Arcata Theater Lounge

This is a great venue for concerts. I saw Bassnectar and Moguai here and the ATL was a great place...intimate and cozy. I also like coming here to watch football/basketball. I love that they bring your food to your table. Their food is pretty good. They have good selection of beer on tap.

I do have to add something to other reviews. This is NOT a great place to dance. Not unless you count just STANDING in a crowd ON the so-called dance floor. It is a sticky terrible bumpy floor to begin with. not suitable for real partner dancing. Most people in the Dancing Community Avoid it. They varnish it and oil it and do all kinds of things to it that are not dance Friendly. Plus the grit, grime,beer and wet shoes. and the people who normally go there aren't really dancers, they're just drinkers/tweekers who take up the whole floor just bobbing up and down in place, "expressing" themselves. I have been there a couple times when I knew real dancers would be there, there were local bands i knew people actually did real dances to, but the floor will hack on your knees/ankles and rip up your hips in half an hour. I even wear special extra slippery dance "slippers" and it's still not good.  Also, for bands, concerts, etc. if you don't get a table right in a front row, you won't see what's going on because there's a second "dance space", on another level before you get to the supposedly real sunken dance floor in front of the stage, that everyone STANDS ON right in front of you. So when you're sitting down at one of those tables, you can't see. and complaining won't do any good. They didn't nip all this in the bud right from the beginning, so there is NO Dance Etiquette here. It's pretty much a free-for-all and people just stand in front of you wherever they want. Even if you get one of the front row tables on the 2nd level facing the stage, people will squeeze extra chairs or their BODIES in between the tables or push right up against the back of your chair 'til you can't get in or out. If you leave your chair/table, you better bring a big sign to put on it because they think it's up for grabs if you go to the bathroom!

Arcata Theater lounge definitely books the best shows in town.  The woman at the door checking IDs and stamping wrists is super awesome!!!  She definitely adds to the ambiance and being greeted by her incredibly friendly smile and energy is a real blessing....  That said, the owner is a seriously unfriendly and non- smiling nazi who has embarrassingly yelled at performers on stage for lighting a doobie....and the fools who work there cleaning up and locking people out after shows are exactly that....FOOLS!!!!  They have a mop in one hand a keys in another and all of a sudden want to demean and condescend their patrons as we leave the club.....it's kinda sad that just a tiny speck of authority makes people treat each other like a piece of sh*t they picked up off the bottom of their shoe.   Not to mention they do a HORRIBLE job cleaning and the floor is ALWAYS sticky in there making it very hard to dance.