# Best Karaoke Bar in Manhattan??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711 "2000-05-17T01:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/1 "2000-05-17T01:38:11Z")
Anybody out there know what it might be? Which one is the best? Any suggestions? Please help, i need to know, very important. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/2 "2000-05-17T03:17:47Z")
Isn’t that an oxymoron? Kind of like appetizing vomit, or charismatic Vice President. ---
**Author:** ![MetallicAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MetallicAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetallicAsh)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/3 "2000-05-17T15:01:05Z")
Are you planning SDNY Karaoke night? That’d be cool… 🙂 I’ve never been, but you might want to look into Village Karaoke. Its not a karaoke bar per se, but you rent a room (with karaoke equipment, of course) and bring/order food. You can sing to your heart’s content without having to wait for some tone-deaf drunk to get off the mike (unless the tone-deaf drunk is one of your friends, in which case its your own fault for inviting him). ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/4 "2000-05-17T15:15:29Z")
Karaoke? In GQ? _Manhattan_? Out! Out I say! To MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/5 "2000-05-17T15:32:21Z")
There are no good karaoke bars in Manhattan. Trust me, I’ve looked. The best one is in Long Island City at a bar called Ryan’s on Wednesday nights. You can find a karaoke room in a lot of Japanese restaurants in Manhattan, though. The English song selections suck and there is no audience; it’s just people sitting in a booth singing into a menu. The best karaoke bar in the world is The Mint in San Francisco on Market Street. Damn, I miss that place. They had bowls of free condoms at the door, too. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/6 "2000-05-17T16:45:06Z")
sorry to post in GQ, needed an answer quick. this is for an indie film shoot. Yes, i know the Karaoke thing is… well how does one describe it… lame? but it’s business so to speak. The song needed for it needs to be a Crosby, Stills & Nash song too (stop laughing!). thanx anyway kids. but i’ll bet if there were to be a SDNY Karaoke night, WITH FREE BEER, those in the locale would come. wonder if we could get beer company to sponsor an SD night at a bar, Amstel seems to do it quite often… they’ve got a web site with photos of people getting drunk at bars all over the US. (not sure if it’s appropriate to give up the web address in SDMB). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/7 "2000-05-17T17:19:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > i’ll bet if there were to be a SDNY Karaoke night, WITH FREE BEER, those in the locale would come. > \*\* **Soul,** if you’re giving away free beer, the SDNYers will fucking well come and hang out with you in an _abbatoir._ ---
**Author:** ![MetallicAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MetallicAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MetallicAsh)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/8 "2000-05-17T17:21:35Z")
The Harley Davidson Cafe actually does a karaoke night every week, but I don’t know how useful it would be for a film shoot (it still wouldn’t look like a karaoke bar). I also think there’s another place in the village near the Christopher St subway station, but, again, I’ve never been. Maybe you could pick a bar that looks good for the film, get Amstel or someone else to sponsor a karaoke night, and fill your film with SD folk as singing extras. 🙂 (Just a thought.) ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/9 "2000-05-17T17:29:54Z")
**Uke** , may i call you Uke? yeah, i’m working on it… > [@](#): > > **Maybe you could pick a bar that looks good for the film, get Amstel or someone else to sponsor a karaoke night, and fill your film with SD folk as singing extras. > (Just a thought.)** **MetalliAsh** , You may be onto something there. wonder how many SD’ers would show up for an indie film as extras in a karaoke bar without getting paid, but perhaps free beer afterwards. _hmmmm…_ ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-karaoke-bar-in-manhattan/19711/10 "2000-05-17T20:05:22Z")
**… is a closed one.**