Malkhas Jazz Club — Restaurant in Yerevan

This is a place frequented by many of the upper class locals. As a tourist I would stay away. Stuffy and smokey atmosphere is the first noticable thing. Staff are rude and have an attitude for the most part. I love how the waiters here (and many other restaurants) have egos bigger than the president and will make you feel as if they are doing you a favor by being your waiter. All our ordered food was wrong and some of it wasn't made. Mostly because the guy never wrote anything down when we ordered. We had to remind them what we ordered after half the table already had their food in front of them so half the table ate while then other half was waiting. After we finished eating nobody from the restaurant cared to even come clean the plates and offer coffee or desert or anything. We literally paid the check and left with dirty plates on the table. The food is nothing special. Fillet mignon is terrible. If you're looking for an authentic Armenian experience this is not it. Music is cheap imitations of American old hits. The Malkus guy who comes towards the end of the evening and plays for 20 min is the only thing this place has going for itself and that's why they got the extra star.

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I would give a ZERO star for this egocentric and overestimated place.

The waiters have zero training, and the egocentric hostes, Irina, has zero attitude towards her customers. They play by their own unwritten rules and give no respect to their customers. In short they breach simple human rights.

The alcoholic baverages and the menu prices are higher than at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. I would have a proper dinner and a drink for £25 at Ronnie's but at Malkhas' I only Armenian dry wine and a pear in caramel desert) The prices do not match with the budget even for the upper-middle class Armenian people.

I would not go into much details but would mention that the so called maestro Malkhas performed utterly indifferently and gave no whatsoever vibe or energy to his audience and only appeared at 01:20 and '' played piano'' with two-three fingers for 15 minutes and gave the look as if' 'I cannot wait to kill this 15 minutes, so you plebians will leave any time sooner' '. I left the place after Malkhas played for 5 minutes but my friends stayed and told me the rest of his atitude. I wasted my precious time and mood on this overrated place.

I would never visit this boring and unworthy անմակարդակ...

Well let's get into it:

You pay 5k drams for entrance, if you are unlucky you'll be seated at a table without a view for the band which defeats the purpose in a way. The service was awkward. As soon as I sat down a server came to take my order as if in a rush. The food is mediocre to below average. Rice was dry, chicken fillet was extremely salty and the "chicken soup" had perhaps less than a fifth of a chicken breast.

The music itself was great, although a part of the experience is missed due to seating.

What really bothered me was when I went to pay, what seems to be the head waiter informed me tip is not included so I added a tip. After leaving I find out a 10% service charge was indeed added so it was a little misleading to mention that.

I haven't tried other jazz clubs in Yerevan yet but I wouldn't come back here again considering the food is subpar and they don't consider ensuring you have an enjoyable experience. In my opinion if the perosn cannot have a live view, they should at least not be required to pay the music entry fee which as I understood is already on par with the highest fees you could pay at...