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An order of oysters at the Ten Bells. The Bushwick wine bar sells discounted seafood and wine from opening until 7 p.m.
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Great Happy Hours Around New York City

Dollar oysters, discounted snacks, and more of the best happy hour deals in town

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An order of oysters at the Ten Bells. The Bushwick wine bar sells discounted seafood and wine from opening until 7 p.m.
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Happy hours are making a comeback in New York City, as inflation continues to drive up the cost of living for city residents. These deals, most common between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m. on weekdays, aren’t just about dollar oysters and watered-down cocktails: The city’s best happy hours include two-for-one sandwiches, half-off mozzarella sticks, $7 wines, and even cheaper beers. Here are a handful of spots whether you’re looking for a price break at a tailored spot or to save a few bucks at a regular dive. Have a suggestion for a great happy hour? Let us know at ny@eater.com.

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Sugar Monk

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This polished Harlem cocktail bar offers a 6 to 7 p.m. happy hour daily, with $14 cocktails, $12 wines, $7 beers, and $10 to $12 snacks.

A dark bar with high shelves.
The bar at Sugar Monk.
Sugar Monk

Vinatería

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Vinatería is a restaurant with Spanish and Italian food in Harlem, open since 2013. The restaurant’s daily happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. is one of the best deals in town: A handful of wines by the glass are available for under $10, and cocktails are discounted, too. Fries, croquettes, meatballs, and mac and cheese are all priced under $10.

An L-shaped bar counter with hanging light fixtures and dark bar stools.
Vinatería opened in Harlem in 2013.
Vinatería

Mermaid Oyster Bar Times Square

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Every day from 4 to 5:30 p.m., this location of Mermaid Oyster Bar offers happy hour with $8 to $12 drinks, as well as oysters and littlenecks ($2, with a minimum of six). Bigger snacks include salmon tartare, New England clam chowder, and artichoke and spinach dip from $4 to $12.

A buttered roll overflowing with lobster appears on a plate beside a pile of french fries.
A lobster roll from Mermaid Inn.
The Mermaid Inn

Dutch Kills

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With a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, drinks are $15, discounted from $18, and Narragansett Lager is $6.

Dutch Kills’ dark and moody interior
The interior of Dutch Kills.
Dutch Kills

Koloman

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Koloman’s martini hour runs from 4 to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. At the bar, you’ll find $12 cocktails — martinis, berry spritz, and somm’s choice pours — as well as snacks from $8 to $20, including oysters, gougeres, tartare, and crudo.

A bar that’s backlit and designed as a clock.
The bar at Koloman.
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Bella Union

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Bella Union is an American restaurant in Kips Bay, offering weekly specials like cheap espresso martinis on Tuesdays and $15 burgers with a salad or fries. A happy hour with discounted drinks runs from 4 to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Dante West Village

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Dante, a Greenwich Village staple that at one point was named the world’s best bar, offers discounted martinis from its West Village location from 3 to 5 p.m every day. Versions of the cocktail made with pickled onion brine, olive bitters, and lime cost $10.

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Dante sells its martinis for $10 each during a daily happy hour.
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L'Accolade

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Every day, from when L’Accolade opens at 3 until 7 p.m., it’s happy hour, during which cocktails are $14, and wines by the glass are $13. Try a skin-contact Slovenian blend with tuna crudo, or a Cava nature with $1.50 oysters. The menu changes, with items like summer vegetable toast and gnocchi with asparagus and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.

Several tables of diners sitting in a fenced in back yard behind a restaurant.
The back garden at L’Accolade.
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El Pingüino

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El Pingüino opened in Greenpoint in 2021, cashing in on the city’s tinned fish and martini crazes. The Spanish seafood bar with a large backyard runs a daily happy hour with half-off oysters, $12 sherry, and $12 martinis. There’s a late-night happy hour, too, from 10 p.m. to midnight, with $10 sardines, $10 Midori sours, and $10 Faccia Brutto Ferrari.

Saltines, tinned fish, and skewers of pickled vegetables are arranged on a table beside glasses of wine at El Pingüino, a restaurant in Greenpoint.
Tinned seafood is a draw at El Pingüino.
El Pingüino

Tile Bar

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Tile Bar is a steal even when it’s not happy hour — which is Monday through Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.; Friday from 4 to 8 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 8 p.m. The East Village bar has been open since 1984, and proudly identifies as a dive. Drinks are discounted from their usual prices, including $5 well drinks.

Fish Cheeks

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This Thai go-to features a daily happy hour from noon to 6 p.m., with a half-dozen oysters for $12 (a dozen for $22), and drinks from $7 to $13.

Appetizers at Fish Cheeks
Appetizers at Fish Cheeks.
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The Magician

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This long running everyday bar has an everyday happy hour from 5 to 8 p.m., with $6 well drinks, wines, and brews.

Joey Roses

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Joey Roses is a bar known for its daily happy hours — 5 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight — when customers can buy two sandwiches and get one for free. They cost $8 each and come in unusual presentations, like the Fat Kid, made with peanut butter, grape jelly, and potato chips.

Skinny Dennis

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Skinny Dennis is one of Williamsburg’s cheapest bars, best known for its frozen coffee ground drink served in a paper Greek coffee cup. Beers and well drinks are discounted at least a buck during a weekday happy hour from noon to 7 p.m. and on Tito’s Tuesdays, vodka shots cost $2 each.

Skinny Dennis’s stage.
The stage at Skinny Dennis.
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The Ten Bells

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The Ten Bells opened this second location in Bushwick in 2021, after pouring natural wine on the Lower East Side for more than a decade. Happy hour starts when the bar opens (4 p.m. weekdays and 3 p.m. weekends) and goes until 7 p.m. The bar has a range of tapas for under $10, including meatballs, stuffed peppers, and croquettes. Don’t miss the $1 oysters and the $7 glasses of wine.

An overhead photograph of a tray of room temperature oysters set over a menu.
The Ten Bells happy hour has dollar oysters and discounted wine.
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Brooklyn Public House

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Brooklyn Public House is a dive bar with locations in Bed-Stuy and Fort Greene. In the area, it’s known for a 3 to 7 p.m. weekday happy hour that goes heavy on snacks: Appetizers like mozzarella sticks, jalapeno poppers, and onion rings are all half off, while beers run at around $5 each.

Sugar Monk

This polished Harlem cocktail bar offers a 6 to 7 p.m. happy hour daily, with $14 cocktails, $12 wines, $7 beers, and $10 to $12 snacks.

A dark bar with high shelves.
The bar at Sugar Monk.
Sugar Monk

Vinatería

Vinatería is a restaurant with Spanish and Italian food in Harlem, open since 2013. The restaurant’s daily happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. is one of the best deals in town: A handful of wines by the glass are available for under $10, and cocktails are discounted, too. Fries, croquettes, meatballs, and mac and cheese are all priced under $10.

An L-shaped bar counter with hanging light fixtures and dark bar stools.
Vinatería opened in Harlem in 2013.
Vinatería

Mermaid Oyster Bar Times Square

Every day from 4 to 5:30 p.m., this location of Mermaid Oyster Bar offers happy hour with $8 to $12 drinks, as well as oysters and littlenecks ($2, with a minimum of six). Bigger snacks include salmon tartare, New England clam chowder, and artichoke and spinach dip from $4 to $12.

A buttered roll overflowing with lobster appears on a plate beside a pile of french fries.
A lobster roll from Mermaid Inn.
The Mermaid Inn

Dutch Kills

With a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, drinks are $15, discounted from $18, and Narragansett Lager is $6.

Dutch Kills’ dark and moody interior
The interior of Dutch Kills.
Dutch Kills

Koloman

Koloman’s martini hour runs from 4 to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. At the bar, you’ll find $12 cocktails — martinis, berry spritz, and somm’s choice pours — as well as snacks from $8 to $20, including oysters, gougeres, tartare, and crudo.

A bar that’s backlit and designed as a clock.
The bar at Koloman.
Gary He/Eater NY

Bella Union

Bella Union is an American restaurant in Kips Bay, offering weekly specials like cheap espresso martinis on Tuesdays and $15 burgers with a salad or fries. A happy hour with discounted drinks runs from 4 to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday.

Dante West Village

Dante, a Greenwich Village staple that at one point was named the world’s best bar, offers discounted martinis from its West Village location from 3 to 5 p.m every day. Versions of the cocktail made with pickled onion brine, olive bitters, and lime cost $10.

A bartender wearing a white outfit with black suspenders pours a red colored drink into a cocktail glass.
Dante sells its martinis for $10 each during a daily happy hour.
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L'Accolade

Every day, from when L’Accolade opens at 3 until 7 p.m., it’s happy hour, during which cocktails are $14, and wines by the glass are $13. Try a skin-contact Slovenian blend with tuna crudo, or a Cava nature with $1.50 oysters. The menu changes, with items like summer vegetable toast and gnocchi with asparagus and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.

Several tables of diners sitting in a fenced in back yard behind a restaurant.
The back garden at L’Accolade.
Robert Sietsema/Eater

El Pingüino

El Pingüino opened in Greenpoint in 2021, cashing in on the city’s tinned fish and martini crazes. The Spanish seafood bar with a large backyard runs a daily happy hour with half-off oysters, $12 sherry, and $12 martinis. There’s a late-night happy hour, too, from 10 p.m. to midnight, with $10 sardines, $10 Midori sours, and $10 Faccia Brutto Ferrari.

Saltines, tinned fish, and skewers of pickled vegetables are arranged on a table beside glasses of wine at El Pingüino, a restaurant in Greenpoint.
Tinned seafood is a draw at El Pingüino.
El Pingüino

Tile Bar

Tile Bar is a steal even when it’s not happy hour — which is Monday through Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m.; Friday from 4 to 8 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 8 p.m. The East Village bar has been open since 1984, and proudly identifies as a dive. Drinks are discounted from their usual prices, including $5 well drinks.

Fish Cheeks

This Thai go-to features a daily happy hour from noon to 6 p.m., with a half-dozen oysters for $12 (a dozen for $22), and drinks from $7 to $13.

Appetizers at Fish Cheeks
Appetizers at Fish Cheeks.
Stefanie Tuder/Eater

The Magician

This long running everyday bar has an everyday happy hour from 5 to 8 p.m., with $6 well drinks, wines, and brews.

Joey Roses

Joey Roses is a bar known for its daily happy hours — 5 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight — when customers can buy two sandwiches and get one for free. They cost $8 each and come in unusual presentations, like the Fat Kid, made with peanut butter, grape jelly, and potato chips.

Skinny Dennis

Skinny Dennis is one of Williamsburg’s cheapest bars, best known for its frozen coffee ground drink served in a paper Greek coffee cup. Beers and well drinks are discounted at least a buck during a weekday happy hour from noon to 7 p.m. and on Tito’s Tuesdays, vodka shots cost $2 each.

Skinny Dennis’s stage.
The stage at Skinny Dennis.
Ian Stroud/Eater NY

The Ten Bells

The Ten Bells opened this second location in Bushwick in 2021, after pouring natural wine on the Lower East Side for more than a decade. Happy hour starts when the bar opens (4 p.m. weekdays and 3 p.m. weekends) and goes until 7 p.m. The bar has a range of tapas for under $10, including meatballs, stuffed peppers, and croquettes. Don’t miss the $1 oysters and the $7 glasses of wine.

An overhead photograph of a tray of room temperature oysters set over a menu.
The Ten Bells happy hour has dollar oysters and discounted wine.
Luke Fortney/Eater NY

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Brooklyn Public House

Brooklyn Public House is a dive bar with locations in Bed-Stuy and Fort Greene. In the area, it’s known for a 3 to 7 p.m. weekday happy hour that goes heavy on snacks: Appetizers like mozzarella sticks, jalapeno poppers, and onion rings are all half off, while beers run at around $5 each.

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