The Best Happy Hours Around New York City

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. Go here for top-notch drinks, housemade amari, and jazz Mondays.

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.

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, open since 2009, features a tavern and a performance space, Debbie’s upstairs.

Koloman’s martini hour runs from 4 to 7 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.

The French wine bar with multiple locations features $10 wines by the glass from 5 to 6 p.m. to pair with cold-weather favorites like fondue, raclette, French onion soup, and mac and cheese. Food items are full price.

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.

Every day, from when L’Accolade opens at 3 until 7 p.m., it’s happy hour, during which cocktails and wines by the glass are $14 and martinis are $10. 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.

The Early Bird at Charlie Bird features $10 drink specials and bar bites, including a $25 crudo tasting; fries, fried chicken, and farro salad from $10 to $16. Happy hour is from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday in the dining room and from 5 to 6 p.m. at the 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.

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

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.

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 $1.50 oysters and the $20 carafes of wine.

Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m., cocktail destination the Dead Rabbit features Shuck and Stout hour, with $2 oysters, $8 Guinness pints, and drink specials.

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 8 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. Wines or cocktails are $7 and pints are $6.