Petite Boheme Happy Hour. Arts District

The Boheme group has quietly turned the 1400 block of South Main into a small pocket of France. Bar Boheme, the full brasserie, anchors 1401, and Petite Boheme opened in 2024 a few steps away at 1407 as the dedicated cocktail room. The name is honest. This is a compact, low-lit spot built around drinks rather than dinner, with a program rooted in French tradition and heavy on Champagne and Cognac, Paris by way of Provence rather than another whiskey wall.

The daily happy hour is the smart way in. From 4 to 6 pm, which happens to be the first two hours the doors are open, beers drop to $5 and a trio of stirred and shaken classics, martinis, daiquiris and boulevardiers, goes for $8 apiece. Context makes that price land harder. The regular build-your-own martini here runs $26, with a long list of spirits and garnishes to work through, so an $8 version of the same craft is one of the stronger cocktail deals in the Arts District right now.

The full list rewards a second round at regular prices too. The Bohemian cocktails sit mostly between $12 and $16, including the Sam Elliot, a $14 bourbon number with sarsaparilla and angostura, and the $12 Verdant Spritz built on house-infused cucumber vodka with lavender and bubbles. There are rotating slushies at $12 and a $10 sans alcool section, so a nondrinker in the group is not stuck with soda water. The room suits conversation, a slow date, or a pre-dinner stop before a table at Bar Boheme or anywhere else on Main Street. It is not the spot for a game; come for the drinks, not a screen.

Two practical notes. The bar pours from 4 pm until 2 am daily, so it doubles as a nightcap stop long after the discount window closes. And the 9 to 11 pm deal you may see floating around online belongs next door at Bar Boheme, where a burger avec frites goes for $15 with any drink purchase. Petite Boheme's own discount is strictly the 4 to 6 slot, and on First Friday weekends the early seats go fast.