South Slope
Happy Hour

The savings are real on everything but the beer: a classic margarita drops from $16 to $11, house wine from $14–$16 to $8, sangria from $13 to $9, and guacamole and flautas are $12 as botanas. The Verdict: the best happy hour in South Slope, and Monday is the night to go: six hours at these prices. The Local Move: a mezcal margarita for $12 and the flautas at the bar on a Monday after 8. The Honest Caveat: Tuesday to Sunday it is only two hours, and the $7 beers are a dollar off.

A flat $2 off every 16oz pour from opening until 7, which makes most of the 16 taps $7, plus the wells and the house wines on tap ($12, so $10). It is a modest discount on a fair list, and the backyard between 21st and 22nd Streets does the rest. The Verdict: the best beer happy hour on 5th Avenue. The Local Move: Friday, when the doors open at 4pm and the backyard gets three hours at the lower price. The Honest Caveat: no weekend happy hour.

Two hours at the start of dinner service, on the Prospect Park West side of the neighborhood: a $9 beer-and-shot, $12 classic cocktails and natural wine, and snacks at $5 and $6. The Verdict: the best deal by the park, if you can get there by 6. The Local Move: the beer-and-shot in the heated back garden before the dinner crowd takes the tables. The Honest Caveat: the snacks change and aren’t named, and there is no Friday or weekend window.

A small, specific happy hour: a sake or lychee martini ($15 on its own) with mochi fried tofu ($9) for $20, or with karaage fried chicken ($15) for $25, and edamame at $3 instead of $5. The Verdict: the best pre-dinner move in the neighborhood, as long as you stay for a bowl. The Local Move: the tofu-and-martini, then the $22 tonkotsu. The Honest Caveat: the menu says it ends at 6:30pm and the footer says 7pm, and it is closed Monday and Tuesday.

Happy hour runs Monday to Friday until 7pm, which is two hours after the 5pm opening Monday to Thursday and four on Friday, when the doors open at 3. The room is the reason to come: pinball, Wednesday trivia, Sunday karaoke and a 4am close Friday to Sunday. The Verdict: a good bar with a deal we can’t price. The Local Move: the Sunday NFL happy hour on the events page, noon to 4pm. The Honest Caveat: no prices posted anywhere.

The first three hours of every night, 4–7pm, at the most interesting-looking room on this end of 5th Avenue: Rosenquist-homage wallpaper, a church fresco on the sneeze guard and a garden out back. The Verdict: worth it for the room; the deal is a mystery. The Honest Caveat: the bar lists the window without naming days and posts no prices, so we can’t tell you what you save.

No discount window, and it doesn’t need one: a bottle of High Life or Tecate is $5 and the house lager is $6 from noon to 4am. Most other drafts are $9 and cocktails run $11–$16, so stick to the cheap end. The Verdict: the cheapest reliable round in South Slope. The Local Move: a $6 lager and the comedy open mic in the back on a Monday or Wednesday.

Fourteen rotating taps and what the bar calls the neighborhood’s biggest whiskey selection, on the corner of 16th Street since 2009, with a kitchen that stays open to 10pm, 11pm on weekends. The Verdict: the best beer list on this side of the park, at full price. The Honest Caveat: nothing is discounted by the clock.

Three negronis on tap, including a 50/50 house blend, and a menu from Jay Kumar of LORE: roti tagliatelle with kheema bolognese, pakora fried chicken, a Mumbai pot pie. The Verdict: the best cocktails at the bottom of the Slope, as a night out rather than a happy hour. The Honest Caveat: no posted prices, closed Monday, kitchen shuts at 10pm.

The neighborhood’s soccer pub, open early for weekend Premier League kickoffs, with a full English breakfast, bangers and cottage pie behind the taps. The Verdict: go for a match, not a deal. The Honest Caveat: no happy hour, and on a quiet weeknight it is just a local.

Comedy, improv, music and open mics on the back stage, and the bar says the shows are free. It also says its cocktails are priced like it’s 2012, which is a claim, not a menu. The Verdict: the best free night out on 5th Avenue. The Honest Caveat: no posted prices, so we can’t check the 2012 line.

A few doors off Prospect Park West, pouring Mediterranean and African wines with katenga and Ethiopian small plates, and an Ethiopian brunch on Sunday. The Verdict: the most unusual wine list in the neighborhood. The Local Move: ask for an African white you haven’t had. The Honest Caveat: no happy hour, closed Monday.

Jay Kumar’s restaurant on the corner of 15th Street, with a Bib Gourmand for 2025–2026 and a fermented masala dosa that is the reason to book. The Verdict: dinner, not a drinks deal, and the best meal in South Slope. The Local Move: dinner here, then the walk to FOLK on 6th Avenue for a draft negroni.