Cocteleria Perla Negra: $10 Margaritas and $12 Oysters on Upper Broadway
Cocteleria Perla Negra runs happy hour Tuesday through Sunday, 5–7pm, at 3454 Broadway in Hamilton Heights: $10 classic cocktails, $5 beers, $8 wine by the glass and $12 for a half-dozen New Brunswick oysters. Sundays add an all-day special of $12 oysters, $14 martinis and $10 sparkling wine, and Wednesdays take 30% off wine bottles.
The verdict: the math works. Oysters drop from $18 a half dozen to $12, wings from $14 to $9, tacos and empanadas from $12–13 to $8, and a $10 margarita sits against a house list that runs $17–18. Six days a week, too. The honest caveat: the $10 drinks are the classics — cosmo, margarita, old fashioned — not the clarified, foam-topped house cocktails the bar is built around, which stay full price. Tables have a two-hour limit, and groups of five or more pay a 20% service fee.
The Happy Hour
Happy hour runs Tuesday to Sunday, 5–7pm: $10 cocktails (Cosmopolitan, Pineapple Daiquiri, Tequila Tonic, Margarita, Mezcalita, a Fords gin Greenfield, Old Fashioned); $5 Estrella Jalisco or Goose Island IPA; $8 red or white wine, $30 a bottle. Food: oysters $12 a half dozen or $24 a dozen, six wings $9, two tacos or two blue-corn empanadas $8 (shrimp tacos +$1), fries $6, shishito peppers $7. Taco Tuesday is billed as an all-day deal, but the price isn’t spelled out. Black Pearl Sundays run all day: the $12/$24 oysters, $14 dry, dirty or fifty-fifty martinis, and sparkling wine at $10 a glass or $38 a bottle. Wine Wednesday is 30% off bottles.
The Bar
Perla Negra calls itself a Harlem destination inspired by Latin America: cocktails built around native spirits, botanicals and fruits, a kitchen of small homemade plates — ceviche, aguachile, blue-corn empanadas, churros — and Afro-Cuban and Latin music in the background. It’s closed Monday. The 1 train at 137th St–City College and 145th St are the closest stops. More nearby in our Hamilton Heights happy hour guide, and more Sunday options on our Sunday happy hour list.
Who Cocteleria Perla Negra Is For
| Occasion | Why It Works |
|---|---|
| Cheap oysters | $12 a half dozen, Tue–Sun 5–7pm and all day Sunday |
| A $10 margarita | Seven classic cocktails at $10 during happy hour |
| Sunday-night martinis | $14 dry, dirty or fifty-fifty, all day Sunday |