10 Best Greater Palm Springs Restaurants to Get Happy Hour

Each year, Palm Springs Life invites readers to vote for their favorite businesses, experiences, and attractions across Greater Palm Springs in our city-by-city Best of the Best competition. Below, you’ll find this year’s winners for Best Happy Hour.

Explore the full list of 2025 winners across all 29 categories at the link below.

The next round of voting opens in April 2026.

Palm Springs

The Tropicale

During happy hour, from 4 to 7 p.m. daily, and until closing on Wednesdays, make a meal out of small plates including shrimp tacos, jalapeño chicken and sausage pizza, and sliders with Gruyère.

Desert Hot Springs

Delicias Mexican Cuisine

Colorful cocktails double as works of art — sometimes smoking, served in skull-shaped glasses, or adorned with dried flowers. The food delivers on looks and flavor, with standouts like purple corn tortillas. Enjoy discounts during happy hour from 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays. 

Cathedral City

Trilussa

Happy hour at this Italian restaurant, from 3:30 to 7 p.m. at the bar, features $4 beers, $10 well drinks, and food specials like meatball sliders, personal pizzas, and manicotti Bolognese.

Rancho Mirage

Willie’s Modern Fare

From 5 p.m. daily in the lounge, a discounted menu includes sophisticated bar food with a European flair. Think shepherd’s pie, butternut ravioli, and Scottish salmon tartare.

Palm Desert (Tied)

The Hideout Kitchen + Bar

From 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. until closing, bar specials include craft options like a pomegranate mojito alongside avocado fries and poke nachos. 

Mamma Gina

From 4 p.m. to close daily, the restaurant’s Enoteca bar and patio serves an extensive food and drink menu, with specialty martinis and margaritas — prickly pear, spicy — plus soups, salads, pastas, small plates (try the fried zucchini), and desserts.

Indian Wells

Eureka!

“Hoppy Hour” offers an opportunity to try a rotating cast of beers for $5.50 and creative cocktails for $8.50, paired with bites like mac ’n’ cheese balls and fried pickles.

La Quinta

RD RNNR

“Acme Hour” from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. daily in the Coyote Room at this casual hangout features $1.50 off beers, $2.50 off wines by the glass, and cleverly named fare such as Wile E. Wings and Meep-Meep Sliders.

Indio

Indio Taphouse

From 3 to 5 p.m., choose items from a list of more than 100 beers (the bar’s specialty) and cocktails, like the Desert Mule. The Mexican-influenced food menu has shareables such as cauliflower steaks and carne asada fries. 

Coachella

Áyily Bar

The Augustine Casino bar serves drink specials during happy hour from 3 to 7 p.m. on weekdays. Try the Mexicali margarita for $6.