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What a night out costs in the Flatiron and Union Square

A night out with friends in the Flatiron and Union Square costs a median of $54.13 per person, tax and tip included. That is $4.13 more than the citywide median of $50, which makes Flatiron and Union Square the 7th most expensive of the 41 New York neighborhoods with enough tables to price.

Cost per person
$54.13
city median $50
Median cocktail
$17
city median $16
Busiest night
Saturday
when the check lands
Most shared dish
Hummus
split 73.7% of the time

What Flatiron and Union Square drinks

The drink that sets Flatiron and Union Square apart is the lychee martini. It turns up on 5.1% of tables here against 3.2% across the city, which is 1.6 times the citywide rate.

Beer
21.8% here · 23.4% city
Spirit
20.2% here · 19.6% city
Wine
18.6% here · 20% city
Margarita
13.8% here · 14.1% city
Cocktail
10.1% here · 9.9% city
Martini
8.4% here · 7.9% city

Share of tables here that ordered each, against the same share across the city.

Where groups go in Flatiron and Union Square

The spots where the most different groups have split a check, in order. This measures where groups go, not quality and not price.

  1. 1Rosa Mexicano$52.56
  2. 2The Smith$52.76
  3. 3La Pecora Bianca NoMad$64.44
  4. 4Tracks$46.50
  5. 5Thai Villa$52.74
  6. 6Cogodaq$105.99
  7. 7Oscar Wilde$55.32
  8. 8Hillstone$92.02

Where it sits

Walk to Gramercy, where the median is $46.23, Murray Hill and Kips Bay, where the median is $44.68 and Midtown, where the median is $48.65 and the same night costs less.

Method

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from itemized restaurant and bar receipts that groups split on Splyt between January 2023 and September 2026. A table is a receipt with two or more people where at least 80% of the bill was claimed; cost per person is the full total including tax and tip, divided by the people on the receipt. All figures are medians.

A neighborhood is shown only when at least 30 tables from at least 15 different groups back it, a restaurant only when at least 5 different groups split a check there, and a signature drink only when at least 20 tables back it and it runs at least 1.4 times the citywide rate. Splyt does not publish how many receipts, tables or groups sit behind a figure. These are groups who split a check with an app, mostly tables of three to seven, not a random sample of New York diners.

The full method and the map of all 45 neighborhoods