BRIO Tuscan Grille Happy Hour. The Strip

Eight dollars covers a lot of ground at the Brio bar. The whole happy hour menu, food and drinks alike, sits at that one price: calamari, a Margherita flatbread, the Brio Burger, carpaccio, plus a full run of cocktails including an espresso martini and an Aperol Spritz of Naples. Two house pours, the Picco Bianco and Picco Rosso, and a couple of sangrias land at the same number. It goes weekday afternoons from 3 to 6, at the bar and outdoor terrace only, first come first served.

The restaurant rebranded from Brio Tuscan Grille to Brio Italian Grille a while back, but the Town Square location at 6653 Las Vegas Blvd South is the same big Tuscan-styled dining room with a proper bar and a terrace looking out on the open-air shopping center. It sits a couple miles south of the Strip core, so the afternoon crowd leans local, and claiming a bar stool at 3pm is rarely a fight.

Two midweek wrinkles worth knowing: Wednesdays knock select wine glasses down to 7 bucks, and Thursdays do the same for martinis. On the food side, the tomato caprese and the shrimp and eggplant cover the lighter end of the bites list, while the sausage, pepperoni and ricotta flatbread handles the heavy lifting.