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What a night out costs in Forest Hills

A night out with friends in Forest Hills costs a median of $47.26 per person, tax and tip included. That is $2.74 less than the citywide median of $50, which makes Forest Hills the 23rd most expensive of the 41 New York neighborhoods with enough tables to price.

Cost per person
$47.26
city median $50
Median cocktail
$14
city median $16
Busiest night
Sunday
when the check lands
Most shared dish
Tacos
split 30% of the time

What Forest Hills drinks

No single drink stands far enough above the citywide rate here to call it a signature. Forest Hills orders roughly what the rest of New York orders.

Margarita
26.3% here · 14.1% city

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

Where groups go in Forest Hills

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

Not enough groups have split a check at any one spot here yet to name one.

Where it sits

Walk to Sunnyside, where the median is $40.34, Bushwick, where the median is $44.24 and East Williamsburg, where the median is $45.73 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