With $2 pints (and a fine selection of beers on tap) and $5 glasses of wine, Zona 78 offers a happy hour that is an amazing three hours long, Monday through Saturday, from 3 to 6 p.m. Does anyone really deserve that much happiness? After you have devoured some serious salad, pizza and other eats, get a half-pound of cheese to go. Mozzarella cheese made in-house daily is only $13.99 a pound. Take it home in a plastic bag, and pretend you just won a goldfish at the carnival. (A delicious, cheesy goldfish.)
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