Talking about sports, like winning the lotto and undergoing surgery, goes better with a cold beer. Make every hour happy hour with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of upscale pub fare and drinks at Lot 17, located in Bloomfield.

Lot 17's extensive menu offers a wide variety of decadent bar fare to fill grumbling stomachs. Leap into an order of crunchy chicken nachos ($7), or dive into a seaworthy Mediterranean salad of tomatoes, red peppers, and Kalamata olives, topped with feta, fried calamari, and lump crabmeat ($10). Lot 17 also offers enticing wraps, sandwiches, and entrees, including the salmon BLT, a hoagie-roll-shaped horn of plenty stuffed with grilled salmon, dill mayo, bacon, lettuce, and tomato ($9). As for land-meat eats, the black and blue Cajun-seasoned burger arrives blackened and topped with bacon and bleu cheese ($8.50), while tender baby back ribs make like a surrealist comment on the fluidity of time and melt off the bone into a bed of fries and slaw ($13 for a half rack, $17 for a full rack).

Lot 17 boasts a comfortable and casual atmosphere, complete with exposed brick walls, warm wood accents, and an elongated bar, making it an idyllic place to toss back one of many draft and bottled beers, including imports, crafts, and domestics. Much like Cinderella's magic coach, the kitchen closes at 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, when it then transforms into a bartending pumpkin that serves drinks until 2 a.m. Sunday hours vary seasonally, although Lot 17 does announce updates via its Facebook page.

Reviews

Lot 17 gets four stars from five Yelpers and five Citysearchers:

• My favorite wings in Pittsburgh. – Megan H., Yelp
• Food was great. Good service. I recommend the Mediterranean salad, lots of calamari and crab meat. – jayjean1, Citysearch
• They've figured out the recipe... good beer selection, amazing food, and good people. Keep up the great work. – BadFoodBadService, Citysearch