Roxy Bar — Restaurant in New York

Though I did not stay at the hotel, I did enjoy the Roxy Bar after experiencing live music at Django. The bartenders are very attentive despite the business and chaos going on around them. Some nights there is a live DJ playing music at the bar, which my partner and I enjoyed as the music choices were diverse and classic (i.e. old soulful r&b, jazz, etc.).

The drink options are endless. They have a menu with drink options for those who need guidance. They also have various options for you to request your own concocted drink.

Outside of the bar, there is also an option to be seated and served food while listening to a live band. The wait is usually 30-45 min. but there is so much to experience while waiting to be seated (i.e., the bar, the music, and the pool table mentioned below) that the time passes by quickly.

In the outer portion of the bar, there is also a pool table for your enjoyment. Playing pool with my preferred drink and live music in the background was a lovely experience.

The bar and atmosphere were so spectacular that my partner and I visited twice back to back. Once by ourselves and twice with our friends. We could not help but want to share the experience. The experience remained just as wonderful as the first!

What I loved most is how much there is to do in one building (i.e., the Roxy Bar, live music on the first floor, pool table, Django on the lower level, a theater on the lower level, etc.).

Would recommend anyone in NYC to visit...

I can't say enough wonderful things about this place. I live opposite, so it's become something of a second home. You walk into a stunning mid-century building in warm light: an open jazz lounge, coffeeshop, pool table, stellar bar, and fantastic restaurant (with great food). Downstairs there's also a spectacular jazz bar called the Django (Parisian cave vibe), and an old-school cinema showing indie films (if they're still showing Moonage Daydream, watch it.) And around the back, there's Paul's Baby Grand, one of the best clubs in the city. Did I mention it's all part of a hotel?

Special shoutouts to Farrouk (the restaurant manager who goes to every effort to accommodate,) and staff members like Allison, Michael, Ishmael, Natalie and Tommy, always welcoming, And of course, Michael Garin, an incredibly pianist and entertainer who takes the seat from 6 to 8pm most nights — and Darian, the suave bouncer at the door of Paul's.

This seems like a throwback to the days of New York's glitzy 1930s, something like the bar in the second half Woody Allen's Cafe Society. An electric atmosphere, especially on the weekends — but still warm and friendly, part of the neighborhood. It’s not difficult to imagine Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers popping up to a dance through the main floor, or Sinatra coming out to sing a tune. We'll keep coming back, and I encourage you to...

Very misleading and cagey marketing. We saw this sign thinking that they are offering wines at a discounted price of $10 for Happy Hour. But the bill came, and we realized that we were charged the full price for all five glasses (three varieties). Why? Because, oh, Happy Hour actually only applies to SELECTED wines, which in our case is the only red that we happened to not order, even though not a single line on the wine page indicates that.

When we expressed our confusion at the bill, the waiter points at a tiny line on the first page where it says $10 selected wine (why not putting this on the sign too?), and how were we supposed to know which wines are selected? Well, we would have to ask the waiter.

We were fine with the limited service here (no one serves the drinks here; we had to bring them to our table, and we didn’t get water until we REALLY asked for it), which is why the necessity to inquire felt counterintuitive, like an intentional scam. If limited service is what you are going for, fine. At least have the decency to list the information clearly on the menu. Now this is just the antithesis of hospitality.

At the end of the day this will be a lesson learned from out part because sly businesses will...