stanford’s) don’t even put fries with their burgers anymore. So this is a total score. I tried the Vegetable plate last night, it was meh. The hummus was just weird tasting, but they had a curry mayonaise that was pretty good, and then a dill aioli. I also had the buffalo wings. The thing is, they aren’t wings. They are entire drumsticks, and not small ones at that. Each one is a good 5 or 6 bites of meat. The sauce is good, not anything spectacular, but the amount of meat on these babies blows me away. And you get about 7 or 8 of them for, again, $1.95. Crazy Talk!!! It’s a plate full! They also have Jarlsberg Cheese Fondue, Fresh Cut Potato Chips, Cheese Quesadilla, Southwest Black Bean Dip, and Roasted Chicken Flautas. And that’s just on the $1.95 menu… for $3.95 they have Cornmeal Fried oysters, Ahi Tuna Skewers, and for $4.95 you can get Surf and Turf Kobe Beef Sliders. There are a few more choices on the more expensive menus, too. They also have a happy hour Dessert selection for $3.95. Their drinks aren’t crazy cheap, but they are not expensive either. Most of their cocktails are about $7-8, and they are well made, no skimpy watered down drinks. So please, go and enjoy the many McCormick and Schmick Happy Hours - I’d love to hear which one is your favorite. McCormick’s Fish House and Bar located at 9945 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy, Beaverton. Happy Hour is 3pm-6pm M-Sa, 4pm-6pm and 8:30pm-11pm Su, 9pm-11pm M-Th, and 9:30pm-12am F-Sa. (Whew, got all that?) Our waitress Whitney was a little slow with our waters, but also, we kinda trickled in at different times, so every time she came back to our table, we had more people there. She did a excellent job splitting up the bill (most waitresses balk at having to split 7 people 5 ways,) and also let us take home our extra food (usually happy hour is no to-go.)