Top of Tacoma Bar and Cafe is a cool bar. So cool that Weekly Volcano readers have voted it the Best Bar in Tacoma. In fact, readers have voted Top the Best Bar three years running. An honor, to be sure. But Top's top-dog status has nothing to do with the fact that it won three awards in a row. Top was the best before it was voted the best. For cool to be recognized as cool it must be unrecognized cool first.

Speaking of cool, the Top has three new cool things. First, it has a new menu. We'll have the details soon. Second, it has new hours of operation - 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily with lunch service. Last, it just busted out a twice-daily happy hour. Yup, from 2-6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. you can score $1.50 Rainier beer drafts, $3 micro drafts, $2 tall boys, $5 Rainier pitchers, $5 wine pours, $3 bartender's choice shots and $3 wells. Happy hour food includes $5 flatbreads and $5 half-order cheese nachos and quesadillas.

LINK: Entertainment scedule

LINK: Happy hour

LINK: $2 Wells Wednesdays

LINK: Beast of Burden sandwich

LINK: Tacoma Social at Top of Tacoma

LINK: Top of Tacoma co-owner named Tacoma's Most Sexy Business Owner

LINK: Awesome nachos

LINK: Best Bar in Tacoma 2011