Sunday, September 27, 2009

Mattison's Riverside offers happy hour and live reggae (dancing optional)



Mattison's Riverside still has the one of the best Happy Hours in town, with daily (That includes the weekend, folks!) drink and appetizer specials from 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. nightly.

Stopping in with a large group of friends for birthday festivities, and we were met with a $4 martini, mojito and specialty drink menu, and a $5 appetizer menu. Mattison's is also featuring a twin lobster tail dinner special for $29.

We settled on some sushi, the Dynamite with salmon, tuna and whitefish wrapped in nori and rice, a seafood artichoke dip with flat crisps, while friends tried the pesto pizzas and soft shell crab sushi...Each mini-dish was $5 a pop, and perfect for a light bite.

For drinks, mint, classic, watermelon and dragonberry mojitos were among the favorites, as well as "Boater Bob" rum cocktails, bud on tap, and house white and red, all between $2 and $4.

Then, as the sun was setting at the marina, Happy Hour ended just as the reggae dancing began, with local sensation Democracy taking the stage.

In other words, $9 gets you food, drink, live music, a water view, and dancing. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.

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