Brooklyn / Downtown Brooklyn
Downtown Brooklyn
Happy Hour
24 verified rooms between Tillary Street and Atlantic Avenue — including a $10 martini in an 1879 landmark, and the four deals we deleted because nobody could source them.
Most Downtown Brooklyn happy hours run 4–7pm — but Gage & Tollner’s $10 martini hour is 5–6pm only.
- 24 verified spots
- martinis from $10
- drafts from $4
- 4 deals we deleted
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Downtown Brooklyn happy hour is thinner than the office towers suggest, and the three worth planning around are Gage & Tollner ($10 martinis, $4 draft beer and $8 wine in a landmarked 1879 dining room), Fogo de Chão ($6 beer, $8 South American wine and $10 cocktails all day, every day at the bar) and Lele’s Roman, where three baby negronis cost $15 from 5 to 7pm in the Ace Hotel lobby. Add Sound + Fury’s four-hour weekday window and Dave & Buster’s, the only place here running a second round after 10pm. We checked all 24 venues below against the bars’ own menus in August 2026 — and deleted four deals that turned out to have no source at all, including one we had filed under the wrong bar entirely. The A/C at Jay St–MetroTech and the 2/3/4/5 at Nevins put you in the middle of it.
The short version
- Best dealGage & Tollner — $10 martinis, $4 draft, $8 wine. In an 1879 landmark.
- Never endsFogo de Chão — $6 beer, $8 wine, $10 cocktails every hour Bar Fogo is open.
- Best value roundLele’s Roman — three baby negronis, $15, daily 5–7pm.
- Latest windowDave & Buster’s — $5 drinks again from 10pm, Sun–Thu.
- Best room, no dealSunken Harbor Club — no happy hour, despite what everyone prints. Go anyway.
- What we cutFour unsourceable deals — Eastville, Aloft, the Tillary and Golfzon’s fake window.
At a glance
Sorted by section, strongest deals first. An asterisk means the window is reported by a named source but not published by the venue itself.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gage & Tollner | $10 martinis, $4 draft, $8 wine | Daily | 5–6pm / 3–5pm | $$$ |
| Fogo de Chão | $6 beer, $8 wine, $10 cocktails | Daily | All day | $$$ |
| Lele’s Roman | 3 baby negronis $15, $10 wine, $7 bites | Daily | 5–7pm | $$$ |
| Dave & Buster’s | Drinks from $5, 22oz drafts | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm + 10pm | $$$ |
| Sound + Fury Brewing | Happy hour, prices not published | Mon–Fri | 3–7pm | $$$ |
| Somethin’ Else | Happy hour daily, prices not published | Daily | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Han Dynasty | Reported daily specials, no prices | Daily | 12–7pm* | $$$ |
| KUUN | Reported $3 off draft, soju, mimosas | Daily | 3–6pm* | $$$ |
| Kashi Indian Cuisine & Bar | Golden Hour, dine-in only, no prices | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm* | $$$ |
| Kimoto Rooftop Garden Lounge | Reported happy hour, no prices | Mon–Fri | 5–7pm* | $$$ |
| Botte | Reported $6 beer, $8 wine, $10 negroni | Mon–Fri | 3–7pm* | $$$ |
| The Grove Lantern | Reported 50% off all drinks | Mon–Thu | 3–6pm* | $$$ |
| Carne by Allora | No happy hour — full-price steakhouse bar | Daily | 5–10pm | $$$ |
| The Lobby Bar at Ace Hotel | No happy hour — all-day lobby bar | Daily | 1–10pm | $$$ |
| Great Room Bar | No happy hour — latest closing time here | Daily | 4:30pm–1am | $$$ |
| W XYZ Bar at Aloft Brooklyn | No happy hour — our prices were unsourced | Daily | 6–11pm | $$$ |
| Tillary Garden Bar | No happy hour — $20 cocktails | Tue–Sat | 4–10pm | $$$ |
| Sunken Harbor Club | No happy hour — walk-in only | Daily | 5–11pm | $$$ |
| House of Wax | No happy hour — free entry, oddest room | Daily | 4pm–2am | $$$ |
| Junior’s Restaurant | No happy hour — full bar, walk right in | Daily | 7am–12am | $$$ |
| Craft + Carry | No happy hour — taps + bottle shop | Daily | 11am–10pm | $$$ |
| Dallas BBQ | No happy hour — oversized frozen drinks | Daily | 11am–12am | $$$ |
| Golfzon Social | $5 domestic drafts — no time window | Daily | n/a | $$$ |
| Eastville Comedy Club | No happy hour — 2-drink minimum | Wed–Sun | Shows | $$$ |
Map: where these 24 spots are
Almost everything clusters in the ten blocks between Fulton Mall, Livingston Street and City Point. Jay St–MetroTech, Hoyt–Schermerhorn and Nevins are all inside a five-minute walk.
Pins are numbered to match the table above — tap any pin for the deal and directions.
The real deals
Six venues publish a genuine discounted window and we read every price off the venue’s own menu this week. They are ranked by what you actually save. More in our best cocktail bars in NYC guide.
Gage & Tollner On now
The best drink deal in Downtown Brooklyn is inside a landmark, and almost nobody prints it. Gage & Tollner has been on Fulton Street since 1879 — gas lamps, arched mirrors, mahogany, the whole nineteenth-century room — and for one hour a day it sells a $10 martini. Seven of them, actually: classic gin or vodka, dirty gin or vodka, Perfect, Gibson, Turf. Draft beer is $4, wine by the glass $8. In a room where dinner runs three figures. The local move: get there at 5pm sharp on a weekday, sit at the bar, and treat the hour as the whole outing — you are drinking landmark-quality cocktails at dive-bar prices, then leaving. The honest caveat: their own site and their own happy hour PDF disagree about Friday — the site says Fri 5–6pm, the PDF says Fri 3–5pm. Weekends are 3–5pm on both. The badge above only lights Mon–Thu, because that is the window both sources agree on.
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Fogo de Chão On now
The longest happy hour in the neighborhood has no clock on it at all. Bar Fogo — the front bar, not the dining room — runs its happy hour every hour it is open, seven days: $6 beers, $8 South American wines, $10 Brazilian-inspired cocktails. That is roughly eleven hours a day of discounted drinking, and the $8 Argentine and Chilean pours are the actual value here, not the caipirinha. The honest caveat: it is a churrascaria inside a shopping mall, and it feels like one — bright, busy, no romance. Worth it anyway if you want a seat, a fair price and no wait, which on Albee Square is not nothing. The local move: say bar only at the host stand or you will be walked to a table and quoted the full churrasco price.
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Lele’s Roman On now
Do not search for their happy hour — they call it aperitivo, and it is the best-priced one in Downtown Brooklyn. Every day, 5 to 7pm, in the Ace Hotel lobby: three baby negronis for $15, or one for $5. Rotating Roman bites are $7, a Moretti $8, white, red or prosecco $10, the house spritz $12. A Ketel or Tanqueray martini is $15 — which, for a hotel bar, is restraint. The verdict: the three-for-$15 negroni is the single best line item on this page. Order that. The honest caveat: we previously published the martini at $14. It is $15, and the $7 item is Roman bar snacks, not a charcuterie board. Both corrected here. This room replaced As You Are, which closed in January 2025.
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Dave & Buster’s On now
Yes, it is a Dave & Buster’s. It is also the only place around here that runs a second window after ten. Drinks start at $5 — that covers 22oz select domestic drafts and house wine — Monday to Friday 4 to 7pm, and then again Sunday through Thursday from 10pm until close. Named pours run $6 to $8. The why: Downtown Brooklyn empties out after work, and at 10:30 on a Tuesday your realistic options are this, a hotel lobby, or the subway home. The honest caveat: in store only, no to-go, and it sits at the far southern edge on Atlantic — a genuine walk from Fulton Mall. Loud, bright, full of teenagers. Go with your eyes open.
Sound + Fury Brewing On now
A four-hour weekday happy hour that starts the minute the doors open, at a brewery that makes its own beer on site. Monday to Friday, 3 to 7pm — and Monday through Thursday they open at 3, so the window is the entire first half of the day. Seven-barrel brewhouse, full cocktail bar, a scratch kitchen doing pizza, and enough room that a group of eight does not need a plan. The honest caveat: they publish the window and not a single price. We are not going to invent one. The Downtown Brooklyn BID lists this as running daily; the brewery’s own site says Monday to Friday, and the venue wins. The local move: it is one block off the Jay St–MetroTech hub, which makes it the most convenient after-work room in the neighborhood.
Somethin’ Else On now
This is the bar that replaced the one we were still recommending. Somethin’ Else took over the DeKalb Market Hall bar space in 2023; we were still publishing a deal for Understudy, the speakeasy that used to be there. Their own homepage says happy hour runs 4 to 7pm, daily. No prices published, so none quoted here. The why: it is a proper cocktail room with live music and DJs attached to a food hall, which means you can eat anything from thirty vendors and still be drinking somewhere with a sound system. The honest caveat: the market itself closes at 10pm, and secondary listings claim a 2pm start that their own weekday opening hours (4pm) make impossible. Weekends they open at 1.
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Real windows, prices we won’t guess
These five have a happy hour window on the record but no price we can verify first-hand — the source is named on every card. None of them carry a live badge, because we do not light a badge on a deal we cannot stand behind.
Han Dynasty
If the reported window is right, this is the longest happy hour in Downtown Brooklyn — and we cannot confirm it. The Downtown Brooklyn BID guide, updated July 2026, says Han Dynasty runs specials every day from noon to 7pm. Seven hours, daily. Han Dynasty’s own site publishes the full bar and the 2am late-night takeout and says nothing about a happy hour at all. So: no badge, no prices, and the source named in the open. Go for the dan dan noodles and the dry pepper style chicken regardless — this is the best actual cooking on this list. The local move: if the window is live when you walk in, you found the deal of the neighborhood. If not, you still ate well.
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KUUN
A flat $3 off is a small, believable deal — which is exactly why it is annoying that we cannot verify it. The BID guide says KUUN takes $3 off draft beers, mimosas, soju and rice wines, every day from 3 to 6pm. KUUN’s own site publishes hours (11:30am to 10:30pm daily) and no happy hour anywhere. Attributed, no badge. The why to go anyway: soju and makgeolli by the bottle at a table of Korean food is a better three hours than most cocktail lists in this ZIP code, discount or not. The local move: it is two doors from Kashi and across from the Grove Lantern — Livingston Street between Bond and Nevins is quietly the most concentrated drinking block in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Kashi Indian Cuisine & Bar
They call it Golden Hour, it is dine-in only, and no price has ever been published for it. Kashi’s own reservation profile describes Monday to Friday, 4 to 7pm, signature cocktails and Indian-inspired bar bites, dine-in guests only, limited seating, reservations recommended. That is the whole of what is on the record. The honest caveat: the 4pm start sits awkwardly against a listed 5pm weekday opening, so call before you plan an early one. The why: the cocktails here actually use the kitchen — tamarind, curry leaf, black salt — which is more than most bars on this page can say about anything they pour.
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Kimoto Rooftop Garden Lounge
The rooftop with the skyline view, and the most polluted search results on this page. Kimoto’s own site never mentions a happy hour; its reservation profile lists Monday to Friday, 5 to 7pm, no prices. Here is the trap: search ’Kimoto happy hour’ and you will hit ticketed Friday events billed as NY’s #1 Happy Hour Party. Those are third-party promoter parties, not the venue’s happy hour, and buying one is not the same as walking in at 5. The verdict: come at 5 on a weekday for the view and the enclosed garden, leave before the 3am Friday crowd arrives and the room turns into a club with a cover.
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Botte
Botte used to publish this happy hour themselves. The page is gone. Their old happy hour URL still shows up in search and now returns a 404 — the site was restructured and the menu went with it. What survives is the BID listing: Monday to Friday 3 to 7pm, $6 beer, $8 mixed drinks and wines, $10 negronis, martinis and spritzes, $8 bites. We are publishing that attributed and unbadged, because a deleted page is not the same as a confirmed deal — and it is not the same as a dead one either. The local move: call ahead if the happy hour is the reason you are going. If it is not, the pizza and the charcuterie hold up on their own, and Gold Street is the quietest corner in the guide.
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The hotel bars
Downtown Brooklyn has more hotel rooms than bar rooms, so the lobbies matter here in a way they do not in Williamsburg. Two of these had deals on our page that we could not source. See our best hotel bars in NYC guide.
The Grove Lantern
Half off everything would be the best deal in the guide. One undated listing is the only thing holding it up. The BID says all drinks 50% off, Monday to Thursday, 3 to 6pm. Hyatt’s own page for the restaurant — the first-party source, at a hotel that opened in March 2026 — uses the words happy hour exactly zero times and lists no prices at all. The verdict: treat it as unconfirmed and ask at the bar. We badge nothing on a single undated blurb, however good it sounds. The why to go anyway: it is a genuinely handsome new room with house-baked bread and a real wine list, on a stretch of Livingston that badly needed one.
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Carne by Allora
The Hilton’s bar changed hands and nobody updated the internet. Carne by Allora opened here in late 2025 in the space that was Black Walnut; Time Out still runs a live Black Walnut listing with service hours, and the old venue’s domain now redirects to supplement spam. So: Carne is the bar at 140 Schermerhorn, and it has no happy hour. Dinner 5 to 10pm, bar until 11. The verdict: red-sauce swagger at steakhouse prices, and you are paying hotel rates for the room. Go here instead if you want value: Gage & Tollner is a nine-minute walk and sells a $10 martini in a better dining room.
The Lobby Bar at Ace Hotel
No deal, and still one of the two or three best rooms in Downtown Brooklyn to sit in. The Ace lobby is a big concrete-and-timber hall with proper seating, and the bar runs 1pm to 10pm daily. Nobody will move you along, which in a neighborhood built almost entirely of chain retail and office towers is worth more than three dollars off a beer. The local move: the aperitivo at Lele’s Roman is in the same building, 5 to 7pm, three baby negronis for $15 — start there, then move out to the lobby with a full-price drink when the window shuts.
acehotel.com · See our Boerum Hill happy hours
Great Room Bar
Listed for one reason: it is open when everything else here is shut. No happy hour, no specials, hotel pricing. But the bar runs 4:30pm to midnight most nights and to 1am on Friday and Saturday, and Downtown Brooklyn is a district that rolls up its sidewalks around ten. The why: when the last train is an hour off and DeKalb Market has closed, this and Dave & Buster’s are the honest answers. The local move: it is two blocks from Borough Hall and every train in Brooklyn, so it is a better last-drink-before-the-ride than anywhere in DUMBO.
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W XYZ Bar at Aloft Brooklyn
We published ’$7 beer, $8 wine, $9 cocktails’ here for years. We can no longer find a single source for it — including us. Marriott’s own dining page for this hotel says happy hour zero times, publishes no prices, and gives the bar’s hours as daily 6 to 11pm, not the 5pm start we had. No aggregator carries those prices either. So the deal is deleted and the hours are corrected. The verdict: a perfectly fine hotel lobby bar with a pool table, not a destination. Go here instead: Kimoto is a hundred feet away, up on the roof, with a view.
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Tillary Garden Bar
We used to describe ’rooftop specials’ here. There are none, and implying otherwise was the worst thing on our old page. The Tillary’s own site never uses the words happy hour, and it prices the room plainly: cocktails $20, beer $8–11, wine $15–20 a glass. We also had the hours wrong on both ends — it is Tuesday to Saturday, 4 to 10pm, closed Mondays, not Mon–Sat 5–11pm. The verdict: the sunset over the brownstones is real and genuinely good. The honest caveat: it is an open-air deck, so it is weather-dependent and seasonal, and $20 is $20.
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No happy hour, go anyway
No discount, no badge, no pretending otherwise — but these are the rooms worth the walk, including the best cocktail bar in the neighborhood and the strangest one.
Sunken Harbor Club
This is the correction that matters most on the page. For as long as we have covered Downtown Brooklyn we listed a happy hour at Sunken Harbor Club. It does not have one, and never did. The $10 martinis and $4 drafts belong to Gage & Tollner, the restaurant downstairs in the same building. The BID filed the deal under the wrong venue and we copied it — a window that ran Fri–Sun from 3pm, at a bar that does not open until 5. Go anyway. It is one of the best cocktail bars in New York: part sunken galleon, part Victorian explorers’ club, rum-forward and serious. The local move: walk-in only, up the stairs, arrive at 5 or wait.
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House of Wax
The strangest room in Downtown Brooklyn and you do not need a movie ticket to drink in it. House of Wax is the bar attached to the Alamo Drafthouse at City Point, built around a genuine nineteenth-century collection of wax anatomical models and death masks — the real thing, salvaged from a defunct European museum. Free entry, walk straight in, no cinema ticket required. Open to midnight, 2am Friday and Saturday, which makes it one of the few late doors here. The why: no happy hour, no discount, and it is still the answer when someone visiting asks you to show them something they cannot see anywhere else. Trivia runs here too.
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Junior’s Restaurant
Everyone in Brooklyn knows Junior’s and almost nobody knows it has a bar. It does — a full one, at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb since 1950 — and you can walk in and sit at it without waiting for a cheesecake table. No happy hour, no specials, and prices that are simply reasonable because the place has never pretended to be anything else. The local move: this is the pre-show drink for Brooklyn Paramount and Barclays that nobody thinks of, and it beats paying arena prices by a wide margin. The honest caveat: they close at midnight on Paramount show nights, so it is a before, not an after.
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Craft + Carry
The only place in the neighborhood where you can drink a good beer and then buy four more to take home. Craft + Carry sits inside DeKalb Market Hall with a rotating tap list and a bottle shop at the same counter, 11am to 10pm every day. No happy hour — but the tap list is posted live, which is more useful than a discount if you actually care what you are drinking. The local move: get a pour here, eat from any of the thirty vendors around you, then walk twenty feet to Somethin’ Else when their 4pm window opens. The market really is the bar scene in Downtown Brooklyn, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
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Dallas BBQ
No happy hour, because the everyday price is already the deal. Dallas BBQ has never run a window and does not need one — the Texas-size frozen piña colada is the size of a small child and costs less than one cocktail at the Tillary. The verdict: nobody is here for a considered drinks programme, and the room is bright, loud and full of families at 6pm. Worth it when you are four people who want to eat ribs and drink something enormous for twenty dollars a head. The honest caveat: it is a chain, the frozen drinks are mostly ice, and you will feel every one of them the next morning.
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Deals we removed
Both of these are open and worth your time. Both had a deal on our page that did not survive checking. Here is exactly what was wrong and what is actually true.
Golfzon Social
The deal is real. The window we published was not — it was their opening hours. We had daily 10am–10pm on this page, which is simply when the doors are open, not when anything is discounted. Golfzon publishes $5 domestic drafts, a $10 boilermaker and a $19.99 cheeseburger and draft combo, all flagged varies by location, and no happy hour time window anywhere. The other correction: their 25%-off Tuesday and Thursday nights are gated — Tuesday needs proof of hospitality employment, Thursday needs a school or essential-worker ID. We presented those as open to everyone. They are not. Worth it for a bay with friends; check the price at the counter first.
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Eastville Comedy Club
We published a $45 all-you-can-drink World Cup deal here. The only source for it on the entire open web was us. Eastville’s own menu says the opposite of all-you-can-drink: a two-drink minimum at every show, beers $10, cocktails $14 to $16, wine $18. The tournament also ended on 19 July 2026, so the promo would be dead even if it had been real. Deal deleted. The honest framing: this is a working comedy club where drinks are a mandatory surcharge on a ticket, not a night out for the bar. The other caveat: at 487 Atlantic it is really Boerum Hill, not Downtown Brooklyn.
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Downtown Brooklyn happy hour: FAQ
What time does happy hour start in Downtown Brooklyn?
Most windows run 4–7pm. The earliest is Fogo de Chão, whose Bar Fogo happy hour runs all day, every day the restaurant is open. Sound + Fury starts at 3pm Monday to Friday, and Gage & Tollner runs the shortest and best window in the neighborhood — one hour, 5 to 6pm Monday to Thursday, with a 3 to 5pm window at weekends.
Where are the cheapest drinks in Downtown Brooklyn?
Gage & Tollner, and it is not close: $10 martinis, $4 draft beer and $8 wine by the glass during happy hour, in a landmarked 1879 chophouse on Fulton Street. After that it is Fogo de Chão at $6 beers and $8 South American wines all day at the bar, and three baby negronis for $15 at Lele’s Roman.
Does Sunken Harbor Club have a happy hour?
No. Sunken Harbor Club has never had one. The $10 martinis and $4 drafts widely credited to it actually belong to Gage & Tollner, the restaurant directly downstairs at 372 Fulton Street. The listing was filed under the wrong venue and copied widely, including by us until this update. Sunken Harbor Club is walk-in only and opens at 5pm.
Where can you drink late in Downtown Brooklyn?
It is a genuinely early neighborhood. The latest doors are House of Wax at the Alamo Drafthouse (2am Friday and Saturday), the Great Room Bar at the Marriott on Adams Street (1am Friday and Saturday) and Dave & Buster’s at Atlantic Terminal, which is also the only place that restarts its happy hour at 10pm, Sunday to Thursday.
Is there a happy hour near Barclays Center or BAM?
Nothing inside Downtown Brooklyn proper is closer than a ten-minute walk. Junior’s at Flatbush and DeKalb has a real bar and no happy hour but fair prices, and Dave & Buster’s at Atlantic Terminal is the nearest discounted window. For the BAM side specifically, Fulton Hall and The Rockwell Place are both on our Fort Greene guide.
Which Downtown Brooklyn bars have closed?
Understudy, the DeKalb Market Hall speakeasy, is gone — Somethin’ Else took the space in 2023, though the market’s own FAQ page still advertises Understudy’s happy hour. Also closed: Livingston Manor (42 Hoyt St), Downtown Ale House (121 Livingston St), Amarachi Lounge (189 Bridge St), Black Walnut at the Hilton (now Carne by Allora), Charm Kao (193 Schermerhorn St, whose website still takes orders), Brooklyn Brewhouse, Jose O’Shea and Luciano’s. As You Are at the Ace Hotel closed in January 2025 and is now Lele’s Roman.
Last updated: 11 August 2026. Every deal on this page was checked against the venue’s own menu, website or published happy hour menu this month. Deals and hours change — confirm with the bar before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
