Palladium New York Restaurant and Lounge

Where to start... I suppose I shall start with the outside. N/Q 36th Ave train station conveniently located down the block from the club. Saturday night, parking was actually alright to find. Bouncers were friendly which is always a plus in my book. They understood the meaning of going out to have a good night so they didn't lay down those uptight attitudes. Although there was a line, we didn't wait outside for more than 10 minutes.

Inside the club: spacious, decent lighting, didn't really get to feel out the decor of this place. Now about that sound system, either the stereos were no good OR all of the DJs were no good, I want to say the stereos were a little out of tune, maybe?

I didn't try drinks at the bar, being that I was at the VIP section so I can't speak on the bartenders' mixing and conjuring of drinks, but bartenders were very courteous. Staff was attentive to making sure we were fine with our section, bottles and hookah. I don't do hookah but it smelled delicious so I'll assume it was good hookah.

Overall, I had a good night, the company I was with were great friends and naturally that leads to a great night. DJs were highly repetitive with song selections and did poor transitioning throughout the night but regardless of that, it's a decent spot for dancing. Doesn't make it to my go-to spot for clubbing but it's alright.

I was searching on yelp for places to go to for my birthday and found this place, but wasn't sure about it since it only had 2 reviews, so I decided to take the chance and I'm glad I did. The atmosphere was great and I danced my butt off the whole night to a little bit of everything-merengue, bachata, salsa, hip hop, reggaeton, reggae, house. I really liked that they had free shots for ladies before 12am so I definitely took advantage of that. The man who attended us was really nice, however he failed to mention that were bottle specials so we ended paying more, which is why I had to deduct a star(gotta ask next time). Overall, I had a great time and was even left sort of deaf and my ear was ringing the next day from the LOUD music.

I was planning to go here for my birthday and I was not aware that on that Friday it was going to be closed. The flier said every Fridays there's something going on and it totally threw me off when I arrived and I was EXTREMLY upset. I will never even try to come bak here to avoid this same problem. They should update their fliers/ events.