Updated: Thanks for Voting, Results Coming Soon. Readers' Choice: Best Happy Hour in Los Gatos

Happy hour—that time in the late afternoon during the work week when we usually frequent a local restaurant or bar in town looking for a way to release stress, catch up with colleagues and grab a drink or snack—has become necessary these days with our demanding workloads.

Where in Los Gatos can one go, between the normal happy hour times of 4 and 8 p.m., to enjoy this pre-dinner treat before heading to our homes after our long work day? 

Our Readers' Choice poll this week hopes your votes will help us find the best happy hour location in town.

Voting is open until 9 a.m. Friday with the winner announced at noon and the lucky club receiving a "Readers' Choice 2012" certificate.

Please rate the businesses below on their Patch Places listings and leave a review.

If we left one of your favorite happy hour spots out, please tell us in the comments. To read the official Readers' Choice Contest rules, please click

So which one is it going to be?

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• Billy's Boston Chowder House