Swift's Attic

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A $2 Miller Lite in a second-story dining room above Congress Avenue is a funny kind of luxury. Swift's Attic runs happy hour Monday through Friday, 4 to 6pm, and the range is the charm: $2 Miller Lites at one end, $6 to 9 house cocktails like the Champampaloma and the New Fashioned at the other, with $5 house wines and a $7 brut rosé in between.

The food list is built for grazing: charred edamame at $7, the tiger apricot, mash ups, a kale caesar, fried brussels sprouts, and a rillette with focaccia topping out at $13. Order three plates across the table and it's dinner with cocktail-bar energy.

The room itself does half the work, all exposed brick and tall windows in a building that's been watching Congress Avenue for a century. Swift's Attic happy hour catches the downtown crowd that wants something more composed than a sports bar without the ceremony of a tasting menu. Come at 4, sit by the windows, start with the $2 beer just to say you did.