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Your boozy guide to this year’s NYC Cocktail Week

NYC Cocktail Week is upon us and to get you ready, here’s a handy guide of 10 of the event’s best food-and-drink specials

Written by
Christina Izzo
&
Time Out New York contributors
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Fifteen-dollar cocktails are the norm in New York but for five glorious days, city imbibers can get drinks for a mere $4 a pop thanks to NYC Cocktail Week. Prep yourself (and your liver) with a rundown of the best cocktails and bar food you can find at the fest. Forget happy-hour deals—these are all-day deals, baby. 

NYC Cocktail Week

Birds & Bubbles
  • Restaurants
  • Soul and southern American
  • Lower East Side

The fizz-and-fowl concept from the doyenne of culinary salon City Grit, Sarah Simmons, is offering two $4 specialty items for NYC Cocktail Week: Taltarni champagne and deviled eggs garnished with sriracha flakes (usually on the menu for five bucks).

The Butterfly
  • Restaurants
  • Tribeca
  • price 2 of 4

Empire builder Michael White's cocktailcentric supper club offers a Heaven Hill Whiskey Smash cocktail (made with lemon, mint, sugar and bourbon) and Reuben croquettes (filled with corned beef, sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing) for Cocktail Week.

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Gotham's historic public house—the drinks-peddling gossip center popular in the mid–20th century—gets a latter-day makeover with this Tribeca restaurant, which is doling out $4 One Two Punches or a pair of chicken wings as NYC Cocktail Week specials. 

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The Gilroy
  • Bars
  • Cocktail bars
  • Upper East Side
  • price 2 of 4

One part gin, one part vermouth and one part Campari—that storied trifecta constitutes the classic Negroni, the focus of this dimly lit Yorkville drinkery from Bathtub Gin alum Josh Mazza and Steve Laycock of Ducks Eatery. The Gilroy is pouring a mini Negroni for Cocktail Week.

  • Bars
  • Lounges
  • Soho
  • price 2 of 4

Offset dry martinis, mint juleps and Sazeracs with a Cocktail-Week–special beet burger (festooned with gem lettuce, vine-ripe tomato, pickled ginger and chèvre) at this piano-bar throwback from nightlife operator Matt Levine (Sons of Essex, Cocktail Bodega).

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Holiday Cocktail Lounge
  • Bars
  • Cocktail bars
  • East Village
  • price 1 of 4

The resurged East Village mainstay, whose barstools have seen the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Joey Ramone and Sinatra, is turning out Stefan's Shorty cocktails (petite, on-the-gun Long Island iced tea or a dark and stormy) for less than a fiver during Cocktail Week.

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  • Restaurants
  • French
  • Noho
  • price 2 of 4

Haute French vet Andrew Carmellini’s new Noho brasserie will help you pad your stomach during NYC Cocktail Week with $4 Eggs Lafayette, a pair of deviled eggs whipped with smoked sable and trout.

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  • Bars
  • Cocktail bars
  • Greenwich Village
  • price 2 of 4

At this throwback subterranean saloon, tucked beneath Noho comfort-food café Bleecker Kitchen & Co., cocktail-world vets Tim Cooper (Goldbar) and Justin Noel (1534) are serving a Whiskey Buck (Seagram's gin, ginger syrup, honey and fresh lemon juice topped with crystallized ginger) as a Cocktail Week special.

Zum Schneider
  • Bars
  • Beer bars
  • East Village
  • price 1 of 4

At this Bavarian beer garden in Alphabet City, take advantage of the entire exclusive HB Traunstein brewery line at four bucks a pint during Cocktail Week.

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