Xin Chào

"When: All day Mon, Tue-Thu 5-6:30pm, Fri-Sun 2:30-5pm The Deal: Every day has $5-$6 bar bites, $6 wine by the glass, $7 cocktails, $5 drafts, and $3 canned/bottled beer. There’s also a different food and/or drink special every day. The Vietnamese restaurant Xin Chao in the Sixth Ward has the remedy for your Sunday Scaries. Well, actually, they have a remedy for the whole week, because Happy Hour happens every night. Find happiness all day long on Monday. Get a Tuesday pick-me-up with half-off oysters and champagne. Or fight hump day anxiety with half-off all wine on Wednesday. There are snacks from $5 to $6 each, $6 glasses of wine, $5 draft beers, $3 bottled and canned beers, and $7 cocktails every day. It’s the Happy Hour version of Oprah’s, “and you get a car!”" - Chelsea Thomas, Gianni Greene

"A casual but sleek Sixth Ward spot, Xin Chao offers a contemporary take on Vietnamese cuisine, with inspiration coming from Texas and Gulf Coast ingredients and flavors. On the menu are five different takes on oysters—and you should definitely get the spicy Viet-Cajun oysters dressed with a garlicky and buttery H-Town Bang sauce. Apart from the Viet-Cajun treatment, you can get oysters raw, grilled, roasted, or topped with pineapple sorbet and caviar. Even better, all the oysters are half off on Tuesdays all night long (all night). " - Chelsea Thomas, Gianni Greene

"A casual but sleek Sixth Ward spot, Xin Chao offers a more contemporary take on Vietnamese cuisine, with inspiration coming from Texas and Gulf Coast ingredients and flavors. On the menu you’ll find five different takes on oysters—you should get the spicy Viet-Cajun oysters dressed with a garlicky and buttery H-Town Bang sauce. You also want to order the bright and tangy house-smoked duck salad that’s nicely offset with jackfruit and a ginger fish sauce vinaigrette. There are a whole bunch of large format dishes to share, including the stir-fried flat rice noodles, a classic Vietnamese dish, but made way more Texas with a comically large oak-smoked barbecue beef rib, bone and all. What to order: Viet-Cajun oysters, smoked duck salad, smoked beef rib flat rice noodles " - Chelsea Thomas, Raphael Brion

"The Deal: Four-course dinner at $39 per person. Why We Like It: Four courses at Xin Chao, a Vietnamese restaurant in Sixth Ward, will likely fill you up. A hard thing to beat for only $39. Try wagyu meatballs glazed in fish sauce, a grilled pork chop with crispy enoki mushrooms, or an ube pound cake for dessert. Xin Chao will then top everything off for you with a caviar and pineapple sorbet crowned oyster. What a send off. " - Chelsea Thomas, Gianni Greene

"Masterchef winner Christine Ha takes a modern approach to Vietnamese cuisine at Xin Chao, with dishes like the five fungi congee, which is vegan, and flat rice noodles made with post oak-smoked Texas beef rib meat. Amp up your meal with a cocktail like the Hanoi Old Fashioned, made with bourbon, tamarind, and black walnut bitters." - Megha McSwain