Fixe Southern House

About

Southern cooking with real technique behind it, and a happy hour that runs daily from 4 to 6pm. Fixe Southern House, on the West 6th end of downtown, prices it properly: $5 beers, $7 signature cocktails and premium wells, $9 reserve wines by the glass, $8 snacks, and $11 plates.

The kitchen handles Southern staples with care. This isn't dumbed-down comfort food; it's the kind of cooking where the biscuits matter and the sauces are built properly. The $8 and $11 happy hour portions are the cheapest route into that kitchen, and the bourbon-leaning cocktail list keeps pace at $7.

Fixe happy hour draws a mix of downtown workers and people who know the West 6th block well enough to skip the louder options nearby. The room is handsome and warm. You can sit at the bar solo or bring a group and not feel out of place either way.