I came here to see some friends from the Renaissance Festival in their nationwide tour, Almost Homeless Comedy Tour. They were awesome, of course, but they would be awesome in the middle of a field with no microphones or seats. This review is for the venue.
It's kind of an adventure getting to the place, the entrance tucked into the back of the Saloon in the NC Music Factory. The room itself is good, there's a good view of the stage from pretty much every seat in the house.
The service was bad...there were only 3 waiters and we flagged two of them down and they refused to serve us as we "weren't in their section." actually, scratch that...we WERE in the one server's section, but he promised to come back in 2 minutes and then...never did. We went upstairs to get our drinks, and were almost done with THOSE beers when we finally got another waitress to take our orders, which she did nicely and capably even though we weren't in "her section". SO she gets kudos for sure. Our table companion got his food a full 30 minutes before the rest of us, but when the food came we were so weak and hungry that we couldn't even complain, we just fell on the food like starving hyenas.
The food was delicious, at least, a pleasant surprise. I don't know exactly what I was expecting but it wasn't anything that good. The fries were the best kind: natural cut, skin-on. I got the western burger which didn't have bacon on it which seems pretty heinous but it was still flavorful and satisfying without.
The crowd was mostly fellow Rennies, but also some randoms who were really loud and obnoxious and annoying. I don't know if some people realize that they're at a comedy club and not an open forum/regular bar where you can screech at random and no one bats an eye. Really, really annoying.
All in all it was a good experience, but not a GREAT one.