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| - I've never been to a comedy club before, so I have no idea how this kind of thing works on the regular. I can say, I felt pretty confused during most of my experience at Stand up Live. A few friends and I ate dinner downtown, and then walked over to the comedy theatre around 8:45pm. The show wasn't scheduled to start until almost 10pm, and the line outside of the comedy theatre was astronomical. I gotta say, waiting in line that long outside, people definitely got frustrated as to why they couldn't go in and sit down in the theatre, order drinks etc. Again, I am a comedy novice, so maybe this is how all comedy theatres work?
Anyhow, we get inside and sit down, and I order a pomatini and the spinach artichoke dip. Both were phenomenal! The drink was well balanced, and the dip was so good that I wanted to bathe in it. Word of caution: do not expect your service to be lickety split. The theatre seats a lot of people, and you could tell the servers were hustling to get things done. It still took a good 20 minutes to get food/drinks out to the tables. I've read some reviews already that suggest the food/drink is pricey, but truth be told I didn't feel the prices were off-point at all. My pomatini and spinach artichoke dip, with an automatic 15% tip came to about $21 which is right where it should be...about $9 for the drink and about $9 for the dip. The tip was added automatically even though I was just paying for me...but maybe because I was part of a larger party they added it...*shrug* another point of confusion. I felt that my server should have said something before running my card and adding in the 15% without me knowing. I wasn't mad about it, but I could see that being a problem for other folks. Either way, I could tell the server was working pretty hard to keep up with everything so I didn't mind leaving him 15% and actually I gave him a few extra bucks for good measure.
The theatre itself was very comfortable to me, with the decor being seemingly unremarkable. The audience should be focusing on the comic after all. The booths we were at had tables that were not move-able, so our friend that is pregnant definitely had difficulty getting in and out of the table with her belly. I cannot even imagine someone that's heavier set sitting at one of those booths, so I recommend a table versus a booth if you qualify under that description.
Overall, it seems that there are some aspects of the venue that will get ironed out in time, as they have only been open for about a month. Ill be giving it another whirl here in a bit and see if things have changed at all.
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