Café Chloe's amazing pommes frites are only $4 during happy hour!

I’d thought I’d take this Monday, while I’m sitting at work reading all of my friends’ Tweets and Facebook statuses about how AMAZING this weather is and how AWESOME it is to have the day off, to share my favorite happy hour spots in San Diego. And hopefully I’ll be at one of them tonight.

After the jump, the deets on the deals.

Café Chloe (Mon.-Thurs. 4-6) – East Village: My picks would be the $4 pommes frites with trio of dips (best fries in town), the $5 tarte flambée (I’m a big fan of anything that includes bacon and caramelized onions), and the $5 macaroni and pancetta gratin (I believe I’ve mentioned it before, like here and here).

Wine Steals (Mon.-Fri. 4-7) – Point Loma: So the regular happy hour includes $4 glasses of wine Mon.-Fri. and $2 slices of pizza Mon.-Thurs. BUT my favorite deals are actually Sun./Mon. Sundays they do $10 wine flights of the wines they are trying to get rid of, and man is it a lot of wine! Just make sure you get there before they run out. Mondays they do no corkage fee on bottles bought in their store (normally $5), and $2 pizza slices all night. And I have to say, the pizza at wine steals is the best I’ve had in San Diego, especially the pepperoni, white and vegetable. **Update: Apparently they have taken off the $2 slices all night deal, but the slices are only around $2.50 or $3.00 regularly.**

Point Loma Sports Grill & Pub (Mon.-Fri. 4-7) – Liberty Station, Point Loma: Two words. Wing Wednesday. Three wings for $1, minimum of six wings ($2) per order, all night long. The wings are quite tasty, but the best part is getting there while happy hour is still going and scoring the 1/2 off apps special. There are no words for the deep fried cheese curds. Order them, or you’ll forever regret it.

The Turquoise (Sun.-Thurs. 5-7) – North Pacific Beach: Delicious $3 tapas and $3 glasses of sangria? Yes, please. And I believe on Thursdays you can get pitchers of sangria or beer for $10. I’ve had good and so-so experiences with the food, but the sangria has never let me down. The place also has great live music.

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One of my favorite places for an intimate get-together with friends or a inexpensive date night is Wine Steals in Liberty Station. (There are two other locations – Hillcrest and Cardiff – but the Point Loma one is the most cozy.) Not only do they have an amazing cheese board selection, great happy hour and abundant tastings, they have “The Deal”.

The Deal is two huge slices of delicious thin crust pizza (I usually go with the pepperoni) and a glass of wine off the happy hour menu for just $9. I mean, really, how can you resist? It’s taking everything in me not to drive over there right now. And it’s 10:45 a.m.

The winery has a really informative tasting (free for wine club members + friends) that includes six different wines and crackers. My personal favorite is the almond champagne. It’s not too sweet, but you can really taste the almonds. They also have champagne crackers for sale in the store that are perfectly paired with the bubbly. I brought two bottles back!

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The second winery we went to was highly recommended by Ryker’s mom. The winery, Mission Hill Family Estate, is located on the West Bank of the Okanagan. It was kind of drizzly while we took the tour, but it still had a beautiful view of the valley.

We took the Discovery Tour, which included a tour of the vineyards and the cellar, an explanation of the winemaking process, and a wine tasting. In the wine tasting we paired a Gouda cheese (one of my favorite not-too-hard, not-too-soft cheeses) with four wines. The first was a 2006 Select Lot Collection Sauvignon Blanc-Semillon, the second was a 2006 Reserve Pinot Noir, the third was a 2004 Select Lot Collection Syrah, and the last one was a 2005 Reserve Vidal Icewine.

Below are the videos from the tour and tasting. This tour guide was much more informative than the one from Summerhill.

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Since we couldn’t watch the second presidential debate Tuesday night without an ELITE snack , we picked up a great wine and cheese combo at Discover Wines. The wine we chose comes from Blasted Church Vineyards (the store behind the name isn’t as scandalous as it sounds), and it is a blend of Ehrenfelser, Pinot Gris/Grigio, Riesling and Gewurztraminer called Hatfield’s Fuse. The lady helping us out recommended pairing it with an aged Gouda and a rosemary/Parmesan cracker made by a local chef. The saltiness of the Gouda paired excellently with the sweetness of the wine, but the crackers were a bit too flavorful and salty, next time I would have picked a less imposing cracker.

Summerhill has a great selection of sparkling wines; sweet, white wines, such as Gewürztraminer and Ehrenfelser; and Icewine. All of which are delicious. We did a tour of the grounds (see videos) that also included a tasting of three wines. My personal favorite was the Ehrenfelser, Summerhill’s best-selling wine, known as “the hot tub wine.”

After eating at the winery’s bistro (the crab and artichoke pizza was one of the best I’ve ever had – plus the owner/founder of Summerhill, Stephen Cipes, was also grabbing lunch at the bistro) we paid for an additional tasting: icewine. We tasted the Pinot Noir and the Riesling Icewines; surprisingly the Riesling wasn’t as sweet as the Pinot Noir, which was almost too sweet.