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If you play your cards right, you can turn happy hour into dinner hour.

It’s all a matter of going to the right happy hour, one that offers discounts on appetizers alongside your adult beverages. Put a few appetizers together, and voila! Dinner is served.

Here are a dozen Tucson happy hours that we’d love to visit for dinner.

Flora’s Market Run

2513 E. Sixth St.,Ìý520-771-9141

You gotta love a restaurant that names its signature cocktails “Lips Pursuit� or “The First Dance.� And when gives you $2 off those cocktails and throws in $5 beer and $6 wine for happy hour, we’re all in.

The restaurant, in the former Rincon Market, adds a full happy hour eats menu drawn from the main restaurant menu. To be honest, you’re only saving a couple of bucks off regular menu prices, but a couple bucks is a couple bucks.

Choose from a pair of salads, including the chopped market salad, wood-fired pizzas, appetizers including mussels in an elote broth, a grilled-cheese sandwich and the Flora animal-style burger with pinot noir caramelized onions.

Happy hour is from 3-6 p.m. daily.

Charred Pie

,Ìý520-395-2232

At Oro Valley’s you can get a single-serve 6-inch wood-fired margherita or pepperoni pizza for $7.90. They also offer $2 off appetizers and beer, wine and specialty drinks. We paired the pizza with their spicy and sweet Korean Gochujang chicken wings and split a salad off the regular menu for a reasonably priced dinner for two.

Happy hour is from 3-6 p.m. daily.

Bottega Michelangelo

,Ìý520-297-5775

You can totally create an early date night at , where appetizers are half off, well drinks and wine are $5 and beer is $4 from 4-7 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.

Start off with a lovely fried calamari appetizer and glass of wine, followed by the Panzanella salad with fresh mozzarella and basil. Add an order of their house-special black pepper and parmesan fries to go with the meatball or porchetta sliders, then finish with mini cannolis drizzled with an amarena cherry glaze.

Postino

,Ìý520-342-0098

For late-night noshers, has a $25 bottle of wine and bruschetta board featuring your choice of four bruschetta and a house wine after 8 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays.

This summer, Postino is hosting “Battle of the Bruschetta� to gauge customer interest in eight limited-time seasonal bruschetta recipes, including Mexican street corn, chicken curry, spicy Brussels sprout and strawberry cheesecake that includes fresh strawberry. Customers can vote for the ones they would like to see on Postino’s menu.

Dante’s Fire

2526 E. Grant Road,Ìý520-382-9255

gets all fancy on his happy hour menu, with escargot and Thai curry shrimp among the seven items for $7 served from 4-6 p.m. daily and all day Sundays at .

There’s also grilled jalapeño poppers, buffalo chicken strips and Southwest deviled eggs. The happy hour menu is an intro to the chef-driven, scratch kitchen that features inventive fare like deconstructed beef Wellington and mussels Newburg alongside hand-cut pappardelle pasta bathed in a vodka Cajun cream sauce topped with lump crab and chorizo.

Happy hour includes $1 off craft cocktails and bottled beer, $2 off wine and $1.50 off draft beer.

Blanco Cocina + Cantina

, 520-232-1007

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During happy hour at  at La Encantada, tacos are $6. The happy hour menu, served from 3-6 p.m. weekdays, features five varieties of tacos, including ground beef in a crispy shell, pastor, barbecue pork and grilled avocado.

There’s also a quartet of appetizers, including a roasted poblano and tomato crisp and the house favorite nachos con queso blanco.

Wine is $7, specialty cocktails are $8, and beer is $5.

Union Public House

,Ìý520-329-8575

in St. Philips Plaza has a daily social hour from 3-6 p.m. with a decadent menu (items run $4-$12) of comfort food faves from poutine to mac and cheese alongside a house Caesar or garden salad, salmon cakes and little mason jars of veg or straight up housemade pickles. Add a burger or pulled pork sandwich, and you’ve got a meal to go with your $7 wine or cocktail, $3-$6 for beer.

Union Public House has indoor seating as well as one of Tucson’s largest patios in the plaza courtyard.

The Delta Bar & Grill

, 520-524-3400

Happy hour at downtown’s 16-month-old is reminiscent of New Orleans’ Bourbon Street without the mardi gras beads and jazz band. But the Southern-inspired menu that borrows bits and pieces from its sister restaurant The Parish can inspire folks to get pretty loud and lively during happy hour from 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays and until 7 p.m. Fridays.

Get $3 off beer, wine and cocktails that you can pair with the $6 menu of select appetizers, including cast iron cornbread served with that decadent candied pecan honey butter; the sweet-and-spicy hushpuppies; and the housemade pimento cheese dip served with Tennessee-buttered crackers.

The Parish

,Ìý520-797-1233

hosts happy hour from 3-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, with $5 draft beers and $2 off cocktails and wine to go with a menu of $6 noshes including the restaurant’s world-famous (OK, maybe Tucson famous) and addicting bacon popcorn and traditional gumbo with chicken and Andouille sausage.

5 Points Market & Restaurant

,Ìý520-623-3888

rolled out its first-ever happy hour a month ago, offering $2 off wine by the glass, half-priced bottles and $1 off staff-picked cans in the cooler, all of which can be paired with food from the happy hour snacks menu.

Co-General Manager Herb Calleros said the most popular item on that menu is the 5 Points handcrafted Neopolitan-style pizza and Niçoise salad, both of which are exclusive to happy hour. You also can get smaller versions of 5 Points Smashed Jerusalem Artichoke and the bread and cheese plate that comes with Castelvetrano olives.

Happy hour is from 3-5 p.m. Thursdays-Mondays.

Zinburger

, 520-298-2020;Ìý²¹²Ô»å , 520-299-7799

Zinburger’s daily 3-6 p.m. happy hour menu includes ice cream floats, which is a sign from the happy hour gods: Bring the kiddos. Hey, while they slurp down root beer and orange dream floats while nibbling on the $7 cheeseburger or fried chicken sandwich and $5 loaded fries, you can indulge in a glass of wine or beer or a cocktail ($4-$7). Zinburger also offers chocolate and banana cream pie.

Growler’s Taphouse

8275 N. Silverbell Road,Ìý520-389-8232

in Marana has $1 off all draft beer and wine and $2 off appetizers from 3-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.

Here’s the thing about Growler’s: 99% of the 30 beers on tap are intriguing craft brews and their appetizers come from their scratch kitchen. That means we’re not talking the ubiquitous buffalo wings and nachos. There’s crispy beer-battered mushrooms oozing with cream cheese, and diced jalapeños and spinach-artichoke dip that offers a quasi-healthy complement to an order of “Flappers� — eight jumbo chicken wings in your choice of flavors from traditional buffalo to Chiltepin peppers.

The family-owned Growlers is in the Continental Ranch area of Marana.