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Astoria
Happy Hour
A $4 shot on Broadway, a $10 Negroni on Ditmars, and the only late-night happy hour in the neighbourhood — rebuilt after four dead venues came off the page.
Most Astoria happy hours run 4–7pm — The Bonnie opens its Friday window at noon.
- 16 bars, re-checked
- shots from $4
- 8 priced deals
- 4 dead listings cut
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The best happy hours in Astoria right now are The Rabbit Hole for value — $4 shots, $5 beers and half-off appetizers, Monday to Friday 5–8pm — The Ditty for a $10 Negroni made properly, Rivercrest for the neighbourhood’s only real late-night window, and Fresco’s Grand Cantina for a Sunday. This page was badly out of date and we have rebuilt it from scratch: four of the eleven venues we were recommending are closed, rebranded or never existed, and they are named in what we cut. What is left is 16 bars, 8 of them with a window and a price we could source to the venue itself, plus the rooms worth full price and the Ditmars and Broadway backyards that are the actual reason people drink out here.
The short version
- Best valueThe Rabbit Hole — $4 shots, $5 beers, half-off apps and a free hot dog, Mon–Fri 5–8pm.
- Best cocktailThe Ditty — $10 Negronis and Old Fashioneds off the real menu, Mon–Fri 4–7pm.
- Best late nightRivercrest — same prices at 10pm as at 5pm, Mon–Thu. The only one.
- Best SundayFresco’s Grand Cantina — karaoke happy hour 6–10pm, $5 beer and wine.
- Longest windowDéjà Vu — four hours, six nights a week, $6 drafts and $4 tacos.
- Best with no deal at allDiamond Dogs — a gravel backyard and a bring-your-own-dinner policy.
At a glance
Sorted by section, strongest deals up top. Tap a venue’s number on the map to place it.
| Bar | The deal | Days | Window | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Rabbit Hole | $4 shots, $5 beer, $7 cocktails, half-off apps | Mon–Fri | 5–8pm | $$$ |
| The Ditty | $5 beer, $7 wine, $8 spirit + mixer, $10 classics | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| La Vecina | $6 margaritas, $6 mojitos, $8 slushies | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm | $$$ |
| Rivercrest | $6 drafts, $12 tap cocktails, $7 wine, $5 Jäger | Mon–Fri + late | to 7pm · 10pm–2am | $$$ |
| Sweet Afton | $10 house cocktails, $10 beer + shot | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm (Fri from 3) | $$$ |
| The Bonnie | $2 off draft/wine/well; $10 After 10 nightly | Mon–Fri | 4–7pm (Fri from 12) | $$$ |
| Déjà Vu | $6 drafts, $8 cocktails/wine/sangria, $4 tacos | Tue–Sun | 5–9pm | $$$ |
| Fresco’s Grand Cantina | $5 beer/wine, $6 drafts, $8 margs; Sun karaoke HH | Sun + Mon–Wed | 6–10pm · 3–11pm | $$$ |
| Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden | HH window published, prices aren’t; $10 ale + shot all night | Tue–Fri | 5–7pm (Fri from 3) | $$$ |
| The Last Word | Long windows, prices locked in an image | Tue–Thu, Sat–Sun | 5–10pm · 3–8pm | $$$ |
| Arcadia Bar & Kitchen | All-night Tuesday HH; window published, prices aren’t | Tue–Fri | 5–11pm · 5–8pm | $$$ |
| Sanfords | $1 oysters at the bar — advertised, currency unconfirmed | Daily | 4–7pm (unconfirmed) | $$$ |
| Diamond Dogs | No published HH — big gravel backyard, BYO food | Daily | not published | $$$ |
| Judy & Punch | Reported $5 daily HH — not confirmed by the venue | Daily | not published | $$$ |
| SingleCut Beersmiths | No HH — taproom, vinyl and pinball | Wed–Sun | no happy hour | $$$ |
| Jack Jones | HH menu “being updated” — nothing to quote yet | Daily | in flux | $$$ |
Map: where these 16 spots are
Three clusters: Ditmars Blvd up north (N/W at Ditmars), 30th Ave and Broadway in the middle, and Steinway Street to the east on the R and M. Everything here is walkable from one of them.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the deal and directions.
Real deals, real prices
Eight bars that publish the window and the numbers. Every price below came off the venue’s own menu, site or social this week. If a number was third-party, the card says so. See also our best cocktail bars in NYC guide.
The Rabbit Hole On now
The Verdict: the best value in Astoria, and it isn’t close. Three full hours, a $4 floor on shots, and half off the food — most bars here give you one of those, not all three. The Local Move: order a beer or a wine and they hand you a free hot dog. It is not a gimmick you have to ask twice for; it is printed on the menu. A $5 beer, a free hot dog and a $4 shot is dinner and a round for nine dollars, which is a sentence you cannot write about anywhere else on this page. The Honest Caveat: it starts at 5pm, not 4 — so the after-work crowd that clocks out early ends up at the Ditty instead. Steps from the R and M at Steinway St.
therabbithole.nyc · See our late-night food guide
The Ditty On now
The Verdict: the only happy hour up here where a properly built classic is inside the deal. Ten dollars gets you an Old Fashioned, a Negroni, a Paloma or a daiquiri — not a well pour with a cherry in it, an actual cocktail off the actual list. The Why: most bars discount the wells and quietly leave the cocktail menu at full freight. The Ditty discounts the thing you’d have ordered anyway. The Local Move: $8 buys any spirit with a mixer, so if you drink whiskey-sodas you are better off there than on the $5 beer. The Honest Caveat: it’s a small room and Ditmars fills up after seven — the deal ends right as the crowd arrives, which is either a problem or the point.
thedittybar.com · See our best cocktail bars in NYC
La Vecina On now
The Verdict: a six-dollar margarita on Steinway Street, made to order, three hours a day, five days a week. That is the whole pitch and it is enough. The Why: a $6 marg in Manhattan is a well-tequila sour mix situation you regret by the second one. Here it is the house drink at a kitchen that actually cooks, which is a different transaction. The Local Move: the $8 frozen slushie is the one to get between June and September, and it is the drink the room is built around. The Honest Caveat: weekdays only — they run till 2am Friday and Saturday but the deal doesn’t. This is also the rare Astoria bar that will seat a party of twenty without a fight, so it’s the default when the group chat can’t decide.
lavecinaastoria.com · See our Queens happy hour guide
Rivercrest On now
The Verdict: the only real late-night happy hour in Astoria, and the reason to know it exists. Same prices at 10pm as at 5pm — $6 drafts, $12 cocktails on tap, $5 Jäger — which means the round that costs you twenty dollars everywhere else on Ditmars at eleven o’clock costs you eleven here. The Local Move: Wednesday and Thursday. The Honest Caveat, and it matters: their own hours page has them closing at midnight on Monday and Tuesday, so the advertised 2am finish only actually happens Wednesday and Thursday. Go Monday at 11:30 and you get half an hour. Twenty taps skewing local — SingleCut, Finback, Gun Hill — and enough screens that it is the neighbourhood’s declared Formula 1 headquarters.
rivercrestny.com · See our late-night guide
Sweet Afton On now
The Verdict: the safest bet on the list. Not the cheapest — ten dollars is ten dollars — but the drink is good, the burger is the best in the neighbourhood, and the kitchen runs till 1am, so it is the one place here that solves the whole evening rather than the first hour of it. The Local Move: Friday starts at 3pm, an hour earlier than the rest of the week, and nobody knows it. The Why: the back garden gets enclosed in glass for the winter, which is the difference between a patio and a patio you can actually use in February. There is also a separate candlelit bar called Sidekick with its own entrance if you need a room for fifteen people and don’t want to shout.
The Bonnie On now
The Verdict: the room is the reason, not the discount. Two dollars off is two dollars off, and we’re saying so plainly because this page used to claim The Bonnie ran fixed $7 drafts and $10 cocktails — it never has. Worth It anyway: the back garden has a retractable roof and its own bar, which makes it the only genuinely all-weather outdoor drink in Astoria. The Local Move: skip the 4pm window entirely and come at ten. “$10 After 10” runs every single night until close — espresso martini, spicy margarita, or a beer and a shot — and it is a better deal than the actual happy hour. The Honest Caveat: Friday opens the window at noon, so by 4pm on a Friday you are arriving late to something that has been going four hours.
Déjà Vu On now
The Verdict: four hours, six nights a week, including Sunday — the longest run of discounted drinking in Astoria that isn’t attached to a brewery. Most of this neighbourhood shuts the deal off at 7pm and skips the weekend entirely. The Why: $6 drafts and $4 tacos at nine o’clock on a Sunday is a genuinely hard thing to find east of the river. The Local Move: Wednesday drops cocktails, wine and sangria to $7; Saturday drops drafts to $5. The Honest Caveat: their own homepage and their own specials page disagree with each other — the homepage advertises an all-day Tuesday-to-Thursday window and a 4pm weekend start. We’re printing the specials page, which is the more conservative of the two. Closed Mondays.
dejavunewyork.com · See our Sunday happy hour guide
Fresco’s Grand Cantina On now
The Verdict: the best Sunday-evening happy hour in Astoria, and the only one attached to karaoke. Six to ten on a Sunday night with $5 beer and wine and $8 margaritas, hosted by Norma Tears, in a room full of people who came to sing. The Why: Sunday is when almost every bar in this neighbourhood stops trying. Fresco’s runs a four-hour window and puts a show on top of it. The Local Move: Monday through Wednesday the specials run 3pm to 11pm — eight hours — with $7 margaritas on Taco Tuesday and a trivia night on Wednesday. The Honest Caveat: they ran a public fundraiser in March 2026 to stay open after sales dropped more than a quarter year on year. It is a real Astoria institution and it is not guaranteed to be here forever. Go now.
welovefrescos.com · See our best Sunday happy hours
A real window — but they won’t publish the price
Four rooms that tell you when happy hour is and not what it costs. The window is first-party in every case; the missing prices are the venue’s choice, not an oversight on our end. Ask at the bar, or call.
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden On now
The Verdict: go for the garden, not the happy hour — and know that we cannot tell you what the happy hour costs, because they don’t say. The window is on their own drinks page. The discount behind it sits behind a “click for specials” link that leads nowhere useful. What we can price: the all-night specials, which run whether or not you make the window — a SingleCut ale with a house shot for $10, Kirk apple brandy for $8, Wilderness Trail whiskey for $8. Standard pours are $9 for a half-litre mug and $26 for a pitcher. The Why: a century-old tree-covered beer garden with pierogies and goulash is not something you can build, and there is exactly one of them. The Honest Caveat: closed Mondays, and parties of six or more get 20% added automatically.
The Last Word On now
The Verdict: the best-looking happy hour in Astoria and the most annoying to research. Tuesday and Wednesday run five hours, 5pm to 10pm. Saturday and Sunday run five more, 3pm to 8pm. Thursday is 5 to 7. On top of that there’s “Margarita Madness” Tuesday through Thursday, 6 to 8. The Honest Caveat: every one of those times is printed in plain text on their homepage, and not one price is — the happy hour menu on their site is a single image with no text in it, so we have nothing to quote and we’re not going to invent it. Call before you commit to a big round. The Why: velvet curtains, tufted armchairs, actual candles, and more floor space than a bar this pretty usually gets. Live jazz at seven on Sundays. Closed Mondays.
tlwcocktailbar.com · See our best cocktail bars in NYC
Arcadia Bar & Kitchen On now
The Verdict: Tuesday. Six hours of happy hour on the deadest night of the week, on the western edge of Astoria where nothing else is running one. The Why: an all-night window on a Tuesday is worth more than a better-priced two-hour window on a Thursday, because on Thursday you have options. The Honest Caveat: they publish the hours and not the numbers. A third-party listing claims $2 off cocktails and bottled beer and $25 wine bottles; that is not on anything Arcadia maintains, so treat it as a rumour and ask at the bar. The Local Move: the food specials run with the drink window and the kitchen is from scratch — burgers, wings, shrimp tacos, French onion — so Tuesday is a dinner plan, not just a drink plan. Closed Mondays. Backyard patio out the back of the dining room.
arcadiabarlic.com · See our Tuesday happy hour guide
Sanfords
The Verdict: if this deal is still running it is the best one in Astoria, and we can’t tell you that it is. Sanfords advertised a dollar-oyster happy hour at the whisky bar — $1 blue points, $6 wines, $6 select bourbons, every day 4 to 7 — in their own words, on their own Facebook and Instagram. The problem: those posts are years old, and sanfordsnyc.com as it stands today has no happy hour page at all. We don’t print prices we can’t date, so this one gets no badge and no promises. The Local Move: phone ahead — it is one question and it is worth asking, because nothing else here comes close on price. The Why to go regardless: 300-plus single malts and bourbons and thirty wines by the glass, in a room that has been feeding this block since 1922. Bar only if the deal is live — the dining room won’t honour it.
sanfordsnyc.com · See our $1 oyster happy hour guide
No happy hour. Go anyway.
Four Astoria bars worth full price — including the two with the best backyards in the neighbourhood. For cheap-and-honest picks across the city, see our best dive bars in NYC guide.
Diamond Dogs
The Verdict: the best backyard in Astoria that isn’t a century-old beer garden, and the reason to come has nothing to do with a discount. Go Here Instead of paying rooftop prices: a gravel yard of picnic benches, a rotating cocktail list that actually rotates, and a policy of letting you carry in food from anywhere. Pye Boat Noodle and Butcher Bar are both within a block; Milkflower is next door. The Honest Caveat: this page previously listed “daily 4–8pm, $5 drafts, $6 wells, $7 wine.” We could not source a single one of those numbers to anything Diamond Dogs publishes, so they’re gone. Aggregators agree a weekday happy hour exists; none of them will say when or for how much. Also: the entrance is a small board and an unmarked door, their old domain is dead, and Instagram is the only thing they keep current.
instagram.com/diamonddogsnyc · See our best dive bars in NYC
Judy & Punch
The Verdict: a very good neighbourhood bar with a happy hour we refuse to promise you. Four separate aggregators say there’s a daily $5 deal on wells and drafts. Judy & Punch’s own site says nothing about a happy hour anywhere, and their Instagram is where they actually post. The Why to go anyway: fourteen rotating taps that skew local and indie, free popcorn, a genuine open-air backyard of picnic tables, and a bring-your-own-food policy — so this and Diamond Dogs are the two rooms in Astoria where dinner is whatever you carried in. Music stays at talking volume. The Honest Caveat: this page used to list a bar called “Judy’s” at a Long Island City address, with a full set of prices. No such bar exists. If you were sent here by that listing, this is the place you were probably looking for.
judyandpunch.com · See our cheap and honest NYC bars
SingleCut Beersmiths
The Verdict: no happy hour, no discount, no pretence — and still the best beer in the neighbourhood. Astoria’s flagship taproom since 2012, which is long enough that half the bars on this page pour their ale. The Local Move: Wednesday and Thursday from 4pm are the quiet hours; Friday opens at noon and doesn’t. The kitchen is a rotating weekly pop-up rather than a menu, so if dinner matters, look up who’s cooking before you walk over. The Honest Caveat: the bar is shut Monday and Tuesday — those days the room is a can shop, 10am to 4pm, and nothing more. Also worth saying because the internet is confused about it: the SingleCut taproom that closed in December 2025 was the one upstate in Clifton Park. Astoria never went anywhere.
Jack Jones
The Verdict: a good bar in an honest holding pattern. Their happy hour page currently reads, word for word, that the menu is being updated and to check back shortly — so there is nothing here for us to print. The Honest Caveat: a January 2025 listing has them at 4–7pm with $6–$9 drafts, wine and cocktails. That is eighteen months old and unofficial, and we are not putting it on the page as though it were current. The Why to go anyway: a real whiskey programme, patio seating on Ditmars, a kitchen, and a 3am licence seven nights a week. Also worth knowing: this page used to list Jack Jones at 37-02 30th Ave with a dead .nyc domain. Both were wrong. It is on Ditmars, and the site is jackjonesbar.com.
jackjonesbar.com · See our best Guinness in NYC
What we cut, and why
This page was recommending four venues that are closed, rebranded or fictional, and quoting prices for two more that nobody publishes. Here is every deletion, named. We would rather you knew.
Eleven venues in, seven survived
- Sek’end SunClosed in late 2024 with its sister bar ba’sik. We were still listing “Tue–Fri 5–7pm, $7 beer and wine, $10 cocktails.” sekendsun.com is still live, still publishes hours, and carries no closure notice — a live website is not proof of a live bar.
- “Judy’s”This venue does not exist. The domain we linked has no DNS record, no listing anywhere returns a bar by that name, and the address we published carries a Long Island City zip code. Every price on it was unsourceable. You were probably looking for Judy & Punch on 30th Ave.
- William HalletClosed for good in September 2018 — eight years ago — and became The Royal Underground that December. williamhallet.com is still up, still lists “closed Mondays” and still links to OpenTable.
- Astoria ProvisionsNot closed, but rebranded: astoriaprovisions.com now redirects to Café Luna Astoria, a daytime café at 12-23 Astoria Blvd that shuts at 5pm and runs no happy hour. It does not belong on a happy hour page.
- Prices pulled from live venuesDiamond Dogs’ “$5 drafts, $6 wells, $7 wine, daily 4–8pm” and The Bonnie’s “$7 drafts, $9 wines, $10 cocktails” were both unsourceable. The Bonnie runs $2 off, not fixed prices. Diamond Dogs publishes nothing at all.
- Addresses correctedDiamond Dogs is at 34-04 31st Ave, not 34-02 30th Ave. Jack Jones is at 38-01 Ditmars Blvd, not 37-02 30th Ave. Three of the domains we linked — diamonddogsbar.com, judysastoria.com and jackjonesnyc.com — have no DNS record at all.
- Checked and left offKatch Astoria (Yelp shows closed; its own events calendar stopped in 2015), The Strand Smokehouse (closed), Doha Bar Lounge (Long Island City, not Astoria), Break Bar, Icon Astoria and Bar Dalia (no published happy hour we could verify), and Astoria Tavern, whose price list sits under a “temporarily closed” notice from March 2020.
Astoria happy hour: FAQ
What time does happy hour start in Astoria?
Most Astoria happy hours start at 4pm or 5pm. The earliest are The Bonnie, which opens its window at noon on Fridays, and Rivercrest and Fresco’s Grand Cantina, both running from 3pm. The Ditty, La Vecina and Rivercrest all start at 4pm Monday to Friday; The Rabbit Hole, Déjà Vu, Arcadia and The Last Word start at 5pm.
Which Astoria happy hour is the best value?
The Rabbit Hole at 38-04 Broadway. Monday to Friday, 5–8pm: $4 shots, $5 house beers, $6 house wine, $7 house cocktails, half off appetizers, and a free hot dog with any beer or wine. Three hours long with a $4 floor and discounted food is the strongest combination in the neighbourhood. The Ditty is the better pick if you want a real cocktail — $10 gets you an Old Fashioned, Negroni or Paloma from the actual menu.
Is there a late-night happy hour in Astoria?
Yes, one. Rivercrest at 33-15 Ditmars Blvd runs a second window Monday to Thursday from 10pm — same prices as the afternoon, so $6 drafts, $12 tap cocktails and $5 Jäger shots. The caveat is that Rivercrest closes at midnight on Mondays and Tuesdays, so the advertised 2am finish only really happens Wednesday and Thursday. The Bonnie’s “$10 After 10” also runs every night until close.
Does Bohemian Hall have a happy hour?
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden publishes a happy hour window — Tuesday to Thursday 5–7pm and Friday 3–7pm — but does not publish what it discounts or by how much. What they do price are the all-night specials, which run regardless: a SingleCut ale with a house shot for $10, Kirk apple brandy for $8, Wilderness Trail whiskey for $8. Standard pours are $9 a half-litre mug. Closed Mondays.
Which Astoria bars have closed?
Sek’end Sun on Broadway closed in late 2024, along with its sister bar ba’sik — its website is still live and still publishes hours. William Hallet on 30th Ave closed in September 2018 and became The Royal Underground; its site is also still up. Katch Astoria and The Strand Smokehouse are both gone. Astoria Provisions is now Café Luna Astoria, a daytime café that closes at 5pm and runs no happy hour.
Where can I drink outside in Astoria?
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden is the obvious one — a tree-covered garden open since 1910. Diamond Dogs has a large gravel backyard of picnic benches and lets you bring your own food; Judy & Punch has the same arrangement on a smaller scale. The Bonnie’s garden has a retractable roof and its own outdoor bar, which makes it the only all-weather option. Sweet Afton encloses its garden in glass for the winter.
Last updated: August 2026. Every deal on this page was checked against the venue’s own menu, site or social account in the week of 17 August 2026, and the card says so whenever a number came from somewhere else. Deals and hours still change – confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
