Clark's Oyster Bar

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A $5 martini at one of the best oyster bars in town is the kind of deal that sounds like a typo. Clark's runs it Monday through Friday, 3 to 5pm: $5 martinis, $5 oyster shooters, $5 draft beer, 50 cents off every oyster, and half off the burger, which regulars will tell you is quietly one of the best in the city.

Weekends get their own version. Saturday and Sunday, same 3 to 5 window, bottles of wine go half off alongside the oyster and shooter deals. Half-price bottles at an oyster bar on a Saturday afternoon is a date plan that requires no further effort.

The room on West 6th is tiny, maybe 30 seats plus the patio, and Clark's happy hour fills it fast. Get there at 3 sharp or accept the wait. The crowd is a Clarksville mix of regulars who treat it like a clubhouse and people celebrating something small. Order a dozen, a martini, and the burger to split. That's the move.