Happy Hours: $5 days at the London

Outstanding happy hour deals at top L.A. bars and clubs.

Gordon Ramsay may be best known for screaming at petulant underlings on his reality TV ventures, but he makes a much softer sell at the London, his upscale-approachable WeHo venture. From 5 to 7 p.m. on weekdays in September, the London will abrasively belittle its prices on select drinks, appetizers and even valet parking down to $5. That five-spot will get you a refreshing-sounding Summer in London (London Dry Gin, grapefruit juice and champagne floater, hopefully not with a side of rioting) or Mimosa Sabrosa (Aperol, Moscato D’Asti and orange juice). Eligible foodstuffs include a curried vegetable samosa or braised oxtail slider with pickled cucumber. Did “Hell’s Kitchen” just freeze over?

Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood, 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 358-7788.

For Teutonic revelry, L.A. has yet to top the dirndl-clad institution of Silver Lake’s Red Lion Tavern, but in Mid-City, the newbie Wirtshaus puts a Southland spin on the noble tradition of big patio drinking with flagons of beer the size of your thigh. Weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m., six of their beers and six of their German-Austrian wines go down to $3 and $5, respectively, alongside a traditionalist happy hour menu of schnitzels and sausages. There’s even some vegetarian fare, known in Germany as “more booze,” but here comes as a tofu schnitzel or mock-sausage.

Wirtshaus, 345 N. La Brea Ave., L.A., (323) 931-9291.

The Biltmore Hotel was the site of the Oscars in its early years, but it’s known to noir fans as the last place the Black Dahlia was seen alive. Had there been a Yelp at the time, that might have lowered its star ranking. But at the hotel’s regal Gallery Bar — perhaps the single classiest place downtown to curl up with a lip-smacking Manhattan and a bad idea in your head — for the price of a review on several social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook or Yelp, you’ll get $10 off your next food order at Gallery or the hotel’s two restaurants. It doesn’t even have to be a positive review — but then, do you really want to go spreading bad karma around in that place?

Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 S. Grand Ave., L.A., (213) 624-1011.

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