When searching for a place for fun, drunken singing, and cheap drinks Akikos is a decent choice.
You can rent out the place pretty cheap for a few hours before they open to the general public. Great option for private singing/only your friends judging your talents. They have a gigantic song book with old and current radio hits, and if you're lucky enough the DJ will do a duet with you. Our performance consisted of Macklemore's "Thrift Shop". I, of course, was Macklemore with the DJ doing a fantastic Ryan Lewis impersonation.
This place is more on the dive bar side, with the karaoke room being a blackout room with no windows. Â But if you've had a couple drinks and always wondered what the Kenney Chesney song "Big Star" song, minus Banana Joe's Bar, was all about then head to Akikos for non-stop laughs and legendary performance.
As a karaoke fiend I checked this place out. Â I came early on a Friday night and there were only a few people and it stunk of cleaning fluid like the usual dive bar where some dude just threw up on the floor. Â Not impressed, but after a few drinks elsewhere I returned and the place was packed! Â And packed with hot women. Â I thought I saw the most beautiful woman and then another, and another, and another. Â It was like a sorority in there. Â There's a bar and pool table in the front room and karaoke stage and tables in back. Â It was an interesting mix of people but that night mostly hot young women. Â So naturally I decided to go back Saturday night, and although there were a few hotties, not as many and coming in late it took too long to get my song up so I left. Â I guess a hit-or-miss place, but seriously, when it rains it pours.
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