Friday
13Jun2008
InstaReview: Mad46
A Little Birdy stopped by Mad46, the new lounge on top of the Roosevelt Hotel and comes through with a thorough review of the place. Did they have fun? We'll let LB tell you:
I must sadly offer up a mixed review. The entrance through the bowels of the north side of the hotel is reminiscent of Highbar, but that's about where the comparison stops. The menu at M46 is pretty extensive -- typical bar/hotel restaurant fare, though we were just there for drinks -- though the drink menu's about on par with the other glut of rooftops opening and slightly less expensive. The space itself is quite a bit longer and narrower, but lacked the cabanas and more private-seeming tables that would lend themselves to bottling up. Bottle service itself, by way of comparison, seemed pretty cheap, coming in around $300 for most.
The service was... OK. Our server was fine, but the woman working the south bar could have picked it up a bit. We literally waited fifteen minutes while she chatted up some early twentysomething friends of hers in front of us, took 15 minutes -- no joke -- to make their four drinks while we stood there quietly (with no one else at the bar), waited until after our drinks were made to damage us out (likely worried we'd hear here comping her friends, which she did and we would expect, they being friends), then rang them up and tipped herself out before suddenly remembering our change. Poor form. I'm not sure whether this lady learned to bartend, but it certainly wasn't any club worth going to, apparently.Prediction? This will likely end up another 230 5th-styled crowd for the post-work banker set wanting to stick in the neighborhood (and get off street level at Beer Bar). Nothing too exclusive about the place.
We still think $300 for a bottle is a bit of a waste. Buy a handle and sneak it in with you, DBTH style. But we would agree with your thoughts, so many of the rooftop lounges are catering to the same afterwork set, that you could throw them all into a hat, pick one out, and you wouldn't know the difference. That being said, the City needs more spaces like this to allow all those who want to want to drink in the nasty summer air to do so.
DBTH
Reader Comments (25)
LOL! NYC has no decent rooftop bars during the summer. just a bunch of finance douches and ugly girls hanging around. NYC is so overrated it's not even funny. Los Angeles has ten times the nightlife and women that NYC will ever have.
agreed!
Dear LA Sucks,
Abe Lincoln once said "'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
You revealed your ingnorance the minute you decided to post such a foolish comment. You can have your 2am bar closings/bleach blond bimbos/celeb worshipping hell hole of a city. NYers could give two shits if you like us, but if you don't then get the F out.
Thank you,
Willy B Ge,
you're the typical arrogant New Yorker who's jealous of Los Angeles because of superior weather and beautiful women. unlike NYC, where you might see a gorgeous woman at rose bar or 1OAK once in a while, in L.A. they're everywhere and in great shape. the NYC women are pale, in terrible shape, and carry expensive handbags to cover up for their physical insecurities.
regarding nightlife, the L.A. scene blows away anything NYC has to offer.
SO GET THE FUCK OUT OF NY THEN. We don't need you here.
Thats the problem with idiots from the West Coast you go to clubs you read are fucking cool because you are all posers. We are style personified and you, well you are the idiots that take what we did two years ago and pay retail for it. Hey douche that vest looks really cool with that vintage T and Isreali looking scarf. Fucking idiot. Les Deux Hyde, hahahaha. Yeah great fucking spots. You have trashy women and even trashier faux celebrities. We have smart classy women with better style wit and intelligence.
But I digress I am sure all this hate is because you probably have a lot of money and you realize that unlike LA that still can't get you fucking laid in NY. Listen poser come out with me one night I will show you how its done you can bring your tool friends so they can learn a thing or two as well.
You have officially just been worked, shut your computer off and think about that!
Willy B Ge,
stop fronting man. i've already been to NYC's hottest spots, like rose bar, 1OAk, bungalow 8, socialista, and goldbar. the quality of women there pale in comparison to Los Angeles. Also, NYC is so freaking dirty! i mean, goodness sake. you guys have garbage bags lying on the streets, most of your buildings are dilapidated, and you guys live in tiny dirty apartments. come to the west coast and check out how rich people in L.A. and orange county live and party. it will blow you away, kid!
yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!! blog comment fight!
Ha naaa I was going to respond harshly but this is an exercise in futility. You think our buildings are dilapidated and our girls are ugly. That just tells me that you enjoy everything I hate. Your dilapidated is my historic and real. Your hot girls in great shape is juicy sweats and fake tits, I don't find that attractive in fact I find it revolting. You are my antithesis, we will never see eye to eye because we are just different to our core. I gracefully bow out of this online match of wits that you have engaged in so enthusiastically. I'll say it, you win, but then again as I sit in my amazing west village brownstone apartment later today with a smart beautiful women with real tits I won't even remember this happened. But please have fun watching reruns of Real World Hollywood tonight buddy!
Go LA!
does NYC have any nightlife venues that match what L.A. has to offer? if you can think of some, let me know.
Good come back idiot. You have made 0 good points in your argument dude. Name one good place in LA that matches NY is more like it.
i go back and forth to la and ny every month. la is lame and a city of posers and dbags. there is one business out there and its all anyone talks about. there are a few places to go and thats it. in ny theres a bar on every corner. its retarded to compare the two.
you can live in la for nothing and still live pretty comfortable. just cant do that in ny. la is like detroit with celebrities. get the fuck outta here there's no comparison
Doesn't everybody in LA live in their cars?
As has been said before, the only cultural advantage LA has over NYC is that you can make a right turn at a red light.
ugh..."This will likely end up another 230 5th-styled crowd for the post-work banker set..." in other words another one will bite the dust. roof bars in this town - too many frills not enough thrills :(
I can't believe you are comparing Detroit to LA and NYC. Yuu guys can keep on arguing all you want and I'll be sitting in my only partially burt down rowhouse on an empty block in Downtown detroit (which I bought for only 10K), talking to my illiterate, disgusting girlfriend who not only has fake tits but a prosthetic leg. .
Detroit's night life is by far better than LA. In detroit, we plunder to the streets with gasoline and torches and yell how g@y is LA. Where's new york city?
Cohasset has the best nightlife and girls by far, much better than NYC and LA. The girls here are not fake at all, nobody under 175 lbs in the entire Boston metro area!
San Juan has the best nightlife, there is this great parking lot between the old part of town and Condado were I always get laid...
Its one of the only good palces to find white guys...
I've been to that parking lot and the great thing about is that you don't even need a car to get things going.
How do you think I met JJ?
Also, LA is g@y, NY is rough and tough, detroit is.....
San Juan beach parking lots are the best.
you never been to cohass? you wouldn't understand cohass! Stay the Fuck out of Cohass!
not cuase I hate ya
muthafuckas, you all know that reno rocks the house. the land of legalized prostitution, 24hr nightlife, and yes, you can walk the streets carrying drinks. can't beat that. anyway, good points on both sides, lax has space, kills me that my 1.2m 1,000 sq ft condo in greenwich could buy a jufongous house in lax, but lax has no soul - a land of coffee beans and koo-koo-roo, nyc is dirty and gritty, but there is something for everyone and everything for everybody, anytime, anyday, anywhere. san juan, well, i'll need to check out that parking lot. hands down, nyc.
willy fan
Back to the review itself. I was there the exact same night ast the reviewer. I have to agree. The bartender was slow. Waiting over 15 minutes for a drink? Seriously. I was disappointed. The rooftop area was small and crowded. The only great part of the evening was the view!