2-for-1 Midnight Specials

There are times in a man's life when he must redouble his efforts: at 40, when he really wants that promotion, and at 12am, when he really wants that demotion. Helping you with the former: the 2-for-1 Midnight Specials drinking guide.

The list below covers sauce of varying classiness served two-fer style after midnight in joints that're geographically dispersed across the island -- so no matter where you are, there are always two drinks nearby:

East Village


Whiskey Town
Midnight till close Tuesdays at 29 E 3rd St, between 2nd and Bowery; 212.505.7344
This brown-liquor-heavy joint's doubling down on beers and well drinks while the DJ spins two songs per artist back-to-back, unless it's Spacehog, in which case you will have a mean time finding a second song.

Sunburnt Cow and Bondi Road
Thurs at 137 Ave C, between 8th and 9th and 153 Rivington St, at Suffolk; 212.253.5311
These two Aussie pubs pour two-for-one all night long on Thursdays -- which might seem generous, until you realize their barback ate your baby.

Tile Bar
Midnight till close Sundays at 115 1st Ave, at 7th; 212.254.4317
This standby dive offers late-night discounts instead of 2-for-1s, but the $3 beers are half the normal price "so it's basically two for one". Math is confusing.

Lower East Side

Broadway East
Midnight-close Saturdays at 171 E Broadway, between Rutgers and Jefferson; 212.228.3100
The double-barred, LES-sleek veggie joint's making up for its meatlessness with a sake bomb two-fer -- the vegetarian's way of saying "see, we party".

West Village-ish

Town Tavern
7pm till close Tuesdays at 134 W 3rd St at 6th; 212.253.6955
Tuesdays at Town Tavern get $5 Coors Lite pitchers and half-price 20-beer towers that look vaguely like barometers. Or thermometers? What is a barometer, anyway?

Midtown

Butterfield 8
9pm till close Wednesdays at 5 E 38th St, between 5th and Madison; 212.679.0646
This midtown sleeve serves half-price drinks to any service industry professional who flashes their pay stub or business card; so after you procure that service industry professional's business card, he'll be able to guess why you never called him.

Uptown

Campo
11pm until 2am daily at 2888 Broadway, between 112th and 113th; 212.864.1143
This comfy restaurant/bar's serving 2-for-1 red/whites, beers, and well drinks, plus 1/2 price homemade pizzas every day of the week -- a "come Uptown and see me" bribe reminscent of mom doing your laundry in return for weekly visits.

Firehouse Tavern
Midnight till 3am at 522 Columbus Ave, at 85th; 212.787.3473
Every day of the week this TV'd-up sports pub pours 2-for-1 microbrews (Geary's Pale Ale, Magic Hat, etc) and well drinks, plus reds and whites -- proving that double-fisting is always manly, even when you're in the Firehouse Tavern, clutching Chardonnays.