Lawry's The Prime Rib Happy Hour. Off-Strip

If you only do one thing at Lawry's during happy hour, sit at the bar and pour into the prime rib that built this place. That's the play here, because the carving carts and the Lawry's seasoning are the actual reason to show up, not a cocktail list. This is the real Lawry's lineage, the one that's been roasting prime rib since 1938, and the room still leans into white tablecloths, dim light, and servers who know the menu cold.

Happy hour, billed as Prime Time, runs Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6pm at the bar. Expect $8 specialty cocktails, wine by the glass from $10, $5 bottled beers, discounted appetizers, and the prime rib tacos that put the kitchen's signature into bar-snack form. What you can really count on is the prime rib itself, carved tableside, served with creamed spinach, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and that horseradish cream.

It sits in the Hughes Center off Howard Hughes Parkway, near Flamingo, just east of the Strip, which means easy parking and a calmer crowd than you'd fight in the casinos. Weekday early evening is the quiet window, so service feels unhurried and you can usually walk up to the bar without a wait. Come for an early dinner, dress business casual, and treat it as a proper sit-down meal rather than a quick drink stop.