The Palm Restaurant Happy Hour. The Strip

The Palm is the old guard: white tablecloths, career servers, celebrity caricatures covering the walls at the Forum Shops location inside Caesars Palace. Dinner here gets expensive fast, which is exactly why the bar matters. The Palm calls its happy hour Prime Time, and it goes Sunday through Friday from 3 to 5:30 in the bar and lounge only. You get bar bites and marked-down beer, wine, and classic cocktails at a fraction of what the dining room charges, and the crowd early in the afternoon is mostly shoppers dropping bags plus a few regulars who clearly know the bartenders by name.

Sit at the bar, order a martini and something fried, and you get a Caesars Palace steakhouse experience for casual-dinner money. Skip Saturday, there is no deal that day.