Best Happy Hours in Houston's Chinatown: 6 Verified Deals

The best happy hours in Houston's Chinatown are on Bellaire Boulevard. Crawfish Cafe at 11209 Bellaire Blvd runs a weekday Boil Hour with $6 half-dozen oysters and $5 frozen margaritas. La Crudería at 8394 Bellaire Blvd sells its happy-hour ceviche and aguachile for $5 each. And Seven Sushi & Robata in Dun Huang Plaza takes half off cocktails and wine after 9 p.m., Sunday to Thursday. We checked every deal below on the venue's own website or official menu.

Here's the line to remember: in Chinatown, happy hour has a night shift. Two of the six picks run a second discount window that starts after most of Houston has gone to bed.

Happy hours change often. Treat every time and price below as typical, and check the official site the day you go.

What counts as Chinatown in this guide?

Chinatown, also called Asiatown, is the Bellaire Boulevard corridor in southwest Houston. For this guide it runs from around Fondren Road west to Boone Road, with Beltway 8 roughly in the middle, plus shopping centers a block off the boulevard. Most of the picks sit in two clusters: Dun Huang Plaza and the neighboring centers at 9889 and 9938 Bellaire Blvd, just east of the Beltway, and the stretch around Hong Kong City Mall, just west of it.

For the bigger picture, start with our Houston Chinatown guide. For happy hours across town, see the citywide best happy hours in Houston.

How we chose

We kept only bars and restaurants inside those lines whose own website or official menu posted a happy hour, all checked in November 2026. Plenty of Chinatown favorites don't publish one, so they're not here, even if regulars swear by a deal. We also left out anything we could only confirm on review sites. That leaves six picks: two Viet-Cajun crawfish houses, a Mexican seafood kitchen, two sushi bars and a tea-and-sake cafe.

The quick list

• Oysters at a posted price: Crawfish Cafe, $6 for a half dozen during the weekday Boil Hour.
• Best $5 plates: La Crudería, where every happy-hour food item is $5.
• Best late-night deal: Seven Sushi & Robata, half-price cocktails and wine after 9 p.m., Sunday to Thursday.
• Reverse happy hour: Cafe 101, a reverse happy hour from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Monday to Thursday.
• For a sushi splurge: NoriNori, with a daily happy hour at a full-service bar.
• For Viet-Cajun history: Crawfish & Noodles, which calls itself the original, weekdays 3 to 6 p.m.

Viet-Cajun happy hours west of the Beltway

Houston's Viet-Cajun crawfish, boiled seafood tossed in garlic butter and Cajun spices, is the signature dish of this end of Bellaire. Both of these restaurants run weekday afternoon deals. For the dish's backstory and the season, read our Houston crawfish guide.

1. Crawfish Cafe

11209 Bellaire Blvd, Houston (Alief location) · Boil Hour Monday to Friday, 3 to 7 p.m., dine-in only

Crawfish Cafe was born in Houston in 2013 and has the most detailed happy hour we found in Chinatown, which it calls the Boil Hour. Oysters are $6 for a half dozen or $12 for a half dozen chargrilled. Snacks are tiered: $3 Cajun fries, fried okra or hush puppies; $5 oyster nachos, boudin balls, wings, or beignets with ice cream; and $7 garlic noodles, cod sliders or crawfish beignets. A happy-hour portion of crawfish sits on the $7 tier too. Drinks run $4 shots of Espolòn tequila or Tito's vodka, $5 frozen margaritas, and $8 cocktails such as a Cajun Bloody Mary or a Vietnamese mojito.

I didn't know that: Crawfish Cafe belongs to the same restaurant group as Ocean Palace, the big Cantonese dim sum hall next door at 11215 Bellaire Blvd, and Pho Prime, which shares Crawfish Cafe's address.

Order: a half dozen chargrilled oysters, garlic noodles and a frozen margarita.

2. Crawfish & Noodles

11360 Bellaire Blvd, Suite 990, Houston · happy hour Monday to Friday, 3 to 6 p.m., dine-in only · closed Tuesdays

Crawfish & Noodles sits across from Hong Kong City Mall and bills itself as Houston's original Viet-Cajun crawfish restaurant. Chef Trong Nguyen was a James Beard Award finalist for Best Chef: Texas in 2020, according to the restaurant. Its happy hour board lists oysters, cocktails and beer, with posted prices from $1 to $10. The site doesn't spell out which price goes with which item, so ask your server.

Insider tip: the restaurant is typically closed on Tuesdays, so plan a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday visit.

Order: happy-hour oysters, then the garlic-butter crawfish when it's in season.

Mexican seafood on the east end

Bellaire Boulevard isn't only Asian food: the corridor has a strong run of Mexican kitchens too. See all of them in our guide to Mexican restaurants in Chinatown.

3. La Crudería

8394 Bellaire Blvd, Houston · happy hour Monday to Friday, 4 to 7 p.m.

La Crudería is a Mexican regional kitchen built around ceviche, aguachile and micheladas, and its happy hour keeps the math simple. Its posted happy hour menu prices four plates at $5 each: ceviche blanco, aguachile verde with lime-marinated jumbo shrimp, tempura buffalo cauliflower, and a pair of empanadas filled with a Sinaloa-style shrimp stew. Drinks are $6, including a classic margarita, aguas locas made with hibiscus or fresh cucumber, and an agua de tamarindo.

I didn't know that: the happy hour menu includes an oyster shot, made with reposado tequila, the house spicy michelada mix, lime juice and a fresh oyster.

Order: the aguachile verde and an agua loca de pepino. Come back at lunch for the $8 lunch menu.

Dun Huang Plaza and the 9889 Bellaire cluster

Dun Huang Plaza at 9889 Bellaire Blvd sits just east of Beltway 8, and two of our picks are inside it, with a third across the street. That makes it the easiest happy-hour crawl in Chinatown: park once and walk. For more bars in the same buildings, see our guide to Chinatown bars.

4. Cafe 101

9889 Bellaire Blvd, Suite 101, Houston · open daily 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. · happy hour Monday to Thursday, 4 to 7 p.m.; reverse happy hour Monday to Thursday, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Cafe 101 says it was the first to offer more than 100 kinds of Asian-flavored teas and fresh fruit drinks, and it pours flavored sake and sake cocktails too. The kitchen describes its cooking as Chinese with a Japanese and Korean twist. It runs two discount windows Monday to Thursday: an early happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. and a reverse happy hour from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The menu is posted as images, so check prices in person.

Order: a sake cocktail during the late window.

5. Seven Sushi & Robata

9889 Bellaire Blvd, Suite E209, Houston · half-price cocktails and wine Monday to Friday before 4 p.m., and Sunday to Thursday after 9 p.m.

Seven Sushi & Robata is an all-you-can-eat sushi and robata grill that also serves à la carte seven days a week. It comes from Grace and Leo Xia, the team behind Duck N Bao and Hongdae 33. Its dinner menu takes half off cocktails and wine in two windows: weekdays before 4 p.m., and Sunday to Thursday after 9 p.m. At full price, its classic cocktails, such as a lychee martini, are $11 and its signature cocktails are $15.

Insider tip: the lunch menu lists weekday drinks at $3 for a domestic beer, $4 for an import, $7 for a classic cocktail and $5 for house wine, and notes there's no lunch or happy hour pricing on weekends and holidays.

Order: a lychee martini and a few robata skewers, ordered à la carte after 9 p.m.

A sushi bar across the street

6. NoriNori

9938 Bellaire Blvd, Suite G, Houston · daily happy hour · typically closed Mondays

NoriNori calls itself Houston Chinatown's destination for handrolls, sushi and Japanese-inspired food, with fish delivered from Japan and a full-service bar. It was founded by four friends, and head chef and partner Cong Nguyen has more than 20 years as a sushi chef. NoriNori advertises a daily happy hour but doesn't post the times or prices online, so ask when you sit down. It typically opens at 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday and at noon on weekends.

Order: sit at the bar for happy hour, then finish with the $25 handroll stacked with toro, uni, caviar and gold flakes. For more raw fish on Bellaire, see our Chinatown sushi guide.

Save this: a Chinatown happy hour route

This route works Monday to Thursday, when every deal on it is running.

1. 3 p.m., west of the Beltway: Crawfish Cafe for the Boil Hour (until 7 p.m.), or Crawfish & Noodles (until 6 p.m., closed Tuesdays).
2. 5 p.m., Dun Huang Plaza: drive east to 9889 Bellaire Blvd and park once. Catch Cafe 101's early happy hour (until 7 p.m.), or cross to NoriNori at 9938 Bellaire Blvd (typically open from 4 p.m., Tuesday to Friday) and ask about its happy hour.
3. 9 p.m., same plaza: Seven Sushi & Robata for half-price cocktails and robata.
4. 10 p.m. to close: back to Cafe 101 for the reverse happy hour and a sake cocktail.

Want to sing after? Our karaoke guide covers the private KTV rooms nearby. Planning dinner first? Try our Chinatown date-night guide.

Save this: Chinatown happy hour checklist

• Check the day. Most deals here are weekday-only. On weekends, only NoriNori (daily happy hour, typically closed Mondays) and Seven Sushi (Sunday after 9 p.m.) offer anything.
• Dine in. Crawfish Cafe and Crawfish & Noodles say their happy hours are dine-in only.
• Mind Tuesdays. Crawfish & Noodles is typically closed on Tuesday, and NoriNori on Monday.
• Go late on purpose. Seven Sushi (after 9 p.m., Sunday to Thursday) and Cafe 101 (10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Monday to Thursday) reward night owls.
• Ask about prices. Cafe 101 and NoriNori don't post happy-hour prices online.
• Plan your ride. The corridor is spread out and built around parking lots, so pick one cluster per stop.

Last verified: November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best happy hours in Houston's Chinatown?

Six Chinatown spots post a happy hour on their own sites: Crawfish Cafe, Crawfish & Noodles, La Crudería, Cafe 101, Seven Sushi & Robata and NoriNori. Crawfish Cafe's weekday Boil Hour and La Crudería's $5 plates are the best-value deals.

Is there a late-night happy hour in Chinatown Houston?

Yes. Seven Sushi & Robata at 9889 Bellaire Blvd takes half off cocktails and wine after 9 p.m., Sunday to Thursday. Cafe 101 in the same plaza runs a reverse happy hour from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Monday to Thursday.

Which Chinatown happy hour runs on weekends?

NoriNori at 9938 Bellaire Blvd advertises a daily happy hour, including weekends, but doesn't post its times online. Seven Sushi & Robata at 9889 Bellaire Blvd also takes half off cocktails and wine after 9 p.m. on Sundays.

Where can I get cheap oysters in Houston's Chinatown?

Crawfish Cafe at 11209 Bellaire Blvd sells a half dozen oysters for $6 during its Boil Hour, Monday to Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. Crawfish & Noodles at 11360 Bellaire Blvd also lists oysters on its weekday happy hour, 3 to 6 p.m.

Where is Houston's Chinatown?

Houston's Chinatown, also called Asiatown, runs along Bellaire Boulevard in southwest Houston, roughly from Fondren Road west to Boone Road, with Beltway 8 near the middle.