Sylvia's Restaurant: Harlem Soul HH

Harlem institution since 1962. $9 Southern cocktails and half-price appetizers Mon to Fri 4–7pm.

Sylvia's has been the Queen of Soul Food since 1962, a Harlem institution on Lenox Avenue that has hosted everyone from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama. The weekday happy hour from 4 to 7pm offers $9 Southern cocktails (peach sweet tea vodka, bourbon lemonade), $5 beers, and half-price appetizers. Coming to Sylvia's for happy hour is one of the most distinctly New York experiences available.