Jack Allen's Kitchen

About

Monday happy hour that runs from 3pm until close is how you win a neighborhood. Jack Allen's Kitchen does exactly that: all-night Mondays with half-off starters, $1 off every drink, and $5 frozen margaritas, then the standard window Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6:30pm with the same starter and drink deals.

Half off the starters is the headline because the starters are not small. The pimento cheese with bacon jam has a local following, the fried green tomatoes hold up, and splitting three half-price plates is a full dinner. This is scratch Texas cooking sourced from local farms, not bar-food filler.

Jack Allen's draws families, work crews, and regulars who have the Monday schedule memorized. It's loud in the friendly way. No one is posing. If you've only thought of it as a brunch place, the all-night Monday happy hour with a $5 frozen margarita is the version worth knowing about, and it's one of the most generous standing deals in the city.