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West Village
Happy Hour
Dollar oysters on Downing, $10 martinis at Dante, and half off an entire basement dive. The prettiest neighborhood in the city, priced for actually going out.
Most West Village happy hours run 4-7pm – Boucherie starts at 2pm, Dante’s martini hour at 3.
- 15 verified bars
- oysters from $1
- martinis from $10
- best window half off
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The best happy hours in the West Village right now are Due West ($1.50 oysters and $11-12 draft cocktails, Mon-Thu 5-7pm and Fri 4-6pm), Down the Hatch (50% off the entire bar, weekdays until 7pm), Dante West Village ($10 martinis, daily 3-5pm), Ama Raw Bar ($1 oysters on Downing St) and Art Bar ($5 on everything, daily 4-7pm). Fifteen verified spots follow, every deal priced and timed, re-checked in August 2026 – and four of them changed since our last pass, including the one everybody gets wrong about Dante. Take the 1 to Christopher St or the A/C/E/B/D/F/M to W 4th and the whole list is inside a ten-minute walk. More citywide picks in our NYC happy hour deals index.
The short version
- Best overallDue West – $1.50 oysters and $11-12 draft cocktails, Mon-Thu 5-7pm, Fri 4-6pm.
- Cheapest shellAma Raw Bar – $1 oysters on Downing St. Window unpublished; call first.
- Best cheapDown the Hatch – 50% off the entire bar, weekdays until 7pm. About $2-$4 a drink.
- Best cocktailDante West Village – $10 martinis, daily 3-5pm. Not negronis; see the FAQ.
- Best weekendBoucherie – Green Hour daily 2-7pm, at the bar.
- Date nightBobo‘s Den, then Employees Only at 5pm sharp.
At a glance
Ranked on the deal, nothing else – no venue on this page has paid for its position. Row numbers match the map pins below. Four entries changed since our last pass – Dante, Bandits, Boucherie and LELABAR – and Ama Raw Bar is new.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Due West | $1.50 oysters, $11-12 draft cocktails, $9 wine | Mon-Fri | 5-7pm (Fri 4-6) | $$$ |
| Ama Raw Bar | $1 oysters – the cheapest in the Village | Daily | confirm the window | $$$ |
| Boucherie West Village | ‘Green Hour’ – house wine, cocktails, beer + small plates, at the bar | Daily | 2-7pm | $$$ |
| Dante West Village | $10 Martini Hour – four signature martinis | Daily | 3-5pm | $$$ |
| LELABAR | $8-10 happy hour wines by the glass, oval bar, 700 bottles | Daily | 4-6pm | $$$ |
| Bobo | $10 cocktails, $8 wine, $5 beer, $2 oysters – in the Den only | Daily | 5-7pm | $$$ |
| Employees Only | No deal – world-class cocktails; beat the crowd at open | Daily | from 5pm | $$$ |
| Down the Hatch | 50% off the entire bar – about $2-$4 a drink | Mon-Fri | open-7pm | $$$ |
| Art Bar | $5 everything – drafts, wells, house wine, sparkling | Daily | 4-7pm | $$$ |
| Bandits | Burger & Dive | $10 Martini Mondays; weekday happy hour 4-6pm | Mon-Fri | 4-6pm | $$$ |
| The Spaniard | Whiskey-bar happy hour with a top-tier burger | Mon-Fri | 4-7pm | $$$ |
| Hudson Hound | Stock-ticker pricing: $7.22 drafts, $10.31 cocktails | Tue-Fri | 4-6pm | $$$ |
| Blind Tiger | 28 rotating taps $6.50-11, cask ale around $7 – fair all day | Daily | no fixed window | $$$ |
| White Horse Tavern | 1880 literary landmark – specials run, window unpublished | Daily | window varies | $$$ |
| The Red Lion | Live-music pub with a real weekday window | Mon-Fri | 4-7pm | $$$ |
Map: where these 15 spots are
Everything sits between 8th Ave and Bleecker – the whole list walks end to end in about fifteen minutes. Ama Raw Bar and the Red Lion are the southern outliers.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the deal and directions.
Oysters: the $1 and $1.50 windows
Three rooms, three prices, three very different evenings. More bivalve math in our oyster happy hour guide.
Due West On now
Most oyster hours in this city are a loss-leader bolted onto a full-price drinks list. Due West is the one that discounts both. $1.50 oysters with a six-piece minimum, $9 glasses of red or white, $6 Bronx Brewery No Resolution IPA – and draft cocktails pulled off the real menu rather than a dumbed-down happy-hour build. The Green-Witch (Greenhook gin, absinthe, saffron, toasted rosemary) is $11 inside the window, from a list built by a former Locanda Verde cocktail director. The room is polished-tavern rather than raw-bar clinical: navy velvet banquettes, rotating art from ACA Galleries, corner windows onto W 10th. The Verdict: the best complete happy hour in the neighborhood – the oysters are the hook, the draft cocktails are the reason you stay. The Local Move: bar seat at five sharp, six oysters and a Green-Witch, out the door under $30. The Honest Caveat: doors are 5pm Monday to Thursday, so the deal starts the second they unlock, and table service lags behind the bar during the rush.
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Ama Raw Bar
New to this list, and it moves the math. Ama runs a $1 oyster happy hour at 39 Downing – fifty cents under Due West, and the lowest published price on any shell in the West Village. It is a small, dark, Asian-influenced raw bar: oysters with three sauces including two that are not the ketchup one, yellowtail jalapeño, coconut-green-curry mussels, and a lychee martini that diners keep pricing at ten dollars. The Honest Caveat, and it is a real one: Ama does not publish its happy hour window anywhere on its own site. Recent diners put it at doors until 7pm, and doors are 5pm Monday to Friday, 4pm on weekends – but we have not been able to confirm that first-hand, so call before you plan an evening around it. That is also why there is no live pill on this card. Worth It if the oyster price is the whole point of your night.
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Boucherie West Village On now
The longest reliable window in the neighborhood, and the only one that does not care what day it is. Boucherie’s Green Hour runs every single day, 2 to 7pm – house wine, classic cocktails, beer and a short list of French small plates – inside a room doing full La Belle Époque: absinthe drips, white jackets, brass and marble. Five hours, weekends included, which quietly makes this the safest answer to almost any ‘where should we meet’ in the Village. The Why: consistency is the deal. No calendar math, no day-of-week asterisk. The Honest Caveat, corrected this month: Green Hour is bar only, and the oysters are not part of it – they are available all day at full price alongside champagne, which is a lovely thing and a different budget. Come at 2 on a weekend or expect a wait for the marble.
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Cocktails, wine & the date-night rooms
Where the first drink does the talking. See also our best wine bars in NYC and best cocktail bars.
Dante West Village On now
Correcting ourselves: the $10 deal at 551 Hudson is martinis, not negronis. Negroni Hour is at Caffe Dante, the 1915 original on MacDougal that took World’s Best Bar in 2019. This is the sister room, and what it runs daily from 3 to 5pm is Martini Hour – $10 for Dante’s Martini (Fords gin, Noilly Prat, toasted fennel, verjus, a pinch of salt), the Olivette, the Upside Down Dirty Gibson, and With a Twist. Ten dollars for a martini built at this level is the single best cocktail-per-dollar trade in the neighborhood. The Local Move: it runs 3 to 5, not 5 to 7 – move your afternoon, not your evening. The Honest Caveat: two blocks apart, two different deals, and half the internet has them confused. If you came for a negroni, walk to MacDougal.
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LELABAR On now
The Village’s best wine bar for drinking alone on purpose: one oval bar, tin ceilings, custom ironwork, and a list 700 deep where most of it opens by the glass. Happy hour runs 4 to 6pm, seven days – we had this as a vaguer ‘until 6pm’ and their own Instagram is specific, so it is fixed – and the window puts wines that normally run $14-$19 at $8-$10. Regulars also report three small plates for $12. The Why: the pour is honest and the sommeliers treat a question as participation, not an inconvenience. The Honest Caveat: Monday doors are 5pm, so Monday’s window is really an hour; seats are finite and it fills by 6:30. If oysters are the plan, the $1.50 market shells are listed Wednesday and Saturday only – check the chalkboard.
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Bobo On now
Happy hour inside an actual 1930s West Village townhouse – the downstairs Den bar, the parlour dining room above it, a jewel-box bar called Coco and a garden that runs year-round. The deal, as reported by regulars: $10 cocktails, $8 wines, $5 beer and $2 oysters, daily 5 to 7pm. The Verdict: the best first-drink room in the Village for anyone trying to impress without having to explain a dive bar. The Honest Caveat, and it will save you a bad start to the night: happy hour is served in the Den only. Walk in, go downstairs, do not let anyone seat you in the parlour and then wonder why the check looks like dinner. Prices here are diner-reported rather than posted, so confirm when you order.
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Employees Only
Honesty first: there is no happy hour here, and there never will be. Employees Only is a destination cocktail bar – psychic in the window, bartenders in chef whites, drinks that shaped a generation of menus – and it charges accordingly. It earns its place on this page as the splurge that anchors a Village night rather than opens one. The Local Move that works like a deal: walk in right at 5pm when the doors open. Full attention from the A-team, no crowd, no wait, no shouting your order twice. The same drink at 10pm costs the same money and gets you half the experience. Go Here Instead if price is the point: Dante is three minutes north and pours a $10 martini until five.
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The cheap seats
Half-off basements, five-dollar everything, and a ten-dollar martini that arrives as two. More in our best dive bars in NYC guide.
Down the Hatch On now
The single cheapest way to drink in the West Village: half off the entire bar – everything, not a sad subsection – from open until 7pm, Monday through Friday. In a neighborhood where a cocktail crossed $18 years ago, that lands most drinks between two and four dollars. Doors matter here, so here they are: 4pm Monday to Wednesday, 3pm Thursday, 2pm Friday. Get in earlier on a Friday and the deal is five hours long. The Verdict: unbeatable on price, genuinely, and it has been since 1991. The Honest Caveat: it is a basement, it is loud, and by 8pm it is a shot-ski situation. The Local Move: weekday afternoons before the post-work wave are shockingly civilised for what this room becomes later.
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Art Bar On now
Half dive, half velvet-couch lounge, all Village – and the deal is simpler than we used to describe it. Per Art Bar’s own menu: five dollars, daily 4 to 7pm, on draft beer, well drinks, house wine and the house sparkling, which feels like somebody forgot to close a loophole. Three hours, seven days, in a neighborhood where the average cocktail passed $18 a long time ago. The front room is booths and noise; the back is overstuffed couches around a working fireplace, hung with rotating work from local artists. The Verdict: the best rainy-afternoon happy hour in the West Village. The Local Move: order the sparkling and take it to the fireplace. The Honest Caveat: dim by design, and it is a hang, not a scene.
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Bandits | Burger & Dive On now
Two corrections in one card. It is now Bandits | Burger & Dive – the Garret Group turned the diner concept into a burger room – and the happy hour is Monday to Friday, 4 to 6pm, not daily. We had it as seven days; their own Instagram says five. What survives untouched is the reason to go: Martini Monday, $10 martinis famously poured as two glasses, running all night, with a burger-fries-and-a-martini combo around $25. The room is a green-velvet, checkered-floor, disco-ball fever dream and the dry-aged Tavern Burger is the real draw. The Verdict: the most fun per dollar on this list, on a Monday. The Honest Caveat: a stale ‘closed’ listing is still floating around one review site – the bar is open and pouring.
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Pubs, pints & late night
Whiskey walls, cask ale, an 1880 landmark and a room with a band in it. More proper pours in our Irish bars in NYC guide.
The Spaniard On now
Four hundred whiskeys on the wall and a burger that turns up on best-of lists, plus a proper Monday-to-Friday window, 4 to 7pm. The Spaniard is what a Village corner pub looks like with ambition: dark wood, real cooking, a room that handles the third date and the sixth pint with equal grace. The Verdict: the strongest food-plus-drinks happy hour in the neighborhood – the only one on this page where the kitchen is the reason you stay past the window. The Local Move: land a window seat before 5:30; the W 4th corner is prime people-watching and the first wave takes it fast. The Honest Caveat: the specific happy-hour pricing is not posted online – ask for the list when you sit down.
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Hudson Hound On now
The gimmick earns its keep: happy hour prices set like stock quotes – $7.22 on all draft beer, $10.31 on featured cocktails – Tuesday through Friday, 4 to 6pm, at the coziest Irish gastropub in the Village. Sister room to FiDi’s bank-vault Trinity Place, same wink, better fireplace. The Why: ‘all draft’ means the good stouts count, not just whatever macro lager is nearest the tap handle – which is not true of most discounted beer lists in this neighborhood. The Honest Caveat: there is no Monday window, and the room is small enough that by 5:15 you are negotiating for elbow space with regulars who got there first.
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Blind Tiger
No happy hour, and it does not need one. Blind Tiger has been the city’s defining craft-beer bar since 1995: 28 rotating taps running roughly $6.50 to $11, cask-conditioned ale around $7, and a list that turns over faster than you can develop a favourite. The Verdict: for beer people this is the deal – a hand-pulled cask pint at seven dollars beats most ‘discounted’ macro drafts in Manhattan, at any hour, on any day. The Local Move: weekday afternoons get you the wood-panelled corner window seat and first pull on a new keg. The Honest Caveat: weekend nights are a friendly crush and the bar is three deep – this is a Tuesday bar wearing a Saturday reputation.
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White Horse Tavern
The second-oldest continuously running tavern in the city and the one with the best ghosts: Dylan Thomas drank his last here, and the Hudson Street sidewalk tables have hosted seventy years of writers pretending to work. It runs happy hour specials and advertises them on its own site – but it does not publish the window, so we will not either. Confirm when you sit down rather than trusting anyone’s screenshot, ours included. The Verdict: you come for the room, the tin ceiling and a fairly priced pint under the horse head; a discount is a bonus, not the plan. The Local Move: sidewalk seat, golden hour, one long beer – the most Village hour available at any price. Doors are 4pm Monday to Wednesday, noon from Thursday.
The Red Lion On now
Two personalities, one useful bar. By day the Red Lion is a Bleecker Street football pub showing every match with the sound actually on; by night it is one of the last rooms in the Village with live music seven nights and no cover on most sets. The happy hour bridges both – Monday to Friday, 4 to 7pm, on drafts and wells. The Verdict: the best something-is-always-happening room on this list, and the right answer when nobody in the group can agree. The Local Move: weekday 5pm gets you cheap pints, an early soundcheck and a stool you will not want to surrender. The Honest Caveat: it is on the loud stretch of Bleecker and it knows it – this is not the room for a conversation that matters.
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West Village happy hour: FAQ
What’s the best happy hour in the West Village?
Due West is the benchmark: $1.50 oysters (six minimum), $9 wine and $11-12 draft cocktails off the real menu, Monday to Thursday 5-7pm and Friday 4-6pm. For pure savings, Down the Hatch takes 50% off the entire bar on weekdays until 7pm – roughly $2-$4 a drink. For a cocktail, Dante West Village pours $10 martinis daily from 3 to 5pm.
Where can I get $1 oysters in the West Village?
Ama Raw Bar at 39 Downing St runs a $1 oyster happy hour – the cheapest shell in the neighborhood – though it doesn’t publish the window on its own site, so call ahead. The reliable $1.50 option is Due West, Monday to Thursday 5-7pm and Friday 4-6pm. LELABAR lists $1.50 market oysters on Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
Does Dante have $10 negronis or $10 martinis?
Both, at different addresses. Dante West Village at 551 Hudson St runs Martini Hour – $10 signature martinis, daily 3-5pm. The $10 Negroni Hour is at Caffe Dante, the 1915 original at 79-81 MacDougal St in Greenwich Village, in the same 3-5pm window. They’re two blocks apart and constantly confused, including by us until this update.
Are there weekend happy hours in the West Village?
Yes, more than most Manhattan neighborhoods. Boucherie’s Green Hour runs daily 2-7pm at the bar, Art Bar is $5 everything 4-7pm seven days, Bobo’s Den happy hour is daily 5-7pm, LELABAR pours 4-6pm daily, and Dante’s $10 Martini Hour runs 3-5pm including weekends. Bandits and Down the Hatch are weekdays only.
What’s the cheapest happy hour in the West Village?
Down the Hatch, and it isn’t close: 50% off the entire bar from open until 7pm Monday to Friday, which puts most drinks between $2 and $4. Art Bar is the flat-rate alternative – $5 drafts, wells, house wine and sparkling, daily 4-7pm, seven days a week.
What are the best wine bars in the West Village for happy hour?
LELABAR is the pick – an oval-bar wine room on Hudson St with 700 bottles and happy hour glasses at $8-$10, daily 4-6pm. Note that Monday doors are 5pm, so the Monday window is short. For a date with more theater, Bobo’s townhouse Den runs $10 cocktails and $8 wines daily 5-7pm two blocks away.
Which West Village bars are best late at night?
Down the Hatch runs its basement to 4am with Atomic Wings till close, Art Bar’s kitchen goes to 4am seven days, the Red Lion has live music nightly on Bleecker with no cover on most sets, and White Horse Tavern keeps its literary-landmark hours on Hudson St. Employees Only shakes world-class cocktails past 3am, no deal required.
Last updated: August 2026. Deals and hours change – confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
