Taco Tuesday NYC: happy hours where tacos and Tuesday line up

Our picks

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   1. La Caverna Lower East Side

   Beer $6 · Wine $8
   Wed, Thu, Sun 5pm–8pm · Fri 5pm–7pm · Tue 5pm–9pm · 122 Rivington Street · Essex Street (F, J, M, Z)

   La Caverna on Rivington Street gives Tuesday its own menu. Taco Tuesday runs into the evening, longer than its other windows, with beef, chicken or veggie tacos, margaritas, tequila shots and beer. The rest of the week it switches to a margarita tower, beer, wine and well drinks with no tacos, and there is no happy hour on Monday or Saturday. Essex Street on the F, J, M and Z is two minutes away.

   Deal checked Nov 7, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   2. Mad Tropical Bushwick

   Cocktails $6/$8 · Drafts $5
   Wed–Sun 5pm–8pm · Tue 5pm to close · 236 Troutman St · Central Av (M)

   Mad Tropical on Troutman Street runs happy hour every evening it is open, and on Tuesday it keeps going all night for Taco Tuesday. The deal is simple: two tacos, cocktails and draft beer. Its listing says it is closed on Monday. Central Avenue on the M is seven minutes away, and La Loncheria, which lists a taco and margaritas on its daily happy hour, is about three minutes on foot.

   Deal checked Nov 13, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   3. Nostrand Station Bar & Lounge Crown Heights

   BEERS $8 · SHOTS $7
   Tue–Fri 4pm–7pm · 822 Nostrand Ave · Nostrand Avenue (3)

   Nostrand Station Bar & Lounge sits on Nostrand Avenue a minute from the station of the same name on the 3. Happy hour runs Tuesday through Friday, late afternoon into early evening, with beer, shots, sangria, rum punch and margaritas. On Tuesday it adds a Taco Tuesday special: two tacos of your choice, street corn and a margarita. Wednesday brings wings and fries with rum punch instead.

   Deal checked Nov 13, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   4. Papacito's Greenpoint

   2-for-1
   Mon–Fri 11am–4pm · Daily 4pm–7pm · Mon–Wed, Sun 1am–2am · Thu–Sat 3am–4am · 999 Manhattan Ave · Greenpoint Avenue (G)

   Papacito's on Manhattan Avenue runs three happy hours, and Tuesday gets all of them. Tacos and fish tacos are on the daytime window, Monday through Friday. Late afternoon brings two-for-one frozen margaritas, house margaritas, sangria, nachos and Tecate or Modelo cans, with no tacos. Then the last hour of every night brings back tacos with a drink. Greenpoint Avenue on the G is three minutes away.

   Deal checked Nov 11, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   5. El Lugar Cantina Chelsea

   Margs, Palomas & Sangria $10 · House wines $9
   Tue–Fri 4pm–6pm · 132 W 27th Street · 28th Street (1)

   El Lugar Cantina on West 27th Street runs its happy hour Tuesday through Friday at the bar, a short window in the late afternoon. Tacos lead the list, with margaritas, palomas, sangria, house wines and Mexican draft beers. The cantina lists no Monday hours, so Tuesday is the first day of its week. The 28th Street station on the 1 is two minutes away, which makes it an easy stop after work in Chelsea.

   Deal checked Oct 20, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   6. Baylander Steel Beach Harlem

   Prohibition’s Giant Pretzel $12.00 · Fresh Lime Falafel Tacos $12.00
   Tue–Fri 3pm–5pm · 125th Street (1)

   Baylander Steel Beach runs a food happy hour Tuesday through Friday, from mid-afternoon to late afternoon, so it suits a long lunch or an early start. The tacos are the draw: fresh lime falafel tacos and grilled shrimp tacos, next to Prohibition's Giant Pretzel with melted jalapeno cheese and Mexican street corn ribs. The 125th Street station on the 1 is six minutes away, and you can book ahead.

   Deal checked Nov 13, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   7. Mayahuel Astoria

   Classic Margarita $10 · Mayahuel / Gloria cocktails $12
   Mon–Fri 4pm–7pm · Sun 5pm–8pm · 3207 34th Avenue · Broadway (N, W)

   Mayahuel on 34th Avenue serves its happy hour food at the bar only, Monday through Friday from late afternoon into early evening, plus a Sunday window. Tacos come as an order of two, alongside guacamole, nachos and a quesadilla. To drink there is a classic margarita, the house Mayahuel and Gloria cocktails, draft beer and house wine. Broadway on the N and W is a three-minute walk.

   Deal checked Nov 2, 2026 on the bar's own site.

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   8. Spanglish NYC Astoria

   Margarita $10.00 · Frozen Margarita $11.00
   Mon–Fri 12pm–6pm · 36-03 Ditmars Boulevard · Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard (N, W)

   Spanglish NYC on Ditmars Boulevard has one of the longest windows here: Monday through Friday from midday into the early evening. Chicken tacos are sold one at a time, and the food list adds elote, guacamole, chicken empanadas, buffalo wings and a cheese quesadilla. Drinks include margaritas, a frozen margarita, the Picosito, mojitos, sangria and Corona or Modelo bottles. Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard on the N and W is five minutes away.

   Deal checked Nov 3, 2026 on the bar's own site.

How Tuesday changes the deal

At most bars on this list, Tuesday looks like any other weekday. The tacos are on the menu for the whole working week, or every day, and Tuesday is simply included. Mayahuel and Spanglish NYC work that way, and so does El Lugar Cantina, whose week runs Tuesday through Friday.

Three picks treat Tuesday differently. La Caverna only serves tacos on its Tuesday menu, and that window runs the longest of its week. Mad Tropical stretches its usual evening happy hour into an all-night one on Tuesday. Nostrand Station Bar & Lounge bundles tacos, street corn and a margarita into one Tuesday special. Papacito's is the odd one: its tacos are on the daytime window and the last hour of the night, not the late afternoon, so plan your Tuesday around those two.

More Taco Tuesday deals on our list

Three more bars name Taco Tuesday in their happy hour text. The Commissioner in Park Slope lists chicken or fish tacos with frozen or rocks margaritas on Tuesday, next to its Monday to Thursday happy hour. Cocteleria Perla Negra in Harlem notes Taco Tuesday all day. Sal y Lima in Rockaway Beach runs its happy hour every day except Tuesday, which it keeps for Taco Tuesday, so check its own page for that night.

Other bars with tacos on a happy hour that includes Tuesday: Panzon in Greenpoint has single tacos, El Coco in Chelsea has tacos from Sunday through Thursday, Deja Vu New York in Astoria has tacos Tuesday through Sunday, and Los Mismos Amigos in Corona has a taco on its weekday afternoon list. Grand Street Social in SoHo has roast pork tacos on its weekday food menu.

Making a night of it

Two neighborhoods let you stack a second stop. In Bushwick, Mad Tropical and La Loncheria are about three minutes apart on foot, by our measurement. In Greenpoint, Papacito's and Panzon are about a seven-minute walk apart. For a full walking route in either neighborhood, see our Bushwick bar crawl and Greenpoint bar crawl, and the Tuesday happy hours page lists every deal running that day.

A few practical notes. Mayahuel serves its happy hour food at the bar only, and El Lugar Cantina runs its deal at the bar, so take a stool. Baylander Steel Beach and El Lugar Cantina have short windows, so arrive near the start. If you want a drink to go with the tacos, our margarita happy hour guide covers bars that list margaritas by name.

Happy hours with food deals

Up to 60 bars, cheapest dish first. Oysters have their own guide.

How we put this together

We searched the happy hour offers of the 685 bars on our list for items named tacos and found 18, then checked each one's happy hour windows for Tuesday: all 18 qualify. The Taco Tuesday count comes from each bar's happy hour text. We left out bars whose listed prices did not match their own menus. Picks come from bars' own websites, checked between October 17 and October 23, 2026.

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