Osteria Cotta: $12 Cocktails and $9 Pizza on Columbus Ave
Osteria Cotta’s happy hour runs Monday to Thursday 4–6pm and Friday 3–5pm, at 513 Columbus Ave on the Upper West Side. It’s $12 cocktails, $7 drafts, $8 house wine and $9–$10 bites, for the bar and the patio only.
The verdict: the best part is the food. A $9 personal pizza and a $10 order of meatballs next to an $8 glass of wine is a proper early dinner, and the meatballs are $16 on the dinner menu. The cocktails are four classics at $12, which is fair rather than cheap. The catch: no tables, no takeout, and Friday ends at 5pm.
The Happy Hour
- Cocktails, $12: Classic Daiquiri, Classic Margarita, Whiskey Sour, Aperol Spritz
- Draft, $7: Forst Italian Lager, Fiddlehead IPA
- Cans and bottles, $6: Budweiser, Bud Light, Original Sin Hard Cider
- Wine, $8: house sparkling, white, red or rosé
- Bites: personal pizza $9, meatballs $10, arancini $9
- Non-alcoholic: Phony Negroni $10
Bar or outdoor seating only, and not available for takeout or delivery orders.
The Room
Cotta is a rustic Italian wine bar and restaurant: a main-floor bar, an upstairs dining room and living room, and a patio. The kitchen does antipasti, pastas and wood-fired pizzas, and brunch runs Saturday and Sunday 11am–3:30pm. The nearest trains are the B/C at 86 St and 81 St-Museum of Natural History.
For more nearby, see our Upper West Side happy hour guide, or the best Italian restaurants in NYC.