Stuart's Best Happy Hours
Five places where the clock between work and dinner actually earns its keep — most of them within a few blocks of the river.
Picked and checked by hand; updated when hours, venues, menus, or source pages change.
This is the one to pick when you want a real happy hour menu instead of a discount on the same beer you always drink. Every cocktail runs $8, wine by the glass lands between $6 and $8, and draft beer is $4 to $4.25. The kitchen keeps pace with baked oysters at $12, chef's ceviche at $10, and beef sliders at $13, so a couple of rounds can quietly turn into dinner.
- 131 SW Flagler Ave, Stuart, FL 34994
- Happy hour is Monday–Friday, 3–6pm, at the bar and the designated lounge area only — and it doesn't run on holidays.
The Gafford splits its happy hour into two windows, and the sharp move is to arrive early enough to catch both. Drinks are half-price on select first-tier wines, well liquor, and domestic beer for a full two hours; the food deal is a tighter one-hour affair. The bar menu is not an afterthought — lump crab cakes at $14, The Burger at $16, and a Gafford Caesar at $8.
- 47 SW Flagler Ave, Stuart, FL 34994
- Drinks 4–6pm daily, food 4–5pm only, and both are bar-seating exclusives. Show up at 4.
The early-afternoon answer, and the most serious wine list you'll find at a happy hour price. Riverwalk pours from more than 120 selections with over 50 available by the glass, which means you can order well without opening a bottle you're committed to finishing. Oysters and fresh seafood anchor the bar menu, USDA Prime steak waits at the other end of it, and the whole thing happens inside a historic downtown building.
- 201 SW St. Lucie Ave, Stuart, FL 34994
- Happy hour runs daily, 2–5pm, at the bar and patio only. It starts and ends earlier than most of this list — plan around the 5pm cutoff.
The pitch here is simple: a bar seat on the St. Lucie River, seven days a week. Happy hour runs daily from 2 to 6pm, which makes it the reliable answer when your afternoon ends at an odd hour or your plans fall apart on a Sunday. Wednesdays do double duty with half-off bottles priced at $100 or less, plus Ladies Night from 5pm to close at the bar.
- 351 SW Flagler Ave, Stuart, FL 34994
- Happy hour is at the bar. If the Wine Down Wednesday bottle list is your goal, that's the seat you want.
Spritz gives you the longest runway of the bunch — four hours, weekdays, at the bar or out on the patio. It's built around tapas and small plates, so it works whether you're grazing through a few things or committing to a full spread, and there are vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options on the menu rather than a single token dish. Wednesdays bring half-price bottles under $60.
- 61 SW Osceola St, Stuart, FL 34994
- Happy hour is Monday–Friday, 2–6pm, at the bar and outside patio. The kitchen runs to 9pm Sunday through Thursday and late on Friday and Saturday.