Daily Happy Hours

Happy Hours

By Jessica Armbruster

This time last year, the area surrounding the corner of Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue was alarming in its increasing vacancy. Victims of the economy included Heavenly Soles, Vera's Café, and jP American Bistro. Thankfully, things seem to be picking up. One recent addition is Sauce Spirits and Soundbar, a pleasantly posh bar with a low-key neighborhood feel. Located in the old La Bodega (a.k.a. Leola) space, Sauce provides pizza, pasta, and breakfast items, specialty cocktails and beer, and live music. Think of it like the Triple Rock of Uptown only with more of a hipster clientele, and less punk rock. Happy hours are daily from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and nightly Sunday through Thursday from 10 p.m. to midnight. It will get you $3 tap beers, wells, and house wine, plus half off appetizers. Looking for pizza? Sauce offers $2.50 slices after 10 p.m., and at any hour for that same price you can drink the official too-cool hipster drink of the moment: tallboy PBR. Yep, Sauce definitely is an Uptown bar. (Photo by IntangibleArts)

Price: free

Occupying a space in Uptown that has in recent years been inhabited then ducked out of by a string of other businesses, and most recently on the heels of a compulsory name change (fun with anagrams - switching around the S and the C in SAUCE), Cause Spirits & Soundbar has proven itself to be the bar/venue that could. Difficult as it is to open and sustain any new venue, Cause has been a tried-and-true hot spot for live music, food and drinks in Uptown since its opening, in no small part due to the closing of the neighborhood's other major venue - the Hennepin Avenue location of the Uptown Bar. With a nightly mix of happy hour specials, live music, DJs and trivia, the venue also boasts a rotating selection of pieces by some of the best local artists, as well as an eclectic cocktail menu randomly inspired by Beastie Boys songs.

• Cuisine(s): American

  Hours: Sun,Sat 10am-2am, Mon-Fri 11:30am-2am

  Price: $

• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining

  Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

• Alcohol: Full bar

  Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

  Parking: Lot Available, Meters