House of Hours is a wine bar with a music schedule and a room kept by candlelight. Forty by the glass, rotated weekly. Soul on Sundays. Open through last call.
For when the night is opening and you don’t know yet what you want. Quiet, mineral, the bar’s favorite white most of the year.
For the room when the candles are halfway down. A red you can drink cold. We pour it slightly cellar — it is better that way.
For the second glass, after the bowl of olives, when the friend you came with has stopped checking the time. Heavy, classical, ours.
For when you wanted natural but you also wanted a wine. Volcanic, surprising, the bottle Sofia opens for the staff at midnight.
For the first hour. Cold, bubbles, no fuss. A bottle the bar drinks with you, regularly.
For the small piece of cured fish or the olives or the moment when you need the bar to make a decision for you. Cold, dry, ours always.
The list is rotated every Sunday. By the bottle is twice the glass; full list at the bar. House cocktails poured from 4. Beer kept on tap for those who want it.
Hold a stool →Brass on marble, a back banquette, a single window that opens onto Hudson. We changed the light fixtures in 2024 and nothing else.
We bring a DJ four nights a week. Vinyl most of the time. Old soul on Sunday. The volume stays low enough that you can hear your friend. The point is the room — not the act.
Curtis Mayfield to Khruangbin. The set that opens the night and the set that closes it — same person, two rooms.
Italo disco edits and the slow-burn house records he’s been collecting since 2009. The room shifts at eleven.
Standards and a few originals. Bass, piano, the singer who sat at the bar before she sang from it.
No DJ. We play records. The sleeves go up on the wall the day they spin.
Sundays before six and Mondays all night, House of Hours is yours. Forty guests, your soundtrack, our list. We can write a custom by-the-glass pairing or pour from yours. Bring the friend, the engagement, the launch.
We have hosted a wedding rehearsal, two book launches, a documentary screening, and a forty-fifth birthday party for someone who turned thirty-four.
Want the back banquette? Tell us when. We write back within the hour during open hours, by morning otherwise.