Posted at 3:41 PM ET, 04/ 9/2010

Thursday's happy hour: ChurchKey set the scene

By Anne Kenderdine

ChurchKey puts the focus on beer. (Dakota Fine)

If you ever wondered why there are always lines outside ChurchKey (like there were last night at the Going Out Guide happy hour), it's because the setting is so pitch-perfect, you can't help but have a good time. With the laidback tunes courtesy of beer director Greg Engert's iPod mix, the free food and the free beer tasting of one of the Beer Madness finalists, the feeling of the private party we threw for our Going Out Guide fans was shaped in large part by our hosts, whom we thank tremendously.

It seems like we weren't the only ones buoyed by the scene; we felt like we got to talk to lots of you last night, too. And that's just one of the reasons we do these shindigs: to hear from you about how you use the site, what you think about the Going Out Guide and to answer your Got Plans? questions in person.

Couldn't make it? Check out the photos of what went down. And don't miss next month's happy hour: because we always like to mix it up, we'll be taking over the Big Hunt on May 13 and we'll be back to our regular time of 6-8 p.m.

See more photos after the jump.

-- Anne Kenderdine

All photos by Dakota Fine: