Toast Uptown: $6 Margaritas and $7 Bites Under the 1 Train
Toast Uptown runs happy hour every day from 4 to 7pm with drinks and bites, then again Monday to Friday from 10pm to close for drinks only. It’s at 3157 Broadway, mid-block between Tiemann Place and La Salle Street under the 1 train overpass at 125th Street. The list: $6 12oz frozen margaritas, $6 house red or white, $6 well drinks, $9 flavored martinis, $2 off all 16 drafts and $7 bites.
The verdict: seven days a week plus a weeknight late shift is a generous schedule, and the food is where it pays. Cheese fries and hummus with pita are $14 each on the regular menu and $7 at happy hour. House wine drops from $9 a glass to $6. The margarita needs a footnote: happy hour pours a 12oz frozen for $6, while the menu’s frozen is a 16oz at $10, so you’re paying less for less. It’s dine-in only, and the late round has no food.
The Happy Hour
The windows: daily 4–7pm, drinks and bites; Monday–Friday 10pm–close, drinks only. Drinks are $6 frozen margaritas (12oz; a flavor like mango or watermelon is $1 extra), $6 house red (Les Jamelles Malbec) or white (Vigneti del Sol Pinot Grigio), $6 well drinks (12oz, any house liquor and one mixer, no top shelf), $2 off all 16 drafts, and $9 flavored martinis from cosmopolitan to smoky jalapeño. A happy-hour table card lists the $7 bites: cheese fries, hummus and pita, fried chicken bites, or five wings, BBQ or buffalo. Weekly specials: $5 off burgers with a draft on Monday, half-price wine bottles with an entrée on Tuesday, and Wednesday pasta with salad and wine from $18.
The Room
Toast calls itself a “truckstop gourmet” restaurant: comfort food in big portions — house-cured salmon, house-smoked pork, burgers from $18 to $26, overstuffed sandwiches — and it has been at this address since 1999. Weekend brunch runs 10:30am–4pm. The 125th St station on the 1 is a block north. More uptown in our Harlem happy hour guide and the Manhattan happy hour hub.
Who Toast Uptown Is For
| Occasion | Why It Works |
|---|---|
| Cheap margaritas | $6 frozens, daily 4–7pm |
| Happy-hour dinner | $7 cheese fries, wings or hummus, 4–7pm |
| Burger night | $5 off any burger with a draft on Mondays |
See the full Morningside Heights happy hour guide.