Thoroughly enjoyed the Grace Kelly concert at Joe's Pub. The venue is perfect -- small enough to offer a near - front row seat to nearly everyone in the room. The drinks are good and meals are offered. Excellent acoustics and lighting setup. Fun place to enjoy music with drinks and a meal.

For us, this is New York's premiere cabaret space. Every trip to New York involves a performance at Joe's Pub. We have seen some memorable performances here over the years. Everything from established stars to rising ones. Their booking department has a very keen eye for talent. The sight lines are generally terrific (there are pillars). You are quite close to the stage even in the back row. Their sound system is superb. Their lighting is low and seductive.You can have a full meal before the show or just cocktails. Their beverage & food team are very efficient & their system ticks along very smoothly.Performances begin punctually. Ingress and egress is fast.This is a great looking performance space. And within that space you will be treated to truly knock out performers. Include Joe's Pub on your nightime entertainment list.

Love this place! And we lucked into a great performance: Jason Kravitz and his buds were terrific. Drinks were great (food less so). Expensive, but understandable for NYC's public theater organization. Don't expect a traditional pub, and don't expect traditional music/comedy/theater. Expect to be surprised and delighted! I will always bring my out-of-town guests back here.

I (musician from the Netherlands, Europe) was invited by my daughter (US) to visit a pub with live music in NYC for my birthday.As a live musician, I was excited to visit her and go to a pub and enjoy live music, nice atmosphere, good beer and american food. A pub where you can go to, talk about life at home in Europe, in the US, having fun with the musicians and a great night.Expectations were set …….It turned out to be an “artistic” event were the music was the main purpose for the audience, who looked like intellectual non-binary discussers who sushed us when we were sitting in the venue, talking about life and other general non-intellectual stuff. In the meanwhile the musicians were playing their introvert-sensitive stuff, guitar badly strummed, which was good enough to function as musical wallpaper filing up the emptiness of space in this strange atmosphere which was definitely not a pub.So we decided to leave quitely after paying the bill to the “waiter” and saying politely goodbye to the sushers in front of us. The “waiter” was a slow guy, but that’s another story.In the lobby we were stopped by a woman of the staff, who immediately attacked us verbally and was very mad about us. In her words, she had been “monitoring” us constantly during the 15 minutes we were sitting in the audience and instead of doing a pro-active action at the moment she was irritated by us, by explaining us the purpose of the “show”, she waited as a hungry lioness for the right moment to attack and strike.Our explanation about our expectations of a pub with music, did not break her wall of ignorance, so we left the venue and went to a great pub with good beer, food and most of all a great atmosphere and superfriendly staff. The evening ended good for us, leaving sad and bitter people in Joe’s-not-a-pub.You are not what you want to be by just saying what you want to be.

Saw The Hot Sardines Saturday night. Was a fabulous concert and what a great place to spend an evening. Food and service were fab as well. Would love to go back!