Pegu Club: SoHo Classic Cocktail HH

SoHo cocktail institution. $12 house cocktails Mon–Fri 5–7pm on West Houston.

Pegu Club is one of SoHo's landmark cocktail bars, a second-floor room above West Houston that helped define the modern cocktail bar format in New York. The weekday happy hour from 5 to 7pm drops house cocktails to $12 and beers to $8. The sleek, dark room fills with a fashion-and-media SoHo crowd that knows a well-made drink when they see one.