FISH CLUB LOUNGE There are many agreeable public spaces in the new Marriott hotel on the waterfront, but none as agreeable as the lobby bar: Just walking through it makes you want to take a seat, order something elegant, and settle in to see and be seen. Trouble is, as far as I can tell, the lobby bar is never open. If you want a drink, you have to go down the hall into the hotel restaurant, the egregiously over-named Fish Club by Todd English. There’s an agreeable bar there, too, but definitely déclassé in terms of decor. Oh, well. There are compensations: Happy hour happens twice a day in the Fish Club by Todd English Lounge, where the $3.50 well libations are Skyy, Beefeaters, Sauza Gold, Bacardi, and Dewar’s, and the special margaritas, martinis, sidecars, and cosmos are $4.50. To our taste, the drinks are just adequate: What makes the Fish Club by Todd English happy hour special are the half-price menu items—huge servings of chilled shrimp, steak and fries, chipotle chicken wings, cornmeal calamari, and many more at stupefyingly low prices ($3 to $6 per item, the 7-ounce steak is $8). We liked everything we had, but warn you: Don’t order the fig and prosciutto flatbread with gorgonzola unless you really, really like figs; they put enough fig jam on the dish that you could legitimately ask for a doggie bag to take it home. 5-7 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight daily. 2100 Alaskan Way, 206-443-5000. WATERFRONT

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