The Merry Hour

Edition No. 03 · est. 2026

New YorkNY

Five boroughs, a handful of rooms, one menu you can't order elsewhere.

Opening week

First Frost — the same three drinks at every Merry Hour Partnership venue in the country this week: The First Frost, Sugar & Snow, Silver Bells.

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4 listed

This City's Merry Hour Pick — best execution of this season's menu

Merry Hour Pick
No. 01Bar

The Tinsel Parlor

This week's Merry Hour cocktail built to spec at The Tinsel Parlor in New York, served up with an expressed twist

Eight hundred square feet, eight seats at the stick, and the most exacting pour of this season's menu in Manhattan.

Serving This Week's Menu

Also on the house list

Silver Rain$22

gin, dry vermouth, silver birch

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Also serving this season's menu

No. 01Restaurant

The Holly Oyster House

A Merry Hour cocktail served ice-cold on the marble raw bar at The Holly Oyster House in New York

A raw bar pouring this season's exclusive card beside a by-the-glass Champagne list that goes deeper than it has any right to.

Serving This Week's Menu

Also on the house list

Cold Snap$20

vodka, oyster brine, dill

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No. 02Bar

Belfry & Bough

A hot Merry Hour cocktail served in a pre-heated glass mug at Belfry & Bough in Brooklyn

Brooklyn's hot-drinks specialists, and the only room in the Heights with this season's exclusive menu behind the bar.

Serving This Week's Menu

Also on the house list

Vespers$17

rum, brown butter, cardamom

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No. 03Cocktail Trail

The Five Borough Trail

Merry Hour cocktails lined up at a Five Borough Trail stop in New York, each built to the same national spec

One bar per borough, all five pouring the same exclusive weekly card, one very ambitious afternoon. Subway directions on the back.

Also on the house list

Stop No. 1 — Fort Greene$15

rye, amaretto, cocoa

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