MAXimum Happy Hour Alert!!!

The MAX at Mirabeau is one of the Valley’s culinary treasures. We first discovered the place about 6 years ago, back in the day when the dining room looked like a wayward truck stop – but still, unexpectedly, turned out some of the city’s most refined fare.

Thanks to a major remodel a few years ago, things have most noticeably changed. Now the MAX dining room and bar are sophisticated, trendy and not-at-all truckstoppy. The décor is just this side of mod, I think. I wasn’t really around the first time “mod” was in, but suffice it to say things in this place are retro in a very cool way. The ceiling-high wall of backlit liquor makes the bar the room’s centerpiece. Walls made from strings of tiny metal balls divide different areas in the adjacent lounge, and the dining room to the left of the bar opens to the Valley’s most pleasant patio.

We pop in sometimes on Wednesday nights for ½-price bottles of wine. And, when we’re feeling particularly decadent, we’ll even go for one of their lip-smacking desserts … Mexican Chocolate Gateau, Truffle Pie, Cinnamon Fried Banana Sundae … Do yourself a favor – order your own. Whenever Eric and I try to show a little restraint by ordering one to share we walk away feeling cheated. Or we order another halfway through the first. Yeah, they’re that good.

Last weekend we discovered that Sundays at MAX are ALL DAY HAPPY HOUR, which means most of their appetizers are half-off and there are a boatload of drink specials. Let me just try to explain how awesome this is. Eric had a plate of seared ahi tuna and I had some amazing coconut chicken satays for less than $5 each! For real. Eric also had a steaming bowl of corn and mussel chowder and I had a spinach and gorgonzola salad with hot bacon (BACON!) vin. He had iced tea. I had a lovely glass of pinot noir. And our bill was less than $35. Score!

Click here to check out the rest of MAX’s happy hour specials.

You’ll find MAX at Mirabeau just north of the Sullivan exit, in the Spokane Valley.