The oyster happy hour is the most efficient hour in Los Angeles dining: cold shellfish, a real kitchen, and a price that only exists between about four and seven in the afternoon. It is also the category most damaged by out-of-date search results, because the single most-recommended answer to happy hour near me and oysters in this city closed for good in July. Anyone working from a list written before then is being sent to a building that is no longer a restaurant.
Oyster deals here live in a two-hour window and one famous name is gone entirely. Ask Karpo which raw counters have specials running this afternoon and how long it takes to get there before the window shuts.
The Closure You Need to Know About First
Connie & Ted's, the New England-style seafood room at 8171 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood with the wave-shaped roof, closed on 1 July 2026 after thirteen years. It had been the default recommendation for oyster happy hour in Los Angeles for most of that time — six oysters for ten dollars at the counter, weekday afternoons, plus a late-night dollar-oyster window it had introduced more recently.
It was opened in 2013 by chef Michael Cimarusti — the same chef behind Providence — with Donato Poto and Crisi Echiverri, and named after Cimarusti's grandparents, Constance and Edward Pointon. The team held a farewell dinner, One Last Cast, on 18 June 2026 before the final service. The owners pointed at rising seafood costs, West Hollywood's minimum wage of $20.25 and a long decline in sales worsened by the pandemic, the 2023 industry strikes and the 2025 fires.
That is a lot of detail for a closed restaurant, and the reason to include it is practical: it is still the top result for this search in a lot of places, and the correction has not propagated. If you have a Connie & Ted's plan, you need a new one.
Silver Lake: the Upstairs Room Is the Deal
L&E Oyster Bar at 1637 Silver Lake Boulevard is the most direct replacement, and the important structural fact is that it is two venues in one building. Downstairs is the full-service restaurant. Upstairs is a smaller, more casual lounge with a shorter, shareable menu — and the happy hour lives upstairs, Monday to Friday, 5pm to 7pm.
People book downstairs, sit down, and then discover the specials are one floor up. Go upstairs first. The room runs 5pm to 10pm Monday to Saturday and 5pm to 9pm on Sunday, so the two-hour deal sits right at the front of the evening rather than in a dead afternoon slot, which is unusual and rather civilised.
The oysters themselves come in daily from farms across North America and New Zealand, and are priced to market, which means the board changes and the person shucking is the right person to ask what is good today rather than what is cheapest.
East Hollywood: the One With a Family Farm Behind It
Found Oyster at 4880 Fountain Avenue is the room modelled on the blue-collar oyster houses of New England, and the detail that makes it more than a stylistic exercise is the supply chain: part of its raw selection comes from the general manager's family oyster farm in Orleans, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.
It runs 4pm to 10pm Monday to Thursday and midday to 10pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the last seating at 10pm. The weekend midday opening is the one to note — a Saturday lunch of raw shellfish is a genuinely under-used Los Angeles move, the room is at its calmest, and you are not competing for a seat with the after-work crowd.
It is a small room and it does not take an enormous number of people. Turning up at 7pm on a Friday and expecting to walk into a table is optimistic; turning up at 12:30pm on a Saturday usually is not.
How to Actually Use the Window
The mechanics of an oyster hour reward a little planning. The deal windows are short — two hours is standard — and they are almost always weekday, which means the trip has to be built around leaving wherever you are earlier than feels reasonable. Silver Lake Boulevard at 5pm on a Wednesday is a twenty-minute drive from downtown and a forty-five minute drive from the Westside, and only one of those gets you inside the window.
The other rule is to order the flight rather than a dozen of one thing. Oyster boards in this city routinely carry both coasts and sometimes New Zealand on the same ice, and the whole point of a counter is that you can taste a Massachusetts oyster against a Pacific one in the same sitting. That comparison is what you are actually paying the reduced price to learn.
Practical notes
L&E Oyster Bar, 1637 Silver Lake Blvd — restaurant Monday to Saturday 5pm to 10pm, Sunday 5pm to 9pm; happy hour is in the upstairs lounge, Monday to Friday 5pm to 7pm; oysters flown in daily from North America and New Zealand, priced to market. Found Oyster, 4880 Fountain Ave, East Hollywood — Monday to Thursday 4pm to 10pm, Friday to Sunday midday to 10pm, last seating 10pm; part of the raw selection comes from the general manager's family farm in Orleans, Massachusetts. Connie & Ted's, 8171 Santa Monica Blvd — closed 1 July 2026 after thirteen years. Deal windows and market prices change weekly; confirm before you travel.
Tags: #happyhournearme #oysters #losangelesfood #rawbar #silverlake #easthollywood #leoysterbar #foundoyster #connieandteds #seafoodla #happyhourla #laeats #oysterhappyhour #losangelesguide
Please drink responsibly. Must be of legal drinking age.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Ask Karpo first
Oyster hours are short, market-priced and easily missed, and at least one famous name on the old lists is gone. Ask Karpo which Los Angeles raw counters have specials running today, what time the window closes, and whether you can realistically get to Silver Lake or Fountain Avenue before it does.
