McCormick & Schmick's
Seafood Restaurant

The downtown branch of this seafood chain that's based in Portland, Ore., boasts a great bar, a jam-packed happy hour and dinner in a clubby seafood house setting. The dinnertime seafood entrées are often excellent, but the real action happens earlier., when food at starving-artist prices draws hordes of hungry people, all there for the $1.95 menu, which includes cheeseburgers, fried calamari and jalapeño poppers. Also worth a visit: oysters on the half shell, the crab louie and the simpler grilled fish dishes.