Brooklyn / Cobble Hill
Cobble Hill
Happy Hour
Great cocktail bars, almost no discounts — and the four blocks of Smith Street where the deals actually are.
Most Hell’s Kitchen happy hours run 4–7pm — but Hardware Bar starts at 2pm and Alfie’s at 11am.
- 23 verified spots
- 9 real happy hours
- 12 oysters $16
- half-litre $6
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The best Cobble Hill happy hours right now are Bee’s Knees Provisions (12 oysters for $16, daily 4–6pm), Clover Club ($15 cocktails and half-price oysters, Mon–Fri 4–6pm), Congress Bar ($2 off everything, seven days) and Black Forest (a $6 half-litre of Hofbräu until 6pm). Here is the thing about this neighbourhood: it has some of the best cocktail bars in the country and almost none of them discount. Nine of the twenty-three rooms below run a real happy hour, and eight of those nine are on four blocks of Smith Street. Court Street has exactly one. Atlantic Avenue has one, and it doesn’t publish prices. We checked every deal against the venue’s own menu this week — and deleted two of our own that turned out to be invented.
The short version
- Best valueBee’s Knees Provisions — 12 oysters for $16, daily 4–6pm, and the whole happy hour runs to 10pm on Thursdays.
- Best room with a dealClover Club — $15 cocktails, $7 Brooklyn Lager, $5 snacks and half-price oysters, Mon–Fri 4–6pm.
- Longest windowCongress Bar — $2 off cocktails, draft and wine seven days, and from 1pm on Fridays.
- Cheapest drinkBlack Forest — a $6 half-litre of Hofbräu every weekday until 6pm. Friday it starts at 3.
- Best SundayElsa runs all day and Savelli runs 4–7pm. They are the only two.
- Skip itThe “$1 oysters” and “20% off bottles” you have read elsewhere. Both were invented — including by us.
At a glance
All 23 rooms, strongest deals first. The number in each row matches its pin on the map.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bee’s Knees Provisions | 6 oysters $9, 12 for $16; full HH menu | Daily | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Clover Club | $15 cocktails, $14 wine, $7 beer, $5 snacks, ½-price oysters | Mon–Fri | 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Congress Bar | $2 off menu cocktails, draft beer & wine | Seven days | 4–7pm (Fri from 1) | $$$ |
| Café Luluc | $9.50 drink trio; Wed ½-price wine, glasses and bottles | Mon–Thu | 4:30–7pm | $$$ |
| Landmark Cevicheria | $10 margarita, $12 mezcal negroni, $9 wine, $5–6 draft | Mon–Fri | 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Black Forest Brooklyn | $6 half-litre HB Original or HB Dunkel; Wed ½-off wine bottles | Mon–Fri | open till 6pm | $$$ |
| Levant on Smith | Any 2 cocktails + 1 small plate, $33 | Daily | 4–6pm | $$$ |
| Savelli | Happy hour, three hours, no prices published | Tue–Thu, Sun | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Elsa | Cocktail happy hour, prices not published | Tue–Fri, Sun | 5–7pm | $$$ |
| The Long Island Bar | No happy hour — the gimlet is the reason | Tue–Sun | — | $$$ |
| Bar Rêve | No happy hour — new Belle Époque cocktail room | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Barely Disfigured | No happy hour published — we removed our claim | Daily | — | $$$ |
| June | No happy hour published — we removed our claim | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Henry Public | No happy hour — turkey leg sandwich and a Manhattan | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Saturn Road | No happy hour — free book club, tarot, bluegrass | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Sam’s Restaurant | No happy hour — reopened under new owners July 2026 | Call first | — | $$$ |
| La Vara | No happy hour — Michelin-listed Spanish, deep sherry list | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Saint Julivert Fisherie | No happy hour published — seafood counter, raw bar | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Kitchen at Cobble Hill | No happy hour found; lunch from 11, dinner from 5 | Tue–Sun | — | $$$ |
| Joya | No happy hour — but the whole menu is priced like one | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Hibino | No happy hour found; daily obanzai menu is the draw | Call first | — | $$$ |
| Verde on Smith | No happy hour — bottomless brunch is the only deal | Daily | — | $$$ |
| Lobo | Margarita deal claimed by others, unverifiable | Daily | — | $$$ |
Map: where these 23 spots are
Ten minutes end to end on foot. The deals cluster on Smith between Warren and Douglass; Court Street and Atlantic Avenue are the outliers. F and G at Bergen, R at Court St, 2/3/4/5 at Borough Hall.
Pins are numbered to match the table above — tap any pin for the deal and directions.
The nine real happy hours
Every price below was read off the venue’s own menu, site or specials calendar this week. Nine of the twenty-three rooms in this guide run a genuine discounted window — these are they, best value first. More across the borough in our Carroll Gardens guide and oyster happy hour roundup.
Bee’s Knees Provisions On now
The best value in Cobble Hill and it is not close. Twelve oysters for $16 is the cheapest real raw bar in the neighbourhood — Clover Club’s half-price oysters four doors down are excellent and they are half of a much bigger number. This is a provisions shop until four: cheese, tinned fish, a counter. Then it turns into a small oyster-and-cocktail bar and almost nobody who walks past clocks it. The local move: come Thursday, when the whole happy hour runs 4pm to 10pm instead of stopping at seven. The honest caveat: the oyster price ends at 6pm even though the rest of the menu keeps going for another hour, so the dozen is a 4-to-6 decision, not a 4-to-7 one.
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Clover Club On now
One of the most decorated cocktail bars on earth runs a real happy hour, which is not a sentence you get to write often. Four cocktails at $15 — the Siesta, the Boulevardier, Smoke and Mirrors, Bad Apple — plus $14 wine, $7 Brooklyn Lager and half-price oysters. The bit everyone misses: there is a $5 bar-snack tier too, olives, crisps and handcut fries, which turns two rounds into something closer to dinner. The local move: get there at 4:00, not 4:30. This room fills on its reputation and the deal is only two hours long. The honest caveat: $15 is a discount here and a full price almost anywhere else on this page — you are paying for the room and the bartending, and in this case that is a fair trade.
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Congress Bar On now
The only happy hour on the entire commercial run of Court Street, and it happens to be generous. $2 off menu cocktails, draft beer and wine, seven days a week — Mon–Thu 4–7pm, Friday from 1pm, Saturday and Sunday 1–4pm, and then again Thursday from 10pm to 1am. Four different shapes in one week. The badge above encodes the weekday 4–7 window only, because a single window cannot hold a bar that opens its discount at 1pm on a Friday and shuts it at 4pm on a Sunday; the card is the full truth. The honest caveat: it is $2 off menu cocktails, meaning the ones on the list, and they publish no absolute prices anywhere. The local move: Friday afternoon. Six hours of discount is the longest window in Cobble Hill.
congressbarbk.com · Full profile · See our Sunday happy hours in NYC
Café Luluc On now
We had this wrong and the correction is good news. The $9.50 trio does not run Wednesdays — it is Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and it is a different three drinks each night (Monday: rose collins, bordeaux, chardonnay. Tuesday: mojito, pinot noir, rosé. Thursday: classic margarita, merlot, pinot grigio). Wednesday is something better: half price on every glass and every bottle, and it runs 4:30 until close, not until 7. We were cutting a six-hour deal down to two and a half. The local move: Wednesday, with a bottle, in the back. The Why: the food specials underneath are the real argument — $14.95 for any mussels dish Monday, $12 for any pasta Tuesday.
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Landmark Cevicheria On now
Correction, ours: we sold this as pisco sours and discounted appetisers. Neither is on the happy hour menu. What actually is: $10 house margarita, $11 frozen passion-fruit margarita, $11 Peruvian Hugo spritz, $12 mezcal negroni, $12 signature paloma, $10 red sangria, $9 wine, $5–6 draft. That is a better deal than the one we invented, and it is on their own printed menu. Two more things nobody publishes: Wednesday is ladies’ night with complimentary prosecco from 6pm to close, and there is a late-night service Friday and Saturday, 10pm to midnight. The honest caveat: this is the room Leyenda used to be, which for some of you is a reason to go and for others a reason to be sad.
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Black Forest Brooklyn On now
Six dollars for a half-litre of Hofbräu — Original or Dunkel — every weekday until 6pm. Per ounce that is the cheapest beer in Cobble Hill by a distance, and it is a proper German pour rather than a sad pint of domestic. The catch is the clock, not the beer: Monday to Thursday they do not unlock the door until 5pm, so the deal is a single hour. Friday they open at 3pm and it becomes three. The badge encodes the hour that is true on all five days. Also worth knowing: Wine Down Wednesday is half off every bottle of wine. The local move: the backyard, Friday at 3:01pm, before the strollers arrive.
blackforestbrooklyn.com · Full profile · See our cheap pints across NYC
Levant on Smith On now
They call it Sunset Apéritif Hour, which is why it never shows up when you search for a happy hour. Any two cocktails plus a small plate, $33, every day, 4 to 6. Their cocktails run $10–17 and the small plates $10–19 at list price, so depending on what you pick this is either a small saving or a genuinely good one — order at the top of both ranges and it is the latter. The local move: two people, one deal each, and you have had a light dinner for $33 a head on Smith Street. The honest caveat: it is a bundle, not a discount, so there is no version of it where you just want a cheap beer.
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Savelli On now
A happy hour that skips Friday and Saturday. Their homepage just says “Happy Hour: 4:00-7:00 PM” with no days attached, which is how most guides end up guessing — but they also run a dated specials calendar, and on it the happy hour appears Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and is simply absent on Friday and Saturday. That is a real editorial choice by a restaurant that knows it will be full on a weekend regardless. The honest caveat: they publish no prices anywhere, so we are not going to invent any — ask at the bar. Closed Mondays. Worth the three-hour window on a Sunday, which is otherwise a dead afternoon around here.
Elsa On now
The only happy hour on the Cobble Hill side of Atlantic Avenue. Tuesday to Friday 5 to 7, and all day Sunday, which is the single most useful thing on this page if your weekend runs long. Closed Mondays — the badge above encodes that, because a badge that lights up for a shut bar is worse than no badge. The honest caveat, and it is a real one: their happy hour menu is a screenshot, and the file name dates it to November 2021. We are not republishing five-year-old prices, and neither should anyone else. One aggregator currently sells “$8 wine, $10 cocktails” here and also claims Sunday runs 5–7, which contradicts Elsa’s own site. Go, ask, enjoy the patio.
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Great rooms that don’t discount
The other half of the Cobble Hill story: seven bars worth your night that charge full price and say so. Two of them used to carry a deal on this page that we have now deleted — see what we got wrong.
The Long Island Bar
There is no happy hour here and there never will be, and that is the correct decision. The neon, the Formica, the terrazzo, the 1951 signage — this is a landmarked room that Toby Cecchini restored rather than themed, and the gimlet he pours is one of the handful of drinks in New York worth crossing a borough for. The Verdict: pay full price, sit at the bar, have two. The honest caveat: closed Mondays, and it fills early on a Friday because everyone else has already read this paragraph somewhere. Go here instead of chasing a discount you will not enjoy as much.
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Bar Rêve
The newest room on the strip and the biggest swing. Bar Rêve opened in October 2025 in the space that was Angry Wade’s for decades — a dive with a jukebox becomes red curtains and a menu called Impressionnisme, which tells you most of what you need to know about how this block has gone. No happy hour, and they are not pretending otherwise, which we respect more than a $2-off sign. The local move: reserve. It is small, it is on Resy, and walking in at 8pm on a Saturday is optimistic. The honest caveat: if you loved Angry Wade’s, this will feel like a personal insult. Go to Black Forest instead and have a $6 half-litre.
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Barely Disfigured
We used to tell you this place had $1 oysters and $3 off cocktails. It does not, and we are sorry. The claim traces to a single AI-written travel-summary page and appears nowhere Barely Disfigured controls. Their own raw bar prices oysters at $3.50 to $4.50 each — a $1 oyster would be a 75% discount that nobody, including them, has ever mentioned. There is even a live question on Yelp from someone asking whether the happy hour they read about actually exists. It does not. What is true: a very good, very narrow cocktail bar with an absinthe fountain, drinks at $17–20, open till 1:30am Friday and Saturday. The Verdict: worth it at full price. Just do not arrive expecting a deal.
barelydisfigured.com · Full profile · See our real $1 oyster happy hours
June
The second deal we deleted, and this one was worse, because we had stated it as verified fact on our own venue page. “20% off all bottles, 4–7pm daily” came from the same AI-written aggregator as the one above. June publishes no happy hour anywhere. The only time the phrase appears on their site is a newsletter sign-up line offering news about “pop-ups, menu changes, wine happy hours” — a marketing blurb, not an offer. Something may well exist; nothing published defines it, so we are not going to describe it. What is true: one of the better natural wine lists in Brooklyn, a genuinely beautiful art nouveau room, a back garden, and doors at 4pm Monday to Thursday.
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Henry Public
We used to hedge this with a “confirm” note. No need — we checked every page they run and Henry Public publishes no happy hour, full stop. An unclaimed OpenTable stub has a “Happy Hour” amenity checkbox ticked, which is where that rumour lives, and the same stub gets their opening hours wrong. What is true: a tin-ceilinged turn-of-the-century saloon on a residential corner that does the period thing without winking at you, a famous turkey leg sandwich, and Manhattans made like they matter. Doors at 4pm every day, noon at weekends. The local move: it is four minutes from the Long Island Bar — that is the walk, and it is the best two-stop night in Cobble Hill.
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Saturn Road
Open at 7am, still going at 9 or 10, coffee at one end of the day and cocktails at the other. There is no happy hour — one aggregator claims “$1 off beer and wine, $2 off cocktails, Mon–Fri 3–6pm” and it appears on none of the three pages Saturn Road actually maintains. What they do run, free, is better: a book club Monday 7–9pm, tarot Sunday 5–9pm, and periodic Thursday bluegrass 6:30–8:30pm with no ticket. The Verdict: if you want somewhere to sit for three hours with a laptop and then stay for a drink without changing venues, this is the only room in Cobble Hill that does both properly. Across from the Cobble Hill Cinema, which is the other half of that plan.
saturnroadnyc.com · See our Carroll Gardens happy hours
Sam’s Restaurant
The best story on this page. Sam’s has been on Court Street since 1930 and it reopened on 11 July 2026 under Georgia Fulton — twelve years behind the bar at the Long Island Bar, four blocks north — who spent six months working alongside the previous owner before taking over. The brick oven stayed, the murals stayed, the wooden telephone booths stayed, and they added barstools, which the old Sam’s never had. No happy hour yet. The honest caveat, and we would rather say it than guess: the two listings carrying their hours disagree with each other on both the opening time and which day they are dark, and there is no first-party site to settle it. Call (718) 596-3458 before you walk over.
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Dinner rooms worth the walk
No happy hour, but this is where the neighbourhood actually eats. Sit at the bar and the bill behaves. More in our best wine bars in NYC guide.
La Vara
Alex Raij and Eder Montero’s Cobble Hill room, Michelin-listed, and the reason people who do not live here get off at Bergen Street. No happy hour and no aperitivo — we checked every page they run. The local move if you want the value version: sit at the bar, order two or three of the smaller Sephardic and Moorish plates and a glass of sherry, and you are eating at one of the best restaurants in Brooklyn for less than a cocktail-bar tab. The honest caveat: their own homepage says 5–9:30pm and their location page says 5–9, so do not turn up at 9:15 assuming you have time.
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Saint Julivert Fisherie
Same owners as La Vara, two doors down, and a completely different proposition: a small white-tiled seafood counter where the tinned fish, the crab toast and the raw bar do the talking. No happy hour published. One honest flag: their drink menu is served as an image rather than text, so we could not read it end to end — if an oyster hour is buried in there we have not seen it, and we would rather tell you that than claim a clean negative. Everything else on their site is silent on discounts. The Verdict: the raw bar here and a dozen at Bee’s Knees for $16 are the two ends of the same idea, and you should try both.
saintjulivertbk.com · See our oyster happy hours in NYC
Kitchen at Cobble Hill
Mediterranean plates and a real cocktail list on the quieter end of Court Street, and one of the few rooms here doing lunch, brunch and dinner properly. No happy hour we can find — and here is the honest bit: their own website is built so that none of its text is readable to anything but a browser, so “no happy hour” here means “not on any source we can actually read,” which is a weaker claim than we like. Closed Mondays. Lunch Tue–Fri from 11, brunch at weekends from 10, dinner Tue–Sun from 5. The local move: weekday lunch, when Court Street is empty and you can have the room.
kitchenatcobblehill.com · See our Carroll Gardens happy hours
Joya
No happy hour, and it does not need one. Joya has been feeding this block cheaply for over twenty years and the entire menu is priced the way other people’s discounts are. It is loud — genuinely, the acoustics are part of the experience — and there is a courtyard out the back that most first-timers never find. The local move: the courtyard, early, before the 7:30pm crush. The honest caveat: the noise is not a rumour and this is not the room for a conversation you care about. Two blocks from Congress Bar, which is where you go afterwards for the $2 off.
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Hibino
A quiet Japanese corner room next door to Henry Public doing obanzai — a rotating daily selection of small Kyoto-style dishes — alongside sushi and house-made fresh tofu. The obanzai board changes every day and is the reason to come. No happy hour found. Flagging this plainly: their own website would not load for us at all, and the third-party listings carrying their hours contradict each other on whether they close Wednesdays, Sundays, both or neither. We are not going to publish a guess about when a restaurant is open. Call (718) 260-8052 first.
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Verde on Smith
Sandwiched between Clover Club and Café Luluc, which makes it the most-walked-past restaurant on Smith Street. No happy hour — an aggregator lists one, their own site has never mentioned it, and what they actually promote is bottomless brunch and Restaurant Week. Open 11am to 11pm on weekdays and from 8am at weekends, which makes it one of the few places here you can sit down at 3pm. The honest caveat: the kitchen closes an hour before the door does. Go here instead if everything on this block with a deal already has a queue — the garden is the point.
Lobo
The Court Street Tex-Mex constant, and the one venue on this page we genuinely could not settle. Their website refuses automated requests, so we cannot read what they publish. One aggregator claims “$5 house margaritas, every day 5–7pm” with no date and no source; another lists Lobo as having no happy hour at all; a review says the same. So we are telling you the truth instead of picking one: there may be a margarita hour here and we cannot confirm it. Ask when you walk in — and if you find out, tell us and we will update this card with a credit.
lobonyc.com · See our best margaritas in NYC
What every other guide gets wrong — and what we did
Cobble Hill is small enough that one bad listing gets copied everywhere. Two of the ten below are our own mistakes, named. If we expect you to trust the prices above, this is the receipt.
- Our errorWe published “20% off all bottles” at June and “$1 oysters and $3 off cocktails” at Barely Disfigured. Both trace to the same AI-written travel-summary aggregator and appear on nothing either venue controls. Both are deleted.
- Our error, worseOur own June venue page stated the 20% claim as flat fact and stamped it “last verified June 2026.” It was never verified. Hedging a claim with “reported” on one page and asserting it on another is how a rumour becomes our rumour.
- The $1 oyster that isn’tBarely Disfigured’s own raw bar prices oysters at $3.50–$4.50 each. A $1 oyster would be a 75% discount that the bar has never mentioned anywhere. There is a live question on Yelp from a customer asking whether the happy hour they read about exists. It does not.
- A 2009 price, sold as verifiedOne aggregator publishes Boat (175 Smith St) at “$4 well drinks, Mon–Fri 5–8pm” with a “Verified HH” badge. The oldest source for that window is a Brokelyn post from 5 August 2009 — which said $3. Seventeen years old, a dollar added, badged as checked. The same site lists Boat with no deal at all on its other Cobble Hill page.
- A deal from Long IslandAggregators sell Ruta Oaxaca at 138 Smith St as a Brooklyn happy hour. Ruta Oaxaca’s own Brooklyn page links its “Specials” menu to a Patchogue-slugged URL — the deal belongs to their Long Island restaurant. There is no Brooklyn happy hour page at all.
- Closed, still recommendedLeyenda closed at the end of March 2025. NYC’s own tourism site, PUNCH, Diffords Guide and a 2026 “perfect Brooklyn cocktail bar crawl” all still send you there. The room is Landmark Cevicheria now, and it is on this page.
- Closed twice overCamp (179 Smith St) is closed — and so is Bonfire, the cocktail bar that replaced it. BeerMenus still publishes Camp’s nightly hours; Tripadvisor still says “open now” on a page whose most recent review is from December 2017.
- The graveyardWatty & Meg (248 Court), Char No. 4 (196 Smith) and Pete’s Waterfront Ale House (155 Atlantic) are all shut and all still live on nyctourism.com, Grubhub or Time Out. Bocca Lupo (391 Henry) closed in February 2015 and one happy hour directory still files it under “Cobble Hill Happy Hours.” It is a Pilates studio.
- Half trueTen Ichi Mart’s half-price sushi after 8pm is real — The Infatuation reported it in June 2024. The word “weekdays” that everyone attaches to it, including us, is not in the source. No days were ever specified.
- Wrong on all of itOne aggregator covers seven venues on this page and is wrong about every single one — $1 oysters at Bee’s Knees (it is 6 for $9), $7 wine at Levant (it is a $33 bundle), $5 beers at Black Forest (it is a $6 half-litre), $8 cocktails at Landmark (they start at $10), prices at Elsa (who publish none), the wrong Friday at Congress, and a Saturn Road happy hour that does not exist.
Cobble Hill happy hour: FAQ
What time is happy hour in Cobble Hill?
Most Cobble Hill happy hours run 4–6pm or 4–7pm. The earliest start is Congress Bar at 208 Court St, which opens its $2-off window at 1pm on Fridays and 1pm at weekends. Black Forest at 181 Smith St also starts at 3pm on Fridays. The latest is Bee’s Knees Provisions at 215 Smith St, whose happy hour runs until 10pm every Thursday.
Where’s the best happy hour deal in Cobble Hill?
Bee’s Knees Provisions (215 Smith St) for value — 6 oysters for $9 or 12 for $16, daily 4–6pm, with the rest of the happy hour running to 7pm and to 10pm on Thursdays. For the best room with a real deal it is Clover Club (210 Smith St): $15 cocktails, $14 wine, $7 Brooklyn Lager, $5 bar snacks and half-price oysters, Monday to Friday 4–6pm. For the longest window, Congress Bar takes $2 off cocktails, draft and wine seven days a week.
Does Clover Club have a happy hour?
Yes. Monday to Friday, 4–6pm: four cocktails at $15 (Siesta, Boulevardier, Smoke and Mirrors, Bad Apple), wine by the glass at $14, Brooklyn Lager at $7, bar snacks at $5 and half-price oysters. It is the only internationally-ranked cocktail bar in the neighbourhood that runs a discounted window at all — The Long Island Bar, Barely Disfigured and Bar Rêve all charge full price.
Is there a Sunday happy hour in Cobble Hill?
Two, and they are the only two. Elsa (136 Atlantic Ave) runs its cocktail happy hour all day Sunday, and Savelli (195 Smith St) runs 4–7pm on Sundays — unusually, Savelli skips Friday and Saturday entirely. Congress Bar also takes $2 off from 1–4pm at weekends, and Bee’s Knees and Levant on Smith both run daily windows that include Sunday. More across the city in our Sunday happy hour guide and Saturday happy hour guide.
Which Cobble Hill bars have closed?
Leyenda closed in March 2025 (the space is now Landmark Cevicheria), Angry Wade’s closed and reopened as Bar Rêve in October 2025, and Camp at 179 Smith St is gone along with Bonfire, the bar that replaced it. Also shut: Watty & Meg (248 Court St), Char No. 4 (196 Smith St), Pete’s Waterfront Ale House (155 Atlantic Ave) and Bocca Lupo (391 Henry St). Several are still being recommended by live guides — see what other guides get wrong.
Is Smith Street in Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill or Carroll Gardens?
All three, depending on the block, and we should say so plainly. The strictest definition puts Cobble Hill’s eastern edge at Court Street, which would exclude Clover Club. We use the everyday reading: Atlantic Avenue to Degraw Street, Smith Street west to the BQE. On Smith we start at 181 — the lower numbers (Ten Ichi Mart, Bar Tabac, Ruta Oaxaca, Xochitl) are on our Boerum Hill guide, and below Degraw (Zombie Hut, Bar Great Harry, Gowanus Yacht Club) is Carroll Gardens. On Atlantic Avenue the even numbers are the Cobble Hill side; the odd side is Brooklyn Heights.
Last updated: 11 August 2026. Every deal on this page was checked against the venue’s own menu, site or specials calendar this week. Deals change — if you find one that has moved, tell us and we will fix it and say so.
