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Happy Hour

Twenty-eight bars between 26th and 31st, checked against their own menus this week. Four rooftops, a dollar-oyster window that runs nine hours, and one deal we had to take down.

NoMad happy hours start early — John Doe opens the discount at 11am, 230 Fifth at 2pm.

  • 28 verified spots
  • oysters from $1
  • drafts from $5
  • one runs 9 hrs

The best happy hours in NoMad right now are John Doe for $1 oysters and $5 pints across a nine-hour window, izakaya NoMad for the cheapest draft beer in the neighborhood at $5, Sarabeth’s for $2 oysters and $8 cocktails daily from 3pm, Il Fiorista for half-price wine bottles every afternoon, and The Smith for $12 martinis that come back every night at 10pm. NoMad is the stretch north of Madison Square Park — 26th to 31st, Sixth Avenue to Lexington — and it has more hotel rooftops per block than anywhere else in Manhattan, which means a lot of $22 cocktails and a handful of genuinely good windows hiding between them. The R and W stop at 28th Street puts you in the middle of it; the 6 at 28th covers the east side. Below: the real deals first, then the rooftops, then the wine rooms, then the late ones. Every price was read off the venue’s own menu, and where a venue publishes a window but not a price, we say so instead of guessing.

The short version

  • Best valueJohn Doe — $1 oysters and $5 pints, 11am to 8pm. Nine hours, seven days.
  • Cheapest drinkizakaya NoMad — $5 draft beer and a $4 sausage plate, Mon–Sat 5–7pm.
  • Best wine dealIl Fiorista — 50% off every bottle, daily 4–6pm. Nobody else publishes this.
  • Best late nightThe Smith — $12 martinis and $20 martini-plus-three-oysters, every night from 10pm.
  • Best rooftop dealART NoMad — $7 beers and $14 classics, daily 4–6pm, 31 floors up.
  • SkipThe Churchill Tavern’s happy hour — we published it for months and it turned out we were the only source. Now corrected.

At a glance

Sorted by section, strongest deals up top. Tap a number on the map to place it.

BarThe dealDaysWindow$
izakaya NoMad$5 draft, $9 highball & sake, $13 cocktail, $4 sausage plateMon–Sat5–7pm$$$
John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen$1 oysters, $5 pints, $7 wine & wells, $12 cocktailsDaily11am–8pm$$$
Sarabeth’s Park Avenue South$2 oysters, $8 cocktails & wine, $6 draft, $6 bar bitesDaily3–7pm$$$
Turnmill$10 cocktails, $6 select drafts & bottles, $8 winesSun–Friall day Sun/Mon, to 7pm Tue–Fri$$$
NoMad Diner$6 select beers, $6 wings, $12 wine, $13 cocktailsDaily4–7pm$$$
Ayza Wine & Chocolate Bar$7 wine by the glass, $25 bottles, $10 cocktails, $6 beerSun–Fri4–6pm$$$
Grey Bar$9 house red/white, $7 Stella draughtDailyopen–7pm$$$
Tavern 29$7 T29 drafts & PBR, $8 wine, $9 cocktailsMon–Frinoon–7pm$$$
Hill Country Barbecue Market$7 beers, $10 specialty cocktailsMon–Fri4–6pm$$$
230 Fifth Rooftop$7 beer, $8 wine, $9 well cocktails, $12 frozensMon–Fri2–4pm$$$
ART NoMad$7 beers, $12 wine, $14 classic cocktailsDaily4–6pm$$$
Everdene$12 Via Carota cocktails, $12 wine, $7 beer, $10 zero-proofMon–Fri4–6pm$$$
Glass Ceiling Rooftop$10 classic cocktails, $15 martinis, $15 flatbreadsTue–Sun4:30–6pm & 10pm–12am$$$
The Lobby Bar at Ace HotelHappy hour twice daily — prices not publishedDaily3–6pm & 11pm–close$$$
Good BehaviorNo happy hour — listed for the room——$$$
Il Fiorista$10 wine by the glass, 50% off bottles, $14 house cocktailsDaily4–6pm$$$
Vin Sur Vingt$10 glass from their selection; 25% off bottles 10pm–closeDaily3–6pm & 10pm–close$$$
The Flatiron Room$14 cocktails, $12 wine, $16 oysters, $25 burger + beerMon–Fri5–7pm$$$
Little Ned$16 martini/negroni/old fashioned, $12 half-dozen oysters, $30 roséMon–Fri5–7pm$$$
Osamil$15 classic cocktails, $7 draft beerSun–Thuall day Sun/Mon, 5–7pm Tue–Thu$$$
The Smith NoMad$12 martinis, $15 half-dozen oysters, $20 martini + 3 oystersMon–Fri3–6pm & 10pm nightly$$$
BLACKBARN$6 draft, $9 house wine, $12 signature cocktails, 25% off ★ appsMon–Fri4–6:30pm$$$
Tipsy NoMad$8 shots, $10 wine, $12 cocktails — no time limitDailyall day, all night$$$
The Churchill TavernNo published happy hour — open till 4amDaily11:30am–4am$$$
Tarallucci e Vino NoMadHappy hour, bar & outside only — prices not publishedMon–Sat4:30–6:30pm$$$
L’Adresse NoMad“Social Hour” at the bar — prices not publishedMon–Fri4–6pm$$$
seeyamañanaHappy hour daily; $11 late-night bites Thu–Sat 10pm–1amDaily4–6pm$$$
The Portrait BarNo happy hour — listed for the roomDailyfrom 5pm$$$

Map: where these 28 spots are

Everything sits between 26th and 31st. The R/W at 28th Street drops you in the middle; the 6 at 28th covers Park Avenue South and east.

Pins are numbered to match the table above — tap any pin for the deal and directions.

The best happy hours in NoMad

Real windows, real prices, every one read off the venue’s own menu this week. More cheap rounds in our best dive bars in NYC guide.

izakaya NoMadOn now

Tight Japanese counter, no ceremony · 13 W 26th St $$$
$5 draft, $9 highball, $13 cocktailMon–Sat
Happy hourMon–Sat 5–7pm

The cheapest real drink in NoMad, and it isn’t close. Five dollars for a draft beer two blocks off Madison Square Park should not be possible in 2026, and yet. The move is the $4 plate of two Kurobuta sausages with cabbage salad — a full snack for the price of a subway ride, and the reason to sit at the counter instead of a table. Highballs and sake are $9, cocktails $13. The honest caveat: their own drink menu says the happy hour runs “every day,” but the kitchen is dark on Sundays, so it’s really Monday through Saturday. Last call is 9:45pm on weeknights — this is an early room, not a late one.

John Doe Craft Bar & KitchenOn now

House-brand beer, nine-hour window · 253 Fifth Ave $$$
$1 oysters, $5 pints, $7 wine11am–8pm
Happy hourDaily 11am–8pm

Nine hours. Dollar oysters. Five-dollar pints of their own lager. If you only click one thing on this page, make it this one. The window runs 11am to 8pm and the oysters are a straight dollar, not a dollar-with-a-two-drink-minimum, which puts it in a different category from most of the $1 oyster theater downtown. Wine and wells are $7, Heineken $6, featured cocktails $12. Friday adds $6 select craft beers and dollar oysters all day. The honest caveat: their menu prints “$1 OYSTERS DAILY” but never spells out which days the 11am–8pm drink window covers. Every reading says all of them. Ask when you sit down.

Sarabeth’s Park Avenue SouthOn now

Brunch institution with a sleeper bar deal · 381 Park Ave S $$$
$2 oysters, $8 cocktails, $6 draft3–7pm daily
Happy hourDaily 3–7pm

Nobody expects the pancake people to be running one of the best happy hours in the neighborhood, which is exactly why there’s room at the bar at 4pm on a Thursday. Four hours, every day: $2 East Coast oysters, $2.50 jumbo shrimp, $8 cocktails, $8 wine, $6 draft, and a whole page of $6 bar bites — goat cheese croquettes, chicken confit tacos, deviled eggs, beef sliders, short rib tater tots. The local move: two people, a dozen oysters and four bites lands under $40 before drinks. The honest caveat: bar and lounge only, and the dining room next to you is paying full freight.

TurnmillOn now

The neighborhood’s football bar · 119 E 27th St $$$
$10 cocktails, $6 drafts, $8 winesall day Sun & Mon
Happy hourSun–Fri to 7pm · all day Sun & Mon

Six days of happy hour and two of them run open to close. That’s the pitch, and it’s printed on their own poster: $10 cocktails, $6 select draft pints and bottles, $8 wines, all day Sunday and Monday, until 7pm Tuesday through Friday. Saturday is the only day off. The room is dark brick and screens — Everton is the house club and the Premier League mornings are genuinely busy. The local move: Sunday. Doors at noon, discount all day, and every other bar on this page is charging full price. The badge above tracks the conservative 3–7pm overlap; Sunday and Monday actually run later.

NoMad DinerOn now

Retro diner under the Arlo · 11 E 31st St $$$
$6 beers, $6 wings, $13 cocktails4–7pm daily
Happy hourDaily 4–7pm

They call it Lucky Hour and it is the cheapest way to actually eat in NoMad before 7pm. Six wings for $6, $6 select beers, $12 featured wine, $13 cocktails — Old Fashioned, margarita, espresso martini, cosmo, whiskey sour. There’s a $10 “NoMad Happy Meal” that comes with a beer, fries and a fortune cookie that occasionally wins you a night upstairs at the Arlo, which is either charming or a marketing funnel depending on your mood. The verdict: worth it. A beer and a plate of wings for twelve dollars, seven days a week, three blocks from Herald Square, is a fair deal in a part of town that mostly isn’t.

Ayza Wine & Chocolate BarOn now

Small, dark, chocolate-forward wine bar · 11 W 31st St $$$
$7 glass or $25 bottle, $10 cocktailsSun–Fri 4–6pm
Happy hourSun–Fri 4–6pm

A $25 bottle of wine at happy hour is rare enough that it’s worth stating twice. Most places discount the glass and leave the bottle alone, because the bottle is where the margin is. Ayza does both: $7 by the glass, $25 for the full bottle, plus $10 cocktails (the chocolate martini is the house thing, and it’s better than it sounds) and $6 beer. The honest caveat: Saturday is the one day they skip it, which is backwards from every other bar in the city and worth remembering before you walk over. The room is small and low-lit and fills up by 5:30.

Grey BarOn now

Unfussy neighborhood bar, open late · 43 W 26th St $$$
$9 house wine, $7 Stella draughtopen till 7pm
Happy hourDaily open–7pm

Two items, no theater, seven days. Their own site calls it Daily Drink Specials rather than happy hour and lists exactly two things: house red or white at $9, Stella draught at $7. That’s the whole offer, and there’s something reassuring about a bar that doesn’t pad the list. The honest caveat — and it matters: the site advertises the specials from noon, but the doors don’t open until 4pm Monday through Thursday and 3pm Friday. Noon is only real on the weekend. We’ve set the badge to 4pm so it never lights up while the gate is down. Open till 2am every night.

Tavern 29On now

Three floors, 34 taps, rooftop biergarten · 47 E 29th St $$$
$7 drafts, $8 wine, $9 cocktailsMon–Fri to 7pm
Happy hourMon–Fri noon–7pm

Seven hours on a weekday is the longest posted window in NoMad, and the converted townhouse gives you three floors and a rooftop biergarten to spend it in. Real prices: $7 for the house T29 Ale, T29 IPA or a PBR tall boy, $8 pinot grigio or pinot noir, $9 for the spicy marg, the negroni or the Rose Hill sangria. The local move: Thirsty Thursday runs noon to midnight — twelve straight hours — and Monday nights are half-price wine bottles from 4pm. The honest caveat: the $7 tap price covers three specific beers, not all 34 lines, and Monday the bar doesn’t open till 4pm.

Hill Country Barbecue MarketOn now

Central Texas barbecue, live music downstairs · 30 W 26th St $$$
$7 beers, $10 specialty cocktailsMon–Fri 4–6pm
Happy hourMon–Fri 4–6pm

Meat by the pound upstairs, a bar called the Boot downstairs, and live music most nights without a cover. The happy hour is straightforward — $7 beers, $10 specialty cocktails, weekdays 4 to 6, at the bar — but the reason to come is that you can eat properly here for the price of a mediocre entrée elsewhere and then not leave. The local move: order at the counter by weight, get the moist brisket, take it to the bar. The honest caveat: the deal is bar-only, the market counter closes an hour before the doors do, and it gets loud when there’s a band.

Rooftops & hotel bars

NoMad has more rooftops per block than anywhere in Manhattan. These are the ones that discount — and the one that doesn’t but should be on your list anyway. See also the best rooftop bars in NYC and our NYC hotel bars guide.

230 Fifth RooftopOn now

The biggest rooftop in Manhattan, igloos in winter · 1150 Broadway $$$
$7 beer, $8 wine, $9 wells, $12 frozensfrom 2pm
Happy hourMon–Fri 2–4pm

The earliest happy hour in NoMad and, for two hours a day, a genuinely fair price for an Empire State Building view: $7 beers, $8 wine, $9 well cocktails, $12 frosé and frozen margaritas served in a drink bag. Twenty floors up, heated transparent igloos November through April, and it is exactly as touristed as you’d expect after 5pm. The local move: get there at 2pm on a weekday. The room is half empty, the light is good and the deal is on. The honest caveat: their own homepage says happy hour runs 2–5pm while their menu site says 2–4pm weekdays. We’ve badged the window both sources agree on — if you turn up at 4:30, ask.

ART NoMadOn now

31 floors up, glass-floor sky walk · 11 E 31st St, Rooftop $$$
$7 beers, $12 wine, $14 classic cocktails4–6pm daily
Happy hourDaily 4–6pm

Thirty-one floors above 31st Street with the Empire State Building close enough to feel rude about it. The happy hour runs every day, 4 to 6: $7 beers, $12 wine, $14 classic cocktails — which is roughly half what the view would normally cost you in this city. There’s a glass-floor sky walk if you want to test your relationship with heights. The verdict: the best view-per-dollar on this page, and unlike most hotel rooftops it doesn’t make you feel like you’re being processed. The honest caveat: doors at 4pm, so the deal starts the moment they open and ends two hours later. Go early or go home.

EverdeneOn now

Virgin Hotels’ third-floor terrace · 1227 Broadway $$$
$7 beer, $12 wine, $12 cocktailsMon–Fri 4–6pm
Happy hourMon–Fri 4–6pm

Third-floor sky bar terrace at the Virgin, and the better call than 230 Fifth if you care more about the room than the square footage. The Via Carota craft cocktails are $12 at happy hour — Old Fashioned, French 75, negroni sbagliato, sparkling paloma — with wine at $12, beer at $7 and zero-proof at $10. The honest caveat, and it’s the useful one: the bites are not discounted. Every list that says “$14 cocktails and light bites” is quoting Virgin’s own marketing page, which is stale on the price and misleading on the food — the actual menu says $12, and the rock shrimp is still $14. Their venue page also claims the deal runs daily; the menu says weekdays. Assume weekdays.

Glass Ceiling Rooftop

Retractable-roof rooftop with a late second window · 1204 Broadway, 5th Fl $$$
$10 classic cocktails, $15 martinis4:30–6pm & 10pm–12am
Happy hourTue–Sun 4:30–6pm & 10pm–12am

The only rooftop in NoMad running a real late-night discount: $10 classic cocktails and $15 martinis again from 10pm to midnight, which is when everywhere else on this page has switched to full price. Also $15 flatbreads and a $10 Caesar. The roof retracts, the Empire State is in frame, and the room caps around 120 so it feels like a bar rather than an airport. The honest caveat — read this one: their posted hours say doors at 5pm Tuesday through Friday, but the happy hour is advertised from 4:30pm, and Sunday is brunch-only until 4pm. The 4:30 start doesn’t survive their own schedule. We’ve left the badge off rather than light it while the door is locked. Go at 10. Closed Mondays.

The Lobby Bar at Ace HotelOn now

The best free-to-enter room in NoMad · 20 W 29th St $$$
Happy hour — prices unpublished3–6pm & 11pm–close
Happy hourDaily 3–6pm & 11pm–close

The Ace lobby has been the neighborhood’s living room for fifteen years and it is still the move: dark wood, a long communal table, laptops out until six and a proper scene after. Two happy hour windows a day, 3 to 6 and again from 11pm to close, seven days — DJs Thursday and Friday, live music Saturday. The honest caveat: they publish the windows and not the prices, so we’re not going to invent them. Assume hotel-bar pricing with a discount on it rather than a bargain. The why: you’re paying for a room nobody has managed to copy, and you don’t need a reservation or a bottle minimum to sit in it.

Good Behavior

18th-floor tiki jungle at the Made Hotel · 44 W 29th St, 18th Fl $$$
No happy hourfull price, worth it
Happy hourNo happy hour

No deal, and we’re listing it anyway, because it’s the best-looking room above 26th Street. Eighteen floors up at the Made Hotel, half indoor and half terrace, planted like a greenhouse and lit like someone’s good apartment. Skip it if you’re counting dollars — drinks are full freight and the third-party guides claiming a daily 3–7pm deal with $5 beers are quoting a neighborhood roundup from 2021 that the bar has never confirmed. Worth it if you want the one drink that makes the evening. Go at sunset, sit outside, have the one, then walk two blocks to the Ace and stop spending.

Wine, aperitivo & whiskey

Where NoMad actually drinks. Two of these discount bottles, not just glasses — more in our best wine bars in NYC guide.

Il FioristaOn now

Italian restaurant and working flower shop · 17 W 26th St $$$
$10 glass, bottles 50% off, $14 cocktails4–6pm daily
Happy hourDaily 4–6pm

Half off every bottle of house wine, every day, 4 to 6. That is the single best wine deal in NoMad and almost nobody publishes it, because Il Fiorista puts its aperitivo menu out as an image file that search engines can’t read. Glasses are $10, house cocktails $14, and the bar food is real — a carne e formaggio board at three for $32 or five for $50, marinated olives for $5, cacio e pepe for $18. The room is a restaurant attached to an actual flower shop, which sounds precious and mostly isn’t. The local move: two people, one half-price bottle, the $32 board. The honest caveat: aperitivo is at the bar only.

Vin Sur VingtOn now

French wine bar, walk-ins only · 1140 Broadway $$$
$10 glass till 6pm; 25% off bottles from 10pmdaily
Happy hourDaily 3–6pm

A real French list, not a sad house blend with a discount taped to it. Ten dollars a glass from their selection from open at 3pm until 6, and then the better trick: 25% off any bottle from 10pm to close, every night. Marble-edged, dim, narrow, sidewalk seats when it’s warm. The local move: this is the second-stop bar. Have dinner somewhere else, walk over at 10, order a bottle you wouldn’t normally order and take a quarter off it. The honest caveat: no reservations, first-come only, and the $10 price covers their selected glasses rather than the whole list — ask which ones before you commit.

The Flatiron RoomOn now

Whiskey library with live music nightly · 37 W 26th St $$$
$14 cocktails, $12 wine, $16 half-dozen oystersMon–Fri 5–7pm
Happy hourMon–Fri 5–7pm

Tin ceilings, ladder-height bottle shelves, more than 1,000 different spirits, and live music every single night — blues, jazz, singer-songwriters — which is the part people miss. Happy hour is weekdays 5 to 7 at the bar and lounge: $14 cocktails, $12 wine and prosecco, $10 sixteen-ounce beer, half a dozen oysters for $16, and a smash burger with a Transmitter beer for $25. Small plates are $14 or three for $38. The local move: you don’t need a reservation for the bar — it’s first-come and the full menu is available without one, while the tables are held for dinner until 10pm. The honest caveat: some evening shows are separately ticketed.

Little NedOn now

Dark-wood cocktail den at The Ned · 10 W 28th St $$$
$16 martinis, $12 half-dozen oysters, $9 friesMon–Fri 5–7pm
Happy hourMon–Fri 5–7pm

They call it Golden Hour and it is the most grown-up cheap round in NoMad. Sixteen dollars for a house martini made the way you ask, or a negroni, or an old fashioned; half a dozen oysters for $12 and a dozen for $20; fries with herbs for $9; a caviar bump for $20 if the evening is going that way. The sleeper: a full bottle of rosé for $30, which is less than two cocktails. 1920s booth seating, low light, its own entrance on 28th Street so you never walk through a hotel lobby. The honest caveat: weekdays only, and they’re closed Sunday. The verdict: a martini and six oysters for $28 in a room this good is the best-value luxury on the page.

OsamilOn now

Korean kitchen with a cocktail bar upstairs · 5 W 31st St $$$
$15 classic cocktails, $7 draftall day Sun & Mon
Happy hourSun–Thu 5–7pm · all day Sun & Mon

Osamil Upstairs is a proper cocktail bar sitting above a Korean restaurant on the Koreatown seam, and the happy hour is shaped for people who drink on the wrong nights: all day Sunday and all day Monday, then 5 to 7 Tuesday through Thursday. Fifteen dollars for a barrel-aged old fashioned, a negroni built on gin or mezcal, an espresso martini, a Manhattan or a martini; $7 for a pilsner or IPA on draft. The local move: Sunday evening, upstairs, when the rest of NoMad has gone quiet and every rooftop has stopped discounting. The honest caveat: Friday and Saturday there’s no deal at all.

Pubs, late night & the long window

The rooms that stay open, plus one correction we owe you. Still going after midnight? See the best late-night food in NYC.

The Smith NoMadOn now

American brasserie, bar-only Martini Hour · 1150 Broadway $$$
$12 martinis, $15 half-dozen oysters, $20 combo3–6pm + 10pm nightly
Happy hourMon–Fri 3–6pm · nightly from 10pm

Twelve-dollar martinis in four builds — caprese, dirty blue olive, pickle rick, espresso — and the clearest value on the page: $20 for a Pickle Rick and three oysters. Half a dozen oysters is $15, a shrimp cocktail $12, chips with blue cheese and onion fondue $10, fries from $9. The unlock is the late window. Weekdays 3 to 6 is the ordinary shape, but it runs again every night from 10pm, seven days, which makes this the best second stop in NoMad by a distance. The honest caveat: bar only. Sit at a table and you’re paying full price for the same martini.

BLACKBARNOn now

Chef-driven barn tavern on the park · 19 E 26th St $$$
$6 draft, $9 wine, $12 cocktails, 25% off ★ appsMon–Fri 4–6:30pm
Happy hourMon–Fri 4–6:30pm

Reclaimed wood, John Doherty out of the Waldorf in the kitchen, and a tavern room that faces the north end of Madison Square Park. Two and a half hours on weekdays: $6 draft beer, $9 house wine, $12 signature cocktails and 25% off the starred appetizers. The honest caveat: 25% off a $19 plate of wings still lands at about $14, so the drinks are the deal and the food discount is thinner than the percentage makes it sound. Also worth knowing: their own blog still advertises a retired version of this — seven days, $5 beer, $7 wine, a second 9–11pm window. It’s gone. The tavern menu is the live one, and it’s tavern room only, not the dining room.

Tipsy NoMadOn now

60-foot bar built for groups · 37 E 28th St $$$
$8 shots, $10 wine, $12 cocktailsall day, all night
Happy hourDaily all day, all night

A sixty-foot bar, lounge seating for a hundred, doors until 2am on weeknights and 3am Friday and Saturday. The happy hour has no clock on it at all — their own menu says “All Day, All Night”: $8 shots, $10 wine, $12 cocktails, whenever you show up. The verdict: not the cheapest list in NoMad, but the only one with no window to miss, which matters when you’re moving a group of nine and nobody agrees on a time. Correction worth stating: we used to publish $5 pints and a Mon–Fri 11am–7pm window here. Neither is on their menu any more — the deal changed shape and got simpler. No beer price is published at all.

The Churchill Tavern

British pub, open till 4am · 45 E 28th St $$$
No published happy houropen till 4am daily
Happy hourDaily 11:30am–4am

We were wrong about this one and it’s worth saying so. We used to publish $6 drafts, $7 wines and $8 cocktails here on a Mon–Fri 4–7pm window plus a midnight–2am second round. Going back through it, the only source on the open web for those numbers was us — and the Churchill’s own site links out to our page, so the one thing that looked like corroboration was our own claim coming back around. Their site publishes no drinks menu and no happy hour at all. So: no deal listed until someone confirms one. What’s actually true: a proper British pub open 11:30am to 4am seven days, with a Sunday roast from noon. Late is the reason to come.

Real windows, prices we won’t guess

These three publish a happy hour and not what’s in it. We’d rather tell you that than invent a number.

Tarallucci e Vino NoMadOn now

Italian wine bar with a serious cocktail list · 44 E 28th St $$$
Happy hour — prices unpublishedbar & patio only
Happy hourMon–Sat 4:30–6:30pm

Named the best Italian restaurant in New York by Gambero Rosso, with an all-Italian list built on small family producers and a cocktail program with Employees Only lineage behind it. The window is theirs, in their own words: 4:30 to 6:30, bar area and outside only. Two corrections from our last version. We said “daily” — they’re closed Sundays, so it’s Monday through Saturday. And we published $6 beer, $9 wine and an $11 negroni; those figures come from a listings site that last updated in April 2023 and appear nowhere the restaurant controls. They’re gone until someone reads a menu. The honest caveat: sit at a dining table and the happy hour price disappears.

L’Adresse NoMadOn now

Corner French bistro with a Social Hour · 1184 Broadway $$$
Social Hour — prices unpublishedweekdays, at the bar
Happy hourMon–Fri 4–6pm

A big-windowed corner bistro on Broadway at 28th that calls its happy hour Social Hour, which is why it doesn’t show up when you search for one. The window is first-party — weekdays 4 to 6, printed on their own contact page between lunch and dinner service. The honest caveat: the Social Hour menu link on their site loads empty, so no prices are published anywhere they control. Their booking listing says $12 cocktails and wines and $2 oysters at the bar, which is credible and which we are attributing rather than asserting. The why: $2 oysters on Broadway would be a genuinely good deal, and it’s worth one phone call before you walk over.

seeyamañanaOn now

Candlelit Baja room, agave-heavy · 49 W 27th St $$$
Happy hour + $11 late-night bites4–6pm daily
Happy hourDaily 4–6pm

Low light, a lot of agave, and a Baja menu that takes itself seriously without the room doing the same. The happy hour is every day, 4 to 6, straight from their own site — but they don’t publish what’s on it, so we’re not going to make it up. The part that is fully priced is better anyway: $11 late-night bites, Thursday through Saturday, 10pm to 1am. That’s a rare thing in this neighborhood, where most kitchens have given up by eleven. The local move: come after something else, sit at the bar at 10:30, order the $11 plates and a mezcal.

No happy hour, go anyway

One room worth full price, listed honestly.

The Portrait Bar

The room that reset the neighborhood’s ceiling · 1 W 28th St $$$
No happy hourfull price, no apologies
Happy hourDaily from 5pm

No deal, no discount, no window — and still the best cocktail room in NoMad. The Fifth Avenue Hotel’s travel-themed bar, sister to Café Carmellini, is the room that made the rest of the neighborhood raise its game. Worth it if you want one properly made drink in a room built by people who care about rooms. Skip it if you’re assembling a night out of $7 beers — nothing here is going to help. Doors at 5pm daily, 2am on weekends. The local move: one drink here to start, then walk four blocks to The Smith for the 10pm martini hour and let the average work itself out.

NoMad happy hour: FAQ

What time does happy hour start in NoMad?

Earlier than most of Manhattan. John Doe Craft Bar opens its window at 11am and runs to 8pm, Tavern 29 and Grey Bar go from noon, and 230 Fifth starts at 2pm — the earliest rooftop deal in the neighborhood. Most others land between 4pm and 5pm, and Little Ned, The Flatiron Room and Osamil don’t start until 5.

Where can I get cheap drinks in NoMad?

izakaya NoMad has the cheapest drink on this page at $5 for a draft beer, Monday to Saturday 5–7pm, with a $4 plate of Kurobuta sausages next to it. John Doe matches it with $5 pints and $1 oysters across a nine-hour window, and Turnmill runs $6 drafts and $10 cocktails all day Sunday and Monday.

Where are the $1 oysters in NoMad?

John Doe Craft Bar & Kitchen at 253 Fifth Avenue runs $1 oysters daily, and all day on Fridays. Sarabeth’s Park Avenue South is the next best at $2 an oyster every day from 3pm to 7pm, and Little Ned at The Ned does a half-dozen for $12 on weekdays 5–7pm.

Is there a late-night happy hour in NoMad?

Three. The Smith NoMad restarts its $12 martini hour every night at 10pm, seven days. Vin Sur Vingt takes 25% off any bottle of wine from 10pm to close. Glass Ceiling Rooftop runs $10 classic cocktails and $15 martinis again from 10pm to midnight. The Lobby Bar at the Ace also opens a second window at 11pm.

What is the best rooftop happy hour in NoMad?

ART NoMad on top of the Arlo, 31 floors up, at $7 beers, $12 wine and $14 classic cocktails daily 4–6pm. 230 Fifth is cheaper ($7 beer, $9 wells) and starts at 2pm but gets crowded and touristed after 5. Everdene at the Virgin is the better room of the two big ones, at $12 cocktails weekdays 4–6pm — note that the bites there are not discounted, whatever other guides tell you.

Is NoMad the same as Flatiron?

No, and we keep them separate. NoMad is north of Madison Square Park — roughly 26th to 31st Street, Sixth Avenue to Lexington. Flatiron is south of it, 14th to 26th. Venues like The Grey Dog at 55 W 26th and Hole in the Wall at 37 W 24th sit on the Flatiron side and live on our Flatiron happy hour guide; The Globe on East 23rd is Gramercy and is covered on our Gramercy page.

Last updated: August 2026. Deals and hours change — confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.

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