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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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