Manhattan / Koreatown
Koreatown
Happy Hour
Five blocks, twenty-seven rooms. A $6 lager in a Michelin-listed dining room, a rooftop happy hour we had been telling you did not exist, and two deals we deleted this week because this website was the only place still publishing them.
Most Koreatown happy hours run 5–7pm — Jack Demsey’s starts at 11am and Barn Joo at noon.
- 27 verified spots
- $6 cheapest beer
- $9 cheapest wine
- 7 hours longest window
Koreatown happy hour happens on five blocks either side of West 32nd Street, and right now the deals worth crossing town for are Moono ($6 Terra lager and $12 wine, Sun–Thu 5–7pm), K32 Rooftop ($9 rosé, $10 wine, $12 wells, Sun–Wed 5–7pm, fourteen floors up), Osamil (a $24 dozen Kumamoto oysters, all day Monday and Sunday) and Jack Demsey’s (11am to 6pm, five days a week). Two things changed on this page this week. We found a rooftop happy hour we had been telling you did not exist — K32 publishes it on its own menu — and we deleted two deals, at K-Town Pocha and Anytime Kitchen, because the only place on the open web carrying either one was us. Everything below is grouped by how much we can actually stand behind: priced and timed first, then the deals with no clock, then the rooms with no deal at all.
The short version
- Best valueMoono — $6 Terra lager and $12 wine in a Michelin-listed room, Sun–Thu 5–7pm.
- Best rooftopK32 — $9 rosé, $10 wine, $12 wells, Sun–Wed 5–7pm, fourteen floors up.
- Longest windowJack Demsey’s — 11am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Seven hours, one block off Korea Way.
- Cheapest roundBangia — $3 house shots every Thursday, $6 wells every Wednesday, in the basement on East 32nd.
- Best lateKRUSH — Manic Hour 11pm to 2am, $9 Absolut shots and $16 soju bottles, Wed–Sat.
- What we removedTwo deals — K-Town Pocha’s “20% off” and Anytime Kitchen’s “buy 3, get the 4th free.” Neither exists outside this site.
At a glance
Sorted by section, strongest deals first. Tap a venue’s number on the map to place it. “Not published” means exactly that — the venue states a deal or a window and no numbers.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moono | $6 Terra lager, $12 wine, $5 beef jerky | Sun–Thu | 5–7pm | $$$ |
| K32 Rooftop Bar | $9 rosé, $10 wine, $12 wells, $35 beer bucket | Sun–Wed | 5–7pm | $$$ |
| Osamil | $24 dozen oysters, $15 cocktails, $7 drafts | Daily | 5–7pm, all day Mon/Sun | $$$ |
| Jack Demsey’s | $7.50 drafts, $10 wine, $10 wells, $15 beer + shot | Mon–Fri | 11am–6pm | $$$ |
| KRUSH | $3 off pitchers, two wells $20; $16 soju 11pm–2am | Wed–Sat | 5–7:30pm | $$$ |
| Playwright Irish Pub | $7 drafts, $9 wine, $20 Coronita bucket | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Bangia | $3 shots Thu, $6 wells Wed, $10 cocktails Tue | Nightly | Not published | $$$ |
| Soju Haus | $1 oysters Wed, $13.95 soju Sun–Wed | By the day | Not published | $$$ |
| Baekjeong | No drink deal; Mon/Tue galbi promo unconfirmed | — | — | $$$ |
| Barn Joo 35 | Happy hour daily, prices not published | Daily | 12–6pm | $$$ |
| Itaewon Pocha | Happy-hour menu exists; no days, times or prices | — | Not published | $$$ |
| Cloud Social Rooftop Bar | Daily happy hour confirmed, no times or prices published | Daily | Not published | $$$ |
| Gaonnuri | No happy hour | — | — | $$$ |
| Musaek | No happy hour | — | — | $$$ |
| Her Name Is Han | No happy hour | — | — | $$$ |
| Osamil Upstairs | No discounted list; bar-bites menu, no prices published | — | — | $$$ |
| Pocha 32 | No timed happy hour | — | — | $$$ |
| K-Town Pocha | Deal removed — unsourceable | — | — | $$$ |
| Anytime Kitchen | Deal removed; lunch sets $16.95–$24.95 | Daily | 11:30am–3pm | $$$ |
| Miss Korea BBQ | $32 three-course lunch prix-fixe | Mon–Fri | 11am–3pm | $$$ |
| Jongro BBQ | Lunch specials exist; price not published | — | — | $$$ |
| Han Bat | No happy hour — open 24 hours | Daily | 24 hours | $$$ |
| BCD Tofu House | No happy hour — open till 5am Fri/Sat | Daily | till 1am, 5am Fri–Sat | $$$ |
| Turntable Chicken Jazz | No happy hour | — | — | $$$ |
| Gagopa Karaoke | $9 per person per hour (5+), $36/hr for 1–4 | Daily | 6:30pm–4am | $$$ |
| Space Karaoke | Open bar $49–79pp; rooms from $390 / 2 hrs | Daily | till 3am+ | $$$ |
| Radio Star Karaoke | Rates not published | Daily | 5pm–2am, 4am Fri/Sat | $$$ |
Map: where these 27 spots are
Everything sits between West 31st and West 36th, Fifth Avenue to Broadway, plus the East 31st and East 32nd spillover. The B, D, F, M, N, Q, R and W all stop at 34th Street–Herald Square, one block west of the middle of it.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the deal and directions.
The real happy hours: priced, timed, on the venue’s own menu
Six deals where the venue publishes the days, the times and the numbers. Everything here was read off the bar’s own site or menu in the week of 10 August 2026. Compare with Midtown and Hudson Yards next door.
MoonoOn now
The best drink deal in Koreatown is in the nicest room in Koreatown, which is not how this usually works. Moono is Michelin-listed, neo-Romanesque, and pours a $6 Terra during Social Hour — the cheapest beer on this page, in a dining room where the entrées run four times that. Wine is $12 either colour, and the cocktails stop at $15. The Local Move: $5 soy-marinated beef jerky and $7 kimchi mandoo are on the same list, so two people drink and snack for under $30. The Honest Caveat: Sun–Thu only, closed Mondays outright, and Tue–Thu the door doesn’t open until 5:30 — so the real weeknight window is ninety minutes, and the badge above only lights from 5:30.
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K32 Rooftop BarOn now
This page used to tell you K32 had no happy hour. That was wrong. It’s printed on their own menu and it is the only rooftop deal in Koreatown: Sun–Wed 5–7pm, $9 pinot grigio rosé, $10 wine by the glass, $12 wells, $14 for the Nite Mate, $35 for a bucket of five. Fourteen floors over 32nd Street with the Empire State Building right there. The Verdict: worth it, and worth going Sunday or Monday before 7 when the room isn’t a queue. Off the deal every signature cocktail is a flat $17 and spritzes are $15 — which is just Midtown’s price with a better view.
OsamilOn now
$24 for a dozen Kumamoto oysters is the number to remember, and on Mondays and Sundays it runs all day rather than for two hours. Osamil is a marble bar up front and a brick room behind, R&B on the system — the closest thing 31st Street has to a proper cocktail bar that also feeds you properly. $15 gets a barrel-aged old fashioned, a negroni, an espresso martini or a martini; $7 gets a pilsner or an IPA. The Local Move: go Sunday, sit at the marble, order the dozen and a $7 pilsner and walk out under $35. The Honest Caveat: Osamil Upstairs is a separate bar on the second floor with its own hours and no discounted list.
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Jack Demsey’sOn now
Seven hours, five days a week. Nothing else in this footprint is close. Jack Demsey’s is an Irish sports bar one block off Korea Way, open 11am to 4am every day, and happy hour covers 11 to 6 Monday through Friday: $7.50 drafts, $10 house wine and wells, $15 for a beer and a shot. The Verdict: it isn’t a Koreatown room and it isn’t pretending to be. It’s where you go at 2pm when nothing on 32nd Street is pouring yet, or before a game at the Garden two blocks west. The $15 beer-and-shot is the honest order. The Honest Caveat: drinks only — no discounted food at all.
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KRUSHOn now
Two happy hours in one bar, which is the useful thing here. The early one runs from the 5pm open to 7:30: $3 off every pitcher, two well cocktails for $20, two premium for $30. Then Manic Hour picks it up 11pm to 2am — $9 Absolut shots, $10 Jameson, $14 Casamigos, five green tea shots for $45, a bottle of soju for $16. The Honest Caveat: Wednesday to Saturday only, it’s on the fourth floor, and both deals are void during special events — they say so themselves. The Local Move: text, don’t call. The number on their site is a text line.
Playwright Irish PubOn now
Their own website publishes two different happy hours and we’re not going to pretend otherwise. The menus page says Mon–Fri 3–7pm and itemises it: $7 drafts, $6 cans, $9 house wine, $10 cocktails, $20 for a bucket of five Coronitas, $7 green tea shot. The events page says Mon–Fri 4–8pm with $6 beers and $7 drinks. We’ve set the badge above to 4–7pm, the window both pages agree on, and we’d call before planning around either edge. The Verdict: the Coronita bucket is the reason to walk the three blocks, not the $7 draft. Open till 4am, seven days.
Deals by the day, not by the clock
Three rooms that run a genuine discount and attach no time window to it. They get no live badge, because we would have to invent the hours to give them one. See also our $1 oyster happy hours guide.
Bangia
$3 shots on a Thursday and $6 wells on a Wednesday is the cheapest anything gets in Koreatown. Bangia runs a different deal every night: Sunday is pitchers ($12 Bangia Lager, $16 Founders All Day, $19 Delirium), Monday a one-litre soju-and-makgeolli cocktail for $20, Tuesday $10 signature cocktails, Wednesday $6 house wells, Thursday $3 house shots. The Honest Caveat: they publish the deals and not the hours, so there is no badge on this card — we don’t know whether it runs all night or in a window, and we’re not going to guess. Underground and dark, till 2am Friday and Saturday.
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Soju Haus
Dollar oysters on a Wednesday, in Koreatown — and it runs all day, not for two hours. The rest of the week is a rotating list on their own booking page: soju $13.95 and spicy pork feet $16.95 Sunday through Wednesday, assorted Korean pancake $17.95 Tuesdays, chicken baeksuk $28.95 Thursdays, baby back ribs $14.95 Friday and Saturday. The Honest Caveat: none of it carries a time window, so no badge here either — these are day-of-week prices, not a happy hour. Reviews consistently report cash and Amex only; check at the door before you order a round.
Baekjeong
Our address for Baekjeong was two years out of date, and so is theirs. They left 1 East 32nd on 1 January 2024 and moved to 49 West 32nd at Broadway; the old space is now Ahgassi Gopchang, run by the same people. Their own website still prints the dead address. It is still the KBBQ everyone means — the marinated short rib, the egg moat round the grill, the Saturday queue. The Honest Caveat: their Instagram advertises free galbi with any combo all day Monday and Tuesday, but it’s posted on the site carrying the wrong address, so ring (212) 966-9839 before you count on it. No drink happy hour either way.
A real window, no published price
The offer is first-party and the numbers are not published anywhere we can verify. We list the window and refuse to guess the price — these three are the calls on our punch list.
Barn Joo 35On now
Six hours a day, seven days a week, and we can’t tell you what anything costs. Barn Joo’s own Linktree carries a link labelled, word for word, “Happy Hour Everyday 12PM to 6PM,” and behind it sits a menu PDF dated March 2026 that we could not open. So the window is first-party and current; the prices are published nowhere we can verify, and we won’t invent them. The Verdict: if you’re on 35th at 4pm it’s the longest running window in the neighbourhood and worth walking into. The Local Move: call (212) 564-4430 and ask first. Note the Union Square branch is a different restaurant at different prices.
Itaewon Pocha
Their own menu has two sections literally headed “Happy-hour drinks” and “Happy-hour food” — and not one day, time or price attached to either. That’s a real offer we can’t publish, so it gets no badge and no number. What we can tell you: neon second-floor pocha, open till 4am Friday and Saturday, and the cheesy rice cakes with seafood are the order. The Local Move: eat here, then take the stairs to Gagopa on the third floor — same building, and it’s the cleanest two-stop night in Koreatown. The Honest Caveat: ask about the happy hour at the door, because nobody publishes it.
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Cloud Social Rooftop Bar
The second rooftop on 32nd Street, seventeen floors up at the NYMA, and the one nobody mentions. The hotel’s own page confirms “daily happy hours” and then declines to say when or how much. Time Out has reported 3–7pm with a beer-and-Jameson for $12 and a glass of wine for $8 — that’s a second-hand number, so we’re labelling it rather than putting a badge on it. The Verdict: go for the view and because you can usually walk up, not because you’re sure of the price. Go Here Instead if the number matters: K32, four doors east, publishes its prices.
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No happy hour. Go anyway.
Koreatown is a food neighbourhood first, so most of it does not discount drinks at all. These twelve are here because they are worth the walk, and two of them are here because we removed a deal we could not source. More context in our best Korean restaurants in NYC guide.
Gaonnuri
Thirty-nine floors up with floor-to-ceiling glass on two sides, and grills in the tables. There is no happy hour and there was never going to be one. The Verdict: this is the only room in Koreatown that reads as an occasion rather than a night out — birthdays, parents in town, the dinner you’re trying to make a point with. The Local Move: the entrance is on 32nd Street, not on Broadway, which catches people out every single time. Dinner only, from 5pm, seven days.
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Musaek
The sleeper on this page. Musaek opened in a lower level on East 32nd in July 2025 running an entirely clarified cocktail list — every drink filtered clear, eight to ten hours a batch — with a Korean seafood menu behind it. No happy hour, no discount, no pretending. The Verdict: if you want the drink to be the point rather than the soju to be the point, this is the room, and almost nobody outside the block knows it’s there yet. The Local Move: the late-night menu starts at 9pm and runs to 2am on Friday and Saturday.
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Her Name Is Han
No deal, and it stays on the page anyway, because Her Name Is Han is where you go when you can’t face the volume of 32nd Street. Wood, paper screens, homestyle cooking rather than a grill in the table. The Verdict: the best conversation room in Koreatown, full stop. The Local Move: lunch is served Mon–Fri from noon with last orders at 2pm, and it’s the easiest reservation in the neighbourhood at that hour. Dinner runs to 11pm, midnight Friday and Saturday.
Osamil Upstairs
This is not Osamil and the happy hour downstairs does not apply up here. Separate bar, separate hours, separate website — and people get this wrong constantly, including us until we checked. What Upstairs runs is an “Upstairs Bites” bar menu, available all day Monday and Sunday and 5–7pm Tuesday to Thursday, with no prices published anywhere. The Verdict: come up for the room and the cocktails, go downstairs for the $24 oysters. The Local Move: it’s open to 2am Friday and Saturday, which is later than the restaurant below.
Pocha 32
No happy hour, and we’re not going to invent one for a place that bills itself as the oldest Korean pub in K-Town. What Pocha 32 has is the hollowed-out watermelon — ice, fruit purée, soju and Sprite, bowls and a ladle, and the reason six people end up here rather than anywhere else. The Verdict: a group room, not a drinking-alone room. The Honest Caveat: they open at 5pm and last call is a full hour before close, so the 2am close means 1am in practice, 2am on Friday and Saturday.
K-Town Pocha
We were publishing “20% off all drinks before 7pm” here and we’ve deleted it. Exact-phrase search returns this website and one auto-generated aggregator page that disclaims itself in its own footer as community-edited and not official. The venue has no website, no verifiable Instagram, and three aggregators list three different sets of opening hours. We hedged it as “reported” last time; the hedge just carried a bad number forward another year. The Verdict: still a good basement — dark, loud, comfortable for ten — and the soju is why you’re there. Just don’t walk in expecting a discount.
Anytime Kitchen
The second deal we deleted this week. We were publishing “buy three cocktails, get the fourth free” and the only place that claim exists is this website. What appears to have happened: a paid dining-club listing offers members a complimentary round with entrées, and somewhere that turned into a public promo on our page. It isn’t one. What’s actually true: signature cocktails are $17 cash, $17.51 on card — the whole menu is dual-priced, so cash genuinely saves you money — and the lunch sets run $16.95 to $24.95 from 11:30 to 3. Open till 5am Friday and Saturday, which is the real reason to know it.
Miss Korea BBQ
We had the lunch at $19. It’s $32. Three courses, weekdays 11am to 3pm, per their own booking listing — and we’ve corrected it rather than leave a number on the page that would have someone doing sums at the door. That also means Miss Korea is not the cheap option on this block and we should stop implying it is: this is the polished, three-floor, course-by-course room. The Verdict: worth it for the 3am version of itself more than the 1pm one. The Honest Caveat: the 24-hour claim comes from their booking listing, not their own site, which publishes no hours at all — call before you rely on it at 4am.
Jongro BBQ
The first US outpost of the Seoul chain, second floor of a K-Town office building, charcoal in the grills and vintage Korean film posters on the walls. The Verdict: the beef platter — ribeye, skirt, short rib, chuck, cooked in front of you — is the order, and it is a genuinely good group room. The Honest Caveat: there is a lunch-specials section on their menu and the price is published nowhere we can verify, so we’re not printing one. Call (212) 473-2233. Also: don’t confuse it with Jongro BBQ Market up the block — different business, and the 38th Street branch of that one is closed.
Han Bat
Open 24 hours, seven days, and it is the honest end of a Koreatown night. No happy hour, no discount, no reason to pretend — you come here at 4am for sullungtang, the milky ox-bone broth you salt yourself at the table, and it fixes what the soju did. The Verdict: the cheapest genuinely good meal on this page and the one locals actually rely on. The Local Move: the kkakdugi on the table is the seasoning — put it in the broth, don’t eat it on the side.
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BCD Tofu House
No deal, but it’s on the page for one reason: 5am, Friday and Saturday. Soondubu arrives still boiling, you crack the raw egg into it yourself, and the rice comes in a stone pot you fill with water at the end to make nurungji. The Verdict: the most reliable thing to eat in Koreatown at an hour when reliability is the whole point. The Local Move: order it “medium” unless you’ve had it before — the spice scale here is not decorative.
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Turntable Chicken Jazz
Korean fried chicken and a wall of records, one block north of Korea Way and open from noon — which matters, because most of 32nd Street isn’t pouring anything until 5. No happy hour. The Verdict: the soy-garlic half is the order and the room is louder than it looks, so it’s a good pre-Garden stop and a bad first-date one. The Local Move: Sunday it shuts at 10pm while the rest of the neighbourhood is still going — check before you walk over.
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Noraebang: what singing actually costs
The after-party is half of why anyone comes to 32nd Street. Only one of these three publishes a rate, and we say so on each card.
Gagopa Karaoke
$9 per person per hour for a group of five or more is the most useful number on this page and Gagopa is the only noraebang in Koreatown that publishes one. Under five people it’s $36 an hour for the room, plus tax either way. Open to 4am every night, from 6:30 Monday to Thursday, 6pm Friday and Saturday, 7pm Sunday. The Local Move: it’s the third floor of 28 West 32nd and Itaewon Pocha is the second — eat downstairs, sing upstairs, never go outside. The Verdict: the default, and correctly so.
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Space Karaoke
The one you book rather than walk into. Space prices by package: rooms start at $390 for two hours for up to ten people and climb to four figures for the VIP suites, with open-bar tiers at $49 to $79 a head on top. The Verdict: for two people this is absurd; for a birthday of fifteen it’s cheaper per head than the same night spent buying rounds downstairs, and that’s the actual case for it. The Honest Caveat: eleven floors up and package-only, so turning up at 1am hoping for a small room is not the plan.
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Radio Star Karaoke
Three blocks north of the crush on 32nd, which is the point — on a Saturday at midnight the Korea Way noraebangs have a wait and this one often doesn’t. The Honest Caveat: they publish no rates anywhere, so call (212) 564-2520 before you build a group night around it. Open from 5pm Monday to Saturday, till 2am midweek and 4am Friday and Saturday; Sunday it opens at 6 and shuts at midnight. Go Here Instead if you want a published price: Gagopa, three blocks south.
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Koreatown happy hour: FAQ
What time does happy hour start in Koreatown?
Most Koreatown happy hours run 5–7pm, but the two longest start much earlier: Jack Demsey’s on West 33rd runs 11am to 6pm Monday to Friday, and Barn Joo 35 posts a daily window of noon to 6pm. On 32nd Street itself, K32 Rooftop (Sun–Wed) and Moono (Sun–Thu) both start at 5pm and stop at 7.
Where can I get cheap drinks in Koreatown?
Bangia’s basement on East 32nd is the cheapest: $3 house shots on Thursdays and $6 house wells on Wednesdays. Moono’s $6 Terra lager is the cheapest beer in a nice room, and K32’s $9 pinot grigio rosé is the cheapest glass of wine. Soju Haus does $1 oysters every Wednesday, all day.
Does Koreatown have a rooftop happy hour?
Yes — K32 Rooftop Bar, on the 14th floor at 17 West 32nd Street, runs one Sunday to Wednesday from 5 to 7pm: $9 rosé, $10 wine by the glass, $12 well drinks, $14 for the Nite Mate and $35 for a bucket of five beers. Cloud Social, 17 floors up at 6 West 32nd, confirms a daily happy hour but publishes no times or prices.
What is open late in Koreatown?
Han Bat on West 35th is open 24 hours, seven days. BCD Tofu House and Anytime Kitchen both run to 5am on Friday and Saturday, Itaewon Pocha and KRUSH to 4am, and Jack Demsey’s and Playwright Irish Pub are 4am every night. Miss Korea BBQ’s booking listing shows round-the-clock service, though the restaurant’s own site publishes no hours at all.
How much does karaoke cost in Koreatown?
Gagopa, on the third floor of 28 West 32nd, is the only noraebang here that publishes rates: $9 per person per hour plus tax for groups of five or more, or $36 an hour plus tax for one to four people. Space Karaoke prices by package instead — rooms from $390 for two hours, open bar $49 to $79 a head. Radio Star publishes nothing; call first.
Which Koreatown deals did you remove, and why?
Two, on 10 August 2026. K-Town Pocha’s “20% off all drinks before 7pm” existed nowhere on the open web except this site and one aggregator page that disclaims itself as unofficial and community-edited. Anytime Kitchen’s “buy 3 cocktails, get the 4th free” likewise had no source but us; it appears to be a paid dining-club perk that became a public promo somewhere along the way. We also corrected Miss Korea’s lunch prix-fixe from $19 to $32, moved Baekjeong to 49 West 32nd Street, and added the K32 happy hour we had previously said did not exist.
Last updated: August 2026. Every deal on this page was checked against the venue’s own menu, site or booking listing in the week of 10 August 2026, and we say on the card when a number came from somewhere else. Two deals were removed this week because the only source for them was this website. Deals and hours still change — confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
