Arriving early to meet my friends for an evening of trivia at the Irregulars on the Upper East Side, I grabbed an espresso martini before the gals arrived.

I connected with Mike Eagan, the owner, who highly recommended their housemade meatballs from the happy hour menu ($13).  Mike mentioned that recently, his mom had come into the kitchen and made 500 of them. I had to sample them.

He is right! Don’t miss these three pickleball-sized meatballs. I sopped up every drop of the sauce using the herbed garlic bread in the bowl.

I recommend Irregulars’s happy hour with each HH offerings that could make a meal, at least for me.  Skip the trivia, though, unless you’re a Millennial who doesn’t notice noise.

Happy Hour details as of April 2025
Hours:    3 pm –  8 pm, daily
What’s happy?  Five food items (Housemade Meat Balls, Baby Shrimp Bowl, Three Tacos, Chicken Quesadilla and Pizza; $11 – 13)
How happy?    ** (two out of three stars)

Irregulars
Upper East Side
1152 First Avenue
NY, Ny 10065
irregularsnyc.com/