Funhouse — Restaurant in Seattle

I now avoid going to shows here, despite them booking some really good bands. I've met their talent buyer who is one of the sweetest and coolest people on the planet. I'm an artist myself and I genuinely love venues that give new up and coming artists a chance to perform live. I remember what it's like starting out and that's why it's important to me that I go to local concerts and listen to new artists and support them while they hone their craft. Venues that offer this opportunity are core to what makes this city great. That's why it hurts me so much to leave this review.

To start off with, the front door staff treated me very judgementally over a minor miscommunication, which provoked me to leave the event early. Like I said earlier I am a local artist, however I was obviously not performing that night and was only there to support my friend. When dealing with rude or egotistical people I simply don't tolerate disrespect, and I politely decided to leave. I was planning on leaving this situation in the past without writing a review or anything. I'm not someone who generally leaves negative reviews, and you can check my account to confirm this. Furthermore, like I wrote above, I'm passionate about the local arts community and I hate to write a bad review for a business like this. But what the staff attempted to do to me after I left needs to be brought to attention.

Days after the above incident I found out that the door staff had proceeded to gossip about me to the artist who was performing that night. This is slander, and was profoundly inappropriate on their part. It presented a clear inconvenience to me that could have been a major setback if I was a less established artist. This is extremely dirty behaviour and there is no excuse for it. They were clearly bruised that I didn't accept their bullying behaviour and that I decided to leave with my self respect intact. They therefore proceeded to lie about me to a professional acquaintance. That crossed a clear common sense red line that staff at any other venue would know better than to cross. It is for this reason I decided to go ahead and leave a review, as interacting with people like this can present a risk to one's personal or professional reputation.

If you ask around or look at other reviews, you will find that I'm not alone in having terrible experiences with the staff. They have issues that go far beyond the typical stressed out Seattle freeze behaviour. They need to learn how to regulate their emotions and not abuse...

We went here for the pancakes-booze art show and while there were definitely many interesting works, we couldn't enjoy them because of a very rude bartender.

Here’s our story. We first got two drinks (cider and a beer), which were 10$, opened tab (which here means giving away your credit card btw). Then we came second time for the exactly same drinks. Pointed to the same tap drinks. The girl gave us a beer in a bottle instead and we asked if there wasn't beer from the tap. She answered really rude "If I'm giving you in a bottle, what do you think???", and that "you should have told before that you want from tap" (well, pointing to tap section isn’t obvious I guess). We mentioned that she’s a little bit rude and asked to close our bill, which took her 5 more minutes, when she was constantly repeating “I’ll show you”. Then when she returned our bill and credit card, we realised she overcharged us 4$ (bill suddenly became 24). We asked about it and she said that cider is 8 and beer 4, even thought before she told prices herself as 6 and 4. We asked how it suddenly became more expensive and instead of giving us any response she asked to throw us out of the place altogether.

Fortunately we got to talk with another guy, who let us at least finish our drinks before asking us to go (but we had to literally rush with drinking). He returned us our overcharged 4$ and even asked if we want to look around one more time before going. Even though that guy was really nice, the mood was ruined. After being treated so rude and getting asked to leave with no reason, we didn’t want to see any of the artworks. We got our 4$ back, but nobody will return 20$ wasted ticket money and ruined mood for the remaining of the evening. Avoid the El corazon/The Funhouse as much as you can, unless you want to ruin your day! I’ll repeat, I have never been treated so unfair...

Pros: The bartenders were nice. The decorations were cool. The performers were amazing.

Cons: The bouncers were incredibly rude to my friend (despite us literally saying it was her birthday?) The bouncer cut her off mid-showing the ticket taker her ID (which was who we had all shown our IDs to) and said he needed to see it. They told us we were holding up the line not once, but TWICE (first time there was 3 people behind us, second there was one.) Ticket taker literally ignored my friend to play video games? He rudely pointed her away to a bouncer to take her ticket (once again this was the birthday girl, and once again the ticket taker was who had checked all of our IDs.) Worst of all, they shut the show down when there was literally ONE SONG LEFT. They literally could not be bothered to wait 3 minutes when it was midnight and their website claims they have a 2am cutoff. I genuinely think that they may have been pissed that their building was full of trans people (since the headliner was trans.) Also, the stage was tiny and the performers had to walk through the crowd to get from the "backstage" to the stage, which isnt safe. Quite literally the only thing that saved that night was how amazing the performers were and they had nothing to do with the venue. If you're looking for drinks or a show, go somewhere else. This place is not worth your...