East Flatbush
Happy Hour

Five hours a day, five days a week: $5 beer and shots, $9 wine, $11 margaritas and rum punch, and a food list with $8 wings, $10 codfish bites and an $11 jerk chicken empanada. Tuesday adds half-price tacos, 4–9pm; Sunday’s Soul Sundays pour $10 margaritas and rum punch, 3–6pm. The Verdict: the best happy hour in East Flatbush, on length and on price. The Local Move: Tuesday, when the tacos are half off too. The Honest Caveat: an older calendar entry calls it 4–7pm; the priced happy hour menu says 4–9pm.

Rum punch, margaritas, whiskey sours and red or white wine at $8 each, Monday and Tuesday, 4–7pm, in a Caribbean-Asian dining room that also takes reservations and books parties. Flavored margaritas are $2 more. The Verdict: the cheapest cocktail in East Flatbush. The Local Move: Wednesday’s ladies’ night, 2-for-1 cocktails, 7–10pm. The Honest Caveat: the happy hour covers food too, but no food prices are posted, and it’s only two days a week.

Every Monday, appetizers and cocktails are $10 all day; the wings are $16 and the codfish fritters $14 the rest of the week. Thursday is 2-for-1 cocktails, Tuesday is $5 tacos, and Sunday brunch is $49.99 with bottomless mimosas and bellinis. The Verdict: the best Monday in the neighborhood, food included. The Honest Caveat: it also advertises a weekday happy hour, but its own listing gives three different sets of days and times for it, so we only count the Monday deal.

A Caribbean-inspired cocktail lounge pitched at guests 27 and over, with a chandelier dining room (oxtail pizza $16.95, red wine braised oxtail $29.95) and DJ nights: Honeycomb Thursdays, Soca Afterwork Fridays from 6pm, VIP Saturdays until 3am and Reggae Rehab Sundays. The Verdict: Utica Ave’s grown-up night out. The Honest Caveat: the page it calls happy hours is an events list; no drink prices are posted.

The dress-up Caribbean dinner on Utica Ave, with weekend brunch, reservations on OpenTable and a garden room for parties of up to 26. Open from noon most days, until midnight on Friday and Saturday. The Verdict: the date-night table on this stretch. The Honest Caveat: it advertises a happy hour but doesn’t post the days, times or prices; the priced one is across the street at Lilli.

Island-accented cocktails at $17 (Sumptin’ Nice with mezcal and pimento, Ke-Lo-Ke with sorrel and lambrusco, an AUld Fashion made with sweet potato), $13 zero-proof drinks and plant-based plates from a $15 steak sando. The Verdict: the best cocktail list on this page. The Honest Caveat: no discount at any hour, and it closes at 8pm Sunday to Wednesday.

An American-Caribbean bar and restaurant built around sports and live music, with high-tops, an in-house kitchen and room for 125 standing; the whole place hires out from $200 an hour. The Verdict: the place in East Flatbush to watch a game. The Honest Caveat: no posted menu or prices.

The first location of the Jamaican restaurant that made Rasta Pasta its signature dish, now with outposts across Brooklyn, plus jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, live music and a full liquor licence. It’s a few doors from the Wyckoff House Museum. The Verdict: the dinner East Flatbush is known for. The Honest Caveat: we couldn’t read a current menu, so no prices.

A Guyanese bar and lounge on Church Ave, opened in 2024 by the family behind The Hills Restaurant across the street, with Guyanese dishes and cocktails rather than a generic island menu. The Verdict: the Guyanese night out on Church Ave. The Honest Caveat: no posted menu, hours or prices.

A Haitian kitchen and bar on Clarendon Rd since 2009, a few doors from Footprints Cafe, cooking stewed chicken, fried pork and fried goat with rice and plantains, with a full liquor licence. The Verdict: the Haitian plate on this side of East Flatbush. The Honest Caveat: no posted prices or hours.