Yes, you can actually have your cake and eat it too when it comes to celebrating your birthday in NYC because many spots around the city offer fabulous birthday freebies to make your day a bit sweeter!
Here are the best gifts you can get for free in NYC for your birthday.
Quick/To-Go Food & Drink Freebies
You can start your big day with a coffee and croissant, have a burrito for lunch, chow down on some wings for dinner, and finish the day off with a birthday cake–all for free! All the quick/to-go food and drink freebies you can get in NYC on your birthday are as follows:
🍪 Au Bon Pain – free cookie
🥨 Auntie Anne’s – free pretzel
🍗 Buffalo Wild Wings – 6 free wings
✨ Cava – $9 credit
🍪 Chick-fil-A – free cookie or brownie
🍪 Chip City – free cookie
🥑 Chipotle – free chips & guac (need to purchase something at least $5)
🥗 Chopt Salad – $5 off
🍪 Crumbl Cookies – free cookie
🍰 DIG – free dessert
🥐 Dominque Ansel – free croissant and small cup of coffee
✨ fresh&co – $10 to spend
🧋 Gong Cha – $5 off a drink
🍩 Krispy Kreme – free box of original glazed donuts
🧋 Kung Fu Tea – free birthday drink up to $6
🥯 Liberty Bagel – free rainbow bagel with birthday cream cheese
✨ Maman – $10 to spend
🍩 Melt Shop – free dessert
🌯 Moe’s – free burrito
🍰 Ole and Steen – free small cake
🥤 PLNT Burger – free milkshake
🥤 Smash Burger – free milkshake
🧁 Sprinkles Cupcakes – free cupcake
☕️ Starbucks – one complimentary handcrafted beverage OR one complimentary food item OR one omplimentary ready-to-drink bottled beverage
Restaurant Freebies
Why have just a small snack on your birthday when you can have a whole meal–for free?! Some great restaurant freebies yo can snag on your birthday in NYC are as follows:
✨ AweSum Dim Sum – free peach bun
🥘 99 Favor Taste – free all you can eat hot pot
Beauty Freebies
Planning to dance the night away under a glittering disco ball or have reservations at one of NYC’s hottest new restaurants? Get your hands on some beauty freebies to get birthday ready!
✨ Aveda – free 30 ml. aromatic nourishing compostion oil
✨ Bare Minerals – free present
✨ Bath & Body Works – free body care item
✨ Benefit Cosmetics – free brow arch
💄 Sephora – free gift
💄 Ulta – free gift
Lifestyle Freebies
Everyone deserves some free pampering on their birthday, and you can do that and then some in NYC on your birthday! Find the best lifestyle birthday freebies below:
🧖 QC NY Spa – free admission (for you) with a paying guest
🚲 Soul Cycle – free class
Note: To get your hands on a lot of these birthday freebies, you have to sign up for the brand’s rewards program at least one month in advance.