Mix Karaoke Bar Leeds — Restaurant in Leeds

Overpriced and underwhelming!

A couple of years ago my partner and I had our second date here and it was lovely. Sadly the place has gone down hill massively from there. Immediately as we arrived, at about 8 pm, we could tell the owner looked very harangued as he stood working the door and grimacing with his walkie talkie. I booked a private room for a friendly gathering for Saturday night (£5 per person/per hour, not bad at all price wise), we arrived on time but it took more than 15 mins to get us into our room (considering there weren't too many people at the bar, and there weren't many of us I expected it to be quicker). Once in the room we were given a quick tutorial on how to use the machine and then left to it. The machine itself was very outdated, with a very limited selection of songs to choose from. We also struggled to balanced the volume of the music and the mic, both of which were either very loud or completely inaudible. There were 8 of us in a room meant for 12 and we were crammed in there ( I would hate to see it at capacity). It was boiling, there was an AC unit but it wasn't switched on. A couple of servers came in an out at odd points to clear empties and take drink orders. But the system of paying for the drinks in the room very inefficient. You can’t set up a tab, it’s a pay by drink system which in an already tightly packed low lit room isn’t ideal. There isn’t much control as to who goes where. More than once several members of a hen party who were celebrating a few doors down barged into our room. No one came in to redirect them we had to do it ourselves.

Onto the drinks. There are a couple of offers on drinks but the cut off times for the offers are arbitrary, which left more than one of our group short changed. Also if you want to pay by card there’s a surplus charge. The actual range of drinks is very limited and extremely overpriced-nearly £5 for a pint of Amstel on tap. When we finished our session in the private room we simply left out of respect as our time was up, no one came to tell us to leave. The servers had stopped coming in to take our orders about an hour before, though I do believe there may have been an issue with another party which took focus. We decided to join the general bar/karaoke downstairs. Several of our group put in requests and we sat with our expensive subpar drinks and waited. The DJ simply put was awful! He screwed up one poor chap’s lyrics then put on four cringeworthy sexual songs that no one had requested and no one danced to, then allowed another chap to skip the queue. At this point our group had to leave to catch our various modes of transport, and as my partner and I waved our friends off 15 mins later in front of the entrance, we finally heard the song my partner had requested being played nearly an hour after he requested it. On a busy night I could understand but this wasn’t a busy night. It’s easy to see why the only people in there on a Saturday night, aside from our group were two small hen parties. It’s also very unfortunate as I’m sure a decent Karaoke bar in the centre of Leeds would do amazingly well!! Having frequented this bar semi regularly over the years, we will now...

Won't be back, went here with a large group from work on a Friday night. We were shown to our room upstairs by the polite staff downstairs without any issues. However on arriving upstairs to our karaoke room we were rudely spoken to by the Ginger haired girl. She told everyone to be quiet as she needs to show us how the clunky and outdated karaoke system works. Which is extremely counter intuitive! And holds next to nothing in terms of a song library. I approached the bar and ordered some overpriced drinks, beer was warm and flat. On raising this, I was ignored by said Ginger girl who decided to scowl at me as if I had just insulted her personally. I decided to keep my pint as there was no way of returning it. Next time I go to the bar, I ask for something different... This I was granted thankfully..

The drink provided was filled to the rim of the glass. On lifting the glass a small amount spilled out onto the bar.. once again I felt the wicked wrath of Ginger Spice! "Stop spilling your drink" she shrieked with a look only a mother could love. I responded calmly, "I'm sorry, the glass was too full". I began to cautiously retreat slowly back to the room as she grumbled in the corner behind the bar.

I decided to get a round of shots in next. Anxiously I left the room into the unknown.. peeping round the corner, there she was... The lone ranger ready to shoot down any hope of banter. I slowly walk up to the and ask what shots do you serve up here? Ginger Spice was not amused.. steam blowing from every orephous "Well what do you want" she snapped. "Just give me 10 shots of sambuca.." I responded. That'll be 40 odd pounds. Oh and I'm charging you a card fee..

Bang on 2 hours she walks in the room snatches the microphones mid song and turns everything off.. our hopes and dreams of reaching the second verse of Queens don't stop me now shattered right Infront of our eyes...

Will not be back! Disgusting attitude by some staff. Friends turned up to watch and were charged £8 even to walk up stairs regardless of our party paying £100 for the room.

Also the toilets are disgusting and Ginger Spice...

Literally the worst place I have ever been to in Leeds in the 5 years I’ve been here, led astray here by someone’s opinion I definitely won’t be listening to again, in their own words they told me don’t sit down or else you’ll get ‘x,y,z’ not sure if I can actually write what they said but if you’ve been in you’ll probably know, £15 for two single spirit & mixers, was appalled at the cost for the state of the place, there were about 10 of us that came together & all bought drinks so they made a small fortune from us alone never mind the other 20 odd people that were in there, the 240p projector screen, grim interior, toilets looked as if a bomb had gone off in there & all in all just looked as if they had a license to sell alcohol on a demolition site.. for the price of the drinks I’d expect a little more upkeep of the place than just fake grass on the wall in the toilets, as if that could mask everything else that was going on down there. Definitely don’t expect it to look anything like the pictures from about 10+ years ago that are listed when you search for the place because you’ll be extremely confused on if it’s even the same business. It actually amazes me that this place is still open yet many others that actually take pride in their appearance & customers have had to close recently- granted under different circumstances but it’s genuinely baffling how it’s managed to stay open. Save yourself the trouble & head to: house of fu, Roxy’s or literally...